tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25583213678349236312024-03-13T20:40:54.071-07:00 m e t a m o r p h o p t i c s James Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06043369605749011553noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558321367834923631.post-78527619990112748592023-05-07T21:24:00.019-07:002023-12-16T13:35:23.297-08:00Giaome Biogenesis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqiwkwCFeJgytQODiHzlwkPQwHrx-5EV3Kn1wryQGRRFrSDzcNeclemEeKNGs-h5Fjd2rUywZKQqbsgzjxUvVHKoQD9lt2RCcxcPvYwl3V1L6Rf1w9tIquyoQbQYQsYdIUhZ5rmwpulP9c86V9EdAt_-Gh90aMctEFS165mGmm0bN5JPu1OXqXo65CPyI/s640/phonto.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="640" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqiwkwCFeJgytQODiHzlwkPQwHrx-5EV3Kn1wryQGRRFrSDzcNeclemEeKNGs-h5Fjd2rUywZKQqbsgzjxUvVHKoQD9lt2RCcxcPvYwl3V1L6Rf1w9tIquyoQbQYQsYdIUhZ5rmwpulP9c86V9EdAt_-Gh90aMctEFS165mGmm0bN5JPu1OXqXo65CPyI/w320-h259/phonto.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"Gaiome Biogenesis"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">(Pencil & compass drawing)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">* * * </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><blockquote><blockquote><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: small; font-style: italic;">"As
with one eye there is no perception of depth, so with one biosphere our
view of the universe lacks depth. A multiplicity of biospheres not only
creates specific new angles of vision; it multiplies perspectives. It
may also produce a whole new kind of vision, a sort of biological
"hyperspective."" - Dorion Sagan</span></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is about trying to create a symbol for the idea of biospheric bifurcation, the multiplying of our earth's biosphere and our perspectives on life, evolution, and the earth, ensuring an evolutionary multi-planetary future for our species in the solar system. Evolving both humanity and the biosphere together by exploring the idea of engineering outer earth orbiting biospheres, self-sustaining planetary ecologies, and the idea of “eco-technics”; where permaculture meets astrophysics, and where natural intelligence meets artificial/sentient intelligence. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The leaves and eyes represent the unfolding of this potential <a href="https://metamorphoptics.blogspot.com/2014/03/cosmic-biogenesis-gaian-branching.html?m=0">cosmic biogenesis</a> inherent in natures intelligence, and the Apollonian fractal circle gasket represents the multiplying of earth into biospheres.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Overall, we can see the self-organizing, self-sustaining, and self-regulating dynamics of nature and the biosphere as a decentralized but holistic “technology”—an organic self-designing self-intelligent evolutionary systems technology running throughout all of life, that we can interact with in evolutionary ways that open emergent adaptations, transformations, and outcomes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><blockquote>"We cannot conquer nature with our technology, but we can conquer our technological nature: by working with nature, by conceiving of life as a whole integrated organism of which we are part, we can use our ingenuity for the benefit of all life - and be the more human for it." - Dorion Sagan </blockquote></span></div><p style="text-align: center;">—:•:— </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn2WvkPK8vP_JOxOT5VhrUQrTx5Yf0CXq0miOjWi2niS92gdMKSikjQouUbkgbUnnxNS5bTHX7FmkeY0I-LWx-ANweH4ws5K6b98KPPC2KTVtJfiRO5sNtg40UqOoaPjLGBoxkaiU1C0-MkCywuak76AnWvdNpuuR2YWySoxBkRI-KZE5pvju5BR_8Aqs/s872/IMG_5301.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="872" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn2WvkPK8vP_JOxOT5VhrUQrTx5Yf0CXq0miOjWi2niS92gdMKSikjQouUbkgbUnnxNS5bTHX7FmkeY0I-LWx-ANweH4ws5K6b98KPPC2KTVtJfiRO5sNtg40UqOoaPjLGBoxkaiU1C0-MkCywuak76AnWvdNpuuR2YWySoxBkRI-KZE5pvju5BR_8Aqs/w344-h400/IMG_5301.jpeg" width="344" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"Earth Mitosis"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">(Pencil & compass drawing)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">***</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: center;">—:•:— </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>"</i>Reproducing biospheres represent a new hour in the human day, a new age in the Earth's ontogeny. If we could examine history under the temporal equivalent of a microscope, we might be startled by the resemblance to organisms and cells of biospheres." - Dorion Sagan</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"We need a new story. We need a story that actually comes out of what we know about the universe. That's our moment." - Brian Swimme</span></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"The ultimate importance of the evolutionary vision lies not just in its power of unifying scientific thinking and stimulating a truly transdisciplinary approach, but also in the philosophy it expresses--a philosophy close to life and its creativity. The alienation of science from life, which has become a matter of growing concern, is about to be overcome by the evolution of science itself." - Erich Jantsch</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.” - R. Buckminster Fuller</span></p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">“Successfully running a new biosphere would show people what it takes to make it in our beloved old one.” - Dorion Sagan & Lynne Margulis </span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;">—:•:—</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://a.co/d/4Ev9wDK" target="_blank">Gaiome: Notes on Ecology, Space Travel and Becoming Cosmic Species</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://a.co/d/dKlZCS1" target="_blank">Biospheres: Metamorphosis of Planet Earth</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLMHcUg36yc&t=1s" target="_blank">Dr. Bruce Damer: S.H.E.P.H.E.R.D. Asteroid Capture and Handling</a></p><p style="text-align: center;">—:•:—</p>James Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06043369605749011553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558321367834923631.post-22562691238102573882023-04-21T13:44:00.009-07:002023-04-24T19:41:35.248-07:00Phi-Eye and the Golden Circles<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb0HFhlzCNiqdssbN73c8KxbZr_n84o8zhZSpK3eS71Vp8ydCNULW_5UWkO9JaHpNbjIojK7-I__UxWZ1QxZFbK35y6htzLkvdemNP1NhMdMKx0GoYfk-KQW8wczbOfAty5hbYxz3LlhJbqw6dREnDUbX6Qv2Z2wEbz0IIV8iW51zEzJ741ZxtSaWD/s608/E269BEA5-4935-42CD-8B9F-C1C0C9DA92D5.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="540" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb0HFhlzCNiqdssbN73c8KxbZr_n84o8zhZSpK3eS71Vp8ydCNULW_5UWkO9JaHpNbjIojK7-I__UxWZ1QxZFbK35y6htzLkvdemNP1NhMdMKx0GoYfk-KQW8wczbOfAty5hbYxz3LlhJbqw6dREnDUbX6Qv2Z2wEbz0IIV8iW51zEzJ741ZxtSaWD/w373-h420/E269BEA5-4935-42CD-8B9F-C1C0C9DA92D5.heic" width="373" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;">"Phi-Eye"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Pencil and compass drawing, digitally altered</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">* * *</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="color: #7f6000;">“I see through my eyes, not with them.”</span></div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;">— William Blake</span></div></blockquote><p></p></div><div><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span></div><div><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Mtt4X60mRWriXeV2NDLjy08ixW6vB9z5AbbNtOx8t5bXpyq5Thc8IoY907bTJ8e9b4QnF0gFHHKIm5k6X7apTPrxGGyGE2X52eEqj8-TA-YV7Vl5xXOBiDFShDQdMwLdq-j6AfF-xRzSKBc1V4HmDw7ZtWWBQc7OD2ZelQ-cBs1BZuAhDstQX4jX/s520/E26FA88F-D787-42F7-AEAF-C6DDE6A6A06D.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="520" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Mtt4X60mRWriXeV2NDLjy08ixW6vB9z5AbbNtOx8t5bXpyq5Thc8IoY907bTJ8e9b4QnF0gFHHKIm5k6X7apTPrxGGyGE2X52eEqj8-TA-YV7Vl5xXOBiDFShDQdMwLdq-j6AfF-xRzSKBc1V4HmDw7ZtWWBQc7OD2ZelQ-cBs1BZuAhDstQX4jX/w320-h229/E26FA88F-D787-42F7-AEAF-C6DDE6A6A06D.heic" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;">The Golden Cut (1:1.618...) creating the Golden Circles </span></div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;">overlapping within the vesica piscis</span></div><div>* * *</div><div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;"><blockquote><blockquote>“You will know, as far as it is allowed to a mortal, that nature is from all points of view similar to itself.” — Pythagorus</blockquote></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div>George Leoniak’s discovery of the Golden Circles template and the many different geometric connections that it makes possible really starts to open the doors of the phi ratio relationships in a very consistent way in your connection with geometry—no matter what level you’re at. </div><div><br /></div><div>The template, consisting of series of phi ratio proportioned concentric circles, in either 2, 3, or 5-fold view, makes working with sacred geometry altogether a more easily expansive and insightful practice, not only in the capacity to discover and construct forms, but in its ability to integrate the interconnected meanings of the root relationships, ratios, and perspectives more simply and coherently.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Golden Circles are like a meta-organizing pattern to see the whole field of sacred geometry anew through. Exploring them is like interacting with a type of psychoactive auto-didactical generative tool for catalyzing new geometric connections and epiphanies; it is a way of keeping geometry in check with both the absolute transcendent, its source, and also the dynamic of life and phi as it emerges and connects back to source; both with the One and all its emergent self-similarities.</div><div><br /></div><div><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span></div><div><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: medium;">Three Golden Circle views:</span></div><div><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRplY9a7TjbYBnrueYj77l6sxjL2cq6tDmJBm_u7BduDT6g3zennVaLyq8Pgg5rkVaS5oZVazBmO9L-MCWj6cYPUEBSYW7rWR4-j0UtWJV9u5q6A51CFAv_uzSVf-J4eivkFWHyuMFtxqqagRQDlQRloLwt7i5Qk43VaoOx2nIJMISD8IjDB4gQBCB/s2016/2fold.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRplY9a7TjbYBnrueYj77l6sxjL2cq6tDmJBm_u7BduDT6g3zennVaLyq8Pgg5rkVaS5oZVazBmO9L-MCWj6cYPUEBSYW7rWR4-j0UtWJV9u5q6A51CFAv_uzSVf-J4eivkFWHyuMFtxqqagRQDlQRloLwt7i5Qk43VaoOx2nIJMISD8IjDB4gQBCB/w268-h201/2fold.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">2-fold/square view</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyaCrl8xyfLR4b3nmWcll1lqP-n2gziVfRPnrZ069BPAHw1V1pLyBIZ3qXkM6g10-CKMyQxurZaxUzq3WgbI7KsaJt1q0vPgIeWa0wMJ5y83NrGkaDOoRdYPwcrxSfQYuVqn6QdVftoAWxQ3ZVeOr8hKg5tb7nWfHhn-QS8cmrfOPGC7WzuQ6qjwGS/s3616/730F6734-08FB-4B65-92EF-2D1A420EE125.