sacred geometry books

New German Sacred Geometry Coloring Book for Adults! – Bewusst malen – Heilige Geometrie

Tuesday, 23 February 2016 by Bruce Rawles

Sacred Geometry Coloring Book for Adults - Bewusst Malen - Heilige Geometrie by Bruce Rawles — Sacred Geometry Coloring Book for Adults – Bewusst Malen – Heilige Geometrie by Bruce Rawles

Coloring Book for Adults … now available in a German edition!

A few months ago, I wrote that a new abridged version of the German edition of my first book Mandalas Der Heiligen Geometrie (MDHG) was underway. Mandalas Der Heiligen Geometrie (MDHG) is currently out of print, but I still have a few copies of this German edition of my Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook (SGDS) available, if anyone in the US would like to buy one, just contact me if you’re interested in this collector’s item, which contains the original rainbow-colored cardboard fold-up Platonic Solid Mobile designed by the book’s translator, Jay Goldner, who graciously donated his time and effort to make the German version over a decade ago.

Now the new (abridged from the original MDHG) sacred geometry coloring book for adults, Bewusst malen – Heilige Geometrie, is available from the original publisher, Silbershnur Verlag. Here is where you can order a copy online. If you know anyone in Germany, please spread the word, thanks! And continued kudos and gratitude to Jay Goldner for his efforts is making these images available again, thanks to his collaborative efforts! :-)

I have spent countless meditative hours over several decades exploring these fascinating patterns, both with compass and straightedge as classical geometers have done for millennia, and with modern CAD software to make the original Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook (SGDS) from which this newest incarnation of that source material was derived. I hope you continue to find this practice as inspiring, relaxing, fun and mind-opening as I have over the years.

Use these links below to order the different versions of my adult coloring, reference and other books:

Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook (SGDS) – (English) over 1300 graphics, spiral-bound for easy photocopying with generous reference material and explanatory introductory text
Mandalas Der Heiligen Geometrie (MDHG) – original German edition (currently out-of-print from the publisher, but contact me if you’re interested in one of the few remaining copies); includes a bonus mobile not in the English edition which suspends multicolored cardboard fold-up Platonic Solids; MDHG actually has all the same illustrations that SGDS has, PLUS the mobile!
Bewusst malen – Heilige Geometrie – the new German coloring book for adults, excerpted from MDHG
The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation – (English) not a coloring book, and the geometry theme is more of a subtle backdrop in this book; a very different metaphysical treatise with humor, mysticism and practical application of ancient Hermetic Laws

New Coloring Book For Adults in progress

Thursday, 26 November 2015 by Bruce Rawles

Does anyone remember Mandalas Der Heiligen Geometrie (MDHG)? (I still have a few copies of this German edition of my Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook (SGDS) available, by the way, if anyone in the US would like to buy one; they are currently out of print. Just follow the instructions on this page if you’d like one of the few remaining copies in my inventory.) When I learned that the original German edition master files had been misplaced, I just figured that it had a good run for several years, and mostly put the idea of (laboriously) re-creating the book (for any language) on the proverbial back burner. This past week, however, I’ve been corresponding via email with fellow geometer and author Jay Goldner, who graciously donated his time and effort to make the German version over a decade ago. He was generously both the liaison with the German publisher (and pitched the idea for the book), and did the English-to-German translation as well; kudos to Jay! He is now working again with me in a similar capacity to make an abridged version of MDHG available in Europe (and perhaps elsewhere?) that will be an adult coloring book with a subset of the geometric archetypcal patterns that MDHG and SGDS have featured.

I keep hearing that these coloring books for adults are becoming popular again, which isn’t news for me, but fun to hear. I’ve enjoyed exploring these sacred geometric images artistically with colored pencils, pastels, since the early 1970’s and of course (in more recent decades) digital media and applications. I intentionally made SGDS spiral bound (which took a bit of research to find a good on-demand online printer/fullfillment after printing it locally for years before the online services were more available) so that it’s pages could be laid flat on a photocopy machine or flatbed scanner for making multiple copies for coloring, arts and crafts, enlargements for bigger projects, quilting, stained-glass, and so much more! …

Here are a few similar books … and another example series: Brand New Design Originals-Zentangle 1 Expanded Wrkbk Edition Brand New.

