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Here's the Sacred Geometry bulletin for January/February 2010:
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1) Events: Interviews, Seminars, Workshops, Classes, Exhibits
2) New Products, Articles, Tutorials
3) Recent Introductions
4) Website(s) of Interest
5) Book(s) of Interest
6) Movie(s) of Interest
7) Music of Interest
8) Affiliate(s) of the Month
9) Quote(s) of the Month
10) Image(s) of the Month
11) Annual Multimedia Contest!
12) Request for Submissions
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1) Events: Interviews, Seminars, Workshops, Classes, Exhibits
Gary Renard, author of Disappearance of the Universe and Your Immortal Reality, both engaging (and entertaining!)
introductions to A Course In Miracles, will be here again (by popular demand!) this time with his equally inspiring
wife, Cindy, in Ashland on Saturday, July 17, 2010. Mark your calendars now, and register early for significant savings.
His podcasts with Gene Bogart are great fun (the first part with schedule updates, and more great content about
quantum forgiveness as the session progresses.
Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Vieira will give a 4-day workshop in Ashland, Oregon, Sep. 23-26, 2010. Their 3-day workshop
last month in Ashland, Oregon was tremendously helpful, and an excellent complement to the work of
Gary Renard, and A Course In Miracles.
Here's a link if you'd like to be notified of their next workshop and related events.
BTW, if you would like to get regular updates on events and musings about A Course In Miracles and related
pure
non-dualistic links, writings and other media, you might want to subscribe to the (free) ACIMblog bulletin here.
Starting in 2010, I will be moving the vast majority of information from these bulletins about ACIM-related events and
information to the ACIMblog bulletin, so please subscribe now to this free monthly
bulletin if you're interested. Thanks!
The ongoing exhibit of all 12 of my "Martineau Solar System Series" giclée prints (plus a few
extras)
is STILL on exhibit (and has been since July, 2009 at the Peace House in Ashland, Oregon. I'm donating
20% of all art and book sales generated there to the Peace House. The art will be on exhibit until 9PM, Feb. 3, 2010,
so if you'd like to support my art AND make a charitable contribution to a great cause, now's the time! :-)
On June 20-25, 2010, I'll again have the pleasure of assisting Dr. Leonard Laskow for a fourth time
with a
seminar at Esalen Institute on a particularly lovely portion of the Calif. coast;
"Awakening Your Healing Heart"; highly recommended as are all his works. I'll include another reminder about
this event when it draws closer, I just wanted to provide plenty of advance notice for those who haven't experienced
one of Dr. Laskow's superb seminars, or for that matter the food, baths, scenery, community and amazingly
fun ambience of
Esalen Institute.
I'm STILL working on the 2nd book; meanwhile if you haven't already, check out the 8-part article
series (links on my Events and Resources pages) which are moving closer and closer (thanks for your
patience!) to being fully expanded into the Geometry Code book. Now that we've moved to Ashland, Oregon,
and getting settled in, I'm looking forward to focusing more time on this long-overdue labor of love! :-)
If you are interested in sacred geometry workshops in the Ashland or Medford, Oregon area (or vicinity) please let me know!
Here's my list of current and past events. I'm getting closer to another local workshop soon! If you have a local,
regional (or global for that matter, as long as my expenses are covered) venue to suggest, please let me know!
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2) New Products, Articles and Tutorials
New sacred geometry graphic overlay software available for Mac or PC!
I just tried the new PhiMatrix application by Gary Meisner, and it is GREAT FUN! Below are some screen snaps
using imagery that I've done (and other images) along with a writeup on the software...
I wanted to make something like this for years, but
it was just as well that I never got around to it, because he took the idea WAY beyond what I had envisioned and it
is outstanding! Gary is also the prolific author and editor of
PhiMatrix™ software is a transparent grid for Windows and Mac that overlays any other software you are using. It's designed to unveil the phi "golden ratio" proportions that can be found throughout life and the universe, from the dimensions of DNA, sea shells, plants, animals and the human body to its appearance in the stock market.
