The controversy of numerology

It has been noticed that some special characters frequently appear in daily life, historical records and religious classics. It is accidental to appear once, and it cannot be explained by accident if it appears frequently. Therefore, it is of great significance to infer that these frequent numbers are the result of the action of God or supernatural forces. Although strictly speaking, this does not belong to the category of numerology, these frequent numbers all have some characteristics of numerology.

Critics call this phenomenon accidental and list several reasons:

People are good at recognizing various figures or patterns. This helps people to better understand and control the situation, and also encourages people to explain random events with patterns;

Because there are few figures in the world, repetition is inevitable;

Because special numbers such as square numbers are rare in the world, the repetition of these numbers is even more inevitable.

These views also apply to numerology. For example, some professionals claim that their numbers can be seen everywhere in life, which proves the authenticity of numerology. But according to the above judgment, the repeated figures are only accidental. In addition, critics also point out that people tend to pay attention to their own bodies and ignore others' bodies. In other words, if a person's number is 7, he will remember everything about 7 and turn a blind eye to other numbers such as 6 and 8. This feature also applies to people's attitude towards numerical attributes. This phenomenon is called confirmatory bias.

The biggest controversy in numerology lies in the fact that numerology is based on the long-invented counting system. This system teaches people to count things in units of 10, mainly because people only have 10 fingers to count. Even the English words in Old English embody the idea of 10. For example, 1 1 means 10, and 1 2 means 2 of 10.

However, the 10 decimal system is not unique, nor is it the oldest counting system. Indigenous tribes in Australia, New Guinea, Africa and South America invented a different counting method. They prefer 1, 2,2+ 1, 2+2 (two twos), 2+2+ 1, 2+. Some ethnic groups also use 12 radix and 60 radix, which are used to measure time.

Numerology is like astrology. Although people find that numerology research is helpful to both the spiritual world and the emotional world, there is no scientific basis to prove that it is really so magical.

Related figures

To learn numerology, there are four people we must know, including L. Dow Balliet, the pioneer of modern numerology. Without her, there would be no numerology we use today.

Length Dow 1847

She was born in Atlantic City, USA on 1960, and started as a music teacher. In the process of studying phonology, she found the same vibration between letter names and notes, which led her to study a lot of ancient books about numbers. She was the first person to call the characteristics of numbers vibration, and applied vibration to names, and worked out some calculation formulas. During the period of 1908- 19 17, she wrote a series of books, including "The Philosophy of Numbers" and "The Day when Wisdom Adapted to Digital Vibration", which were sold in Amazon. Psychic Ruth Delaire called her the mother of psychic numbers.

The following three are all students of L. Dow Balliet.

Florence Campbell 19 18

Born in, a famous psychic mathematician, there are few records about her. She only knows how to learn spiritual numbers from Balliet, and wrote the famous teaching "Your days are numbered" at 193 1, which is available on Amazon.

Dr. Julia Heaton

1862- 1950, a native of Illinois, USA, used to be a doctor, a mentor and writer of the new thought movement. She studied numerology with Balet. Combining numbers and logic, she coined the word numerology, making numerology a discipline. Her numerology works include Numerology Symbol, which is available on Amazon.

Dr. Juno Jordan

1884- 1984, the daughter of the famous psychic mathematician Julia Sidon died at the age of 99. She devoted her life to the study of mental figures and wrote books and articles until she was 95 years old. She started as a dentist, then studied metaphysics and psychology, and then studied mental numbers with Balliet. In order to focus on the study of names and numbers, and to prove and falsify miraculous numbers, Dr. Juno established the California Institute of Numbers to verify the meaning and reliability of each number through data and repeated tests. After 25 years of research, he came to the conclusion that "the figures are reliable, but each case needs to be calculated independently". Later, the research was written into Your Name and Destiny, Your Rights Action and Romance in Your Name, which are available on Amazon.