An alphabet of emotion
The Buga Sphere is an alphabet of 28 nuanced emotions that sentient beings throughout our galaxy experience and understand. These emotions are communicated via the quantum device of the heart. Heartfelt people with the capacity to experience these emotions will recognise them on sight and understand their message.
Each of these images also describes a physical law of the quantum universe. So as well as being the alphabet of emotions, they are the periodic table of the quantum concepts from which the universe is built. Alien civilisations understand these quantum laws — once again — through the heart; in this way each symbol communicates a concept of quantum physics using the carrier wave of emotion.
We use these symbols in the æntenna app — a system that allows people to experience communication from other worlds. Free download here.
These symbols have been copied from the Buga Sphere that came down in Colombia and has been studied extensively by physicists. For a full summary of what the Buga Sphere is, go here.
The author of this webpage is Hedley Cohan, an astronomer with 45 years’ experience and founder of æntenna.
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Each mark is rendered here in gold Japanese brush calligraphy — an interpretation of the engraving carried on the sphere. Beneath each one is the emotion it carries, and the quantum principle that emotion encodes. Read them slowly. They are meant to be felt before they are understood.
Awe at the mystery of the expansion of the Universe. Respect for the unceasing continual unravelling of the ever expanding Universe.
Everything is expanding. It’s a constant and it is the spiritual recognition of where one is, and what one is witnessing.
A stoic appreciation that Life is a journey. You are on a journey and nothing in the Universe progresses in straight line.
You come back to the same point, only relative to where you began, but the Universe itself has moved on.
Consider other ideas. Respect an antithetical view. A sense of honouring any idea that sounds ridiculous.
There is a sense here of the emotion that the answer may seem elusive… but what is overlooked is the answer always in plain sight.
Things are actually simpler than we make them.
Laughter at the dichotomy of your existence. A sense of the absurd irony of life and everything that happens.
You go through processes which are fun - but ultimately unnecessary - because everything comes back to the same point, the same principle.
Focus on simplifying everything. You start with complexity and chaos all around you… you can only rise above it through the focussed discipline of simplifying. Simplifying is clarity. It’s a superpower.
The appreciation of the journey as a full circle, through which the person passes through all realities and phases and expressions, before the journey completes by bringing the person back to the beginning…although there is no real beginning.
The mystery of unknowable consequences. Be conscious there are effects of any action, which you are unlikely to appreciate now.
Be conscious: every act has reverberations of unintended consequences- things you may not ever consider or see.
The echo of your actions go on for a very long time in ways you did not foresee.
The opposite of 08.
Confidence. Every act has a clear first order implication which you must know beforehand.
A second order and a third which is predictable… this is the opposite of the glyph 08 which speaks of the invisible consequence.
The pattern repeats into the microcosm and the macrocosm.
Things replicate at smaller or larger scales… like ripples in a pond, but going in all dimensions.
Calm sense of certainty in an unalterable fact.
A given. A law of the Universe. An unalterable proven factor in any equation. First Principles.
A chain of steps that iterate into a direction that is the only obvious vector available given the pattern established at the beginning.
A sense of inevitable next step derived from a pattern that is the physics of this dimension.
Certainty. The feeling of certainty. Or the requirement of certainty.
The ephemeral nature of every movement. Know that no force of energy can continue in the same direction.
It will only be so for awhile, but only for awhile. It’s a small step. A component. A moving part. But only a constituent.
Look within. Look outside yourself. It is the same pattern repeating.
You will see that pattern in the macro and understand it replicates in the micro and vice versa.
Helping people with their direction. If you have discovered something useful, share it to others to help them.
Assistance. People moving in the same direction. A united endeavour or collaboration.
This is complexity. Phenomena which is complex. A lack of clarity causing an imbalance in a system.
Clunky, ill-fitting motion.
This is a warning. It means “don’t do this”.
There are proven consequences. This is a proven law of physics that this vector gives this result. It’s a sequence, the pattern of which leads to a known result.
Love compassion empathy and nurture.