The phi relationship, 1.618:1, known as the Golden Section (also mean, proportion or ratio) and the Divine proportion, has long been used by artists, architects, designers, engineers, musicians, photographers, sculptors, surgeons and stock analysts alike to achieve excellence in their results.
The Greeks used it in designing the Parthenon. Leonardo Da Vinci used it in creating "The Last Supper" and many of his other paintings. Now you can use it too, to analyze and better appreciate what already exists or to create and design your own masterpieces in the same proportions that give nature its beauty, harmony and balance. In addition to phi proportions, the program also allows you to create grids using just about any geometric or arithmetic proportion between grid lines, with a variety of options in the grid itself and the grid lines.
The applications are limited only by your creativity: Product design, graphic arts layout, fashion design, interior design, architecture, art, sculpture, photo composition and cropping, stock market analysis, beauty analysis, educating students on design in nature, and much, much more.
Download PhiMatrix™ for WIndows here...
Download PhiMatrix™ for Macintosh here...
and then see the Quick Start Guide or Tutorials to begin a 14 day free trial.
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3) Recent Introductions ... (Even Still Fairly) New :-)
Stay tuned here too! :-)
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4) Website(s) of Interest
Golden Ratio discovered in a Quantum World; interesting article (thanks to Ed Kellog for alerting me
to this one.)
And also thanks to Ed for this link to "Termespheres (6 point spherical perspective)".
Here's a site with a very fun applet (Tyler) for drawing Tesselations by Melinda Green and Don Hatch
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5) Book(s) of Interest
Malleable Matter / Stretchable Space by Rochelle Newman - an excellent compendium of geometric ideas
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6) Movie(s) of Interest
Avatar 3D! (See photo above.) Not only a fun and amazing film with lots of non-dualistic metaphysical metaphors (if
one is looking for them), there's also some neat geometries one might notice, like the wispy, luminous
TOROIDAL creatures that communicate interconnectedness... rather symbolic! Much more...
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7) Music of Interest
Recent favorite
Pandora channels: 1 Giant Leap, Jai Uttal, Tommy Emmanuel.
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8) Affiliate(s) of the Month
Phi Matrix ... See above for details on this VERY cool software available for
Macintosh
or PC (Windows)
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9) Quote(s) of the Month
"We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions."
- Gerald J. Simmons
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10) Image(s) of the Month - Jupiter and Mars Per Martineau
This pattern is similar to hundreds of patterns found in SGDS and, like all in this series, is available from zazzle in
apparel (many different sizes, styles and colors), greeting and note cards, framed and unframed prints/posters.
Jupiter And Mars Per Martineau
Jupiter And Mars Per Martineau (apparel)Jupiter And Mars Per Martineau (cards)
Jupiter And Mars Per Martineau (posters)
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11) 2010 (now annual) multimedia CONTEST!
I've decided to make the Sacred Geometry Multimedia Contest an annual event, so you NOW have
until Dec. 31, 2010 to send me entries (inspired by Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook, or other
images or ideas on the site) to win a free GeometryCode screensaver and eBooklet!
The winner of the 2009 contest is Kim Smith, who wins a copy of the GeometryCode screensaver and eBooklet! with her hand stitched drum case,
inspired by the upper right-hand image on page 164 of Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook, "Overlapping Golden Ratio Spirals, Outer Edges Touching".
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12) Request for Submissions
If you would like to stay connected and network with kindred souls online, check out my pages on
FaceBook and LinkedIn. I'm enjoying connecting with both recent and long-time friends and colleagues
and discovering new friends of friends (and soon friends of friends of friends... :-)
As always, please let me know how I can support you. Please send me any interesting items about
sacred geometry or related interests (since everything is interrelated!
Thanks for your interest & support! :-)
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Have a 2010 and beyond! :-)
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Bruce Rawles
POB 431, Ashland, Oregon 97520
co-author of The Geometry Code screensaver
author of Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook
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