Peter J. Meyer has a B.A. in philosophy and mathematics and an M.Phil. in computational physics. He is an independent software developer and publisher (see hermetic.ch ) and publishes his work on three flash drives (see serendipity.li/cwpm/cwpm.php for the contents).
This paper explains the Julian Calendar, the Gregorian Reform and its adoption, astronomical year... more This paper explains the Julian Calendar, the Gregorian Reform and its adoption, astronomical year numbering, the Julian and the Gregorian Proleptic Calendars, and the accuracy of calendars.
This paper is about the nature and origin of the Julian day number system used by astronomers and... more This paper is about the nature and origin of the Julian day number system used by astronomers and calendar scientists. It discusses the Julian Period, explains what a Julian day number is, distinguishes between astronomical and chronological Julian day numbers and dates, explains the various meanings of the term 'Julian date', and gives the Fliegel & Van Flandern algorithm for converting between Julian day numbers and Gregorian dates.
This paper explains the Chinese Calendar from an astronomical basis. The Chinese Lunar Calendar i... more This paper explains the Chinese Calendar from an astronomical basis. The Chinese Lunar Calendar is based on a Solar Calendar, so the latter is first explained. The lunar year consists of 12 or 13 lunar months (which are lunations), and this paper explains in detail how the sequence of lunar months is partitioned so as to produce lunar years. Finally the Chinese Calendar is compared with the Gregorian Calendar.
The Archetypes Calendar, invented by the author of this paper, is a lunisolar calendar in which e... more The Archetypes Calendar, invented by the author of this paper, is a lunisolar calendar in which each year has 12 (usually) or 13 months, and each month has 29 or 30 days. The months track the Moon's lunations fairly closely. Correlations are displayed between dates in the Archetypes Calendar and dates in the Common Era (a.k.a. Gregorian) Calendar. Eleven properties of the Archetypes Calendar are stated. A demonstration is given of exactly how well the calendar months stay in sync with lunations. This calendar is compared with the Chinese Calendar and it is shown that almost all new year's days in these calendars occur on the same day or the next or preceding day. The correlation of these two calendars is interesting because one is based on complicated astronomical calculations whereas the other is based on comparatively simple non-astronomical rules.
This paper demonstrates that when using the tropical zodiac, personal transits occur earlier than... more This paper demonstrates that when using the tropical zodiac, personal transits occur earlier than when using the sidereal zodiac, by up to two weeks or more, and that, for any given transit, the difference for the two zodiacs is larger for the outer planets and increases with a person's age. Thus when calculating personal transits the choice of zodiac does make a significant difference.
A consideration of why there are seven days in our week, explained in terms of the visible planet... more A consideration of why there are seven days in our week, explained in terms of the visible planets of the solar system.
This article presents the mathematical construction of the timewave (the central concept of Teren... more This article presents the mathematical construction of the timewave (the central concept of Terence McKenna's Timewave Zero theory) from the 384 numbers which McKenna derived from the 64 I Ching hexagrams. The mathematics is rigorous and thus the mathematical basis of the timewave is sound, although objections to McKenna's interpretation of it are possible.
This is a compilation of reports (by over 100 people) published in 2010 attesting to experiential... more This is a compilation of reports (by over 100 people) published in 2010 attesting to experiential contact with apparently independently-existing intelligent entities within what seems to be an alternate reality. The similarities of these reports provides evidence for the objective existence of these entities, and this justifies further scientific study of this seemingly alternate reality.
This article is an approach to the formulation of a metaphysics which includes a theistic and ide... more This article is an approach to the formulation of a metaphysics which includes a theistic and idealist view of reality, where ‘reality’ encompasses not only the physical world (that which is perceivable by sight and touch) but also a world (or perhaps many worlds) containing non-material intelligent entities, and which also includes the bodies of knowledge making up natural science. Within this conceptual framework this article discusses the nature of human consciousness, the relation of the DMT entities to humans, and ends with a brief look at robots, UFOs and the alien abduction phenomenon.
