Archimedean Solids

GeometryCode bulletin for March 2014

Sunday, 30 March 2014 by Bruce Rawles

(1) News, Events, Interviews, Workshops, Classes, Exhibits, Products, Articles, Tutorials

a Cube of One Way Mirrors

Reminiscent of Sara Frucht’s Kaliedoscapes which also explore the interplay of light reflected on the interior surfaces of polyhedra, both Platonic and Archimedean – see this recent related post about her reVERB™ Casual Music Game – this article about a cube with flexible walls made of one-way mirrors has a neat video showing what happens when the attached bellows change the geometry from flat planar surfaces. I’d like to see a ‘walk-through’ gallery of Kaleidoscapes that allow visual and acoustical interaction with all the Archimedean and Platonic solids as an interior participant.

New York City Sacred Geometry Fest

We already mentioned this event in the January 2014 bulletin, but there’s still time left (as far as I know) to attend a conference about sacred geometry – and these don’t happen that often – in New York next month. If anyone attends (I would, but have prior commitments) please feel free to send me any interesting links or reports from this fest … and say hi to our colleagues! Here’s a page of links from their site, and an example of one of the many workshops at this event: Leonardo’s Mind: The Geometry of the Renaissance.

(2) Websites, Books, Videos, Imagery, Music and Quotes

Here are a few websites and links of interest to sacred geometry enthusiasts:

Romanesco broccoli based-design anyone? This article explores shapes that may assist ecology, aesthetics and design.
A fun video: Mathemusician Vi Hart Explains Space-Time with a Music Box and a Möbius Strip
Thanks to my Mom for sending me this link with a lovely acoustic recording of cylindrical resonances: Singing Bowls for World Peace and Healing
Organically geometric, this page of rock sculpture photography was from new age musician Iasos’ most recent bulletin.
An interesting LinkedIn conversation (you can see where I chimed in) addressing “Do you know/use/ sacred geometry/golden ratio in your works?”
Designer’s guide to the Golden Ratio
“… I am trying to give people a sense of unity rather than build even more barriers.” says Mariam Nihal, author of an article entitled: Geometry key to Islamic art: Dana Awartani
Ripples from the big bang? … Synchronistically, my niece is studying gravitational waves in space using laser interferometry.
A Pinterest page: Geometric Inspired
This designer uses a stellated octahedron a.k.a. star tetrahedron a.k.a. daVinci’s ‘stella octangula’ in her logo
An article that explores Sacred Geometry and Unified Fields by MonkeyBuddha
… and although it was a couple weeks ago (March 14), here’s a bit about The True Meaning of Pi Day … for fun

(3) Request for Submissions

As always, please let me know how I might support you. Please send me any interesting items about sacred geometry or related interests … since everything is inter-related!If you would like to stay connected and network with kindred souls online, check out my pages on
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn. I always enjoy connecting with both recent and long-time friends and colleagues and discovering new friends of friends :-)Thanks for your interest & support! :-) BTW, I always appreciate enthusiastic reviews on the Amazon SGDS book page, and the newer Amazon book page for The Geometry Code. It’s a good “win-win” way to cross-promote your work as well.

If you like to color with colored pencils (or other media), make 3-D fold-up geometric art, do stained glass, quilts, geometric arts and/or crafts, or just want an extensive reference/resource of geometric archetypes, patterns and essential line art, you might enjoy a copy of my first book, Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook: Universal Dimensional Patterns.

If your leanings are more metaphysical … and perhaps whimsical :-) … you might enjoy my second book, The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation. It was originally going to have geometry and Hermetic Laws/symbolism as a primary focus, but in 2007, a reawakened interest in the spiritual masterpiece, A Course In Miracles – thanks to Gary Renard – shifted the primary emphasis to an exploration of the two thought fundamental systems we all vacillate between, and how we can gradually shift our mind’s identity to the happy one.

Bruce Rawles
PO Box 192, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104
author of The Geometry Code book; co-author of The Geometry Code screensaver
author of Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook
Free monthly email bulletin on sacred geometry and related subjects
You might also enjoy my blog which has lots of other fun and info in addition to these bulletins.

