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A Glimmer of Light From the Eye of a Giant: Tabular Evidence of a Monument in Harmony with the Universe

by Joseph Turbeville

94 pages; spiral coil; catalogue #00-0065; ISBN 1-55212-401-0; US$16.00, C$23.00, EUR15.00, £10.40

Digit addition of Fibonacci*s mathematical series creates identical strings of 24-digits. This allows development of self-limiting tables that amazingly reveal the major measurements of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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About the Book An awareness and appreciation of the beauty of symmetry and harmony that can be found in all of nature must surely have been responsible for the intuitive leap of the author's imagination to cause the creation of these mathematical tables. Number summations and symmetrical combinations discovered in the tables represent many of the exact measurements made at the Great Pyramid of Giza. Other numbers that occur continually in the tables represent physical earth measurements of such things as size, density, angular velocity, and rotational energy, or harmonics thereof. There were some synchronistic events involved in the creation of this book and the author has chosen to show such happenings as side notes in the Appendix in order to minimize any aura of mysticism that might be cast over these tables. For an autographed copy of the book, or for more information, visit the author's website at www.eyeofagiant.com. Joseph's second book with Trafford, New Tabular Evidence of a Monument in Harmony with the Universe, is also available for sale here.

About the Author Serving as a merchant seaman in his late teens during the height of World War II, and later sailing as a deck officer in the early post-war era, provided the author with a keen perception and a first understanding of the mechanics of the universe. His early seagoing training in navigation had raised in him the desire to gain a greater knowledge of the world he lived in. During the 60's Turbeville obtained two degrees in Physics and began an academic career of management, teaching, and research at the University of South Florida. In the 70's, he received funding from the Federal Seagrant Program for the development of an oil spill recovery concept for which patents were later issued. This work also provided the opportunity to spend a year as an invited research associate with SINTEF at the University of Trondheim in Norway. By the mid 80's Turbeville had moved from Florida to the North Carolina mountains in the first step toward early retirement. This moved him out of the "big city" and into a more peaceful environment, one that would be conducive to other kinds of creative activity. From the fall of 89 through the spring of 91 Turbeville taught at the University of Western North Carolina on a part-time basis as he began to settle into a slower pace of life.

Here's what people are saying about A Glimmer of Light From the Eye of a Giant:

This book by a former Physics Professor contains one of the most fascinating mathematical analysis of the Great Pyramid that I have ever read. It is loaded with charts and tables and Professor Turbeville displays a grasp of mathematics that is unique. His correlations are very creative and insightful.
I highly recommend this book and I guarantee you will find it challenging, stimulating, and enjoyable.
John DeSalvo, Ph.D., Director
Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association

Turbeville's Tables: Cosmic Connections and Organic Numbers , July 28, 2000
Reviewer: Gary Val Tenuta from Everett, WA
Someone once said, "Once in a while we stumble over a remarkable truth and then pick ouselves back up and continue on as if nothing had happened". What might account for this? The answer may lie in yet another quote from physicist, Dr. Paul Schock, who said, "Often we don't see something if we're not prepared to see it." In the case of Joseph Turbeville, author of "A Glimmer of Light From the Eye of a Giant", he was apparently ready to see whatever it was he stumbled upon. Fortunately for anyone even mildly interested in the great mysteries of the world - such as the Great Pyramid in Egypt, Dr. Carl Jung's concept of "synchronicity", sacred geometry, and the "number magic" of the Pythagorean mystery schools - Turbeville has given us a record of the discovery he stumbled upon. Explaining just exactly what that discovery was is not easy because it's not the kind of thing we're taught in school and it is not the kind of thing our current scientific paradigm is quite ready to acknowledge, with the exception of a few scientists on the cutting edge of quantum mechanics. This is the case despite the fact that Turbeville's discovery is solidly grounded in conventional mathematics. However, Turbeville, himself, gives a huge clue as to the nature of his discovery early in the book when he describes the mathematical tables he developed (the tables are nicely illustrated in the book).

Of the tables he tells us they were the result of playing with the numbers generated by the famous Fibonacci sequence. This numerical sequence is reflected in the natural organic growth process of plants and has been found, oddly enough, to be present within the geometry of the Great Pyramid. The tables generated their own intriguing sequences and patterns of symmetry and, like the original Fibonacci series, they repeatedly generated numbers reflected in the exact measurements of the Great Pyramid. If that were the extent of what the Turbeville Tables revealed that would be intriguing enough. However there was more. Turbeville writes:

"Other numbers that continually reoccur in the tables represent physical earth measurements of such things as size, density, angular velocity and rotational energy, or harmonics thereof."

