Merging art, spirituality and science: making math fun and holistic using the MEX system

Math is a tool that navigates phenomena like quantity, structure, space, and change.

Therefore math education needs to be a blend of spirituality (philosophical and psychological expansive thought), art, and science.

The spiritual element of math is reflecting on the abstract. Did life originate because of a stirring, a bang, or a sound in the cosmos? Can we calculate humans' probabilities and destinies based on their frequency and space-time placement? How can we receive signals and messages from other worlds? Does human genius and consciousness come from some uncalibrated energy field? etc.

Nikola Tesla stated: "if you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of vibration, frequency, and energy."

The more vibrating energy that is compressed into a field of energy, the more intense the vibration gets within that field.

Hypothetically, if a space of nothingness existed (a zero-point energy space with no kinetic or potential energy), there would be no movement (vibration or frequency) and, therefore, no math, no calculation.

The art element of math manifests these vibrations, frequency, and energy into visible and audible beauty by interpreting them as geometric patterns, sound, colors, symbols and thoughts.

The scientific element of math is calibrating energy, vibration, and frequency into numbers, forms, and theorems - an entire world of phenomena can be deeply explored and understood.

Vedic Mathematics, Pythagoras's teachings, and other ancient schools integrated life, art, and logic. The primary focus was on working on knowing themselves and their place in the cosmos, balanced with expressing themselves through art and understanding logic. Today math is stripped down to mere logic.

Our MEX films provide a blend of the three elements – merging spirituality, art, and science. MEX utilizes the neuron mirroring effect by combining an engaging narrative with gamified learning. This potent combination of observing (watching a film) and executing (applying the skill being taught in VR) enables the viewser (viewer + user) to learn any skill in minutes.

The observing segments of the MEX film inspire expansive thought and awe, in a captivating storyline, while the VR segments teach theorems and formulas through practical applications.

The origin of Einstein's famous Theory of Relativity was not in equations or numbers but in intuitive thought. While sitting on a train one day, he noticed a clock tower outside and looked at the watch on his wrist. He wondered what the two clocks would show if his train suddenly began moving at the speed of light. Einstein first saw the complex relationship between energy and matter visually. The equation e=mc2 came much later.

The MEX Math film will encourage intuitive thought. e.g., if a person is asked to guess dimensions, proportions, mechanical workings, calculations, etc., and they are corrected if they get the answer wrong, over time, the brain will visually be able to intuit approximations.

When learning through an engaging narrative, the creative and intuitive areas of the brain that generally shut off when provided a mathematical question will need to activate, and this is as it should be, as math teaching should not be limited to the logical centers of the brain.

Nikola Tesla used to design complex machinery directly in his mind, function them mentally, and locate and rectify flaws visually, all without the aid of pen and paper.

The mathematical artist George Widener says he does not use formulas, instead numbers just line up automatically inside his head, like objects – without any effort or strain on his part.

Poet and mathematician Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures. The number two, for instance, is a motion, and five is a clap of thunder. "When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like math without having to think."

To the Vedas, Egyptians and to Pythagoras, numbers had "personalities" that we hardly recognize as mathematics today. When people do math, they are not visually seeing the spirit of the topic. The love of numbers allows one to see them as patterns. e.g., cosmology, proportions in architecture, fractions in musical timing, etc. The formulas and theorems then become of great value when math is visible and applicable in this way.

Applying mathematics is essential to create a need to learn it. Using the MEX system, a person is taught calculations and formulas for accounting within a comedy and crime fiction film, or during a sports drama, a viewser is taught to improve their performance in tennis by analyzing probabilities, evaluating strategies, tracking and predicting trajectories, etc.

The current math learning system is like stumbling across a cave of hieroglyphics that are potent and full of meaning to the creators and perhaps far more powerful, visual, realistic, and effective than the English language. But they are still a meaningless jumble of symbols for a person who has never seen them before and does not know what they represent in practical application. Expecting a person to memorize these hieroglyphics and manipulate them in various ways is not enjoyable. Humans have a natural need to understand, comprehend, link up and integrate matter to form a meaningful part of their knowledge bank. Thus, it is clear that the current basic approach to math education is painful.