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3616" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyaCrl8xyfLR4b3nmWcll1lqP-n2gziVfRPnrZ069BPAHw1V1pLyBIZ3qXkM6g10-CKMyQxurZaxUzq3WgbI7KsaJt1q0vPgIeWa0wMJ5y83NrGkaDOoRdYPwcrxSfQYuVqn6QdVftoAWxQ3ZVeOr8hKg5tb7nWfHhn-QS8cmrfOPGC7WzuQ6qjwGS/s320/730F6734-08FB-4B65-92EF-2D1A420EE125.heic" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">3-fold/hexagon view</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe7cdymuChNrcWlrGYNFogXMvzTy2n9jJV3UQ7deZv-OQkpHJJcJNsWHgTlrD5iZ-o8ttn-LorGcEvrXIeBKCJ-99IQCshqCUlKkkFioyoa0uUSuzDAYFx27W8NAn87i5ZUYfF5a4Aiki5nNvaCp18HdQim7dW0AlRbW_loS_AmIn8rrWF4HG-n6dR/s1841/5fold.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1841" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe7cdymuChNrcWlrGYNFogXMvzTy2n9jJV3UQ7deZv-OQkpHJJcJNsWHgTlrD5iZ-o8ttn-LorGcEvrXIeBKCJ-99IQCshqCUlKkkFioyoa0uUSuzDAYFx27W8NAn87i5ZUYfF5a4Aiki5nNvaCp18HdQim7dW0AlRbW_loS_AmIn8rrWF4HG-n6dR/w262-h320/5fold.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><span style="color: #7f6000;">5-fold/pentagon view</span><div><br /></div><div>Overall I find this approach a more holistic way of exploring and understanding what sacred geometry is, you could say it literally puts the proportional dynamic, the life of phi into the Flower of Life, or what Keith Critchlow more appropriately termed the “Flower of Creation.”</div><div><br /></div><div>The basic version of the Golden Circles Seed of Life pattern is a simple and elegant complement to the traditional Flower of Life pattern. The Golden Circle lattice is in phi proportion and fits in between the familiar central 6-fold petals of the Seed of Life and Flower of Life patterns, giving an interaction and overlap between √3 and √5 geometries, showing us a richer field of interconnected circles for new connections, coordinates, and potentials for forms to emerge. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj70eJDMBP_DPb7va4r-B7RNpROqrQHJh8asoT07a1duASBrD2v2kk-lMDAaMlfS62V7IjbI7aneuw5R6p8Z8rO1PtHliDCmiui7cxVxYB8MAGAkylZIQCe3RMM4U1J6BvKLk5HACOVCpGZaCZ0rxioqazCyPBZxcBJrQkfQZequWpLL3nfwMj41v7u/s3050/01CD263E-A09E-4B92-8522-DA9E5602415D.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3050" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj70eJDMBP_DPb7va4r-B7RNpROqrQHJh8asoT07a1duASBrD2v2kk-lMDAaMlfS62V7IjbI7aneuw5R6p8Z8rO1PtHliDCmiui7cxVxYB8MAGAkylZIQCe3RMM4U1J6BvKLk5HACOVCpGZaCZ0rxioqazCyPBZxcBJrQkfQZequWpLL3nfwMj41v7u/s320/01CD263E-A09E-4B92-8522-DA9E5602415D.heic" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #7f6000;">The Seed of Life & Golden Circles, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">(</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">blue circles are phi ratio/ √5, red are √3 </span></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFkijUd3ogQWBl05sNAdFiWDGsENJpI4AxaLC68Eyj1cNqXyWBvRiDyzvYkF0L4GiGwKMOsRofnfseKHpdvIkRU2UCNxroA6EbBtlVnC5Mkni5Is4q0myjDbLQNj1WNqOwPMXK_9o1gNfRnF9rkmLobfwO88SWuqMZUlbKElTL7_o6XZrFzIpd532S/s806/F240B4F1-EE20-42E5-8F9A-C7EA4EB4352F.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFkijUd3ogQWBl05sNAdFiWDGsENJpI4AxaLC68Eyj1cNqXyWBvRiDyzvYkF0L4GiGwKMOsRofnfseKHpdvIkRU2UCNxroA6EbBtlVnC5Mkni5Is4q0myjDbLQNj1WNqOwPMXK_9o1gNfRnF9rkmLobfwO88SWuqMZUlbKElTL7_o6XZrFzIpd532S/s320/F240B4F1-EE20-42E5-8F9A-C7EA4EB4352F.heic" width="298" /></a></div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;">Golden Circles Flower of Life<br /></span><div><br /></div></div><div>Working with the Golden Circles method incorporates multiple views and construction methods, both in what it does for understanding and discovering accuracy in the various solids and polyhedra based on phi, and in how it uses both digital and traditional compass methods for exploring and checking accuracy and creation method, and also 3-D construction.</div><div><br /></div><div>A good example of this is how the Golden Circles method corrects the popular Metatron's Cube method of constructing a true dodecahedron. The difference is subtle but once you see it you can't unsee it. The dodecahedron created from the hexagon view of the Metatron's Cube method is not just a perspective or perceptual issue, it's a fundamental problem because it's not made from even-sided pentagons, and definitely not proportional to phi ratios, and so it cannot be constructed into an actual 3-dimensional form. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNdx9BKz60wXwf5pkyIytcfMMt6UT1cQ7sPN-XU9sTCRhbrMYAq0-0PS1MPWQIWxzksYjkXJTRKFsA6SkfRUi7y7HoOEWEUmpz1bGXTBcHNQTw7tNcGdMS-OUrcMdBdgi7zzWHUqMu7B-KhjVBkbybwTlK9ulPX5-01jQHEZSny2F_dqpheOjcxMte/s1047/165F51C9-A998-4F2E-AE79-46A020C8369D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="1047" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNdx9BKz60wXwf5pkyIytcfMMt6UT1cQ7sPN-XU9sTCRhbrMYAq0-0PS1MPWQIWxzksYjkXJTRKFsA6SkfRUi7y7HoOEWEUmpz1bGXTBcHNQTw7tNcGdMS-OUrcMdBdgi7zzWHUqMu7B-KhjVBkbybwTlK9ulPX5-01jQHEZSny2F_dqpheOjcxMte/w157-h116/165F51C9-A998-4F2E-AE79-46A020C8369D.jpeg" width="157" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWiM2SHlJ2vW_ovJ0JGlAr82bl_7l7mCy7sLhQOIrBTbK2IfHifD_8KHax56l14GPHceNzoWmAIc1y77ssyybuK1lIQamTNIO6lM5J2dplYdgxrAHt5o7FoR5M4XGAgmZ7jWD8bmlSGPpAryR7wiAVmmPHF4oOQeLEm75kZe_9wMf33Y9-veevUrzw/s795/85C11A0F-7D2A-4DD2-B396-654B3DDAF923.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span><div><span style="color: #666666;">* * *</span></div><div><br /></div></span></div></div></div></div><div>Engaging with this phi based method or key to further opening the secrets of the circles of the Flower of Life allows the sacred and symbolic aspects and the of the unity of geometry, or harmony of the constants, to emerge as internal insights into the eternal that happen when you do the work and make the connections and interact with the mystery and your own curiosity and creativity.</div><div><br /></div><div><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></div><div><div>Below are some of the various polyhedra studies, created from using the Golden Circles template pattern and variations, discovered & taught by George Leoniak and Knew geometers at Knew Geometry — (check out more on his work, courses, and group here:<a href="https://knewgeometry.space/" target="_blank"> https://knewgeometry.space/</a> — <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@KnewGeometry">Knew Geometry Youtube</a> — <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/163371445861426" target="_blank">Knew Geometers FB Group</a>)</div><div><br /></div><div><div><span><span style="color: #7f6000;"></span></span></div><blockquote><div><span><span style="color: #7f6000;">"The world around us is a world of numbers</span></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">—numbers that spell life and harmony. They are organized by the geometry of figures, all related to one another according to a sublime order, into dynamic symmetry.</span></div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;">Glimpses into this magnificent kingdom form the basis of all our knowledge and it seems that in this domain the ancient civilizations had gone further than modern science."</span> </div><div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">— Paul Jacques Grillo, Architect (1960)</span> </div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span> </p></div></div></div><div><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: medium;">Golden Circle Polyhedra Studies</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT9AhBwHdj7Q_7lpatHRS4UjTdbz6a4taUWQsf6EUPk6YX1G0ydS6UN73OhAbw2Ya_1X4DUCeWzuTuTxhEv9d3Hhh4ORKBY1I_RTtcD963ngMm9UH-SONJWB46iE4IBvVp--JKnOy5_Jl6P8GMeqYlfAUha1kc2tOt8jNPoysjkV6lOwjw3Bs4GPm5/s4032/16923AD5-C936-4674-9917-B0E56D0CE755.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT9AhBwHdj7Q_7lpatHRS4UjTdbz6a4taUWQsf6EUPk6YX1G0ydS6UN73OhAbw2Ya_1X4DUCeWzuTuTxhEv9d3Hhh4ORKBY1I_RTtcD963ngMm9UH-SONJWB46iE4IBvVp--JKnOy5_Jl6P8GMeqYlfAUha1kc2tOt8jNPoysjkV6lOwjw3Bs4GPm5/s320/16923AD5-C936-4674-9917-B0E56D0CE755.heic" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Dodecahedron from Golden Circles with √2 radius circles</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexKrMQYKz3yQPRfPqBszRt-Tb3ltjZe_45j83RAP4P2YxAWflC3Ql6OkoI0XgwMtG0mib5Ly_-huPBDFVWsU-XaYM5kL8rvD8XvxA_qWfBbF-Rjyu2JA6G1asm_3l9zgd3GjlThXfLQFpQr5VEeg7_ETAiR6k0l0w_IMVE6wUZcX7InNH_safzMZ1/s4032/61C9ED3A-7EAF-4F19-A432-C6EBA9B6F296.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexKrMQYKz3yQPRfPqBszRt-Tb3ltjZe_45j83RAP4P2YxAWflC3Ql6OkoI0XgwMtG0mib5Ly_-huPBDFVWsU-XaYM5kL8rvD8XvxA_qWfBbF-Rjyu2JA6G1asm_3l9zgd3GjlThXfLQFpQr5VEeg7_ETAiR6k0l0w_IMVE6wUZcX7InNH_safzMZ1/s320/61C9ED3A-7EAF-4F19-A432-C6EBA9B6F296.heic" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Truncated Dodecahedron from Golden Circles with 0.618 outer circles </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcpF7TBUYadHAChpuC6-SB7zqkHZRNPNwlZ0egw8I2eI5vI4XBm5TSsi0vLcEI8XUgr8tBMfR2TQUwzulBljZARBFuvvYXC5_ySsT1RiLZ8QpeXuYDkDhoRXLKh3bY506xdY_faIFkybgqRI-UITsXNnashLmJcn3LsuPChIE_Z0d71fEr0nCK6kZ4/s4032/8242849A-3CF9-4B89-910A-5D1FB9752403.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcpF7TBUYadHAChpuC6-SB7zqkHZRNPNwlZ0egw8I2eI5vI4XBm5TSsi0vLcEI8XUgr8tBMfR2TQUwzulBljZARBFuvvYXC5_ySsT1RiLZ8QpeXuYDkDhoRXLKh3bY506xdY_faIFkybgqRI-UITsXNnashLmJcn3LsuPChIE_Z0d71fEr0nCK6kZ4/s320/8242849A-3CF9-4B89-910A-5D1FB9752403.heic" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Icosidodecahedron from Golden Circles</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgNoGt02gId0lqtO3t2p53_3MaiCUq2u8ezkagODVOs4V5e_oC94MnKgOq7qndSYV9psUGh-mdoBAH4mdFfiOh286uXzwWtG5Dy_5Fm2O7E1aobjPMlPtksFZsxWNpeqki1Ys-jBi5kqlWe1iTCZfTSxgmghOwyqPUNQ9KfcHuI51Y74EHfjZA4_4r/s4032/5CA5F1F7-2FCA-4246-BEE6-0F3F8134EC63.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgNoGt02gId0lqtO3t2p53_3MaiCUq2u8ezkagODVOs4V5e_oC94MnKgOq7qndSYV9psUGh-mdoBAH4mdFfiOh286uXzwWtG5Dy_5Fm2O7E1aobjPMlPtksFZsxWNpeqki1Ys-jBi5kqlWe1iTCZfTSxgmghOwyqPUNQ9KfcHuI51Y74EHfjZA4_4r/s320/5CA5F1F7-2FCA-4246-BEE6-0F3F8134EC63.heic" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Truncated cube from Golden Circles with √2 circles</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1495" data-original-width="1769" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX7lp7xAc2TLlBmCqrcAmpstarU7-vLU3WFI-RsGxW9TU0glgXY4h_Fq72kOWIFVo4YXFEZXcveD_vVhb8RZqixrwWqKpCapYVq9CWEci8ygGYtDXSaWNZ3fMvyPSjlwoS4o6bDDGNdFB2xltJRDoFc2J_A6_U5cKYnbeCQj_r-JXsdok26MXNEQ_F/s320/IMG_4135.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Truncated Icosahedron "Buckminsterfullerine" from expanding Golden Circles </span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnRhbGZeJAgP9g7_JjdIcK84Nkeh5GLshd05B05PAOzTYccLI7kqUkdNGhZ53J7kA5Ap5chj4m1gStW5IgtPlcEudtyqqVGmNRjMWAz5i_UwhsDQMptj8JrypICm78veSbmbKzym5Xr172KAG7tqt2OQr7zSRDvMplZH8Ha3NA8WqzTomrOohsRJKh/s640/IMG_4148.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnRhbGZeJAgP9g7_JjdIcK84Nkeh5GLshd05B05PAOzTYccLI7kqUkdNGhZ53J7kA5Ap5chj4m1gStW5IgtPlcEudtyqqVGmNRjMWAz5i_UwhsDQMptj8JrypICm78veSbmbKzym5Xr172KAG7tqt2OQr7zSRDvMplZH8Ha3NA8WqzTomrOohsRJKh/s320/IMG_4148.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Rhombic Enneacontahedron inside Dodecahedron from expanding Golden Circles</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ZY5dQjTUDacDUZ3T3A4DkrNgveMyU4ZIrWVaJ8MlxVbYfWtQTuQFdZ59njgcmW040rA2K--7c0leZ9S3pe57U7PgIHlw39tRHyrp6NkJFlTViL9HRFWyJo5wfaFgC09loqsX2DCsGW_FwhjkwlQsML_zrwZcnDLvpxBkI9ebo7k-zLameLJqiqEA/s2016/IMG_4564.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ZY5dQjTUDacDUZ3T3A4DkrNgveMyU4ZIrWVaJ8MlxVbYfWtQTuQFdZ59njgcmW040rA2K--7c0leZ9S3pe57U7PgIHlw39tRHyrp6NkJFlTViL9HRFWyJo5wfaFgC09loqsX2DCsGW_FwhjkwlQsML_zrwZcnDLvpxBkI9ebo7k-zLameLJqiqEA/s320/IMG_4564.