An Overview Of Sacred Geometry

Sacred Geometry is the theory of dimensional evolution which assumes the universe is a living system kept together by the existence of a sacred geometry that encompasses the entire cosmos and makes for the blueprint for the manifestation of what we know as our material universe and in addition organizes the context through which all love evolves.

Our universe was designed to be highly efficient and is capable of performing a wide range of multiple functions at the same time. The very same geometry which provides structure to physical reality also allows for the perceptual environments that people and civilizations must move through as part of a systematic learning process on the path towards evolution.

Each dimension of this sacred geometry holds a unique place of perceptual space and a context of learning both for personal and social evolution. As each new dimension appears a new set of perceptions and potentials is awakened which we are free to accept and act ualize or ignore. It is in understanding the dimensional structure which exists all around us that allows us to be able to understand the path and direction of personal and social evolution.

Even though our modern science generally believes there is nothing of deeper meaning to the dimensional geometry of the universe other than the actual physical aspects, there is a view that is almost diametrically opposed to this that began with the Greek philosopher Pythagoras in 500 B.C. Pythagoras believed and taught the theory or belief that all of the mathematical patterns in the universe were actually expressions of divine intelligence and signified a divine intention.

According to Pythagoras, we are surrounded by organizational intelligence that is shown in its purest from through mathematical formulas and musical harmonies and allowing ourselves to be at the center of our experience; we can know and share the organizing patterns and principles that pervade the univers e. This is a thought that was even held by Albert Einstein, who stated that he received his greatest breakthroughs after praying and sleeping. The answers to the questions he was seeking came to him from the Universe while he slept! This is also the way that it can be explained for someone who is blind to be able to sculpt and for a deaf person, such as Beethoven to be able to compose intricate musical scores.

Plato, who taught over a hundred years after Pythagoras, continued in the teachings of Pythagorean thought in espousing that the universe or cosmos as Pythagoras termed it was a place of harmonious and beautiful order and placed such a high regard on geometry that he placed a sign above the door to his academy stating, Let no one unacquainted with geometry enter here.

Gregg Hall is a consultant for online and offline businesses and lives in Navarre Florida. Get more information on sacred geometry at http://www.emerald-energies.com

Author:: Gregg Ha ll
Keywords:: sacred geometry
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All That We Are... Are Labels

Within the confines of the known universe, a madness is present that taints all of the knowledge which every human being has aquired within their life, and within the lives of others.

Nothing is as it seems, and it only seems that way because the human being has labeled it as such.

Language is the remarkable tool which all philosophers great and small have at their disposal, and it is that very language which limits knowledge at all levels to that very element.

Indeed, Labeling begins with prehistoric man and continues to this day. The life and times of the hunter gatherer revolved around the daily exercise of Labeling this and Labeling that. Fire, wood, the animals which are hunted, are all a product of Labeling.

The reader may now ask...so what?....and they would be right to a certain extent. But from a philosophical point of view an important point is being made: what is knowledge? For that matter, what constitutes Intelligence? Because the more one explores that question, the more limited mankind becomes.

It is a critical observation that comes with the reality that all knowledge revolves around the act of Labeling, and with that Labeling comes a vague sort of Intelligence allowing the passing of thought and emotion. Clearly, reality is judged by the senses. What can be seen, heard, smelled, or touched constitutes how real something may or may not be. Along these lines would come an in-depth dialogue about dreams and the clinically insane, but that discussion must be for another day.

When one gets down to it, what is known? Does existan ce essentially consist of running around and placing post-it notes upon all that is sensed? This is 'milk', this is your father', this is the 'television'. Is everyone aware, as I am, that the know universe simply consists of Labeling? And since that is true, what is it that is achieved by mankinds existance?

One conclusion would surround the fact that this existance being experienced now is only the preliminary one of understanding. Perhaps it is like a martial art form: there are endless basic movements that must be mastered before one can continue and achieve. In fact, with martial arts, all who are involved with them knows the words black belt stands for excellence, but the reality is something quite different.

In most martial art forms, black belt means only mastering of the basics, which is significant because most outsiders believe that achieving the black belt is the end, when in fact, for the dedicated artist, it is only the beginning.

Perhaps that is the state of mankind today: we are only at the beginning of our contribution to this universe. We, as a species, are in the gathering of information area of existance. But that revelation (if that's what one might call it) is significant because it is an indication that mankind truly has an enormous way to go to achieve true intellectual enlightenment.

