October 22, 2007 by SUM.

I already mentioned in the previous post Genealogical DNA research that the results of my mtDNA analysis showed that I belong to the haplogroup X. I received the results from Family Tree DNA in September 2007. Here I would like to mention another fact that attests to my numerical pattern of number seven. The analysis produced seven mutations from the CRS. The CRS (Cambridge Reference Sequence) is the basis for comparison of all other mtDNAs.

If you read my book Invisible Cloak, you’ll see that number seven has been with me in a myriad of ways throughout my life.

(Excerpts from Invisible Cloak © 2007)

While analyzing my life with regards to my numerological profile, I noticed that number seven had been with me from the day of conception like a woven thought idea throughout my life experiences. To my surprise, the number seven showed up in a myriad of ways. At first I was stunned because I didn’t know of my invisible, protective cloak. With time, I understood the “woven thought design” either had filtered out some life experiences or others had been amplified. Therefore, I had a built-in affinity to events, places or people, where the number seven plays an important role in their lives as well.

Life entails influence—we either influence our environment, or it influences us. Even numbers influence us on our subconscious and conscious level. As the world of art and music exert their influence on our feelings, sensations, and thoughts, so do numbers exert influence on our subconscious. Like energy, it’s invisible, but is experienced nonetheless.

Although we are unaware of the numbers’ pull, we’re still influenced by their vibratory metaphysical attributes. The values of these attributes are recognizable through chemical elements, starting with number one. The element hydrogen with proton number one has completely different attributes than the element helium with proton number two and so on. The chemical elements with different proton numbers have different chemical and physical attributes, which are linked with the metaphysical meaning of numbers, whose symbolic values have been validated through experience.

For example, one of the symbolic meanings for number seven is development of the mind. As we ponder this, in the Bible, we read that God rested on the seventh day. Though he rested from his work, He didn’t stop thinking! The seventh day was meant for analyzing, pondering, and scheming. Now consider this: the human head has seven apertures: two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, and one mouth. These apertures are there to see, hear, smell, taste, and speak. They are input and output devices for our body and mind. Indeed, they are tools to individually feed our body and mind and to empower us to communicate. The feeding or fertilizing attribute of number seven represents the chemical fact that nitrogen with proton number seven functions in nature as an essential fertilizing agent. Indeed, without nitrogen, a larger population would starve to death.

Now, if number seven plays a predominant role in your life, nurturing your body and mind is possibly one of the most important activities in your life. In reality, we are part of the divine co-creation process by translating our “woven thought design” into visible reality. By becoming the image of or acting out the symbol, we carry on the symbolic process.

Carrying on the symbolic process can be perceived through our numerical pattern. As you’ll see in a later chapter, my destiny number, which is number seven, has played a predominant role throughout my life.

Recognizing and acknowledging this process of symbolic participation will help us extend our perception and raise our level of consciousness. By bringing forth the “woven thought design” from our subconscious into our consciousness and incorporating its meaning and effects into our decision processes, we empower ourselves and expand and deepen our life experiences, making us feel connected to a supreme cause.

Writing this book is a consequence of consciously implementing the teachings of numerology in my life. Like me, if your destiny number is seven, you’ll find strength in solitude, moments of silence, and in your own knowledge (knowledge pre-existing in the super-consciousness realm and made accessible to us via our sub-consciousness). Destiny number seven represents a nurturing of body and mind, developing one’s mental powers, and sharing your newfound wisdom with the world.

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October 16, 2007 by SUM.

Besides writing a book about numerological patterns and the recognition and relevance thereof, I’m also interested in genealogical DNA research. We observe patterns in any kind of areas and important clues can be deduced from these data.

I decided to start with my genealogical DNA research in July 2007. Therefore I had my mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analyzed at Family Tree DNA.

Mitochondria are present in all human cells, contain their own DNA, and are passed on only through females to their offspring (male and female). The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has distinct properties, therefore making it a great tool for genealogical and anthropological study. Mutations within this DNA are studied and compared against the mtDNA of others. The results are catalogued and organized so that an ancient migration pattern can be constructed.

Different mutation patterns are assigned to various genetic population groups (haplogroups). The haplogroup identifies your deep ancestral ethnic and geographical origins on your maternal line and can help determine whether you share a common ancestor within this migration pattern. But the haplogroups don’t tell you whether you are more closely or more distantly related. If you want to find this out, you have to employ other conventional genealogical techniques.

I found out that I belong to the haplogroup X. This group is actually quite interesting because of its migration pattern. I read that the haplogroup X is an archaic gene and has not been found in most of the African continent. I believe the scientists ponder about why this archaic gene is still found in modern humans. The overall haplogroup X accounts for about 2% of the population of Europe, the Near East and North Africa. In addition, the haplogroup X is also one of the five haplogroups found in the indigenous peoples of the Americas and accounts for about 3% for the total current indigenous population of the Americas.

When your mtDNA is analyzed by Family Tree DNA, you will be informed of mtDNA matches, but only, if you signed a release form. Afterwards you can contact people in their database and vice versa.

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July 19, 2007 by SUM.

A person, I had met when I worked at Microsoft, awakened my curiosity for genealogy. He worked as a translator for a translation company in Germany, and his company worked on the translation and localization products of Microsoft software.

Since I was working on translation projects, I met him on one of my visits with Microsoft translation vendors. After he had told me about his family tree search, I was interested in finding out more about my ancestors, too. After I came back from my visit from Germany, I wrote him an e-mail and asked him whether he could give me a reference for a professional genealogist. Unfortunately, I never received a reply.

After not knowing who I could retain for doing genealogy work in Germany, I forgot about this matter for quite some time. But the thought knowing more about my ancestors never left my mind.

Last year I decided to start my own my family search site. A couple years ago my aunt Elisabeth had given me a lot of information to my mother’s family. Unfortunately, as you can see on my family search site, I have hardly any information about my father’s ancestors.

Now, besides working on my book, I’m also working on my family tree. But that is a pretty time-consuming and expensive undertaking. Nevertheless, I’ll keep working on that, too.

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June 9, 2007 by SUM.

In my previous post ‘Sponsoring a child’ I chose a picture of a door that belongs to the convent and church St. Pankratius of the Augustinian order in Hamersleben in Saxony-Anhalt County. St. Pankratius is now under renovation and will be finished in 2008. It belongs to the most significant Romanic facilities. Construction started about 1111 and the church was finished circa 1141.

I chose this door because my great-grandfather lived in Hamersleben, and my grandmother belonged to a religious order before she married in her late thirties my grandfather who was then in his fifties. At the moment my information about my grandmother is very scanty, but I know that she was a deaconess before she married my grandfather in December 1918. After my grandmother had married my grandfather, she worked as a district nurse in Warsleben/Ausleben.

Last year in fall, I toured this area for a couple days. Though I don’t know of any living relatives in this area at this moment, I love to visit this area because of my childhood memories. In the fifties I visited a few times with my father his mother, while she was still living in Warsleben, a town that is nearby Hamersleben.

I found Hamersleben quite intriguing. Right next to each other are two separate churches. One belongs to the Protestant and the other to the Catholic religion. Since St. Pankratius is under renovation I couldn’t go inside the former convent. I just walked around that place and took some photos. But I’m looking forward to my next visit.

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