The intuitive brain needs to be taught to see math in everything (numbers come to life). The advent of VR allows the logical brain to be the one playing catchup (i.e., understanding what the intuitive brain has seen).

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant." - Einstein

Education today doesn't balance the spiritual, artistic, and scientific elements that should teach a human they are capable of phenomenal powers that they are not utilizing. Most people balance a mundane logical life by seeking instant gratification through vices, distractions, and fear-based decisions, instead of seeking self-actualization, which is much more fulfilling and satisfying. Others try to find the answer in religion. But religion usually lacks the practical means to systematically guide each individual to self-actualization in today's busy society. Rituals, chants, rites, years of meditation are not for everyone. A healthy, balanced, and integrated life of spirituality, art and logic needs to be encouraged.

Numbers communicate; this teaching is beyond words and needs much silence and reflection. To enjoy math, one needs an entertaining space, expansive and inspirational stories, and visual stimulation to trigger the higher brain cognitive centers of intuition, heightened focus, and creativity.

Note: The first MEX film, Polymath, will holistically teach the fundamentals of music. Using the exact same methodology, Mastertude will introduce films that teach math, medical science, law, and languages using the MEX system.

Elements of Math are even taught creatively and visually in the Polymath music-teaching films and games. e.g., different weights and vibrations create different musical pitches; intervals in music are simply ratios; chord, harmony, melody, and tune create different geometrical patterns; musical timing and fractions, and the correlations between color, sound, and light.

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Genius & Enlightenment: The paths of Mastery

Questions to reflect upon:

- Where are thoughts initiated?

- Are knowledge and insights gifted to a genius because of years of dedicated effort?

- Are visions implanted by a higher intelligence in the mind of a mystic because of decades of discipline and meditation?

- Does genius exist at a frequency, and can this space be tapped into when an individual reaches a particular vibration?

Both the mystic and genius are perplexed about where the body and mind are formed for different reasons:

The GENIUS is driven by discovery because there is always eminent danger lurking on this plane of existence (hunger, drought, disease, natural disasters, etc.). They aim to provide immediate solutions to global problems, making life efficient and more comfortable.

The MYSTIC contemplates the temporary nature of the plane and tries to envision an eternal solution to global problems. They realize the earth is the plane of suffering and duality, and one is held by several spiritual laws (karma, dharma, etc.)

On this temporary plane, fixing immediate problems to alleviate suffering provides a short-term fix. The other half of our human condition is an ongoing diseased thought pattern that traps souls who enter this plane into suffering.

To truly change the state of suffering on this plane, we need to change the vibration of thought.

A person of wisdom creates with the knowledge that most creations are destroyed in time; life is temporary and ever-changing. This is evident with one of the grandest structures, the Pyramids. We still don't know the purpose of these structures, and we don't know the name of the once-powerful Pharaohs who erected them. Further, in the past the majestic cities of Atlantis and Lemuria existed; did they, or is this a myth? Solomon stated, "Vanity of vanities, all things are Vanity, a pursuit of the wind."

By studying past geniuses and mystics, we see two paths that lead humans to revolutionize systems and ideas, benefiting future generations. The degree of knowledge acquired is directly proportionate to the lifestyle of the individual.

Both paths call for a disciplined and 'non-attached to outcomes' life, in which the quest for abstract truths, the need to know oneself or the world around them, is more significant than the need for sentimentality and short-term victories.

Quoting the great Hermes Trismegistus: 'As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul."

The word 'without' refers to the world outside the individual, and the term 'within' refers to the mind and the soul. So, the perfection of the 'without' or refinement of the 'within' can lead to Mastery.

The two paths to Mastery are:

1. The 'without' path: Heightened thought

2. The 'within' path: Silent knowledge

1) HEIGHTENED THOUGHT

On the 'without' path, answers are sought in the external environment, which is the way of scientists, artists, and discoverers.