And since I’m (very appropriately) typing this post on Thanksgiving 2015, I want to say a huge THANK YOU to all, for your decades of support and interest in my books, websites, etc. :-)

Vibration Station Conversation – The Geometry Code Book: Chapter 3: Seven Hermetic Laws

Tuesday, 17 November 2015 by Bruce Rawles

Dave Cohen (a.k.a. Davie Crockett) and I shared this conversation about “7 Hermetic Laws, 2 Thought Systems” which is Chapter 3 from the book The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation on 15 November 2015, on his LA Talk Radio show.

Here is an excerpt (the first two sections) from Chapter 3 that served as a springboard for our conversation:

Seven Changeless Laws About Change

Universal laws or principles, known from ancient times, have long been revered by those seeking to find the unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable truth underlying all form and expression. Ultimately, we all seek the dependable, reliable and consistent: something we can honestly trust. Eventually we give up on trying to make our faulty inferences work from isolated, special cases (our lives on planet Earth) and the distortions of perception – we come to the realization that we must find rules that are always true and generalize if we want a happy solution to the dysfunctional practice of taking our personal interpretations seriously. If we base our choices on an ever-shifting landscape founded on differing opinions and values, how can we get our true bearings? If we attempt to judge from a world that not only changes with time and space but from person to person, and culture to culture, isn’t the very basis are we using flawed? It’s all pretty silly to rely on circumstances, conditions and ephemeral events that morph and vary with the whimsy of fate and the biases of our tiny human perspectives. But, one asks, what else do we have to go on? Upon what else can we rely? What cues for guiding our lives do work? It’s obviously helpful to find laws or principles that do not change. Otherwise we just have to keep starting over and over again, relearning every time the temporary guide changes, never certain, secure or serene about where we’re placing our trust.

Identifying With What Never Changes

There are seven Hermetic laws or principles that have been known since antiquity, attributed to Hermes Trismegistus of pre-dynastic Egypt. These laws work all the time, in every situation, regardless of one’s circumstances, geography, status, demographics or any other factors. They apply universally. These seven laws also have completely different meanings, interpretations and outcomes depending on which thought system or internal teacher we use to apply them with. Learning about laws is only truly helpful if we have a purpose intended for our liberation – a reason for applying the laws. As we become aware that we are never exempt from universal laws, we realize that our freedom waits for us to unlock the code and practice these laws with intelligent, thoughtful application. As we discover, the only truly helpful way to apply them is to apply them with the assistance of our ever-present, transpersonal inner guide; this helps us strengthen our identification with what never changes. Otherwise, we’re back to identifying with the changing, fluctuating, vacillating tides of fate, fancy and fantasy. Identifying our Self with what is eternal anchors our awareness in truth rather than what inevitably disappoints, decays and dies.

This interview is part of an ongoing series where we discuss one chapter (about one per month) from The Geometry Code book until we’ve gone through all 10 chapters, including the 7 Hermetic Laws from the Kybalion and related geometric symbols.

If this conversation piqued your interest, you can read the first chapter of The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation for free by (also free) subscribing to the GeometryCode.com monthly bulletin. Enjoy! :-)

Vibration Station Conversation – The Geometry Code Book: Chapter 2

Thursday, 15 October 2015 by Bruce Rawles

Dave Cohen (a.k.a. Davie Crockett) and I shared this conversation about “Take Home Lessons from Modern Physics” which is Chapter 2 from the book The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation on 11 October 2015, on his LA Talk Radio show.

We talked – among MANY other things – about specific topics that shook the scientific worldview several decades ago such as the Copenhagen Interpretation of the wave/particle duality, and subsequent discoveries such as quantum entanglement, and how these continue to affirm the idea that mind was no longer the ‘ghost in the machine’ after quantum physics became the superset of scientific thinking after the era of Newtonian physics that now incorporated (inclusively) both the mechanical and mental paradigms.

Vibration Station Conversation – The Geometry Code Book: Chapter 1

Monday, 24 August 2015 by Bruce Rawles

Dave Cohen (a.k.a. Davie Crockett) and I shared this conversation about “The Question of Identity: Two Thought Systems” which is Chapter 1 from the book The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation on 23 August 2015, on his LA Talk Radio show.

We talked about how examining the contents of our mind reveals two mutually exclusive thought systems: the kind, all-inclusive, 100% sane transpersonal thought system that make use of all symbols (including geometric ones) for the benefit of all … and the 100% insane ‘me first’ we/they personal thought system of ego, which denies shared interests in favor of special, separate interests.