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Great Rhombicosidodecahedron from Flower of Life with Golden Circles x4</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj42NnKaDjE7XYPQLOPiFmt_lC1ZQ1XiB-S5zbdc8uqVHqkKY1FnsoXIau8HldVe3FV6dCiDEehr6m1Vz6KQW6jGVWMxX49fA18sr4m9Qzcv7mBiETB7RT--lGNbWhHJw1tFScrq5q7WNIWPWj6WQ2ZzA3nWanJhtDa2Eib3nDY2OEW6UcsAXHLm9ty/s652/4A8A7CB8-3749-42F0-90F6-BE1D7D33DADC.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="652" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj42NnKaDjE7XYPQLOPiFmt_lC1ZQ1XiB-S5zbdc8uqVHqkKY1FnsoXIau8HldVe3FV6dCiDEehr6m1Vz6KQW6jGVWMxX49fA18sr4m9Qzcv7mBiETB7RT--lGNbWhHJw1tFScrq5q7WNIWPWj6WQ2ZzA3nWanJhtDa2Eib3nDY2OEW6UcsAXHLm9ty/s320/4A8A7CB8-3749-42F0-90F6-BE1D7D33DADC.heic" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Great Stellated Dodecahedron Star Polyhedron from Golden Circles</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWPHqyGK5qNuKCUSlTibICjBRTSy1rT5R5KubWxMWc5_OQVj7gzmePEv3uYf-OHPlAIdkNq0EBBHKnKolA1hcFKY-vXYsZtqA79U0lZ4Wf_Nl_byNGJFze95Mq5Wj_xsXI2IXZR41D_MElSCFc4RQWfWqCipscMAcWlmT2TWpE3qRzbh1t9Lwh_-ee/s648/410D9681-7740-446A-A7DF-6D9CF4E530C2.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="648" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWPHqyGK5qNuKCUSlTibICjBRTSy1rT5R5KubWxMWc5_OQVj7gzmePEv3uYf-OHPlAIdkNq0EBBHKnKolA1hcFKY-vXYsZtqA79U0lZ4Wf_Nl_byNGJFze95Mq5Wj_xsXI2IXZR41D_MElSCFc4RQWfWqCipscMAcWlmT2TWpE3qRzbh1t9Lwh_-ee/s320/410D9681-7740-446A-A7DF-6D9CF4E530C2.heic" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #7f6000;">Small Stellated Dodecahedron from Golden Circles</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span></div><div><div><span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></div></div></div><br />James Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06043369605749011553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558321367834923631.post-82461292004609034062022-12-17T20:53:00.003-08:002022-12-25T19:51:39.639-08:00Self-Organizing Bio-Logic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKWycbfrJbMEZxHIeKo4Zzv7RtmuF9vmsPHjEwwXqmH02k_YaD7ytuW9urIuVQGWHm4MtAruYEb0gZ_6y4MxZ5y_IyJDxhzuwRc6Q5dfeFQmGQdttWzO6mGUAgDDC4mt_Ccz-pJVpdXqX9nKQtaeIsqKvYv2Ji56xC8lARS63tFUN6fqy8WV8dSzZ2/s374/262E8D36-891D-4DDE-94DF-1ECE2811C368_4_5005_c.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="253" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKWycbfrJbMEZxHIeKo4Zzv7RtmuF9vmsPHjEwwXqmH02k_YaD7ytuW9urIuVQGWHm4MtAruYEb0gZ_6y4MxZ5y_IyJDxhzuwRc6Q5dfeFQmGQdttWzO6mGUAgDDC4mt_Ccz-pJVpdXqX9nKQtaeIsqKvYv2Ji56xC8lARS63tFUN6fqy8WV8dSzZ2/w348-h514/262E8D36-891D-4DDE-94DF-1ECE2811C368_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="348" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"Self-Organizing Bio-logic"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Digitally altered drawing, 2017</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">—:•:—</span></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The poet Goethe was actually one of the first pioneers of the sciences of complexity and emergence. He found a dynamic participatory way of seeing nature, documented in his study on the metamorphosis of plants. He was one of the first to explore what a non-reductionist and vision-logic imaginative level of archetypal thinking can be, seeing a unitive evolutionary archetypal process at work in nature, and in perceiving and thinking about nature, or in other words a gestalt way of seeing the whole.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Applying Goethean Science or a gestalt mode of inquiry is essential to better grasping the order of process and dynamic complexity of the natural world ..</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"If the scientist is too bigoted to feel himself into the sensibility and the living values of the artist, he will propose only dead structures." - Jacob Bronowski</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">“The holistic paradigm, Gaia, deep ecology, and new alchemy all have a hidden ancestor: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.” - John Barnes</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">—:•:—</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">“In Goethe's method, "how" to look is the key. We must switch our attention away from the verbal-intellectual mind and into "seeing." This way of seeing is active, not passive. We plunge into seeing the qualities of the phenomenon. This takes us away from the uniformity imposed on nature by the intellectual mind and we experience the non-uniformity, richness and diversity of the world. </p><p style="text-align: center;">In this way we arrive at the simplest case, the "pure phenomenon," the part that contains the authentic whole. This is the aim of the first stage of Goethe's method. What is particular in our normal way of seeing becomes universal in the intuitive mode. Goethe described the pure phenomenon as " an instance worth a thousand, bearing all within itself." The classic example is found in Goethe's observation that "all is leaf." For the rational mind, the leaf is just one part of the plant along with the petals and stamens. These parts are regarded as essentially separate and independent of each other. But with the switch to the intuitive mode of consciousness the leaf is understood in a universal sense as an "omnipotential form," rather than as a particular physical leaf.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The process of active seeing is deepened in Goethe's subsequent stages, in "exact sensorial imagination," or guided imagery. We visualize the phenomenon in imagination. This is sensory and concrete, not abstract, attention is withdrawn further from the verbal, and consciousness is restructured into an "organ of holistic perception." The purpose of this stage is to realize an element of the phenomenon not given to sense experience. </p><p style="text-align: center;">This is the law, the organization or unity of the phenomenon. The intuitive understanding of the leaf, the one single organ, allows us to grasp the continuity of form of the plant. We can visualize the "coming into being " of the plant, its metamorphic sequence. </p><p style="text-align: center;">With a reversal of perception, the universal is not a generalization abstracted from the particular; it is perceived as "shining in the particular." We see not an assemblage of parts, an analytical snapshot; we see the intensive depth of the plant, another dimension in which "it shows itself as itself.””<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">—:•:—</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">“Who would study and describe the living starts</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">By driving the spirit out of its parts:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">In the palm of his hand he holds all the sections,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Lacks nothing, except the spirit’s connections.”</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">- Goethe, Faust</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">—:•:—</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjz5WyEK6ANtTZYMZ1AB9UbfalzVhQQUO-VJGKelP7b59TSivJ0UmTdhiqYex0MVeoYjv8GnJmwC_Xc_oNOKrenabZLihQRtKE-L5fdf7eLkkKa-gNBWFGweAxgDSkS69jBl4v7ofDn-GjDNDLGZkI4mIZNimkBEBYEoqC6Ojy1HiZ4qmC7OF-J_TJ/s546/6F95D7BE-944D-4F5A-BF52-243E2285F1E9.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="546" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjz5WyEK6ANtTZYMZ1AB9UbfalzVhQQUO-VJGKelP7b59TSivJ0UmTdhiqYex0MVeoYjv8GnJmwC_Xc_oNOKrenabZLihQRtKE-L5fdf7eLkkKa-gNBWFGweAxgDSkS69jBl4v7ofDn-GjDNDLGZkI4mIZNimkBEBYEoqC6Ojy1HiZ4qmC7OF-J_TJ/s320/6F95D7BE-944D-4F5A-BF52-243E2285F1E9.heic" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"Leaf Field"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Digitally altered drawing, 2015</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">—:•:—</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Reference: </span><a href="http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/154/187">http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/154/187</a></div>James Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06043369605749011553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558321367834923631.post-74712093364084970942022-10-29T16:59:00.016-07:002022-12-26T00:01:05.515-08:00Metacosm<p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2hodhUKpeq95zc0orPWhl-bp9YYM4zRJ9uAfZMCJewGjvs2aMAVPnkk9Siy_3DB8JFsiOq4X0NqGyYieXWlVp6iJR4XOYbiJP2uNC1fyw6FLpkOYlu-P04O_dVJrBVr3INIOLsQjXPthuxLP_JHkpBDwMkadMTXOtrJm4TicRJCY-xorpmrfoJYZW/s1893/sitepic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1893" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2hodhUKpeq95zc0orPWhl-bp9YYM4zRJ9uAfZMCJewGjvs2aMAVPnkk9Siy_3DB8JFsiOq4X0NqGyYieXWlVp6iJR4XOYbiJP2uNC1fyw6FLpkOYlu-P04O_dVJrBVr3INIOLsQjXPthuxLP_JHkpBDwMkadMTXOtrJm4TicRJCY-xorpmrfoJYZW/w400-h229/sitepic.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"Metacosm”</span></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Oil on canvas, 70” x 40”</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">2015—2022</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The word "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/metacosm#:~:text=metacosm%20(plural%20metacosms),the%20macrocosm%20(created%20world)." target="_blank">metacosm</a>," is defined as a system that encompasses cosmos systems, both the macrocosm and microcosm, as a transcendent field of forces that is beyond the created world. I didn't know this word at the time of first thinking about this painting and idea but it really fits with what I am trying to show with this piece. Especially how it relates to the torus geometry, and how it is a type of meta-archetype or pattern in sacred geometry, that shows up in the way the universe organizes itself at all scales, from atoms to cells to planets to stars to galaxies. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Metacosm is about imagining the cosmos as an infinite fractally nested self-generating and self-creating bifurcating multiverse, which if bifurcating inside of itself infinitely at every plank length instance of difference/expansion, could represent a branching parallel torus universe structure (or <a href="https://metamorphoptics.blogspot.com/2016/08/metaverse-geometries-of-cosmos.html?m=0" target="_blank">metaverse</a>) within the metacosm, that would be a way of thinking about a 5th dimensional view of 4th dimensional emergent bifurcating timelines or universes, or a 2-D slice of 4-D branchings within a 5-D concept.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"This is a creating universe not a created one." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">— </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">Walter Russell</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3jYHFPZMkA3wBaRukxgs5uwdca-jg-BRfDgMKJIQUhKaqLahP4voba6G73bo_mDQ5Yso4nQ_O5sKyyV95c7coG5t56nqWOd4swnn8mLRLAl3jOEzJFN7sT53CQVok9cZMjlHWaWcqzLQzUI0ElHm7jhJUaO_DBp1pFUvodqA9phmS51pXQfE4eRkN/s1334/8E287AAD-F3BD-4767-9F92-6FCAA9DEDD39.