Short Story: The unforeseen dangers of numerology

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The master numerologist, Ekhart Numerosa, had been a numerologist for over 40 years. He thought that he was an expert at this practice, having even written a book, or two, on it, too. One was treated as "the Bible" of numerology, as it seemed to be so inclusively detailed, and authoritatively written, that it was used as a textbook, and reference book, by most other numerologists too. But then, there was a man that came to see him for a numerology reading, late in the master's career. Ekhart calculated his numbers, his life path number, and his name number, to begin with. (To find your Life Path number, you add together the numbers for the MONTH + DAY + YEAR, of your day of birth, and then you keep digit summing the numbers, to reduce the number, to a one-digit number.) (Your name number is found by finding the number from your name obtained by matching the letters in your name with numbers, and done in a certain way too, similar to the life-path number.) (These numbers are the life-blood numbers of numerology, which are said to depict your personality, and other traits about you, that you carry with you in this birth.) Now, Ekhart's expertise had gone to his head, and this great old man, once a real master, added some numbers of his own into the mix too. He added on a number that he called, a "love number". Using this number, we can calculate our affinity with our partner in life, as in our marriage partner, for example, he would tell his clients. Now, it has been variously argued that the calculated numerology numbers do mean something, and that the study of numerology is not just a total pseudoscience. But, to connect numbers to feelings might be seen as being a bit of a stretch at times. This old master did know that there were various tone scales of feelings and emotions, and even consciousness, that other people had created before, but he wanted to use his new "love" number to calculate a person's position on this emotional scale, where love is at the top, as a number too. He also called this "love" number your "feeling levels" number too. He claimed that it could be calculated by adding the numbers of our life path number to our name number, and then see what the totalled number is there, and then compare this newly found "love" number to the emotional tone/consciousness scale, as is generally listed. Here is a simplified form of this tone scale, or consciousness scale: 0 is dead, 1 is basic feelings of survival, 2 is instinctiveness/reactiveness, 3 is the normal human situation, 4 is becoming more mindful, 5 is spiritual, inquiring, 6 is becoming less fearful, and cerebrally consciously aware, 7 is becoming an adept, 8 is being love/loving, as much as possible, 9 is God-consciousness, in a human, and 10 is God himself. Nobody else can reach 10, of course. A street beggar is usually placed at around 2, on this scale, for example, or sometimes, even as a 1. Some other more stretched out scales show this top level of consciousness of God's at infinity. The problem was though, that this man, John, who had come to him for a reading, was calculated to have a "love" number of only 1, as well. This upset him, as he had thought that he was at least a little more spiritually advanced, as he was at least interested in growing his knowledge in this area. He became greatly depressed, and he committed suicide, as a direct result of this bad reading, given to him by this so-called expert on numerology. This just shows us that we should never take these things at face value. They perhaps are nothing in reality, but mere party tricks of charlatans, in most instances, as was proven here. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Can you spot a charlatan in his garb?