Errors. Finding your path by finding what is not your path.
Learning from mistakes. The process of becoming demands you deviate, change direction and err.
That progress requires deviations in opposite directions. That development often requires the contractions that occur within the change of direction.
The realisation that comes from having gone in the wrong direction. The value created by the process of having gone in an opposite direction… or the need to go in the opposite direction for a time to actually create the momentum in the desired direction.
It looks like you made a backward step, but instead the experience has brought you to new direction from where you started.
And now you can begin again the next step from this new place. It looks like you make a huge blunder but it was part of the process of what brought you here.
Just let go. Constantly let go. Be prepared to let it go.
Don’t hold on to any thing, notion, belief, idea or plan. The state of mind where you are always ready to let it go.
Start. Make the attempt. Dive in. Build something.
Complete it. Finish it.
Offspring. The creative impulse which seeks to replicate itself.
The mother giving birth to the child.
The contradiction of opposites. The internal nature of things containing their opposite expression. To know a thing is to know all its expressions including its opposite.
Living in the question. Noting that one can never know everything… there is a mystery.
Around every fact. There is the knowable and the unknowable.
There is a futility in attempting to follow a plan. Because a plan does not.
Allow for the inherent deviations within any vector. You can only plan a step, and then plan for the fact that deviation from that step to happen… but you cannot plan for what that deviation is.
Note how everything is contained in something bigger.
Do not see a thing in its singularity but recognise it is contained in some thing greater, and, recognise that everything contains components of unseen things.
Hello. Assistance. Peace. Welcoming. Acknowledgement.
The Buga Sphere is a metallic orb recovered near Buga, in the Valle del Cauca region of Colombia. It is roughly the size of a football, seamless to the eye, and unusually heavy for its size. Since its recovery it has been passed between private researchers, imaged, weighed, and examined by physicists and engineers, and it has been the subject of continuous public argument ever since.
What draws me to it is not the metal. It is the band of marks engraved around one pole of the sphere. There are a little over thirty individual strokes in that ring. Some forms repeat; some are compound, and can be read either as one mark or as two. The count you arrive at depends on where you decide one mark ends and the next begins. Twenty-eight distinct forms are presented on this page.
A background film on the sphere and the argument around it — “Scientists Successfully Decoded the Buga Sphere”, by the Ultra Mystic channel. It is included as an overview of the story so far, not as an endorsement of its conclusions; the readings on this page are my own.
This page is not an academic decipherment and does not pretend to be one. It is my reading — the work of an astronomer who has spent forty-five years looking at the sky and thinking about how a message between civilisations would actually have to work. My argument is simple. Language is local. Mathematics is less local. But emotion, felt in the body, is the one carrier that any sentient species with an interior life would share. If you wanted to transmit a physical law to a stranger across the galaxy, and you could not assume a shared tongue or a shared number base, you would encode the law inside the feeling it produces.
That is what I believe this ring is: a set of quantum principles, each bound to the emotion that principle creates in a being capable of feeling it. An alphabet of emotions, and at the same time a periodic table of quantum concepts. Read them and see whether they land in you.
Hedley Cohan is an astronomer with forty-five years of observation behind him, and the founder of æntenna.
His long interest is not in whether we are alone — he regards that question as settled by the numbers — but in the mechanics of contact. If a signal arrived, what form would it take, and would we be built to receive it? That question led him away from radio and toward the heart: to the idea that the human capacity for nuanced feeling is itself a receiver, and that a sufficiently old civilisation would transmit into it rather than into an antenna array.
The interpretations of the Buga Sphere symbols on this page, and the gold brush renderings that carry them, are his work.
æntenna is a system for experiencing communication from other worlds. The symbols on this page are built into it: they are the vocabulary the app uses, and the app teaches you to feel them rather than to read them.
It is free to download.
For enquiries about the symbols, the interpretations, licensing of the artwork, or the æntenna app, write to:
If you recognise these symbols, or if one of them lands in you in a way you did not expect, I would particularly like to hear from you.
Last updated 9 September 2026.
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