My experience with master numbers started in 1999, when I started seeing 3:33 or 11:11 on the clock - each time it was something telling me to look.

In 2003 I decided to run an experiment, of recording for a week every time I looked at the clock and saw a master number. This included many clocks set to different times, including also clocks on cars, billboards, etc. Even though, being conscious of recording time, I looked at clocks more often than regularly, and many of the numbers recorded were not a result of feeling tugged and compelled but rather of looking at clock deliberately which of course would give garbage numbers, the rate was 1 in 10, as opposed to chance 1 in 60.

Since then I have seen not only master numbers all the time (once again, not when I looked deliberately but when felt tugged to), but also numbers that were special to me. The number that is most special to me - 9:56 - is a combination of 95 (the year of sublime romantic experience and resulting inspired thought) and 56 (the birth year of my muse in 2002, for whom I wrote a poetry book) - has a chance of being seen 1 in 720; yet I see it at least once a week if not more so.

For a while I was seeing 10:17 - the birth date of someone I know - once again, four times or so in a week - until the contact with that person ended.

Besides these, I see master numbers (such as 10:10 or 12:12) on special events, when spiritual energies are active.

I've been trying to show this to people, and of course the original response is "You're insane"; then as continuing evidence builds the reaction changes.

I often ask other people, in whom I see spiritual activity, whether they've seen such numbers often, and the answer in many cases is yes.

So hail the master numbers, and well be the rhythms of the universe.

Ilya Shambat.