As we close out a very surreal year, we wish you the peace that arises from the realization that we’re all interconnected and therefore kindness is appropriate every where and every when. Note the ring of Vesica Piscis shapes around the middle cylinder in this ceiling decoration in a hotel lobby. 🙂 The Vesica Piscis is the “lens” that is formed when two identical circles (symbolizing two identical seemingly separate selves) exactly touch overlapping so that one circle touches the “heart” or center of the other and vice versa. I imagine Plato (if he were around to comment) might suggest that even these helpful symbols are not the perfection – that transcends their apparent form – that the circles merely represent; the reality or essence in our minds is beyond any specific instance in space or time that the shapes, no matter how elegant or refined, could possibly convey. Like holograms, each of us contains the whole although not apparent to our senses. May 2021 be an opportunity for all of us to deepen our appreciation of the wholeness within every seeming part! 🙂
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I was looking through prior posts – I’ve been sharing items of interest about geometry and interconnectedness since 2007! – and realized that there is a lot of content that is still every bit as relevant today as when originally published … Since geometrical principles, archetypes, and so many more topics aren’t seasonal or slaves to style… at least as far as I can tell! So, I’m going to pull a couple of images with links to older posts to encourage exploration of the archives. Here’s one about Intention and Symbols and when I followed the link about Villarceau circles I found an interesting animation that shows a plane intersecting a torus to reveal a Vesica Piscis cross-section; neat! (I also added the animation to the original post.)
Here’s another post from a while ago:
Dodecahedra Origami Luminaria – a timely holiday project, too!
I just updated our Affiliates page since it’s been quite a while; thanks for many years of support! When you use the links on this page, it helps fund our “labor of love” efforts keeping this site going and this is greatly appreciated!
Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality
Amazon description:
Is everything connected? Can we sense what’s happening to loved ones thousands of miles away? Why are we sometimes certain of a caller’s identity the instant the phone rings? Do intuitive hunches contain information about future events? Is it possible to perceive without the use of the ordinary senses?
Many people believe that such “psychic phenomena” are rare talents or divine gifts. Others don’t believe they exist at all. But the latest scientific research shows that these phenomena are both real and widespread, and are an unavoidable consequence of the interconnected, entangled physical reality we live in.
Albert Einstein called entanglement “spooky action at a distance” — the way two objects remain connected through time and space, without communicating in any conventional way, long after their initial interaction has taken place. Could a similar entanglement of minds explain our apparent psychic abilities? Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, believes it might.
In this illuminating book, Radin shows how we know that psychic phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis are real, based on scientific evidence from thousands of controlled lab tests. Radin surveys the origins of this research and explores, among many topics, the collective premonitions of 9/11. He reveals the physical reality behind our uncanny telepathic experiences and intuitive hunches, and he debunks the skeptical myths surrounding them. Entangled Minds sets the stage for a rational, scientific understanding of psychic experience.
Michael Schneider’s new book! Proportion in Art and Architecture (Wooden Books)
Long-time – as in decades-long – readers of GeometryCode.com and its predecessors (such as the bibliography in Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook (SGDS)– Universal Dimensional Patterns published in 1997) will recall that I’ve often recommended – more than any other book – A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science (released September 29, 1995) by geometer colleague Michael S. Schneider as an ideal companion to SGDS. In that lavishly illustrated journey of imagery and text through number and geometry, he explores – in over 350 pages – as the subtitle suggests: mathematical archetypes on a voyage from 1 to 10. It’s a great book!
Schneider also authored 6 geometric activity books spanning 730 pages plus an animated DVD: Constructing The Universe: A Journey From 1 to 12 – brilliant, very easy to follow, and clearly explained, beginning at the bare basics and culminating in compelling cosmologies. Each of the first 12 counting numbers receives a first-class tour through realms mundane to mystical, deepening our appreciation of numbers and their geometric interconnections from many disciplines, traditions, and perspectives. In addition, he also authored the fascinating DVD Fibonacci Garden: Mathematics in the Plant World.
Michael’s most recent work, another great book – Proportion in Art and Architecture – is among the 60 delightful Wooden Books titles by a variety of authors, published by John Martineau who will also be very familiar to readers of this website. This book, like the Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe book, has wonderful explanations, illustrations, and analyses – and most of the analyses in it are original! The UK version is available now, but it’s inexpensive to ship to the US. The US version will be out in March 2023.
The image below is page 13 of this excellent new book in the chapter entitled: Frozen Music: the geometry of harmony:
The illustrations below are color versions of similar illustrations from the book on pages 30 and 31:
Here are the chapter titles to give one a sense of the depth and breadth that this little gem covers:
- Introduction
- Macro-Meso-Microcosm
- Therapeutic Arts
- Mathematics in Design
- Static and Dynamic
- Proportion
- Frozen Music
- Harmonic Rectangles
- Harmonious Proportions
- Hotspots and Alignments
- Regular Polygons
- Ad Triangulatum
- Triangular Proportions
- Ad Quadratum
- Square Proportions
- Pentagonal Proportions
- Hexagonal Proportions
- Heptagonal Proportions
- Octagonal Proportions
- Ten and Twelve
- Canonical Rectangles
- Rabatment
- The Root-Two Rectangle
- Root-Two Proportions
- The Root-Three Rectangle
- The Root-Four Rectangle
- The Root-Five Rectangle
- The Golden Rectangle
- Golden Proportions
- Proportional Quotations
There’s even a cameo appearance of the Mona Lisa in the book which also had a cameo in the Glass Onion movie!