Dieser Artikel versteht sich als an eine Annäherung an eine Metaphysik, die eine theistische un... more Dieser Artikel versteht sich als an eine Annäherung an eine Metaphysik, die eine theistische und idealistische Auffassung von Realität einschließt, wobei ‚Realität‘ nicht nur die physikalische Welt umfasst (die Welt, die durch Sehen und Berühren wahrnehmbar ist), sondern auch eine Welt (oder möglicherwiese viele Welten), die nicht-materielle intelligente Wesen enthält, was auch Wissenskörper einschließt, die Naturwissenschaften ausmachen. Innerhalb dieses konzeptuellen Rahmens diskutiert dieser Artikel die Natur des menschlichen Bewusstseins, die Beziehung der DMT-Entitäten zu Menschen, und er endet mit einem kurzen Blick auf Roboter, UFOs und das Phänomen der außerirdischen Entführung.
A talk by Peter Meyer delivered in September 2015 at Tyringham Hall, England, as part of a Sympos... more A talk by Peter Meyer delivered in September 2015 at Tyringham Hall, England, as part of a Symposium on Entheogenic Tryptamines. It discusses, from a philosophical point of view, contact induced by the use of DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) with apparently intelligent entities in an apparently alternate reality and speculates on their nature.
This paper attempts to understand what the DMT entities are by situating them in a metaphysical framework derived from the teachings of Origen and Plotinus, and showing how the consciousness of individual humans might originate in the consciousness of individual DMT entities.
N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) befähigt Menschen einen Zugang zu einer scheinbar unabhängig existie... more N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) befähigt Menschen einen Zugang zu einer scheinbar unabhängig existierenden Realität zu erlangen, die von anscheinend intelligenten Wesen bewohnt wird. Diese Abhandlung versucht zu verstehen, was DMT-Wesen sind, indem sie diese in ein metaphysisches Bezugssystem versetzt, das aus den Lehren von Origenes und Plotinus abgeleitet ist. Und es wird gezeigt, wie Bewusstsein individueller Menschen aus dem Bewusstsein individueller DMT-Wesen hervorgehen könnte.
A Dimetiltriptamina (DMT) permite aos humanos acessar o que parece ser uma realidade de existênci... more A Dimetiltriptamina (DMT) permite aos humanos acessar o que parece ser uma realidade de existência independente habitada por entidades aparentemente inteligentes. Esse trabalho tenta entender o que entidades DMT são ao situá-las num quadro de trabalho metafísico derivado dos estudos de Origen e Plotinus, e mostrando como a consciência de indivíduos humanos pode ter originado da consciência de entidades DMT individuais.
In 2015 the author spent several months in Peru looking for authentic shamans with whom to take a... more In 2015 the author spent several months in Peru looking for authentic shamans with whom to take ayahuasca and perhaps obtain a glimpse of the spiritual beings said to inhabit the world to which experienced shamans have access. He found three, but ...
This essay considers the following questions: Is social science really a science? What is society... more This essay considers the following questions: Is social science really a science? What is society? Does scientific knowledge accord with objective reality? It also discusses the work of Max Weber on the origins of modern capitalism.
Gilad Atzmon was born a Jew in Israel, grew up in Jerusalem and currently lives in London. During... more Gilad Atzmon was born a Jew in Israel, grew up in Jerusalem and currently lives in London. During his military service in the Israeli army he witnessed the suffering of the Palestinian people at first hand and as a result became a committed anti-Zionist. He is renowned as a jazz musician (saxophone and clarinet) and as a composer. His first novel, "A Guide to the Perplexed", was originally written in Hebrew, and was translated into English by Philip Simpson.
Richard Tarnas, author of "Cosmos & Psyche", shows why the modern scientific worldview is deeply ... more Richard Tarnas, author of "Cosmos & Psyche", shows why the modern scientific worldview is deeply implicated in the philosophical, psychological, social and economic problems of our time.
