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Seeing the number 42 has been a strange occurrence for me because it’s something that I simply cannot explain, and I find it often where my attention goes. For over two years now, I have been confronted with seeing this number in enough places and often enough to at least question it. The very fact that I have seen it enough to question it bugs me, because there is no conclusive answer for why it is happening, but it is. It just is! There is no other number that has made such an impression on me to even bother looking into it. Sometimes I feel like a complete idiot for even mentioning it. Some of the looks that I get from people prompt me to question my own sanity.
When I wake up in the morning without an alarm, I will frequently, at least it seems to me to be frequently, wake up at the 42nd minute of whatever hour it is. This has happened in succession, three or four days in a row, multiple times. I have woken up in the middle of the night for no reason that I can see, looked at the clock, and it will be on the 42nd minute. I’ve hung up my cell phone on countless occasions to see that the conversation lasted 42 seconds, or however many minutes and 42 seconds. I’ve had my head down staring at the sidewalk walking down the street for a solid 10 minutes, hear a car buzz by, look up for an instant, and the license plate will have the numbers 442, or 422, or 142. This has happened so many times that it has made me laugh out loud right on the street.
Once, I went to a local grocery store and bought a single banana. You can guess how much it cost. At my job, in a single day, within an hour, I saw two customer key names that included both the name Dave and the number 42 on one and 420 on the other. I’ve bought seemingly numerous sky train tickets to see that the expiry time is on the minute. Recently, I saw a show on television (and I very rarely watch television) on the national geographic channel (channel 42 where I live) that was called “42 ways to kill Hitler”. I have friends that can attest to the hilarity of seeing the number as well.
I’ve shared it with a lot of people in my life and have gotten different feedback about it. Many people have put in the effort to find a reason for it. I have also done this myself. These reasons have a broad range. Some have said that there is no meaning to it, that it is just my experience. Others have told me that I actually want to see it, and so I do. I know for my own self that I did not have the desire to spark a relationship with a number, and in fact 42, wherever it appears, has never been of any significance in my life or in my day to day observations until this all started roughly two years ago. I have heard, and have considered, that I’m partially insane and that there is nothing more present than my noticing the coincidence. Some people simply don’t believe me. Maybe 42 has always been as present as when I started noticing it. Maybe it hasn’t. I just know that I have made the observation of its frequency. Maybe it has nothing to do with the number itself, but rather with me. I have taken that into account, but still have no conclusive answer as to why.
Some have made the suggestion that I focus on another number and then I will start seeing that number. What those who make these suggestions don’t understand is that I placed absolutely no focus in being initially confronted with 42, so why would I make any effort to look for another number to somehow disprove any significance of 42? I have never made any conscious, active effort to seek out and focus on a number in my life. What bugs me the most is the division of understanding between those are eager to find a (usually dismissive) answer and the mere fact that there is a mystery here that I know exists but cannot explain or convey to those most skeptical of any sort of unexplainable observed mystery that cannot be verified by any amount of evidence. The only evidence I can give you is that I see it. A lot. Enough to bug me. Enough to ask why it’s happening. Believe me, or don’t.
I’ve also had discussion that there is something about the number there for me specifically, a sign of sorts, and that 42 somehow has a meaning other than to act as a mere composite integer, and that it has made an appearance in many places of significance. On Doreen Virtue’s website “Number Sequences From the Angels”, seeing 4’s and 2’s has significance (you can find the site at: http://spiritlibrary.com/doreen-virtue/number-sequences-from-the-angels). In the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (which I have never seen, but have been told about), the number 42 is the “ultimate” answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. Unfortunately, the question is still unknown. If I type in a search on Google, with quotes as specific as “significance of the number 42”, I get 17,000 results. There are reportedly 42 energy points on the human body, divided up into the 7 chakras with 6 energy points on each.
At the end of the movie Abyss, there is an ongoing scene that includes people and ships and an alien-looking craft in the middle of the ocean. In one part of the scene, on the side of one of the ships, is the number 42, with no other writing or numbers throughout the entire scene or in that shot. My friends and I watched this movie over a year ago because we had seen every other movie that we had, but we had not yet watched Abyss. When I saw the number on the side of the ship, I had to pause and point out the ridiculousness of it. Perhaps it was completely meaningless. Perhaps not.
I’ll leave this entry with the following, and this is especially for you skeptical folk out there who think you know a lot. I know, for my own self, that I have observed the presence of the number 42 to an extent that it has made me question why I see it as often as I do and often when I am specifically looking for a number, such as when I’m looking for the time, or a price, and so on. I am verifying for you, in this entry, that this is a mystery, and that I am not alone in acknowledging the existence of this mystery. Why I’m seeing it like this, I do not know. What significance it has for me or in general, or for anybody else who may be having a similar experience, I cannot answer. All I can verify for my own self is that I have observed it sufficiently to question it.
