Charles Musès
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Charles A. Musès (1919-2000), also known as Musaios, was the founder of the Lion Path, a shamanistic movement. He held unusual views relating to mathematics, physics, philosophy, and other fields.
Musès was born in Jersey City, and grew up in Long Island. He received an M.A. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1947, followed by a Ph.D. in 1951.
Musès proposed an astrological method called chronotopology, which he claimed could measure the qualitative multidimensional structure of time. He published a book on this subject titled "Chronotopology: Destiny and Control in Human Systems."
Musès also envisioned a mathematical number concept, Musean hypernumbers, that includes hypercomplex number algebras such as complex numbers and split-complex numbers as primitive types. He assigned them levels based on certain arithmetical properties they may possess. While many open questions remain, in particular about defining relations of these levels, Musès pictured a wide range of applicability for this concept. Some of these are based on properties of magic squares [1], and even related to religious belief. He believed that these hypernumbers were central to issues of consciousness.
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"The word astronomia, even the word mathematicus, meant someone who studied the stars, and in Kepler's sense they calculated the positions to know the qualities of time. But that's an independent hypothesis. The hypothesis of chronotopology is whether you have pointers of any kind -- ionospheric disturbances, planetary orbits, or whatnot -- independently of those pointers, time itself has a flux, has a wave motion, the object being to surf on time."
"The contemplation and use of hypernumber forms and properties will prove and already has proved both by self-experience and teaching to be a most efficacious and irreplaceable method of evolving into conscious access the powers and capabilities of our superconscious selves. And that way man's future lies."
"If you take a moment of time, this moment cuts through the entire physical universe as we're talking. It holds all of space in itself. But one point of space doesn't hold all of time. In other words, time is much bigger than space."
"It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millenium."