Physicalism is the ontological position which asserts that reality consists only of what can be o... more Physicalism is the ontological position which asserts that reality consists only of what can be observed by means of the outer senses or can be shown to exist by the investigations of physicists. If physical reality does not comprise the whole of what is real then it is possible to accept the truths of physics while asserting the falsity of physicalism. This article claims that physicalism is false because it is possible to directly observe a non-physical reality by the use of DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine). It is not necessary to prove by argument the existence of an objective, non-physical reality because there is one which can be observed directly by anyone.
Der Physikalismus ist die ontologische Behauptung, daß die Wirklichkeit nur aus dem besteht, was ... more Der Physikalismus ist die ontologische Behauptung, daß die Wirklichkeit nur aus dem besteht, was durch die äußeren Sinne beobachtet werden kann oder durch die Untersuchungen der Physiker gezeigt werden kann. Wenn die physikalische Realität nicht das Ganze umfasst, was real ist, dann ist es möglich, sowohl Wahrheiten der Physik zu akzeptieren als auch die Feststellung zu machen, dass Physikalismus falsch ist. Dieser Aufsatz behauptet, dass der Physikalismus falsch sei, weil es möglich sei, eine nicht-physikalische Realität durch die Verwendung von DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamin) direkt zu beobachten. Es ist nicht notwendig, durch die Argumentation die Existenz einer objektiven, nicht-physischen Realität zu beweisen, weil es eine gibt, die direkt von jedermann beobachtet werden kann.
Physicalism, the doctrine that only the world described by physics, is real (otherwise known as '... more Physicalism, the doctrine that only the world described by physics, is real (otherwise known as 'materialism') has, since the scientific revolution of the 17th Century permeated the consciousness of people living in the West, and now is the basis of the practically unchallenged cosmology of the modern world. This article seeks to show that this cosmology has pernicious psychosocial consequences and in fact is at the root of the modern psychological disease of alienation.
This paper explains the Julian Calendar, the Gregorian Reform and its adoption, astronomical year... more This paper explains the Julian Calendar, the Gregorian Reform and its adoption, astronomical year numbering, the Julian and the Gregorian Proleptic Calendars, and the accuracy of calendars.
This paper is about the nature and origin of the Julian day number system used by astronomers and... more This paper is about the nature and origin of the Julian day number system used by astronomers and calendar scientists. It discusses the Julian Period, explains what a Julian day number is, distinguishes between astronomical and chronological Julian day numbers and dates, explains the various meanings of the term 'Julian date', and gives the Fliegel & Van Flandern algorithm for converting between Julian day numbers and Gregorian dates.
This paper explains the Chinese Calendar from an astronomical basis. The Chinese Lunar Calendar i... more This paper explains the Chinese Calendar from an astronomical basis. The Chinese Lunar Calendar is based on a Solar Calendar, so the latter is first explained. The lunar year consists of 12 or 13 lunar months (which are lunations), and this paper explains in detail how the sequence of lunar months is partitioned so as to produce lunar years. Finally the Chinese Calendar is compared with the Gregorian Calendar.
The Archetypes Calendar, invented by the author of this paper, is a lunisolar calendar in which e... more The Archetypes Calendar, invented by the author of this paper, is a lunisolar calendar in which each year has 12 (usually) or 13 months, and each month has 29 or 30 days. The months track the Moon's lunations fairly closely. Correlations are displayed between dates in the Archetypes Calendar and dates in the Common Era (a.k.a. Gregorian) Calendar. Eleven properties of the Archetypes Calendar are stated. A demonstration is given of exactly how well the calendar months stay in sync with lunations. This calendar is compared with the Chinese Calendar and it is shown that almost all new year's days in these calendars occur on the same day or the next or preceding day. The correlation of these two calendars is interesting because one is based on complicated astronomical calculations whereas the other is based on comparatively simple non-astronomical rules.
