Mathematics and mysticism.
Is there a world of mathematics above and beyond ordinary reality, as Plato proposed? Or is mathematics a cultural construct? In this short article we speculate on the place of mathematical reality from the perspective of the mystical cosmologies of the ancient traditions of meditation, psychedelics, and divination.
Mathematics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA. Electronic address: rha@ucsc.edu.
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Divination; Math creativity; Meditation; Psychedelics