The Credit Theory of Money Creation (CTMC) Let’s say that I owe you $10. I write out a $10 IOU on a slip of paper and give it to you. You can then use that IOU as money; it can function as money because it represents a future payment of my debt to you. As…
The Best Offer: a subtle admission that we’re living in a grand deception
SPOILER ALERT: This review reveals plot twists best enjoyed on a first viewing of the movie and this article will be better understood after viewing the film. In 2013, the movie The Best Offer was released, starring Geoffrey Rush, who plays an art expert named Virgil Oldman. His character deals in the rarest of pieces…
More on the tritone conspiracy
Twice 11 and the Devil in Music
Expanding on my earlier post regarding Francis Bacon and the Twice 11 Brethren, there’s still a bit more associated with the concept of Twice 11 than was originally addressed. My book, The Next Octave, approaches such questions from a musical perspective. And while the significance that Francis Bacon applied to numbers tends to fall into…
Francis Bacon and the Twice 11 Brethren
Several researchers involved in the Shakespeare authorship question have focused their attention on an obscure group encoded into several Elizabethan texts, a group called the Twice 11 Brethren. John Anthony, an Oxfordian researcher (a proponent of Edward de Vere in the authorship question) has uncovered a lot of information about the Twice 11 Brethren that…
Malice in Wonderland
The tax attorney ambles in and sneezes on the blooms.Her client’s huge dispensary is dank with earthy fumes,but not a smoker to be found in any of the rooms. She’s late for her appointment; where’s the paperwork she’ll need?The pin-striped suited Hatter sits encrusted in his greed.He’s seeking tax avoidance for his fact’ry farm of…
A chat about The Next Octave’s discovery on the Ghosts of Bacon podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzg8RDiTZXI
The harmonic series prefers 432 Hz
The harmonic series contains 16 usable notes (notes with large enough intervals that we can distinguish them) in its chromatic scale. Of those 16 notes, each one generates its own scale. This graphic shows the list of frequencies that each note generates within its own scale for A4. Note that nowhere in the harmonic series…
Dissonance in Kubrick’s last film
In Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Bill Harford is unmasked before the secret society while three notes are ominously struck on the piano. First we hear an oscillation between F and F#, followed by a dissonant and repeated high G. In The Next Octave, we track these notes in the harmonic series and uncover some startling…
“We were in all, (sick and whole,) one and fifty persons, whereof our sick were seventeen.“
In Chapter 13 of The Next Octave, we delve into the coded messages of Francis Bacon. This chapter, entitled “An alchemical wedding of tones” is a fascinating look at Bacon’s hints regarding the harmonic series.