Turbeville has apparently discovered something new under the sun. Or has he? While it may be new to us, as we stumble along seeking answers to the mysteries of the universe within the current scientific paradigm, the implications of the stunning correlations discovered by Turbeville suggest the possibility that he has rediscovered something that was known to the ancients but which was lost over the millennia. What we may have here is an archaeological find uncovered without ever having weilded a single stroke of pick-ax or shovel.

A complete review of this extraordinary little book would be remiss to not mention what Turbeville, a man with two degrees in physics, would probably just as soon not have to have mentioned himself. Yet he didn't really have much choice since this element played a large part in his discovery. That element is the concept of "synchronicity". Synchronicity is, simply put,a special catagory of "coincidence" identified by the degree of "meaningfulness" to the experiencer and often by the sheer improbability of the coincidence having occurred by mere chance in the first place. A number of leading synchronistic events occurred to the author leading up to and during the time of the work presented in the book. In some strange way, these events appear to be linked to the work itself and may have significant implications in regard to the deeper, and in this reviewer's opinion, the cosmic/universal nature of Turbeville's discoveries.

Lest one be tempted to dismiss such notions out of hand it would be instructional to note that this concept of synchronicity has, for some time now, been finding its way into the writings of scientists researching the area known as quantum physics. For example, two of the world's most highly respected physicists, David Bohm and Karl Pribram, have postulated the idea, based on quantum physics research, that the universe may actually be a hologram of sorts. Science writer, Michael Talbot, in his book The Holographic Universe (1991) discusses this idea in depth and notes that the phenomenon we call synchronicity may be a function of the way the universe is constructed. Talbot quotes physicist, Wolfgang Pauli, who, in a discussion of what is known in physics as "non-local quantum effects", says such effects "are indeed a form of synchronicity in the sense that they establish a connection - more precisely a correlation - between events for which any form of causal linkage is forbidden". Therefore, to suggest that synchronicity played a significant role in the process of Turbeville's work is not without merit. Indeed, it may be justified. There is a growing consensus among forward thinking scientists and philosophical thinkers that much of what we have thought of in the past as fanciful mysticism may actually be misunderstood aspects of reality and that our tendency to catagorize some of these things as mysticism is simply a reflection of our own scientific ignorance.

While "A Glimmer of Light From the Eye of a Giant" may be a relatively small book (just over 80 pages), the stunning information contained therein could undoubtedly generate volumes of discussion just on the implications alone. Turbeville, in fact, encourages interested parties to explore the further possibilities suggested by his findings. Highly recommended for anyone with even the slightest bit of interest in the subjects highlighted in this review.

Professor Joseph Turbeville, in his book, "A Glimmer of Light from the Eye of a Giant", provides the reader with an excursion into the possible meaning of ancient reckoning numbers and their relationship with the numbers in nature. Turbeville offers numerous tables based upon the "famous Fibonacci series that appears in many natural growth processes" and, others based upon "numerical reduction of multidigit numbers to single digits". He utilizes "distilled Fibonacci numbers and multiples" presented in tables of rows and columns of digits that produce numbers and fractals that are suggestive of ancient, historically significant numbers.

Turbeville is surprised at the "symmetry, both numerical and graphical", that the tables generate. He then proceeds to relate his findings to specific events in history, such as the possible relationship of these tables to the measurements found in ancient structures, such as that of the Great Pyramid of the Giza Plateau. There are many different number series that the author cites, but special attention may is given to the intriguing 1-8-9 count, found in the baseline measurement of the Great Pyramid (756 ft = 4 x 189). And, the author then relates such measurements to the possible use of pi as expressed as a reciprocal of seven (3.142857). Another number series count that receive great emphasis concerns the 216c (216, 432, 864, etc.).

The cited number series and counts are thus related to events in nature, such as relationships to the circumference of the Earth, among other phenomena. The suggestion is that the theoretical tables of numbers possibly reveal sources of data for the construction of ancient monuments, such as the Great Pyramid. The author questions the fact whether the ancients may have devised similar tables for the construction of their works. Undoubtedly, Turbeville contributes to the interpretation that the ancient reckoning system and the measurements of ancient, monumental constructions were based upon serious and profound theoretical thinking.