GeometryCode bulletin for February 2014

Saturday, 1 March 2014 by Bruce Rawles

(1) News, Events, Interviews, Workshops, Classes, Exhibits, Products, Articles, Tutorials

After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes

This article explores Goldberg polyhedra: quasi-spherical polyhedra-like shapes (familiar to those who have explored geodesic domes, fullerenes, etc.) that add to the existing classes of Platonic, Archimedean and Kepler solids (which include rhombic polyhedra).

Astronomical Geometry Calendars for 2014

The images above are colorized versions of 12 of the exquisite images in John Martineau’s “Little Book of Coincidence”, depicting the exquisite planetary mathematics exhibited in the orbital relationships of our solar system’s planets from Mercury to Neptune. Martineau’s astonishingly accurate 3-D models of our solar system inspired the calendar above, freshly updated for 2014… Here’s where you can learn more and order a copy of this astronomically astounding calendar, with the price reduced from last year as well. There’s still about 5/6 of the year left. :-)

(2) Websites, Books, Videos, Imagery, Music and Quotes

Here are a few websites and links of interest to sacred geometry enthusiasts:

I’ve updated the Shelfari description/details of The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation here
4D Space-Time vortex around the earth? This video describes Einstein’s theory validated by NASA’s gravity probe B.
2 stacked, diagonally folded squares make an interesting “Evolution Door”
David Wilcock touches on some interesting and familiar geometric themes including fractals in these articles from 21Dec2012 and 7Feb2014
An neat page/spreadsheet on the Geometric Construction of Square Roots
An interesting video which discusses frequency, geometry, time and the number 432

(3) Request for Submissions

Online radio sacred geometry interview by David Whitehead

Wednesday, 1 January 2014 by Bruce Rawles

Here is a recent (recorded 30Dec2013) Online interview of Bruce Rawles by David Whitehead on his Truth Warrior program; we talked about sacred geometry, Hermetic laws, non-dual metaphysics; all the topics I enjoy sharing. :-)

GeometryCode bulletin for June 2013

Saturday, 29 June 2013 by Bruce Rawles

(1) News, Events, Interviews, Workshops, Classes, Exhibits, Products, Articles, Tutorials

Workshop: Non-dual Metaphysics, Sacred Geometry & Beyond; Contact Bruce for info; registration is limited for this informal, in depth, hands-on event. Click here for a printable flyer with details. … This workshop is full, but there’s already interest in a 2nd one during the summer of 2013; contact Bruce for details.

(2) Websites, Books, Videos, Imagery, Music and Quotes

Here are a few websites and links of interest to sacred geometry enthusiasts:

The Resonance Project has some neat geometric videos: torus dynamics showing a 3-D YinYang symbol (see screen snap above), 3 octaves of expanding vector equilibrium, and this now-classic Double torus animation.
A neat Zometool creation: Star with Hyperbolic Surfaces in Leipzig, Germany
A Pinterest sacred geometry page emphasizing flora and fauna
Penelope Daniels’ sacred geometry Pinterest page
A Mandelbrot set overlay with a hexagonal grid
… and speaking of Mandelbrot, here’s a cool video of Deep Mandelbrot Set Zoom Animation – 10^275 (2.1E275 or 2^915)
Lots of intricate designs on this sacred-geometry-themed Pinterest page
Neat video of Bucky Fuller’s jitterbug polyhedra transformations
Ka Gold Jewelry has a new Tesseract Pendant in Silver (on sale until July 2, 2013)
Geometry was certainly one of the disciplines integrated into Nikola Tesla’s amazing inventions
Divide your life (or any other span on a time axis) by Fibonacci ratios
Entangled particles are at least 10,000 times faster than light
Some familiar and unique geometric designs titled Naked Geometry
Also on the Resources page for many years, recent FaceBook posts reminded me of Melinda Green‘s lovely 4D Buddhabrot imagery
A new 3D geometry for skateboard wheels uses a sort of 3D sinusoid that fits in a cube, but rolls with great grip and minimal surface area for speed
Wanna disappear? From science fiction to science fact: MIT expert achieves invisibility
A page about the Flower of Life around the globe
Fun geometric art: Honoring The 1980s With Sacred Geometry by Stacy Dacheaux

Daily post updates

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Recent reviews of the book: The Geometry Code (now celebrating it’s first year in print)