This paper demonstrates that when using the tropical zodiac, personal transits occur earlier than... more This paper demonstrates that when using the tropical zodiac, personal transits occur earlier than when using the sidereal zodiac, by up to two weeks or more, and that, for any given transit, the difference for the two zodiacs is larger for the outer planets and increases with a person's age. Thus when calculating personal transits the choice of zodiac does make a significant difference.
A consideration of why there are seven days in our week, explained in terms of the visible planet... more A consideration of why there are seven days in our week, explained in terms of the visible planets of the solar system.
This article presents the mathematical construction of the timewave (the central concept of Teren... more This article presents the mathematical construction of the timewave (the central concept of Terence McKenna's Timewave Zero theory) from the 384 numbers which McKenna derived from the 64 I Ching hexagrams. The mathematics is rigorous and thus the mathematical basis of the timewave is sound, although objections to McKenna's interpretation of it are possible.
This is a compilation of reports (by over 100 people) published in 2010 attesting to experiential... more This is a compilation of reports (by over 100 people) published in 2010 attesting to experiential contact with apparently independently-existing intelligent entities within what seems to be an alternate reality. The similarities of these reports provides evidence for the objective existence of these entities, and this justifies further scientific study of this seemingly alternate reality.
This article is an approach to the formulation of a metaphysics which includes a theistic and ide... more This article is an approach to the formulation of a metaphysics which includes a theistic and idealist view of reality, where ‘reality’ encompasses not only the physical world (that which is perceivable by sight and touch) but also a world (or perhaps many worlds) containing non-material intelligent entities, and which also includes the bodies of knowledge making up natural science. Within this conceptual framework this article discusses the nature of human consciousness, the relation of the DMT entities to humans, and ends with a brief look at robots, UFOs and the alien abduction phenomenon.
Dieser Artikel versteht sich als an eine Annäherung an eine Metaphysik, die eine theistische un... more Dieser Artikel versteht sich als an eine Annäherung an eine Metaphysik, die eine theistische und idealistische Auffassung von Realität einschließt, wobei ‚Realität‘ nicht nur die physikalische Welt umfasst (die Welt, die durch Sehen und Berühren wahrnehmbar ist), sondern auch eine Welt (oder möglicherwiese viele Welten), die nicht-materielle intelligente Wesen enthält, was auch Wissenskörper einschließt, die Naturwissenschaften ausmachen. Innerhalb dieses konzeptuellen Rahmens diskutiert dieser Artikel die Natur des menschlichen Bewusstseins, die Beziehung der DMT-Entitäten zu Menschen, und er endet mit einem kurzen Blick auf Roboter, UFOs und das Phänomen der außerirdischen Entführung.
A talk by Peter Meyer delivered in September 2015 at Tyringham Hall, England, as part of a Sympos... more A talk by Peter Meyer delivered in September 2015 at Tyringham Hall, England, as part of a Symposium on Entheogenic Tryptamines. It discusses, from a philosophical point of view, contact induced by the use of DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) with apparently intelligent entities in an apparently alternate reality and speculates on their nature.
This paper attempts to understand what the DMT entities are by situating them in a metaphysical framework derived from the teachings of Origen and Plotinus, and showing how the consciousness of individual humans might originate in the consciousness of individual DMT entities.
N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) befähigt Menschen einen Zugang zu einer scheinbar unabhängig existie... more N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) befähigt Menschen einen Zugang zu einer scheinbar unabhängig existierenden Realität zu erlangen, die von anscheinend intelligenten Wesen bewohnt wird. Diese Abhandlung versucht zu verstehen, was DMT-Wesen sind, indem sie diese in ein metaphysisches Bezugssystem versetzt, das aus den Lehren von Origenes und Plotinus abgeleitet ist. Und es wird gezeigt, wie Bewusstsein individueller Menschen aus dem Bewusstsein individueller DMT-Wesen hervorgehen könnte.