Anyone who first views the Great Pyramid might superficially conclude that it is the result of the rudimentary practice of piling stone upon stone. But, as one penetrates the interior of the ancient pyramids of Egypt (and those of other parts of the world), the fact becomes obvious that their construction is based upon theoretical engineering knowledge, that in most cases still surpasses today's thinking. The corbeled ceilings within the ancient pyramids, defy explanation, even in contemporary engineering thought, not so much in terms of how they work and function, but how someone could have built them without modern-day machinery.

From there, it is not difficult to understand the relationships drawn between the mirror-image numbers of Turbeville's tables and the mirrored patterns within ancient artwork on all levels and in different fields of endeavor. From the repeat, mirrored patterns of tapestries to those of the pyramids, one can visualize a mathematical basis to the geometric patterns. The Turbeville Tables contribute to just such a visualization.

The author, in this manner, draws numerous relationships among theoretical mathematics and geometry, the encoded measurements of ancient artwork, and the number and fractal series existing in nature. On the whole, our societies of today are recognizably more distant and withdrawn from any day-to-day contact with nature. Understandably, our ancestors were more directly related to the secrets of nature. The very fact that their apparent philosophical thought and symbolism, their monumental structures, their vision in art seems to attest to a closer relationship to nature, would only suggest a theoretical and conceptual basis linked to the math and geometry of nature itself. Yet, many scholars today resist in accepting the obvious, and limit their perception by visualizing an ancient world handicapped by ignorance.

Many scholars contemplate the Great Pyramid and see no great work, but only the piling of stone upon stone, in a most empirical, brick-layer's fashion. They perceive no theoretical, conceptual design. They see, as it were, only a pile of rubble. And, they are of no mind to concede greatness to the ancients. When one reads the writings of scholars who deny the obvious accomplishments of the ancients, immediately one wonders how these scholars might think we got where we are from that ignorant past. They enjoy viewing our contemporary societies as the epitome of all things past, yet all things past are looked down upon, frowned upon.

Turbeville's quite vision through numbers and fractals greatly reinforces the obvious: that the ancients knew much more than meets the eye. The Great Pyramid is not great because of the technical feat of having piled stone upon stone. But, rather, its greatness lies in the perceived theoretical basis for its very conception, and obviously, execution. The greatness flows from the fact that numbers are perceived as mirror images, and that the simple sums of distilled numbers lead to unsuspecting posits.

All numbers are related, just as one relates to two, and two relates to three, and so on infinitely so. Therefore, to find relationships one might consider to be no great accomplishment. But, that would be the initial impression when considering the nature of numbers. But, to find specific number and fractal series as in the Fibonacci series in the light of fractal numbers, and historically significant numbers (another expression for fractal numbers), in some of the great works of the ancients, can only spur the reader onto researching even more relationships. It seems difficult to think that the ancient Egyptians happened upon the 189c, and the ancient maya happened upon an 819c, and that these two opposing events in history were simply that, a mere coincidence. Turbeville does not explore the k'awil, 819c, as we have done in our own research, but Turbeville's Tables serve as another stepping stone to comprehending such relationships and coincidences found in the past.

Turbeville's Tables suggest many other relationships among the ancient counts, although not stated specifically, such as those of the cited Khufu Mile of 6048 feet. This count brings to mind the ancient maya long-count number/fractal of 4608c. The 6076 ft. cited by Turbeville of "one minute of arc" being equal to "one nautical mile" reminds us of the 676c of the Legend of the Four Suns of the ancient Mesoamericans. There are far too many examples in Turbeville's work to cite in such a brief review. But, we encourage the reader to explore these coincidences. The number/fractal series, such as 4608, 6408, 8640, 6480, 4860, 4680, etc., found throughout the ancient reckoning systems around the world, apparently are not the result of a myriad of coincidences. They suggest an underlying theoretical management of the art of counting and mathematical computation, especially when we find these same series within geometry and theoretical constructs such as Turbeville's Tables.

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The Great Pyramid - Khufu

The mystery that surrounds the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is legendary and the differences between truth and legend become less certain as we travel back through the mist of time. It is the most studied and written about monument on the face of the Earth, and it is not my intention to add more verbiage to the vast collection of literature already available on the subject. It is my intention however, to show that the tables developed and presented here were inspired by the mathematical symmetry found in nature, and for some mysterious reason, contain the most precise measurements ever made of the major dimensions of the Great Pyramid Khufu. Only after I began to probe the symmetry and mirror image properties of the tables did I begin to wonder, "might similar tables have existed before the Great Pyramid was built? Do they contain data or guidelines that might have been used by ancient artisans and architects?"

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