Charles Arthur Musès

Charles Arthur Muses (; 28 April 1919 – 26 August 2000), was a mathematician, cyberneticist and esoteric philosopher who wrote articles and books under various pseudonyms (including Musès, Musaios, Kyril Demys, Arthur Fontaine, Kenneth Demarest and Carl von Balmadis). He founded the Lion Path, a shamanistic movement. His views relating to mathematics, physics, philosophy, and many other fields are considered visionary by some scholars while being controversial to others.

Early life and education Muses was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and grew up in Long Island, New York. His father abandoned the family when Muses was a young boy. Muses mother supported him and their large extended family on a school teacher's salary. Years later he would remark in lectures that if his mother had not had an overarching faith in his abilities he might never have been able to escape the confines of his impoverished youth.

In 1938, Muses earned a BSc from the City University of New York, majoring in mathematics and chemistry. In 1947, he completed his Master's Degree in philosophy at Columbia University, followed by a PhD in 1951 for his thesis on symbolic logic. and even related to religious belief. He believed that these hypernumbers were central to issues of consciousness.

Some research work about hypernumbers was done by the mathematicians Jens Koeplinger and John A. Shuster.

Legal troubles Muses was arrested in Egypt on June 20, 1957, and charged with attempting to smuggle antiquities aboard. In August of 1957, Muses pleaded guilty to the charge in order to escape the harsh conditions of his imprisonment, and was released the same month through the efforts of the US Department of State. After returning to the United States Muses claimed that he had been falsely accused by the Egyptian secret police in retribution for attempting to stop their persecution of the daughter of a prominent Egyptian family.

Selected writings

1951: Illumination on Jacob Boehme. The work of Dionysius Andreas Freher, King's Crown Press, New York 1953: An Evaluation of Relativity Theory after a Half-century, S. Weiser, New York, link via Internet Archive 1955: East-West fire. Schopenhauer's optimism and the Lankavatara sutra. An excursion toward the common ground between Oriental and Western religion, Watkins, London 1962: (editor) The Logic of Biosimulation: Aspects of the Theory of Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Biosimulation, Locarno, June 27 to July 5. 1960, Plenum, New York pages 115–163. 1965: "Systematic stability and cybernetic control. An introduction to the cybernetics of higher integrated behavior", Rome 1965: "Aspects of Some Crucial Problems in Biological and Medical Bio-Cybernetics", Band II, Elsevier, Norbert Wiener & J. P. Schade editors, Amsterdam 1966: "The First Nondistributive Algebra, with Relations to Optimization and Control Theory", in: E. R. Caianiello: Functional Analysis and Optimization, Academic Press, New York/ London, pages 171–212. 1967: "Hypernumber", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 138, New York, pages 660, 901. 1972: (with Arthur M. Young) Consciousness and Reality. The human pivot point, Outerbridge & Lazard, New Cork 1985: Destiny and control in human systems, Studies in the interactive connectedness of time (chronotopology) (= Frontiers in systems research.). Kluwer-Nijhoff, Dordrecht/ Boston. 1991: "The Ageless Way of Goddess: Divine Pregnancy and Higher Birth in Ancient Egypt and China", in: Joseph Campbell, Charles Musès (editors) In All Her Names. Explorations of the feminine in divinity, Harper, San Francisco , pages 131–164. 1996: The Lionpath - The Big Picture: A Short Path to Regeneration for our time, Musaios. fifth printing, House of Horus, Sardis (B.C. Canada) 1999: The Shamanic Lionpath, House of Horus, Musaios, Sardis (B.C. Canada)