2016, part 1 of 5 - The Delusional

In the last two months, the year 2016 has been of great and increasing interest to me... and concern.  Like my struggle through Robert Gordon's 7 days, the WD Gann Memorial Triangle, the WD Gann Gravestone Geometry and other series, I write before I think.  But its a process.  As Sherlock Holmes would clarify, we load our "attic" with furniture trying only to accumulate that which is relevant and discard that which is not.  Then, when presented with mystery, we search the attic for the facts and patterns that assist in formulating explanations or theories of that might solve the mystery.  And then we examine each theory to identify the further data that will eliminate or confirm.  This blog is a lot like Holmes process except that his ability to avoid the premature conclusion, though not perfect, was far more mature.  I tend to 'pop off' and, like John Watson, I like to weave the story that emerges in my imagination rather than doggedly follow the facts and patterns.  Its not the story...its the facts, process and truth that have merit Sherlock lectured Watson more than once.

I've written and re written this series of essays on the year 2016 in a single post, but that will not work.  The 2016 subject is an effort to predict many aspects of the nature of the year 2016.  Its basis must be derived from a serviceable understanding of the WD Gann Map of Time or "MOT," the Biblical cycle of the Great Week and the "great" 1000-year cycle.  And, as my understanding of these concepts has emerged over several posts, any reader would have a hard time understanding the connection between those "methods" and the derived meaning.  Even at this stage, I get things wrong...but hopefully, "less wrong" than before.

So, the first essay will provide a characterization of the year 2016, the reason why I am offering it and proof that, if I have identified and applied Mr. Gann's methods correctly, we can derive an accurate picture of the the year 2016 .  The second essay will capsulize the MOT, the Great Week, the "great" 1000-year cycle...tools that will be used to identify the repetitions of the past that are projected to repeat in 2016.  The third essay will apply the tools of the second essay to derive the elements of the character of the year 2016.  And the final essay will look back on the former 3, correct where needed, bring in new elements if they present along the way and conclude.

Why am I doing this?  First, we all know progress doesn't readily occur without failure.  If there's anything certain in my mind, I will be wrong.  But in being wrong, the few people who read this work and the fewer that will take it seriously may correct it, augment it and move the effort forward.  Secondly, remember Mr. Gann's encouragement "forewarned is forearmed."  To the extent I am correct (I, myself, can't handicap that possibility though I'm persuaded), persons taking this series seriously may prepare for the future.  And third, its a responsibility set forth on page 83 of TTTTA:

Smarter people than I should pick up this mantel...but I'll do what I can.  To that end, I'll be the 'goat,' the 'delusional.'  Only a couple lines later on that page Mr. Gann gives us that Bible verse that we all associate with the fire and brimstone minister who is preaching the Apocalypse, Mathew 16:3 (reprised in Luke 12:56):

I recall that, while publishing the "7th Manifest Prophecy," a person who I considered very intelligent and open-minded posting on a board "Jim, you've really lost it now."  He did not provide any criticism of logic or inference or offer any dispute of facts.  Simply intellectual bigotry.  I expect most people will deny the possibility that Mr. Gann could make such predictions of the future.  But that same person's own work with Mr. Gann's TTTTA showed that he mathematically encoded the exact level of the market at two dates found in TTTTA.

Look at small sample of proof that Mr. Gann could predict (as opposed to "see") the future:

The Great Depression and World War II.  Pages 82 and 83 of TTTTA give us the difficulties of two time periods, 1926 to 1933 and 1940 to 1944.  The first of those periods will be characterized by famine, difficult business conditions and panic.  This was the first portion of the Great Depression.  Mr. Gann characterized the second period as another difficult one for the US; we know it was, generally, the earlier and most tenuous of the US' involvement in WWII.

The bottom of the 1929-1932 crash.  Market students have pointed out the similarities of war and the stock market.  The fictional war in TTTTA ends on July 4, 1932, 4 days short of the lowest closing low of the market in 1932.  Many, if not most people aware of this, consider it proof of foresight by some means (geometry, spiritual, ancient knowledge....).