Heightened thought stems from having an unquenchable need to know and a highly trained will to concentrate, create, and excel in a skill, scientific investigation, discovery, etc.

These thinkers dedicate their entire lifestyles to suit their discoveries of genius. Throughout the ages, philosophers, painters, scientists, musicians, poets, architects, etc., renounced social memes and walked away from the mediocre mentality to follow their path without limitations.

It didn't matter to them whether they had honors conferred upon them or they were being ridiculed.

Most people lack the boldness, discipline, and willpower to walk this unconventional path, where the quest is more significant than the individual, far superior to niceties, and over time it ignites something transcendental.

As Nikola Tesla stated, "I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."

The heightened thought path leads the thinker towards a seemingly abstract invention; the social norm considers them delusional or crazy.

Their abstractions (such as the 'Free Energy' of Nikola Tesla and the 'Theory of Everything' of Albert Einstein) may or may not actualize. Still, the thinker cultivates their mind to extreme levels to deduce, explore, and create.

Short-term glory and fame, with their fleetingness, will never come close to using full focus to explore the mysteries of the universe and make discoveries that will empower future generations.

Albert Einstein stated, "Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, Mastery demands all of a person."

From a place of heightened thought (after almost a lifetime of dedicated focus on perfecting the 'without'), the thinker can see the opposite point of 'silence', when the thinker's head is about to explode with unanswerable questions.

E.g., Einstein, when faced with quantum particles towards the end of his life, stated: Quantum would require a rewriting of the laws of physics."

Einstein (and every thinker when they reach this roadblock) has two ways to react: either discount quantum theories with sheer bullheadedness, or begin the process of exploration factoring in these discoveries. To maintain the open-mindedness and resilience required for this process, the thinker must spend time going 'within' for their wellbeing.

Max Planck stated: "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve"

After much seeking, inquiry, and investigation, these heightened thinkers reach a place of "I know nothing" – the space of the mystic.

The laws of vibration explain to these discoverers that they have reached a whole new dimension of possibilities, which is the realm of mysticism, e.g., Buddha's visions of the 31 planes of existence are similar to the scientific theories of dark energy, dark matter, parallel or multiple universes.

Geniuses hit upon ideas, visions, and thoughts of unfathomable reality that might be proved over time, or are just feelings of grandeur, similar to those within the mystic's mind.

Isaac Newton stated: "Truth is the offspring of Silence and Meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into full and clear light."

2) SILENT KNOWLEDGE

On the 'within' path, the mystic refines their soul to make them worthy of being in the presence of a supremely higher vibratory intelligence.

This is the way of devotion and meditation, a solitary and subjective path. Mystics sit for years in meditation, staring into the face of their demons, fears, projections, assumptions, emotions, and thoughts while awake and in dreams.

Reflecting inwards on every aspect of life and transmuting darkness into light. A poem by Sri Chinmoy states: "No mind, no form, I only exist; Now ceased all will and thought; The final end of nature's dance, I am it whom I have sought. A realm of Bliss bare, ultimate; Beyond both knower and known; I have crossed the secret ways of life; I have become the Goal."

The search inward leads one to discover boundless dimensions and states of being. The mystic gains complete control over their mind and lives a life that reflects the wisdom of these discoveries.

"Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it" – George Gurdjieff.

Ancient sources record that Pythagoras would only admit initiates who underwent a five-year initiation period of Silence. Pythagoras taught, "Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body."

Over time, the mystic accumulates enough Silence to know oneself. From the point of Silence, the mystic hits upon the opposite point of 'heightened thought'; the enlightened mystic receives a down-pouring of timeless knowledge. e.g., revelations of the Vedas, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Pythagoras, and other such mystics.

Rumi states: "Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void, a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear."

From the Indian seer and educationist Ramakrishnan: "Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realize that they know nothing."

We must, therefore, recognize these two distinct paths among those who seek truths, and both paths lead to Mastery.