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1334" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3jYHFPZMkA3wBaRukxgs5uwdca-jg-BRfDgMKJIQUhKaqLahP4voba6G73bo_mDQ5Yso4nQ_O5sKyyV95c7coG5t56nqWOd4swnn8mLRLAl3jOEzJFN7sT53CQVok9cZMjlHWaWcqzLQzUI0ElHm7jhJUaO_DBp1pFUvodqA9phmS51pXQfE4eRkN/w400-h225/8E287AAD-F3BD-4767-9F92-6FCAA9DEDD39.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The drawings for this initially where rough sketches of torus forms trying to find a shape and order that could nest within itself, which then lead to being laid out within an inverse square grid, with the torus as an expanding field/universe within a circle shape.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA9CxkvYLYqbKAbpdjkvIuafNBOsvIM1BVN4dTPbuZCjukkqKsnLFuYYfilGdbHwUC_3L-KRjZHLjNcoxEps5Vg5yvGnaV_O_zxcbm_kef99cytUoh_OaVnl_Lk6ZtDVizLwGB6a_OwLnYgmz75N9x0agtuc4zQADu0H1V7UgfWzRsFD0qu9Cic9Q3/s695/4310C953-92FD-4A64-9BB6-3BB1B3690AC8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="695" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA9CxkvYLYqbKAbpdjkvIuafNBOsvIM1BVN4dTPbuZCjukkqKsnLFuYYfilGdbHwUC_3L-KRjZHLjNcoxEps5Vg5yvGnaV_O_zxcbm_kef99cytUoh_OaVnl_Lk6ZtDVizLwGB6a_OwLnYgmz75N9x0agtuc4zQADu0H1V7UgfWzRsFD0qu9Cic9Q3/w200-h200/4310C953-92FD-4A64-9BB6-3BB1B3690AC8.jpeg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1is1cTJrfnXcdEk4S_-9xL8NaECRUJqa55vhWbBFFx8AxTOSrMg1KuPk3h2Zjzf901tdNyhyamZi2Svy1tI_Su02EF-UpyP7g3BmUtJaXt0iJMxs_aqMl5zxhg_1Y0o27h_VGduossTus13dmXFM0Hv3Eyd3t4vSl3S7G6mnRE2cr7hASSQa4_7uX/s3861/807E37E0-509A-4AD1-A807-51AEAB89BDC3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3023" data-original-width="3861" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1is1cTJrfnXcdEk4S_-9xL8NaECRUJqa55vhWbBFFx8AxTOSrMg1KuPk3h2Zjzf901tdNyhyamZi2Svy1tI_Su02EF-UpyP7g3BmUtJaXt0iJMxs_aqMl5zxhg_1Y0o27h_VGduossTus13dmXFM0Hv3Eyd3t4vSl3S7G6mnRE2cr7hASSQa4_7uX/w200-h157/807E37E0-509A-4AD1-A807-51AEAB89BDC3.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Initial drawings for Metacosm</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">It wasn't until recently when I discovered <a href="https://knewgeometry.space/" target="_blank">George Leoniak's</a> geometric construction for the mathematics of the golden ratio that I realized how the Metacosm torus geometry and nested torus pattern can formatively interrelate with the phi ratio circles, the vesica piscis circles, and the circles from the inverse harmonic square grid pattern. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi94dA42mamtzRLuyXbaubg3Geds48-4Nn4eiZkKcDFyk-r7kvXSbzfPI6rk2GVgELjc8CuP53bAP-__MECe1EgwdFyurjvbBZeU8FRoFbOYhzYFz5T20tCKCYIl3OKI36SsZhmIE17nm95jew0l1B2p7Imhy-B62Syf57bamUKkluIzNe39QFTs6W_/s750/32F93AB0-0518-4E9D-8812-359D6C412715.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="750" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi94dA42mamtzRLuyXbaubg3Geds48-4Nn4eiZkKcDFyk-r7kvXSbzfPI6rk2GVgELjc8CuP53bAP-__MECe1EgwdFyurjvbBZeU8FRoFbOYhzYFz5T20tCKCYIl3OKI36SsZhmIE17nm95jew0l1B2p7Imhy-B62Syf57bamUKkluIzNe39QFTs6W_/s320/32F93AB0-0518-4E9D-8812-359D6C412715.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #7f6000;">George Leoniak's geometrical construction from the mathematical equation </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">of the golden </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">ratio (√5+1 divided by 2 = Phi (1.618…)) </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">created from the vesica piscis. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><div style="color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdnBXTihMMgWTVNcShslGZJoCtRCdL3GML2zfhKaCdkbQLnRRlIvFU-m01jDpKVQn-FxkXCguFsePv3eGW2iB-0IcnLlulXDPLfC_AOfUPzEyykXrosxPchu5-XX6jp5XcT_xwDl9imPMJSZkeBFD-FWuL4yK73zagIg5K-tWOLolqLrWVlE62BNfY/s1334/FDDB8BBC-FC79-423D-BFF4-83A89EC73694.jpeg"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1334" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdnBXTihMMgWTVNcShslGZJoCtRCdL3GML2zfhKaCdkbQLnRRlIvFU-m01jDpKVQn-FxkXCguFsePv3eGW2iB-0IcnLlulXDPLfC_AOfUPzEyykXrosxPchu5-XX6jp5XcT_xwDl9imPMJSZkeBFD-FWuL4yK73zagIg5K-tWOLolqLrWVlE62BNfY/w400-h225/FDDB8BBC-FC79-423D-BFF4-83A89EC73694.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Circle geometry </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">for the golden ratio equation overlaid onto Metacosm</span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">Metacosm geometry studies - Phi ratio circles/Torus/Square grid.</span></div><div style="color: black; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVbetorWFw-gzd0wStTBczdG44kpO7HtC-w6ZQAujyCDHHBqJF5Lswh3HB3fAujjhK23p181RqJD7YcEaB7byxKvgCm-JtUdfgc3wL0M1IFQrMoOHGUqms6KOjZffk7bHVv6ZI4nix8lFeXuLDsQy156zHdVKFMMnv6-o7WZHvjwWs0uqBGofTVflj/s4032/B909DE99-739F-4F53-9C1F-D5A798F16A21.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVbetorWFw-gzd0wStTBczdG44kpO7HtC-w6ZQAujyCDHHBqJF5Lswh3HB3fAujjhK23p181RqJD7YcEaB7byxKvgCm-JtUdfgc3wL0M1IFQrMoOHGUqms6KOjZffk7bHVv6ZI4nix8lFeXuLDsQy156zHdVKFMMnv6-o7WZHvjwWs0uqBGofTVflj/s320/B909DE99-739F-4F53-9C1F-D5A798F16A21.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">The torus archetype, which is closely connected to the circle and vesica piscis, is both an archetypal field-form that is transcendent, beyond all creation, like the circle, and connected to the notion of the whole as a sphere, but then also is an archetype very present in natures way of organizing energy and matter into flows, vortexes, and cycles, into self-reinforcing self-organizing patterns or fractals, in matter and life and mind. </span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">As an archetype it seems specially preordinate, a-priori, and nondual, because it is both a formative transcendent background and static unchanging constant, but also an archetype of dynamic self-organizing fields, and emergent complex systems. It is an archetype transcendent of form but while also being</span><span style="color: #666666;"> emergent with dynamic form; </span><span style="color: #666666;">both an archetypal blueprint-form, and an archetypal formation pattern of self-organizing fields.</span><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">In short the torus is both a transcendent meta-structure and emergent meta-pattern, both macrocosm and microcosm; both above, and below; a Metacosm.</span></div></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span></div></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"The indication is of the notion of a plane of being that's behind the visible plane, and which is somehow supportive of the visible one to which we have to relate. I would say that's the basic theme of all mythology, that there is an invisible plane supporting the visible one." <span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; font-size: 13px;">—</span> Joseph Campbell</span></div></blockquote><p></p><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"Spiritual science seeks to connect the human being with the great laws of the universe, the great laws of the cosmos. The deepest impulses of spiritual science will be understood in the true sense of the word only when people realize how extensively we are actually searching for the connection between human beings and the great transcendental laws of the universe.” <span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">—</span> Rudolf Steiner</span></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><span style="color: #7f6000; text-align: center;">"I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe."</span><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">—</span><span style="color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"> Isaac Asimov</span> </blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">“Every moment is of infinite value, for it is the representation of a whole eternity.” - Goethe </span></p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">“The Universe designs itself … every particle, every molecule, every organism, every celestial body in the Cosmos, exists and develops in the context of every other.” – Paul Harrison</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals." – John Hartford</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, is the study of the works of God and is the true theology. As to the theology that is now studied in its place, it is the study of human opinions and of human fancies concerning God." –Thomas Paine </span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"The cosmological picture that emerges--a map in time as well as in space--is not what most of us expected. It offers a new perspective on how a single "genesis event" created billions of galaxies, black holes, stars, and planets, and how atoms have been assembled--here on Earth, and perhaps other worlds--into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins. There are deep connections between stars and atoms, between the cosmos and the microworld. . . . Our emergence and survival depend on very special "tuning" of the cosmos--a cosmos that may be even vaster than the universe that we can actual see." </span><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">— </span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> Martin Rees </span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"To the eyes of a human of imagination, nature is imagination itself" </span><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">— </span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> William Blake </span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"></p><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">“What makes every real work of art of interest is that it reproduces the mystery of Creation which operates in the Microcosm as in the Macrocosm, in Man as in the Universe.” </span><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">— </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">Edouard Schure</span> </blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">—:•:—</span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDT7L-y-dEZawTn-8aQ8qQTakYf8XFHrd4B1fraff3-Op4rwPVTQYopDnMtKte4G2qi6-OijbjiyAnB1iNSFxurD-dWtqIc4RHGq6i44_UqHjsm8McGf1YjwcXc5Fw2p0C2H6WAcdu3r1EV_W3eKUQqRdkjlruw4nXqpsCOHp2bfrgomCXKW9Op4fo/s4032/3EC68B7E-C927-4F3B-8086-468DA6BB9ACA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDT7L-y-dEZawTn-8aQ8qQTakYf8XFHrd4B1fraff3-Op4rwPVTQYopDnMtKte4G2qi6-OijbjiyAnB1iNSFxurD-dWtqIc4RHGq6i44_UqHjsm8McGf1YjwcXc5Fw2p0C2H6WAcdu3r1EV_W3eKUQqRdkjlruw4nXqpsCOHp2bfrgomCXKW9Op4fo/w400-h300/3EC68B7E-C927-4F3B-8086-468DA6BB9ACA.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-align: left;">*** </span></div><div></div></div><p></p>James Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06043369605749011553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558321367834923631.post-24263769564682508932022-09-08T17:15:00.004-07:002022-10-29T02:22:44.781-07:00Photomorphogenesis<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho7pvGNdIysoZhxMuvsQjM2u93AaiVLY18-bxc0MGYqMvzjUG9YkuRqDaSOZdQj3sH1IQIlq-VIg1kVt_-k7RMaES8TI5omkeROWN9CxisB6XgrVDhMhj8ml_4F_WQaPZGjSVqSEGoGGEMjsbWOg4zoNT97xACZiDiU8DKJTz0Zbx79WVUDinsUE49/s318/D6A6B450-3CBF-4CC7-BD5E-E5860DE43BF6_4_5005_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="318" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho7pvGNdIysoZhxMuvsQjM2u93AaiVLY18-bxc0MGYqMvzjUG9YkuRqDaSOZdQj3sH1IQIlq-VIg1kVt_-k7RMaES8TI5omkeROWN9CxisB6XgrVDhMhj8ml_4F_WQaPZGjSVqSEGoGGEMjsbWOg4zoNT97xACZiDiU8DKJTz0Zbx79WVUDinsUE49/s1600/D6A6B450-3CBF-4CC7-BD5E-E5860DE43BF6_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="318" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000;"> “Photomorphogenesis</span><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000;">”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000;">12” x 12”, oil on canvas, 2022</span><br style="color: #7f6000;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000;">—:•:—</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #666666;">A single leaf is more intelligent than all the worlds computers. Machines need a maker, parts, and a plan. The leaf self-organizes and grows it’s own design, parts, and functions from light.