This article evaluates a striking similarity between two passages, one from the emperor Julian (‘the Apostate’), and the other from G. I. Gurdjieff (1865?-1949). These passages present the ‘sun’ as the source of ‘nous’ (Julian), or ‘higher centres’ (Gurdjieff). I suggest that these two faculties are effectively the same, as in both systems these faculties ground mystic experiences. In both syst...

Timothy Sullivan is Co-Founder, President & CEO of Mystic Pharmaceuticals. Over the past 37 years he has created novel technologies, products, and services and grown seven companies, three of which were acquired by major corporations. Mr. Sullivan is co-inventor of Mystic’s novel drug delivery technology platforms and responsible for defining both the technological and strategic direction of My...

The Meropenem Yearly Susceptibility Test Information Collection (MYSTIC) Program was a global, longitudinal antimicrobial resistance surveillance network of more than 100 medical centers worldwide monitoring the susceptibility of meropenem and selected other broad-spectrum comparator agents. In 1999, and from 2000 through 2008, a total of 10 or 15 United States (USA) medical centers each forwar...

Fiery Love: Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski’s Ode to Saint Stanislaus Kostka The objective of the article is provide background for reading a new annotated bilingual edition ode Kostka. Written in 1638, when had not yet been canonized, was published posthumously, many years after poet’s death. First, origins poem are presented, including suggestions advanced by Stanisław Łubieński, bishop Płock, th...

The MYSTIC three-dimensional Monte-Carlo radiative transfer model has been extended to simulate solar and thermal irradiances with a rigorous consideration of topography. Forward as well as backward Monte Carlo simulations are possible for arbitrarily oriented surfaces and we demonstrate that the backward Monte Carlo technique is superior to the forward method for applications involving topogra...