A Dimetiltriptamina (DMT) permite aos humanos acessar o que parece ser uma realidade de existênci... more A Dimetiltriptamina (DMT) permite aos humanos acessar o que parece ser uma realidade de existência independente habitada por entidades aparentemente inteligentes. Esse trabalho tenta entender o que entidades DMT são ao situá-las num quadro de trabalho metafísico derivado dos estudos de Origen e Plotinus, e mostrando como a consciência de indivíduos humanos pode ter originado da consciência de entidades DMT individuais.
In 2015 the author spent several months in Peru looking for authentic shamans with whom to take a... more In 2015 the author spent several months in Peru looking for authentic shamans with whom to take ayahuasca and perhaps obtain a glimpse of the spiritual beings said to inhabit the world to which experienced shamans have access. He found three, but ...
This essay considers the following questions: Is social science really a science? What is society... more This essay considers the following questions: Is social science really a science? What is society? Does scientific knowledge accord with objective reality? It also discusses the work of Max Weber on the origins of modern capitalism.
Gilad Atzmon was born a Jew in Israel, grew up in Jerusalem and currently lives in London. During... more Gilad Atzmon was born a Jew in Israel, grew up in Jerusalem and currently lives in London. During his military service in the Israeli army he witnessed the suffering of the Palestinian people at first hand and as a result became a committed anti-Zionist. He is renowned as a jazz musician (saxophone and clarinet) and as a composer. His first novel, "A Guide to the Perplexed", was originally written in Hebrew, and was translated into English by Philip Simpson.
Richard Tarnas, author of "Cosmos & Psyche", shows why the modern scientific worldview is deeply ... more Richard Tarnas, author of "Cosmos & Psyche", shows why the modern scientific worldview is deeply implicated in the philosophical, psychological, social and economic problems of our time.
Physicalism is the ontological position which asserts that reality consists only of what can be o... more Physicalism is the ontological position which asserts that reality consists only of what can be observed by means of the outer senses or can be shown to exist by the investigations of physicists. If physical reality does not comprise the whole of what is real then it is possible to accept the truths of physics while asserting the falsity of physicalism. This article claims that physicalism is false because it is possible to directly observe a non-physical reality by the use of DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine). It is not necessary to prove by argument the existence of an objective, non-physical reality because there is one which can be observed directly by anyone.
Der Physikalismus ist die ontologische Behauptung, daß die Wirklichkeit nur aus dem besteht, was ... more Der Physikalismus ist die ontologische Behauptung, daß die Wirklichkeit nur aus dem besteht, was durch die äußeren Sinne beobachtet werden kann oder durch die Untersuchungen der Physiker gezeigt werden kann. Wenn die physikalische Realität nicht das Ganze umfasst, was real ist, dann ist es möglich, sowohl Wahrheiten der Physik zu akzeptieren als auch die Feststellung zu machen, dass Physikalismus falsch ist. Dieser Aufsatz behauptet, dass der Physikalismus falsch sei, weil es möglich sei, eine nicht-physikalische Realität durch die Verwendung von DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamin) direkt zu beobachten. Es ist nicht notwendig, durch die Argumentation die Existenz einer objektiven, nicht-physischen Realität zu beweisen, weil es eine gibt, die direkt von jedermann beobachtet werden kann.
Physicalism, the doctrine that only the world described by physics, is real (otherwise known as '... more Physicalism, the doctrine that only the world described by physics, is real (otherwise known as 'materialism') has, since the scientific revolution of the 17th Century permeated the consciousness of people living in the West, and now is the basis of the practically unchallenged cosmology of the modern world. This article seeks to show that this cosmology has pernicious psychosocial consequences and in fact is at the root of the modern psychological disease of alienation.
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This paper attempts to understand what the DMT entities are by situating them in a metaphysical framework derived from the teachings of Origen and Plotinus, and showing how the consciousness of individual humans might originate in the consciousness of individual DMT entities.
This paper attempts to understand what the DMT entities are by situating them in a metaphysical framework derived from the teachings of Origen and Plotinus, and showing how the consciousness of individual humans might originate in the consciousness of individual DMT entities.