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000;">—:•:—</div></span></div><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"></div></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"></div></span></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">"Both leaves and eyes have learned how to make sense of photons of light." </div><div style="text-align: center;">— Simon G. Powell</div></span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"></span><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought." </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">—</span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> Leibniz</span></blockquote></div></div></span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;">“If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;">world.” — John Ruskin <span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000;">—:•:—</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span class="_aacl _aaco _aacu _aacx _aad7 _aade">Photomorphogenesis in Deep Dream AI .. </span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGpNuTJGhBCE_55P-PgMNQpekr97ye3ZncAxgY1o7Mb5Gi0XTEGR0080pec3vJ3KFGmx0hrL7ROQNG8cBtOm3qzO2F0_jfHXVFyEWaInDSGyQ6L1x2fj5RD3ZtWmq4vqQr262N1EIhfBxWmJWSrmxJlquy2qd1btCpQJlESxReNzfnx7EIVPI579j/s1080/21EF7206-359C-483A-8A3E-239DDA34B4FF.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="1080" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGpNuTJGhBCE_55P-PgMNQpekr97ye3ZncAxgY1o7Mb5Gi0XTEGR0080pec3vJ3KFGmx0hrL7ROQNG8cBtOm3qzO2F0_jfHXVFyEWaInDSGyQ6L1x2fj5RD3ZtWmq4vqQr262N1EIhfBxWmJWSrmxJlquy2qd1btCpQJlESxReNzfnx7EIVPI579j/w200-h199/21EF7206-359C-483A-8A3E-239DDA34B4FF.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfdvQcWgbd-b3XqJ1hfPmzsWrq3w3tYFjyWFO77IhK_mzXvHOeim5ygYx1MykCqY91fzjh1myq_YYHagO3JsKoe7mIw7suKEJe1diUtS4NNhjuv7Kt1yYjQoZscnEEFR1i6TZPonE2oppl5gqAc8mm37EJObAJIOS9wSJ32B60kWrrDmcDxmfaCZYR/s1080/99C0C311-6980-4978-AB8F-82188C5C02AC.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="1080" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfdvQcWgbd-b3XqJ1hfPmzsWrq3w3tYFjyWFO77IhK_mzXvHOeim5ygYx1MykCqY91fzjh1myq_YYHagO3JsKoe7mIw7suKEJe1diUtS4NNhjuv7Kt1yYjQoZscnEEFR1i6TZPonE2oppl5gqAc8mm37EJObAJIOS9wSJ32B60kWrrDmcDxmfaCZYR/w200-h199/99C0C311-6980-4978-AB8F-82188C5C02AC.JPG" width="200" /></a></div></div><span style="color: #666666;"></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #666666;">Artwork made by human intelligence, about natures intelligence, interpreted by artificial intelligence .. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span><span style="background-color: black;">* * *</span></div></span></div>James Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06043369605749011553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558321367834923631.post-15809532099659647902022-06-21T22:04:00.043-07:002022-12-26T00:12:34.589-08:00The Integratron Root Square<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlhI1bphKNbqxuATzWepQBctK1jhTy365i605KEDYxI0F-Wp4a0yBaiDOn2x4SI7m1uoAPvKqM7jg1oG6ZmKDWNmXwCcSAlAx_d0GDCl-RkFNHnLoPbqr6TtnYf6AFP7mhyZYz41a-ZiEUD9d2zgaiL85pO95o2S6ibpqHfj3gfZKlJDEuVsGDvIp/s460/integ3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="452" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlhI1bphKNbqxuATzWepQBctK1jhTy365i605KEDYxI0F-Wp4a0yBaiDOn2x4SI7m1uoAPvKqM7jg1oG6ZmKDWNmXwCcSAlAx_d0GDCl-RkFNHnLoPbqr6TtnYf6AFP7mhyZYz41a-ZiEUD9d2zgaiL85pO95o2S6ibpqHfj3gfZKlJDEuVsGDvIp/s320/integ3.jpg" width="314" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000;"> “The Integratron Root Square</span><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000;">”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000;">6” x 6”, acrylic on canvas, 2022</span><br style="color: #7f6000;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000;">—:•:—</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #666666;">* * *</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000;">“Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them." </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">—</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"> Rudolf Steiner</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: black;">In the process of geometrically exploring the relationships between the first three root ratios (2, 3, 5) and finding a way to integrate them visually in a meaningful way into a kind of symbol, or put them in a relationship that could be simplified or contained within a square, I discovered this overall way of integrating the three roots, what I am calling the "Integratron Root Square."</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">What I'm interested in are how these fundamental root relationships with the 2, 3 & 5, and their shapes (the square, triangle, and pentagon), are interconnected and inter-generating universal constants. It's hard to imagine them as separate functions or laws, especially when the certain extended geometrical properties of lines of different ratios or grid patterns or circles overlap almost magically to create just the exact different ratios, points, and angles needed, and integrated in perfect alignment. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"></span></span></span></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"></span></span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #7f6000; text-align: center;">“The dynamics generated within the three primary shapes are illustrative of the self-organizing forces of nature.” - Jonathan Quintin</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">These three roots, the square root (2), cube root (3) and phi (5) encompass both even & odd numbers, with 5 being an integration of both, altogether form a trinity of generative principles or roots (<a href="https://youtu.be/Hd_hTiFkw5U" target="_blank">Jonathan Quintin</a>). Phi or 5 has the quality of something extra it seems, it has the uneven/indeterminate generative/emergent element or creative and self-balancing dynamic seen by living systems, a self-referencing feedback property, or a "dynamic fracticality", in relation to the Fibonacci sequence, seen in both animate and inanimate pattern formations in nature.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"></span></span></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">“You will know, as far as it is allowed to a mortal, that nature is from all points of view similar to itself.” - Pythagorus </span></span></div></blockquote><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></h4><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: medium;">The Pythagorean Trinity, Fibonacci Sequence, and Creation Geometry</span></span></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">To me this trinity of generative root ratios seems to be connected to what is called the Pythagorean Trinity (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xln7SFMuI8" target="_blank">Ken Wheeler</a>), and the relationships between the first five numbers in the Fibonacci sequence, (1, 1, 2, 3, 5). In the metaphysics of the Pythagorean Trinity, the One is considered ultimately transcendent and absolute, beyond any representation, but is represented as an indefinite dyad (1,1), as an inseparable transcendent principle and manifest attribute of the One, that makes up the first two numbers of the Fibonacci sequence and the first part of the Pythagorean Trinity. The first 1 represents the intrinsic transcendent in principle, and the second 1 its inseparable extrinsic attribute. Thinking about this, the two initial overlapping circles of the vesica piscis come to mind </span></span><span style="color: #666666; text-align: left;">as a kind of visual</span><span style="color: #666666; text-align: left;">, with both representing a "one."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The golden ratio emerges from the two systems of geometry generated out of the vesica pisces, the ad triangulum and the ad quadratum (root 3 and root 2), and these two geometries were generated from two perfect spheres or circles or infinities or "ones" overlapping at their midpoints. So two circles (pi/infinities) overlap to create root 2 & root 3, which then those geometries overlap to create root 5 (phi/golden ratio). This relationship between the square and cube, (2, 3), is the second part of the Pythagorean Trinity, and represents the emergence of the principle of duality and its relationship with the One, which links back and creates a trinity, representing the manifest universe and all things in 3 dimensions.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The third part of the Pythagorean Trinity are the relationships between 3 and 5, the cube and golden ratio/phi, the trinity and life (being/ontology), and is the final integration or "consubstantiation" of the first two parts of the trinity (Spirit-Matter/One-Many/Transcendent-Immanent).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The feedback of the Fibonacci sequence seen in this way is the feedback of life or phi with the continuum of the present moment, the One, or the "irreducible One" as <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Study-Numbers-Constant-Creation-Universe/dp/0892811129/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BG3IQUN0WT99&keywords=a+study+of+numbers&qid=1656643887&sprefix=a+study+of+numbe%2Caps%2C329&sr=8-1" target="_blank">R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz</a> phrased it; the self-balancing and self-organizing and spiraling of polarities and dualities back into the constant creation of the present moment, the infinite one-continuum of the eternal ever-present, with its many uncertain and emergent outcomes, bifurcations, and growths. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;">In this way, geometry is an interactive and deductive metaphysical tool we can use for understanding and discovering the inner "mechanics" of the universe, its generative archetypal constants, and the ultimate source of the transcendent and its connection to all things.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">This is the metaphysics of the origin of process, the origin of order, and the origin of origin; the fact that a</span>ll logic, order, and rationality in the universe originates from numbers and shapes with irrational roots and principles is quite the curious mathematical mystery.