It may be the most mundane observation without any significance whatsoever, but it has been part of my experience of being alive, and as much as I would like to know why, the answer is elusive, and yet I cannot dismiss, reduce, or otherwise explain away its presence. The only thing I know for sure is that it has appeared enough for me to ask why. That’s it. I cannot attribute seeing 42 to anything conclusive. I’ve guessed at why. I’ve come up with reasons that I cannot support. But there it is. It’s happening. It is a mystery, and it is a mystery that is occurring as far as I can see it, and to date, no suggestion or conclusion has been definite enough for me to verify any significance or insignificance. It’s just there, and it keeps happening, so there you go - 42!
Friday, July 23, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Can you see that something is missing?
In the last three years, I have watched numerous people in my personal life transform their perspectives with respect to the world around them. These people have opened up, shared new thoughts and ideas, and have grown in ways that seem to defy time. Most importantly, they have embraced a greater sense of love and trust.
One of the aspects of this ongoing awakening is the perspective that, on a global, societal level, something is missing. There is “some thing” going on that doesn’t make sense. In discussion, many of us have agreed, for example, that September 11, 2001, was not what we have all been led to believe that it is. I now know more people that see this than don’t. More of my friends think that something was missing, or even wrong, with that entire event and what we have learned from it as a society, than people who believe that nothing is amiss there. As more people come together and agree that something is missing, the less insane I feel for thinking and speaking the same vibe.
I can confidently say, and having the backing of many friends and family, that we are collectively poised to reveal that something is missing. The debate is no longer whether events like 9/11 were crooked and that the actions following have been built on nothing more than a devious and murderous lie. That is a given now. If you cannot see that something is fishy with respect to events like 9/11, you are on the outskirts of a growing perspective that is building a powerful force, and it’s not going to stop. Information is moving faster than ever, and truth draws out true power, which ultimately lies in all of us, together. That force is based in something greater than the old values and interests that have been operating throughout the last several generations.
As our combined perspective grows, and we cast our net across each other’s on the foundation of truth and love, that which is based in neither is brought to light immediately. This is what I believe is happening right now, and will continue for the next several months. As this grows, like a balloon, eventually it will fill up with enough truth that it will pop, and it will simply be undeniable that, looking back on all of this, something was missing.
What that something is that is presently missing, we cannot prove. Where it came from, we just don’t know. But we can all feel this, can’t we? We can feel that there is something just not quite right with the whole way of our being on planet Earth. I’ve always been perplexed by the continuation of the problems we face as a species. We’re simultaneously indoctrinated into the idea that we’re the most brilliant, advanced, thinking species on the Earth. And then our actions seem to reveal the opposite. But in that opposite, something is missing, and it isn’t just the way we “do things”. In the end, we’re going to learn some amazing lessons, and I believe we will march into the future all the better for it, and hopefully, treat our world, and each other, better as well.
But right now, in the meantime…Can you see that something is missing?
One of the aspects of this ongoing awakening is the perspective that, on a global, societal level, something is missing. There is “some thing” going on that doesn’t make sense. In discussion, many of us have agreed, for example, that September 11, 2001, was not what we have all been led to believe that it is. I now know more people that see this than don’t. More of my friends think that something was missing, or even wrong, with that entire event and what we have learned from it as a society, than people who believe that nothing is amiss there. As more people come together and agree that something is missing, the less insane I feel for thinking and speaking the same vibe.
I can confidently say, and having the backing of many friends and family, that we are collectively poised to reveal that something is missing. The debate is no longer whether events like 9/11 were crooked and that the actions following have been built on nothing more than a devious and murderous lie. That is a given now. If you cannot see that something is fishy with respect to events like 9/11, you are on the outskirts of a growing perspective that is building a powerful force, and it’s not going to stop. Information is moving faster than ever, and truth draws out true power, which ultimately lies in all of us, together. That force is based in something greater than the old values and interests that have been operating throughout the last several generations.
As our combined perspective grows, and we cast our net across each other’s on the foundation of truth and love, that which is based in neither is brought to light immediately. This is what I believe is happening right now, and will continue for the next several months. As this grows, like a balloon, eventually it will fill up with enough truth that it will pop, and it will simply be undeniable that, looking back on all of this, something was missing.
What that something is that is presently missing, we cannot prove. Where it came from, we just don’t know. But we can all feel this, can’t we? We can feel that there is something just not quite right with the whole way of our being on planet Earth. I’ve always been perplexed by the continuation of the problems we face as a species. We’re simultaneously indoctrinated into the idea that we’re the most brilliant, advanced, thinking species on the Earth. And then our actions seem to reveal the opposite. But in that opposite, something is missing, and it isn’t just the way we “do things”. In the end, we’re going to learn some amazing lessons, and I believe we will march into the future all the better for it, and hopefully, treat our world, and each other, better as well.
But right now, in the meantime…Can you see that something is missing?
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