Check out Michael’s website: ConstructingTheUniverse.com
Aside: I interviewed Michael Schneider for local TV in Grass Valley when he first arrived in CA 25 years ago on FCAT (Foothills Community Access Television) which was great fun!
The Geometry Code (Kindle edition) turns 10 today!
On this day in 2012 – a few months after introducing the print version, I made the Kindle version of my second book available: The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation. I’ve appreciated all the support and encouragement during the past decade for this work, intended to be a bridge between two primary interests: the principle of interconnectedness reflected in geometric archetypes … and pure non-dual metaphysics.
The cover art and the opening graphics for the last 7 chapters in the book are symbolic interpretations of the 7 Hermetic Laws – covered in detail on this website.
However, I just realized that I never gave very many details on the first geometric image used in the book, so here are a few. The image below depicts a geometer’s compass spanning an infinity symbol – to represent ideas that are “all-encompassing” – and the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt (the last remaining of the seven wonders of the ancient world) with the Great Sphinx in the foreground. There is abundant fascinating geometry in both the exterior and interior of the Great Pyramid including the phi and pi proportions, squaring the circle, many terrestrial proportions, etc. which are covered in various talks and essays on this website spanning several decades.
The Pyramid’s foundation idealizes the square, connecting the compass (vertical axis) and square (horizontal plane of materiality.) The four sides of the pyramid and the overall shape of the compass are triangular, signifying the reconciliation of polarities, meeting in the capstone atop the pyramid and the apex of the compass where both vision and inspired guidance are possible through the exalted perspective that sees all as equal.
Here is the foreward to the book by Gary Renard:
I met Bruce Rawles in Medford, Oregon in 2008 and again in 2009 and 2010 in Ashland, Oregon when he and Ed Karlovich hosted and promoted seminars I did there. During one of the car rides to the airport, he mentioned a book that he was working on that sounded unique and original. I was curious as to how he would incorporate the diverse disciplines of sacred geometry (which he has studied extensively), Hermetic philosophy with its unchanging laws of nature, and the non-dual metaphysics that is the essence of my life work, best known to many by the spiritual masterpiece, A Course In Miracles (ACIM).
He was quick to point out that it’s easy to get distracted or diverted by external indicators like geometric symbols and get bogged down in specifics or interpretations that lead away from wholeness and toward the problematic belief in the concept we call separation or ego. At best, symbols can be mirrors or reflections within a dualistic world that attest to principles guiding our minds back to an awareness that has no opposite, an experience of love that transcends anything that can be conveyed by words or symbols of any kind. These symbols, seen from that view that embraces oneness, reflect a healed mind, but are never the cause of it.
He also recognized that the very ‘universal’ laws that can seem to keep us stuck in the dream (to our detriment) can also be reinterpreted for everyone’s benefit by the inner teacher of kindness that ACIM refers to as Holy Spirit and my teachers abbreviate metaphorically as ‘J’. We can learn to trust this inner teacher and use every bit of feedback as cues or reminders to practice, practice, practice the spiritual art of quantum forgiveness, which sees our ‘problems’ as causeless, and therefore completely benign and forgivable.
Having acknowledged these two caveats, he has done a remarkable job of sharing how – by developing trust in the inner Inclusive Guide we all have in common – we can include the symbolic contents of our unconscious mind in very familiar forms, such as geometric ones, as feedback devices or memory jog aids to deepen our trust in our inner teacher. For example, Bruce points out how egos use circles dualistically to exclude and banish ‘others’ to the outer regions (and the equally unhelpful ‘special love’ for those ‘within the circle’), but can just as easily be reinterpreted to be infinitely large, including All as One.
Similarly, with his explanations of seven laws of nature, it becomes obvious that these unchanging rules (starting with the fact that the universe exists only in mind) can be directed by either the 100% sane thought system or the 100% insane thought system that we all share. The choice is up to us, moment by moment. Without the specific people and events of our lives – including the exemplified laws and forms we encounter – our unconscious guilt would never be revealed, released, and healed.
Countless other examples demonstrate the importance of forgiving the dreamer of separation; this work is a fun and useful addition to the list of ACIM studies books. Bruce and I share the kinship of all (not just those one would call students) learning to practice forgiveness, gently awakening our dreaming minds to Love that is beyond any words or symbols. Enjoy, and awaken.
– Gary R. Renard, the best selling author of The Disappearance of the Universe