I attended Rutgers University and studied Philosophy, English, and History.

Author:: Christopher Graham
Keywords:: Philosophy, Labeling, human existance, Intelligence
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Pascal's Wager

My oldest brother professes to be a Catholic under the New Catechism which he thinks is able to reach out to people with many non-traditional insights. He suggested that I would possibly convert; if I read the book by Edith Romanes called The Story Port Royal because he saw Pascal and I have a lot in common. We do have a lot in common. Pascal was the voice for the Port Royalists but she admits he was not an adherent of their beliefs. I think she does not know Pascals science or what Christ studied.

I am sure if Pascal were alive today he and I would agree on most things once he was up to speed on the quantum reality and other researches that demonstrate a lot of things once called miracles. There is another element to my brothers comment which is derived from ego and the need people have to state their uninformed opinion as if they are privy to facts they know little or nothing about. I have had many discussions about Pascals Wager and I address it in greater detail under the heading The Doctrine of Probabilism later in this book (Taken from my book The Huguenots and the Cathar Continuum.). Many Christians do the same kind of thing when they claim Newton is a Christian because he wrote volumes on Biblical issues including Daniel. They even deny Newton was an alchemist and say their sources are right even after they are presented with obvious evidence about his alchemical researches and the need to keep these things secret in an era when peoples lives could literally be at stake. Einstein found people putting words in his mouth even as he lived and he had to set them straight in these matters eventually.

Let us take some words of Pascal and ask ourselves if he is a Christian or more of an alchemist like Jesus. Yes, Jesus was trained in the adept arts of Gnostic Hermeticism like most intellectuals of his time and in the millenia before him. The noted historian Michael Grant says this intellectual system was called Imhotep/Asklepios or Thoth/Hermes. There are other things studied by Gnostics and Cathars as you can easily see as you read this book.

This is what I see, and it is this which disquiets me. I look around on every side and see nothing but twilight. Nature offers me nothing that is not a cause of doubt, of uneasiness. If I saw nothing in Nature which in any way implies a Creator, I could make up my mind not to believe in one. If I saw on every side the traces of a Creator, I would rest in peace in the Faith; but as I see too much to make it possible to deny, too little to make me certain (of a Creator), I am in a pitiable state. A hundred times I have wished that if there is a God who upholds Nature, she would unmistakably indicate Him; but if the traces she points out of Him are but deceits, she would destroy themthat she would say all or nothing. (1)

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Author:: Robert Baird
Keywords:: Pascal, Alchemy, Port Royal, Baird
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Explosive Power of Doubling

We have all read or heard the story of the Chinese emperor and the wise man who had helped him build his great empire. He wanted to reward the man for his services and asked him to name his reward. The man brought out a chessboard and asked the emperor for enough rice such that starting with one grain of rice for the first square of the board, the next would have two, and each succeeding square will have the number of grain multiplied by two, i.e. four, eight, sixteen, and so on. The emperor laughed and said that would be easy. When it came to meeting the request the emperors granary became empty, he went broke, and the easy became impossible.

Let us see the numbers involved. The chessboard has sixty-four squares. Starting from one grain for the first square the number of grains for the last square would be two raised to a power of sixty-three. The total number of grains to meet the requirement would be the sum of the geometrical series starting from one and ending w ith two raised to the power of sixty-three. This is a colossal number and we have no word to describe it, so let us use some approximations. Two raised to power ten is one thousand and twenty-four. Let us round it out and say it is a thousand. If we were counting money, twenty-four would still be significant but for our purpose it is not that important. After all it is done in Computers all the time when we use the term kilobyte.

Continuing with the numbers in the series the twenty-first term would be two raised to power twenty, that is a million (in order of magnitude). The thirty-first term would be a billion, forty-first a trillion, and fifty-first a quadrillion. We still have thirteen more terms to go but let us stop here because we do not have words for those numbers. Million and billion we a re quite familiar with and we are just getting to have an idea about trillion with our national debt, but quadrillion is still vague. To put it in perspective we have only to remember that it is a sixteen-digit number - one followed by fifteen zeros. When we get to term sixty-one we add three more zeros. Taking the remaining three terms and adding them all we add another zero. So the total number of rice grains for the reward is (in order of magnitude) one followed by nineteen zeros.

