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Air What is Symbology and Why is it in the Program? Year 1 Last Updated: May 18 2021 Introduction ψ A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols extend knowledge by creating linkages between simple concepts and complex experiences and is meant to be used as a communication and information processing system. Symbols take any form such as letters, words, sounds, gestures, ideas, or visual images and are used to convey ideas and beliefs between two or more systems. Numerals are symbols for numbers for example the variable 'x', in a mathematical equation, may symbolize the position of a particle in space. The letters of an alphabet may be symbols for certain phonemes; and personal names are symbols representing character or the nature of an individual or thing. An example can be seen in the Tarot deck the first card of the Major Arcana (mysteries) is the Fool Card. It symbolises the start of beginning of an event that can be a person, place, thing, or action. This image is symbolic of the journey that everyone goes through life many times in their lives and after death. The symbology is not only the image of the person, but it is every aspect of the card. The number on top is valuable information as well as the background of the Sun and yellow sky next to a body of water (perhaps the ocean). And the rocky cliffs through which the fool travels give us data. The name of the card The Fool also contains information. So, then the symbology of this cards is everything that meets the eye and more. The study of symbols is called semiotics. In an organized collection of symbols, the symbols form the legend, or set of instructions for understanding. Semiotics is a subject that we will cover more extensively in the course. So, you can see that symbols form an important part of communications between human systems. It can also be used to communicate to other types of symbols those between humans and nature,… -
Air What is Reality? Ψ Reality is an interesting sebject, and it has been reviewed, and argued over by philosophers, scientist, mathematicians and mystics throughout history. How is reality defied, a topic that not everone agrees upon. Is it real if you can see it? Then, what abouts atoms and cells? You can't see them with your human eyes, but you can see them with the assistance of a microscope, or electron microscope. Does the way we can see them, affect their reality? Our sciences, and movies, i.e. the Matrix, tells us that wood isn't really solid, but it is moving, or vibrating, making waves instead of being fixed and rigid, although, when we feel it, it certainly seems solid, and boy does it hurt when it hits you. So, reality can be viewed from two standpoints. The one you can see with the naked eye, and that which you may view with magnifying apparatus; the macro and the micro. Of these two realities, is one reality better than the other, or perhaps shall we ask, is one more real than the other? Let us see. A definition of reality is the aggregate of all that is real or existent within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary. It is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence.[1] In physical terms, reality is the totality of a system, known and unknown.[2] Philosophical questions about the nature of reality or existence or being are considered under the rubric of ontology, which is a major branch of metaphysics in the Western philosophical tradition. Ontology is the study of philosophy that examines concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality. On(t), is Greek for being, and ~ology is the study. Thus, it searches for and answers the questions of how entities are grouped into basic categories and which of these entities exist on the most fundamental level. It is the science of being and belongs to metaphysical philosophy. A simple example is water. It's chemical formula is H2O. If you had random Hydrogen atoms and random Oxygen atoms in a beaker, at what point would you have water? Getting back to reality, and…What is Reality? Briefly.
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