Numerology and AS/NVLD.

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I must preface this post by stating that I take numerology (and all claims about non-material/"spirtual" aspects of reality) with a huge grain of salt. Nonetheless, the personality characteristics of the number 7 (at least as described by author Richard Cavendish in his book, "The Black Arts") have always appealed to me. Not only do I find them appealing and view them as an ideal of human personality, my real name adds up to the number seven. Again...i'm not saying this means anything, but the characteristics of sevens do apply to me MORE SO than those of any other number Cavendish describes. Further still, i've always aspired to the characterstics of seven which don't apply to me. Here is what Cavendish says about number seven people:

"Seven is the number of the scholar, the philosopher, the mystic and occultist. Sevens are natural recluses. They like to withdraw from the maddening bustle of the world and be alone to meditate and reflect. Dignified, reserved, self-controlled, serious, they have no patience with foolishness and frivolity. They care nothing for money and very little for physical comfort. They have powerful and penetrating intellects, but there is also a dreamy side to their character, highly imaginative, sometimes fey and strange. They are often extraordinarily bad at explaining themselves and their ideas and they tend to dislike being questioned or argued with. They are sometimes deeply unhappy people, pessimistic, disappointed, aloof, superior, witheringly sarcastic".

Aside from the witheringly sarcastic part....this seems to describe a good number of people with AS fairly well IMO.

Read The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot.


Also, as a serious student of Comparative Religion, Western Occultism, philosophy and the paranormal, I must tell you Richard Cavendish is one of those authors I consider to be an opportunistic crackpot, who regurgitates information he has gleaned from other sources indiscriminately and without any innate comprehension. Toss The Black Arts* in the trash and read Colin Wilson's The Occult, for a much better and more accurate historical overview and introduction to the field of study.


As for the numerological stuff, I'd start with Dion Fortune's The Mystical Qabalah, and work your way up to Crowley's 777. I know there has to be an intermediary step between the two, but I can't recall offhand what it would be.


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*I hold the written word to be such a sacred and inviolable icon of knowledge and intelligence I can't bring myself to destroy a book, even when I think it sucks the devil's d*ck, so that should give you an idea what I think of Cavendish's work. Don't actually throw it in the trash, just take it with a large grain of salt.