The "6th Manifest Prophecy of WD Gann."  The command post of Supreme Commander Robert Gordon is the 110-story Mammouth Building.  Can the misspelled word Mammouth and the number of stories of that building be missed in our post 9/11 world?  Unquestionably, its the World Trade Center?  The "6th Manifest Prophecy" identifies how Mr. Gann encoded into TTTTA, within 1 minute, when Muhammad Ata departed Logan Airport on Flight 11, within minutes of when the 2nd WTC tower fell, the number of terrorists on the 3 successful attacking flights (one unsuccessful flight was scuttled in Pennsylvania), the flight paths of the planes attacking the WTC, and many other aspects of 9/11.  [The '6th Manifest Prophecy' can be found HERE.]

The "7th Manifest Prophecy of WD Gann."  Mr. Gann predicted the name of the person who would discover at least one level of encoding of TTTTA;  acrostic and telestic words.  Mr. Gann predicted the date, January 28, that that person would discover the final element of proof; his street address.  [Other personal information of that person was identified but is not included in the essays laying out the "7th Manifest Prophecy."  Those essays are found HERE.]

[Let me interject a correction here.  A learned person once suggested to me that he could not accept that any person could provide a 'prophecy.'  After many months of pondering that thought, I have to agree; prophecy is in the realm of divinity....divination.  Predicting is either or both in the realm of using tools, some or all of them Biblically based, to discern the future.  Prophecy is something beyond mortal ability.  Predicting is something derivative of what prophecy has already been prescribed.  I use the titles of 6th and 7th Prophecy of WD Gann now only because that is how the original essays are styled and recognized.]

The above is a very minor listing of the proof of Mr. Gann's ability.  Personally, I have concluded Mr. Gann derived his predictions from exactly where he said he did; from his application of math and science (physics).  Additionally, I believe he applied the coincident astrology (planets behave according to the same math and science as rules all of nature) for those who had that aptitude; we know Mr. Gann was a master astrologer.  He derived time cycles, angles and other heuristic measures to help those still less capable of greater insights; milk for babes, meat for stronger men I'm recently reminded by a distinguished contemporary Mason.

Mr. Gann needed the 'goat,' the one who would risk the delusional label to follow facts, associate patterns, propose stupid alternate theories and propose a synthesis.  I'm the goat with the obsessive need to examine the great mystery Mr. Gann buried in so many places.

Your duty, as Lord Francis Bacon would direct you, is to read to consider.  Not to read for the purpose of dispute or of compliance; but to 'consider.'  I've already called myself the names that the bigoted would apply so that is out of the way.  Consider.  Find the facts, draw your own inferences and conclusions and use whatever is of value to yourself and family.

We start from the point that it is proven that Mr. Gann could predict the future with fine granularity.  If you cannot read the above offering of proof supplementing what you might already believe, then there's little reason to continue.  Mr. Gann could do this; he could predict.  Now, can I, or someone continuing where I am incapable for want of greater knowledge, re engineer some of his methods to make a prediction?

In time, we are currently IN the year 2016.  When you read the below prediction you'll see some of the events it predicts are already with us.  The year 2016, according to the number of lines in TTTTA and the MOT (to be re summarized from earlier essays in the 2016, 2 of 4 forthcoming), began on July 1, 2015 and will end on June 30, 2016.  Some of the prediction can be written off as nebulous, but some of it is very specific.  Read the prediction, sit on it and then read the essays that give the cyclic (as opposed to what I consider the "math and science") and other bases for it.  There will be some time between the parts of this series.

Facts, patterns and circumstances yet to be provided in forthcoming essays suggest: 

- a great natural disaster will occur in 2016, most likely in January, and, based on a perceived clue provided by Mr. Gann and the geologic character of the area, it will be located in or near San Francisco, 

- partly the result the predicted earthquake, the nation and world economy will suffer and the stock market will be severely affected,

- world political distress will continue to the extent that there is a clearly recognized definition of the war between Islam and the nations of infidels, that either the Jews or Muslims will be exiled from Old Jerusalem, and that redefinitions of the relationship of many central governments and their constituent peoples will be redefined, and

- United States political distress will continue to the extent the country will be propelled either towards its current direction of increased government or reversed towards greater personal freedom.

As was the character of the world 168 years (one of 15 periods of the Great Week) prior to 2016 in 1848,  "revolution" is not to be considered "remote."

Like many, I expect, I am very concerned.

Jim Ross