During the early stages, a seeker of one path can't see the other path. The mystic believes the busyness of the thinker is pointless, as the mystic's mind believes seeking answers 'without' (perfecting the physical plane) is a distraction, if not carried out in tandem with seeking answers of consciousness (the path of within).

On the other hand, to the thinker, the method of the mystic seems lethargic. The mystics revelations only have a degree of utility or reason in the world of form (art, science, or philosophical thought) after long training enables them to actualize.

The perfect union on this duality plane is merging Einstein's 'heightened thought' with the 'silent knowledge' of Buddha.

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives." – Albert Einstein

Most people today find themselves somewhere between these two points:

• In the state of scattered thought (lacking clarity), so unable to reach heightened thought or

• In a place of yearning for physical and emotional experiences, so unable to discipline the mind and attain total inner Silence at will.

Genius and enlightenment at their highest octave might not be everyone's cup of tea. Maslow categorized 'Self-Actualization' and 'Transcendence' as peak experiences at the top of his pyramid, as they are refined attainments that don't hold mass appeal.

Most people live their lives pursuing physical needs, emotional needs, and self-esteem needs, which sit on three levels rising respectively from the bottom of Maslow's pyramid.

For the earth to evolve, we need more substantial goals - self-actualization and

transcendence to become the focus for more people.

And for these people, their lifestyle choices need to reflect this overwhelming search, and the basic requirements of food, clothing, and shelter should be easily available.

Love, belonging, and self-worth should be encouraged through the education system - the need for these states comes with the deep desire to know oneself.

Most people stay away from the mystical domain or heightened thinking because it feels abstract and delusional. But the spoke in the wheel is we all die; the earth doesn't allow for immortality. If immortality is made available to earth, mystics will recalibrate consciousness, and thinkers will have eternity to evolve thoughts slowly.

But until immortality is discovered, to die pursuing enlightenment, higher dimensions, or moksha should not be frowned upon. The self-actualized thoughts of Free Energy by Nikola Tesla should not be thwarted.

Think big and bold; it's an added advantage of being human.

"Man (human) know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God." - Pythagoras.

Now is the time for film to evolve

Films up until this point have been about passive mirroring.

They provide us with temporary feelings of brilliance and euphoria that are lost in a vast sea of memories as we, the viewers, don't have a way to harness these moments of awe.

Mastertude aims to evolve the passive film experience and introduce XR film experiences that utilize narratives to educate.

Some people might be wary of this change due to the popular belief that entertainment helps them wind down or "escape" from reality - case in point, our current global reality. But if we analyze our viewing preferences, those who gravitate towards suspense-driven, mind-bending philosophical or psychological films, with multiple view points, are actually getting a mental work-out.

Currently, entertainment preferences generally provide two vicarious opportunities of experience: imitation or reflection. The Mastertude synthesis offers the missing link; participation.

In Mastertude's debut XR film experience Polymath (currently in development), using the technology of next-generation smart glasses, people become part of the movie. The story leaps off the screen and comes to them, replacing the world around them with the magic of film. This format enables film directors to put the viewer inside the story along with interactive digital characters, virtual objects, and movie-quality visual effects, while still maintaining narrative direction.

The new medium of XR film that we are pioneering at Mastertude uses immersive technologies to deliver experiences that engage, entertain, inform, and, most importantly, teach people real-world skills.

By combining an AI-powered learning system with XR Hollywood narratives, we can accelerate learning.

Polymath will be one of the world's first full length XR feature films, released in theaters and virtual theaters. The film will be an epic sci-fi fantasy adventure that leaps off the screen into the theater, surrounding audiences with stunning visual effects.

But the real piece de resistance is that at the heart of Polymath is a proven music learning system that has helped tens of thousands of people to achieve extraordinary results quickly.

At its essence, Polymath is an interactive film that teaches two years of music instruction woven throughout the feature-length narrative.

We believe there is no better way to introduce the next evolution of film - XR edutainment experiences that teach a skill within the narrative - than by teaching the world music.