Do we have an idea how much will this rice weigh? Let us assume that one kilogram of rice may contain twenty thousand grains. One metric ton is one thousand kilos. So the number of rice grains contained in one ton will be two followed by seven zeros. The weight of the rice needed for the request will roughly be five followed by eight zeros tons, which is five hundred million tons. This is a colossal amount well beyond the resources of even a great emperor. However, if the emperor knew anyt hing about geometric progression, he would have responded to the request differently. He could have granted it with the condition that the wise man himself does the counting.

Let us assume that a person can count ten grains per second. The number of seconds in one year is approximately thirty one million, an eight-digit number. Even taking just an order of magnitude estimate it would take almost over thirty billion years for one person to count all the rice grains. The age of the universe is estimated to be around fifteen billion years.

Dharmbir Rai Sharma is a retired professor with electrical engineering and physics background. He obtained his M.S. degree in physics in India and Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Cornell University. He has taught in universities here and also in Brazil, where he spent sometime. He maintains a website http://www.cosmosebooks.com devoted mainly to philosophy and science.

Author:: Dharmbir Sharma
Keywords:: Geometric p rogression, Power of two, Chinese emperor and wise man
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Eastern Culture or Western Culture Which is Better

As we see the changing of the guard of the Worlds greatest civilizations from the United States to China or India we see history repeating itself as it has so many times in the human endeavors written history. It was not much more than 200 years ago when Great Britain was the greatest nation in the World. They kept the Great in their name but the United States clearly carried the choice after that. Next it appears due to our own follies and lake of forward progression we will be passing the torch again and in doing so taking our place as a footnote on the page in the annals of mankinds history.

As we pass are on the apex of the hand off, which is clearly a choice having drown our nation in bureaucracy, over regulation and disdain for change, innovation or progress; we see a difference in cultures which is vast indeed. It is obvious that Western Culture has its advantages, whether we take advantage of them or not. It is equally as obvious for anyone who studies culture that Eastern Culture has its own advantages. Some of these advantages are in conflict, while much is similar. Which is better?

Should we assume that since Eastern Culture is next up to bat with the bases loaded that Eastern lifestyle is more fulfilling than the Western Lifestyle? We know from our own short 200-year history in the United States that Western worlds; capitalism and Western culture lifts people up, who put in. We have seen in recent history how Socialism and Communism have tended to push people down and over run civilizations in debt and inefficiency. Yet all in all most of human history and the government structures they have chosen share many things. All these scenarios and all the hybrids of each or all, seem to involve people who are of the ruling class who are motivated by those things humans are motivated by, similarly to those they rule, who are equally motivated by such things.

So when we ask which is better; one government structure or one culture over another, it appears that one could indeed argue both sides of the point or be right no matter which side they argue. And indeed in such abstract thought it seems we are all of the same genes and all one in that regard. The only difference between you neighbor in the United States an d one of Asian Ancestry is probably not more than 3000-4000 years and certainly not more than 10,000 to 15,000. We all have similar needs to fulfill self and although have been pre-conditioned to believe one culture is better than the other is more nurture than nature isnt it? Have you thought here yet? You might next time someone says it is us against them, as that is more similar to punching yourself in the eye really? We all belong to a fairly successful species which has come quite a ways and whose future is very bright if we will dump these egocentric attitude and that goes for both sides.

In the movie about World War II a Japanese Political Prisoner in the United States was asked; Who do you want to win the war? In the movie his answer showed much wisdom as he said; If your mother and father are fighting, do you want one to kill the other or do you just want them to stop fighting? Well with that said and if you are a God fearing individual what do you think your God might say about this? Do you really believe that a God believes that these questions of which culture is better; Eastern or Western Culture are relevant? When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western Culture, he said; I think it would be a good idea. You know so do I, I wish we would live as we promise ourselves rather than in hypocrisy, how about you?

Additionally had it not been for our long and strong history of capitalists, we in the Western World would have never achieved this level of civilization, yet we condemn those who got us here and those that follow in their footsteps. How many times have you heard that Bill Gates is the Anti-Christ? That is ridiculous and he and Melinda have given more to the World than anyone else in the history of humankind and what do we do as a society? Call him the anti-Christ and tell the government to attack his company, which is providing the communication to the world and opening up the world for cross-culture knowledge and commerce? So if Western Culture is better, why do we attack it?