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">“The compass is the most important scientific instrument that humanity ever invented.” </span><span style="color: #7f6000; text-align: center;">—</span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> Keith Critchlow</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"The study of geometry is a meditation on the harmony of the cosmic order." </span></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">—</span><span style="color: #7f6000; text-align: left;"> Pythagoras</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.” ― Leonardo Da Vinci</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It is quantity as well as meaning." —Carl Jung</div><div><br /></div><div>"Number thereby throws a bridge across the gap between the physically knowable and the imaginary. In this manner it operates as a still largely unexplored mid-point between myth (the psychic) and reality (the physical), at the same time both quantitative and qualitative, representational and irrepresentational." —Marie-Louise von Franz</div><div><br /></div><div>"It may well be the most primitive element of order in the human mind... thus we define number psychologically as an archetype of order which has become conscious." — Carl Jung </div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXEb41VfOkLFuIve4e_q-QEDtvmfuxD0-0VHpT6e9UkvTtZ4vyUnaH3UwQMcvqdjrzgUpplAXjXCBQY0nT6B2KU7qIYhMmA3iEDimMtqSxFXdQJhvQIxVLVQsXOERQlYVQfQeZJnO-uGW38xqQITE6SA9SOX2OBP1IMYghEcZ_P-PDQEAdyedA_gSw/s2048/integalt.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: #7f6000;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Unity is plural and, at minimum, is two." — Buckminster Fuller</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">“One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth.” </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">—</span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> Maria Prophetissa</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"The one engenders engenders the two, the two engenders the three and the three engenders all things." </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">—</span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> Tao te Ching </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"All the effects of nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws." </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">—</span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> Pierre Simon de Laplace</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"Where there is matter, there is geometry." </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">—</span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> Johannes Kepler</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number." </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">—</span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"Geometry purifies the eye of the soul, since it is by it alone that we contemplate the truth." </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">—</span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> Plato</span></div></div></blockquote><div><span style="color: #7f6000;">“There are fractal codes containing the laws of creation and the more we understand these laws the more we can apply the harmony that is apparent in nature as a more powerful force in our own lives. There is truth and purity in natural things and our contact with them nourishes the soul and illumines the mind.” - Jonathan Quintin </span></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">"Music is the arithmetic of sounds, as optics is the geometry of light." — Claude Debussy </span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><span style="color: #7f6000;">“With light poise and counterpoise, Nature oscillates within her prescribed limits, yet thus arise all the varieties and conditions of the phenomena which are presented to us in space and time.” </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">—</span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> Goethe</span> </div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;">—:•:—</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ20AKd6qmwG06u0sEYV5P058XXlZjxTNM5oMUYNq6JIZle_jW1unojz6d8cSG12OMP7JggG2BapfIspbt8V4-uyhXDiS-EX8-2MOFWvXidOXT9kqIUjqdUtloq9nNXTxg0aaE5-Gd-Cu6YdqF_DTDRXBen79zYlkAncvV_AYDgbIYFj1usyNXSFQp/s805/intfrm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ20AKd6qmwG06u0sEYV5P058XXlZjxTNM5oMUYNq6JIZle_jW1unojz6d8cSG12OMP7JggG2BapfIspbt8V4-uyhXDiS-EX8-2MOFWvXidOXT9kqIUjqdUtloq9nNXTxg0aaE5-Gd-Cu6YdqF_DTDRXBen79zYlkAncvV_AYDgbIYFj1usyNXSFQp/s320/intfrm.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">***</span></span></div><p></p>James Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06043369605749011553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558321367834923631.post-31394349221177789112020-10-21T00:54:00.011-07:002022-09-15T21:05:44.010-07:00 Holy Photosynth-Eye Sense<div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjteQg91AmVkVoQDjmvNfxoJWzf6igElHmLAI8iK03kHcR2rWRpXEMo9bClS_VXmcrfEFqk6cm9_2HqckRR5dw1BJuqqWpbFU9GlY5hXU8ZFJ9c70aShlWDOVt7RIuCGYUzrEvMDXR0pFo/s569/phontosmaller.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="459" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjteQg91AmVkVoQDjmvNfxoJWzf6igElHmLAI8iK03kHcR2rWRpXEMo9bClS_VXmcrfEFqk6cm9_2HqckRR5dw1BJuqqWpbFU9GlY5hXU8ZFJ9c70aShlWDOVt7RIuCGYUzrEvMDXR0pFo/s320/phontosmaller.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"> “Holy Photosynth-Eye Sense”</span><br /><span style="color: #7f6000;">10” x 8”, oil on canvas, 2020</span><br /><span style="color: #7f6000;">—:•:—</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span>Art and technics, the symbol and the tool, are the two sides of the mutual and complementary evolutionary relationships between the arts and the sciences. Each side self-balances and finds inspiration, direction, correction and purpose from the other, fostering both stability and emergence, and the health of overall cultural evolution.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span>The simple leaf can be seen as both an archetypal symbol for the natural intelligence inherent in all of nature’s evolutionary dynamics, as well for metamorphosis, but it is also an example of technics, or a technology, a living and evolutionary solar technology, that runs all life.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span><span style="background-color: black;"></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span><span style="background-color: black;">—:•:—</span></span></span><br /><p></p><blockquote><p>“Man was perhaps an image maker and a language maker, a dreamer and an artist, even before he was a toolmaker. At all events, through most of history, it was the symbol, not the tool, that pointed to his superior function.” - Lewis Mumford, Art & Technics (1952)</p><p>“.. one clue for constructing a better image for nature’s creativity comes from the story of photosynthesis..” ~ Brian Swimme</p><blockquote>"Both leaves and eyes have learned how to make sense of photons of light." ~ Simon G. Powell<br /><br />“This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live.” ~ Patrick Geddes<br /><br />“All is leaf.” ~ Goethe</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><p>* * * <br /></p></span></span></span></div><p></p>James Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06043369605749011553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558321367834923631.post-50157865827349383402018-06-06T18:24:00.000-07:002020-05-14T15:06:05.646-07:00Plant, Planet, Paradigm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #7f6000;">"Instead of imposing our science upon life, we can find ways to let life guide the development of knowledge about ourselves." - Erich Jantsch</span></span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #666666;"><b>The Leaf</b> - symbol for Nature and the total organism/field-environment integration as an emergent whole/part self-organizing natural intelligence in resonance with the archetypal</span></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*** </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">Another way of thinking about this is how the natural intelligence of life emerges harmonically in a universe of life generative physics and archetypes.</span></p>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">I think about the universe as unified fractal contexts of relative meaning: contexts of the cosmos, of the natural world, and of human consciousness, each embedded and growing out of the other, and I think all can be said to be alive, if they all share universal meaningful processes throughout and at the lowest physical level. So we all share entropy and decay materially (and creative self-organization, or extropy, from that level also) in that we are bodies of particles that use and breakdown energy, and so even at a material level the universe is meaningful in process and pattern, because an organized and lawful matter, is meaningful matter! Physics is just a slower form of life in a way. And life isn't just an accident on top of the laws of physics, it directly grows out of it's laws. Equally consciousness isn't an epiphenomenon byproduct accident on top of the supposed accident life, a view which is the home of most establishment orthodox and reductionist science, that sees evolution is a "directionless" and pointless process. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: #666666;">These are all various levels and ways of telling and re-telling our changing cosmic story about the world and ourselves, in that our metaphors, myths, or stories have gone from a cosmos created as an object by a detached god, to a machine breaking down and set up by an abandoned and detached god, to what I think could now be called an emergent or self-created and creative cosmos, where the processes of creativity found in human activity are a unifying factor found to be at work and come from within the organizing forces and dynamics in nature as a whole.</span></div>
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James Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06043369605749011553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558321367834923631.post-10245734847309892882016-08-09T21:55:00.001-07:002018-06-17T09:30:39.696-07:00Metaverse: Geometries of Cosmos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For me this takes care of the whole "edge of the universe, but what's outside that?" problem. The black hole could really only be a dimensional threshold that births universes. </span></div>