Thanks to Susan Dugan, Mike Lemieux, and Marianne O’Sheeran for their recent, kind reviews of The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation. Yet another fellow author, Jonathan Joshua, wrote the first review – Thanks, Jonathan! – last year. Huge thanks also to Gary Renard, Cindy-Lora Renard and Roberta Grace for adding The Geometry Code book (with a Foreward by Gary) to the “Gary recommends” book list on Gary’s website.
The Kindle version of the book became available last September. Many thanks to all who have encouraged me to complete it, and all your support … so very appreciated! :-) BTW, if you prefer a ‘treeware’ (paperback) version, you can order it here. Here are abundant details about the book.
BTW, even if you don’t have a Kindle, there are lots of other platforms you can read the Kindle version (or any Kindle book) on, including smartphones such as iPhone and iTouch, Android, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry, Windows and Macintosh computers, and tablets like iPad and Android tablet. Enjoy! :-)
Thanks to one and all for your generous and continued support of the two versions from multiple countries, and to Gary Renard for the Foreward, and countless others for inspiration! I’ve had a number of kind reviews and endorsements. If you’d like to add yours, please send my way, and/or post on the Amazon review page here. You can find a free first chapter of the book (entitled “The Question of Identity: Two Thought Systems”) here.

Recent Radio/Webcast Interviews/Podcasts/Videos

I’ve been updating the Events page with upcoming, ongoing, and past radio and internet interviews, presentations, and more.
Among the recent past interviews I’ve participated in (with free audio archives online that you can listen to) are:

I was interviewed Monday, 6May2013 on Dr. Lorraine Hurley’s show on GCN Radio; you can listen to the archives – part 1 and part 2 here. Lorraine is a non-practicing MD who likes to focus on the quantum, so we talked about modern physics as well as metaphysics, and, of course, sacred geometry. I always enjoy interviews like these. :-)
Your Soul Guidance show interview by Saskia Roell. Click here to listen to a replay of the interview.
A second interview by Wendy Joy on her Bringing the Light Internet Talk Radio show.
Awakening in Austin Internet Talk Radio show; interview by Sara Pencil Blumenfeld, Wed., 18 July 2012 9-9:30 AM MDT on Blog Talk Radio
Kenneth Bok of ACIMexplained.com recorded a fun interview with me in video split-screen format on 17Jul2012
Awakening to Conscious Co-Creation: interview by Peter Tongue

… and many more workshops, presentations, exhibits and more on the Events page.
I always enjoy talking about the non-dual Metaphysics, Psychology, Symbolism, Philosophy and more contained within the book “The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation” which is available here.

(3) Request for Submissions

If you would like to stay connected and network with kindred souls online, check out my pages on
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LinkedIn.
I’m enjoying connecting with both recent and long-time friends and colleagues and discovering new friends of friends :-)
As always, please let me know how I might support you. Please send me any interesting items about sacred geometry or related interests … since everything is inter-related!
Thanks for your interest & support! :-)
BTW, I always appreciate enthusiastic reviews on the Amazon SGDS book page, and the newer Amazon book page for The Geometry Code. It’s a good “win-win” way to cross-promote your work as well.

Bruce Rawles
PO Box 192, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104
co-author of The Geometry Code screensaver
author of Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook
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You might also enjoy my blog which has lots of other fun and info in addition to these bulletins.

Hands-on sacred geometry workshop July 27, 2013 in Castle Rock, CO

Thursday, 13 June 2013 by Bruce Rawles

Update 22Jun2013: This particular workshop is full, but there’s already 3 interested in another; if you are, too, please contact me with dates (preferably Saturdays) that might work for you. THANKS! :-)

I’m giving a day-long, hands-on* sacred geometry workshop from 10AM-4PM on Saturday, July 27, 2013, here at our home in Castle Rock, Colorado. We’re about 25-60 minutes south of Denver, depending on what part of the metropolitan area you might be driving from. Cost is on a sliding scale from $20-$80 based on need. Pre-registration is required, due to limited space around our dining room table! :-) Please contact Bruce via GeometryCode.com to register. I’ll be happy to phone or Skype with even more details. Please bring a geometer’s compass, straight-edge, scissors and cellophane tape; I will supply lots of 2D and 3D handouts including platonic solid fold-up patterns, plus LOTS of visual multimedia imagery, animation and more, along with plenty of theory on the mystical underpinnings of sacred geometry! :-) I typically bring most of my extensive library on the subject out for everyone to peruse; you can see most of them (except some of the rare and obscure titles) on the GeometryCode Amazon aStore. Here is a printable flyer for the event.