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James Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06043369605749011553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558321367834923631.post-74292202866898386452016-04-05T22:14:00.000-07:002016-04-05T22:18:42.730-07:00Pupil Metamorphosis of Planet Earth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">This piece was inspired mainly by Julian Melchiorri's invention of the artificial silk leaf, but also by how the natural world and specifically plants can be seen to work organizationally as self-organizing technology, and how leaves are already like high technology light frequency machines that are greater than machines because they make, design, and renew themselves continuously in dynamic translation and transformation with their larger context or environment, and are not designed or made by parts from the outside, like a machine or a ceramic. I think this is also a good Gaian direction for technology to head that will allow for more insight into nature, and help to bring technology and science into harmony with nature and man, but it's also way to easily deliver oxygen in space travel environments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While I am trying to suggest self-organization and teleological attraction forces and a fractal and emergent mind-like property working in nature on multiple levels, and the overall unity associated with evolutionary complexity, I couldn't really yet see where a possible further evolutionary macro-scale continuation was going next over deep evolutionary time. While reading through some books on evolution I happened to be pulled, almost teleologically, toward a book called </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Biospheres-Metamorphosis-Planet-Dorion-Sagan-ebook/dp/B007F53XT8" target="_blank"><span id="btAsinTitle">Biospheres: Metamorphosis of Planet Earth</span></a>, by Dorion Sagan. In Biospheres Dorion proposed the possibility that the Earth, or Gaia, because it can be seen as a living self-sustaining self-organizing super-organism or meta-organism, that it could be on the verge of reproducing itself through the creation and dissemination of human mediated biospheres.. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #7f6000; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"Creating
other living worlds is destined not only to enrich our science but to
shift the whole foundations of our emerging planetary consciousness. As
with one eye there is no perception of depth, so with one biosphere our
view of the universe lacks depth. A multiplicity of biospheres not only
creates specific new angles of vision; it multiplies perspectives. It
may also produce a whole new kind of vision, a sort of biological
"hyperspective." The Earth becomes a cosmic eye without a body; with
each new biosphere that is produced, this eye grows more compound, like
the eye of an insect. Metaphorically, the compound eye of a biospheric
Earth could come to see the entire universe as its exstensive body, a
body whose parts are too heavy or distant to move. Speechless, we
witness the endless pupal metamorphosis of our own body, powerless to do
anything but watch." - Dorion Sagan</span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This quote above from Biospheres brings even deeper evolutionary meaning to the phrase for this project </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"meta-morph-optics"</span></span> than I could have ever imagined. The composition for "Cosmic Biogenesis", directly inspired by that quote, with a cosmic Earth-Eye biospherically branching out and multiplying biospheres, allows the mind to contemplate the richer and realistic ecologically sensible, self sustaining, and integrated possibilities for continued space exploration as a whole-earth-species, not just as isolated humans, but as whole biospheres: organism and environment, ecologically self-contained self-regulating, human mediated, geothermal-biospheres, fractally birthing variations of the Earth. Eco-tech space ships, or as Dorion calls them "S.E.E.D.S." (Self-Enclosed-Ecologically-Designed-Systems) that severe the techno-reductionist rocket fuel ambilical cord to Mama Earth Sky!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Here are some other gems from this great book..</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: small;"> "The ancients looked up and saw in the night skies signs of a "large man." This was not just a passing metaphor but a whole microcosmic theory of correspondence between the little world of the human individual and the great one of the universe that encompassed him. Looking forward, it is possible to imagine a scenario in which the cosmos becomes animated in a way our intellectual forerunners and midnight star-gazers may never have imagined: if life continues to unfold "fractally" in the direction set down here--with individuality reestablishing itself at ever greater levels--biospheres will till the virgin soil of space itself, turning the cosmos into a cosmic garden, and a jungle. And yet that suggests the universe is already always undetached from you. Death becomes--death already always is--the illusion of life's absence. Our destiny is to traverse the universe--and that is exactly what were doing, right now."<br /><br />"There is no history, evolutionary or otherwise, nor future, science fiction or otherwise, but only always the language-filled present. Linguistic convention creates the illusion of time's arrow; life is, before and all, (only) a sign. We are steeped in the medium we discuss."<br /><br />"Because the biosphere has maintained itself in dynamic equilibrium for almost one-third the age of the universe, it is difficult to argue that it has just awoken (through the achievement of a critical living mass) from some inanimate slumber. Rather, it has been alive for eons."<br /><br />"Propagule formation, the "seeding" of the biosphere prior to its dissemination, is as natural as a larval metamorphosis, the shedding of old parts in preparation for a new life. Language, technology, humanity, physicality, meaning--all of these are included latently and blatantly in the workings of the Earth, in the global regime. Each successful encapsulation of Earth life in the technological extrastructure of a biosphere represents an Earth "seed"--part of a pod-forming or blossoming process that is more central to life than are plants, fungi, or animals. By forming biospheres, Earth enters a stage of propagule formation preparatory to dissemination and cosmic metamorphosis. In such a dissemination and metamorphosis it becomes clear that technology was never anything but natural."<br /><br />"Reproducing biospheres represent a new hour in the human day, a new age in the Earth's ontogeny. If we could examine history under the temporal equivalent of a microscope, we might be startled by the resemblance to organisms and cells of biospheres."</span></span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">“The individual is an aperture through which the universe becomes aware of itself.” - </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Alan Watts</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /><br />“The world is full of vibrations originating in the manifold dynamics of dissipative self organization.” - </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Erich Jantsch</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /><br /> "Thermodynamics shows us that we have the same entropy-producing function as other naturally occurring matter-cycling systems that grow in regions of available energy. Although life has been identified as, and reduced to, its genetic architecture, its capacity to chemically copy itself, this ability is ultimately secondary to its energetic function." - </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Dorion Sagan</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: small;">“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” - Carl Sagan </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">"If you have the idea that you are something with form, that you are limited by this body, and that being within this body you have to see through these eyes, God and the world also will appear to you as form. If you realize you are without form, that you are unlimited, that you alone exist, that you are the eye, the infinite eye, what is there to be seen apart from the infinite eye? Apart from the eye, there is nothing to be seen. There must be a seer for an object to be seen, and there must be space, time, etc. But if the Self alone exists, it is both seer and seen, and above seeing or being seen." -</span></span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"> Ramana Maharshi</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">While providing a chance to interact in real time with abstract ideas, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Cymatics</span></a> experiments help show the ways that forms and patterns emerge from fluid and symbiotic interactions, and the ways that transformations of forms or patterns can happen in the natural world. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Working with this visually I want to express a symbolic quality to the fractal and self-similar field-like and vibrational processes that can relate to dual micro-macro and whole/part aspects of morphogenesis, evolution, self-ogranization and development. My intent with the Macrodynamic Morphogenesis series is to show the fractal multi-level embededness and interconnectedness of pattern and form in nature throughout the history of matter/energy complexity; the unifying gestalt or whole/part unity that emerges out of the field interaction of open and natural and living systems. Traditionally this nested order and unity of nature, man, and cosmos was known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Great Chain of Being</span></a>, but often with the bad flavor of anthropocentric hierarchical dominance and religious piety at the top, and a misunderstanding of emergent and developmental whole/part hierarchies in nature. More contemporary thinkers like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Arthur Koestler</span></a> along with, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Ken Wilber</span></a>, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Rupert Sheldrake</span></a>, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abraham"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Ralph Abraham</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><a href="http://www.integralworld.net/edwards13.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Mark Edwards</span></a>, and others have used the word "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holon_%28philosophy%29"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">holon</span></a>", termed by Koestler, to describe something that is both whole and part simultaneously, and mutually embedded in larger and smaller sub-systems or contexts or fields of intricate interaction, or 'holarchies'. This organic stratified stability or nested holonic order is the way nature emerges and builds upon itself through <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">self-organization</span></a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">within various types of environments or fields, or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake#Morphic_field"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">morphic fields</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Nonliving and living systems can both express this holonic nature coupled with the properties of emergent self-organization in phenomena all throughout the universe. It can be seen in 'physical' <a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0954-3899/19/12/010"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">atomic</span></a> organization, in <a href="http://www.springer.com/chemistry/physical+chemistry/book/978-90-481-2483-1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">molecular</span></a> domains of nonlinear inorganic chemical oscillations(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belousov%E2%80%93Zhabotinsky_reaction"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">), and in the living biological and cellular and ecological domains(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_turing"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Turing</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">-</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lorenz"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Lorenz</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">), extending into the chaos of the neural and mental domains of cultural information exchange and interior psychological <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">developmental complexity</span></a> </span>(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">SpiralDynamics</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">/</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">memes</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">). All open and dynamically evolving systems in both interior and exterior domains have the self-transcendent and fractal like qualities of emergent self-organization and whole/part irreducibility/indeterminacy. In another way, the dynamical systems view of fractal chaos can be said to put bifurcating cracks in the imagined subjective/objective walls that stand between science, nature, and art.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">With Mckenna's creative, prolific, and visionary writings and dialogs about this overall macro-process, and in finding some overall unifying nature to evolutionary dynamics, he came to use the Greek words "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_%28concept%29#Eros_and_Carl_Jung"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Eros</span></a>" and "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_%28concept%29#Eros_and_Carl_Jung"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Logos</span></a>". Similar to the way both <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Carl Jung</span></a> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Ken Wilber</span></span></a></span> used the terms, they express a relatedness between the feminine and masculine principles. In many ways, aspects of these old notions of the Eros and Logos resonate strongly with the new sciences of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">emergent complexity</span></a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">strange attractors</span></a> of fractal mathematics. With Eros emerging and embracing wider and more connected wholes, and with Logos being a type of multi-dimensional logic or transcendent multi-dimensional attractor space.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Inspired by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">mandala</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_geometry"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">sacred geometry</span></a>, and the many mystic visionary artists throughout history going back to the first cave paintings I want to use these paintings as a way of sharing visions and interconnections that go beyond words. I have long admired and respected the work of amazing contemporary <a href="http://beinart.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">visionaries</span></a> like <a href="http://www.alexgrey.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Alex Grey</span></a>, <a href="http://paullaffoley.net/paullaffoley/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Paul Laffoley</span></a>, </span><a href="https://mcescher.com/" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cccccc;">M.C. Escher</span></a>,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.matiklarweinart.com/" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Mati Klarwein</span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">(and many many others considered as "outsider artists" to the art world, which has become too isolated). In particular, like many of these artists, I want to focus consciousness towards a meditative and scientific state of awareness and reflection, aiming to connect with a contemplative space that suggests that both scientific rationality and intuitive spirituality are trying to understand and feel connected to the same primordial Mystery. Albert Einstein's quote about the experience of the mysterious seems most fitting when thinking about this.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">His understanding of this was a transformation of his personal consciousness that I think helped him understand what can be called a type of ‘rational mysticism’ or 'trans-rational experience'(including rationality). Again, another one of Einsteins quotes on consciousness and the validity of the mystical experience from a scientific perspective.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000; font-family: "trebuchet ms";">"<i>A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.</i>" (Albert Einstein)</span></div>
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James Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06043369605749011553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558321367834923631.post-80000324763962523962010-04-06T00:59:00.000-07:002022-06-24T13:00:25.872-07:00Cymatic Resonance, Creative Emergence, and Fractal Self-Organization<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #996633;">
</span></span></i></span></i></span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #996633;">"Science should not lead to alienation, science should emphasize our embededdness in nature." </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #996633;">Ilya Prigogine</span></span></span></i></span></i></span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #996633;">
</span></span></span></i></span></i></span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Through researching the processes of the evolution of form being connected with a fractal/mathematical hidden dimension of order, I started doing studies with sound and the forms and patterns that sound frequencies make when applied through a medium of sand/salt, paint, or other various liquids on a small square board. This field of research called, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Cymatics</span></a>, shows that sound vibrations and frequencies have very exact proportional-archetypal relationships and possible geometric-vibrational formative principles in nature, that increase the complexity of the form-pattern made on the surface, by an equal increase in a corresponding sound frequency.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Experimenting with this really encouraged my interest in understanding how the Cymatic processes of pattern formation could relate to understanding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">self-organization</span></a> in the dynamics of the emergence of matter and then life, and giving a larger unity to cosmic evolution across the physical, biological, and neuro-mental domains as a single interconnected continuum of being and becoming. Pulling together an understanding that bridges each of these various levels of being, nature, interaction, and pattern to one another into an ongoing dialectic.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Like each higher sound frequency, each change or bifurcation in the evolutionary sequence can be seen as a symmetry break that adds new emergent elements of complexity and pattern interrelationship into a system. A perturbation from ordered equilibrium in a system into a more open and chaotic/interactive state, that then eventually reaches a balanced equilibrium stable state of order (or attractor point), at a more complex level of interaction or system synthesis, and which then again will be transformed eventually, with full or absolute closure of the system always being postponed, and thus perpetuating the open evolutionary dynamic and dialectic.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Keeping an open system state is a dynamic that is fundamental in the study of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">chaos theory</span></a> and fractal order, or more precisely called, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_dynamical_system"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">non-linear dynamical systems theory</span></a>. It is saying that order, life, and consciousness, come from, and emerge from, within the chaotic dynamics of a complex system, and are created by and through chaos. What we begin to see is that order is not created by an outside cosmic agent detached from and controlling all creation, and that order is equally also not the by-product accident of the blind momentum of machine-like deterministic causality, of an un-intelligent universe, the reductionist view still held by most orthodox scientists today.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">What the new science and mathematics are showing us is that the universe has a logic or dynamic mind-like or life-like or organic property stratified within its very nature. This creative property, self-organization, plays a major part in creating new forms of complex systems of order through cyclical perturbations within a system of feedback and interaction. Cymatic-like self-organization helps in showing, often quite visually, in how these new forms of complexity emerge and resonate through the destabilization of an equilibrium state, subtle variation, and the reaching of a critical mass or tipping point.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxpghz" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The Secret Life of Chaos, with professor Jim Al-Khalili</span></b></a><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">TedTalks, Evan Grant, Making Sound Visible through Cymatics:</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CsjV1gjBMbQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="340" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CsjV1gjBMbQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560"></embed></object></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">The insights given by the Cymatic processes of pattern emergence give a direct model for a way of imagining something that could be of the universal or transcendental or a trans-dimensional emergent self-organizing factor in the material evolutionary processes, without conflicting with the standard Darwinian evolutionary model of the environmental factors of Natural Selection. In fact, self-organization and emergent complexity complete the other half of the evolutionary model, helping explain the morphogenesis of patterns and why there are genetic patterns to begin with, that are then selected and carried on. This understanding gained by the very real sciences of self-organization and emergence, makes the ‘hypothesizes’ put forth by the current sideshow parade of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellegent_design"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: silver;">Intelligent Design</span></a> proponents, a distraction irrelevant to this issue, a threat to public education, and ironic pseudoscience at best.</span></span></p>James Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06043369605749011553noreply@blogger.com0