We should not necessarily equate Red China to Communism or place a label like Imperialism as we did to the Japanese in the Second World War, but we should understand that as we live in hypocrisy in our civilization often th ose running other civilizations do the same. History shows many different styles of societies, but in critic of Western Civilization for Eastern Culture, we might wish to define which one. The Chinese Dynasties of days gone by, the more recent hard line Red China of three decades ago or the newest hybrid culture which is slowly emerging, which when finished will much resemble a larger and even more stable version of South Korea?

Currently I guess if I were a Chinese Peasant and the government was testing out N5H1 Bird Flu vaccine for a possible use for bio-warfare in my South Western Province, I do not think I would be a great su pporter of Eastern Culture over Western? I think if this was the case that I would rather have my family to be making Nike Shoes today and driving a Chevrolet and wearing Levis tomorrow. This is an interesting point on debate of which is better; Eastern or Western Culture, but the question in itself is wrong as we are comparing apples and oranges arent we. Some say that the Ugly Western Culture Capitalists in their pursuit of Globalism are causing other nations to r emain impoverished. Is Globalism really bad, or is it getting a bad rap? And does it really matter which is better Eastern or Western Culture as we do not even respect all we have in the United States and in our haste to point out worse problems in the world, we have taken our eye off the ball and China and/or India is ready to hit a grand slam home run, clean out of the park. So it really doesnt matter which you think is better; click here:

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It would be wise to re-evaluate our nation, what we really stand for and move to fix those things which are not perfect now, before we allow it to all slip away embroiled in controversy, politics and chaos as we divide ourselves. Think about it.

Lance Winslow

Author:: Lance Winslow
Keywords:: Chinese, China, eastern culture, India, Imperialism, Socialism, red China, Communism, Western
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Gestalt: Law of Proximity

The law of proximity is one of four visual perception laws as theorized by Gestalt psychologists. Paul Martin Lester, the author of Visual Communication, an expert in the field wrote: The law of proximity states that the brain more closely associates objects close to each other than it does [when two objects are far apart.

We love to see people and things grouped together. Groupings and togetherness appeal to our inclination of wanting things to be neat and organized. Artistically speaking, by grouping people and things together, we are not only conforming to the law of proximity, but we are making room for other interesting information to be added to a layout that wouldn't fit otherwise.

There are other aspects to the law of proximity too. For instance, when we see two people next to each o ther in a photograph, we look to see what their relationship is or how they are communicating with each other. When birds are flying, we love to see how they group and fly in a *V* form together. At social gatherings, people tend to group together (even if there is plenty of space to spread out). Then again, we like to see groupings of the same species of plants in landscapes and find this to be visually pleasing.

In knowing about the law of proximity, designers, photographers, and artists are better able to create interesting, memorable images. When the law of proximity is used, viewers are more apt to take notice and interest in the visual messages being conveyed, because they are looking for underlying messages within the images and responding to them. The law of proximity somewhat overlaps with harmony. Harmony is the pleasing interaction or appropriate combination of the elements in a whole as described by Tim McCreight, the author of Design Language. When an im age is in harmony, it is pleasing to us because the elements or objects are supporting and complementing each other. We view this as positive energy. This type of image gives us closure and peace void of anxiety. It is no wonder why most people prefer harmonious artwork in home decor.

The law of proximity is another way humans organize their world. Look in the produce section of a supermarket and notice how this law takes on practical application. Visual clusters of stars are beautiful to view in the same way as seen with repetitive patterns and textures. At home, we have a place to stack our dishes and another place to hang our clothes. The law of proximity indicates that humans prefer to see groups of similar objects together. This explains why patterned material and grid-like designs are visually appealing. (revised 2/15/2006)

Debbie Jensen, Graphic Designer and Photographer http://www.debjensendesigns.com

Author:: Debbie Jensen
Keywords:: Gestalt, law of proximity, Gestalt theory, visual communication, sensual theories, debbie jensen,
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What is It to be Human and is It Something to be Proud of?

Some contend that Humans are naturally wonderful loving creatures and we are full of good. Others look out at the French Riots or Machete and AK-47 killings and say you have to be kidding me? You call that a group of loving and caring; is this your wonderful Humans in their wondrous Humanity? Of course this debate is as old as religion itself and has been pondered by philosophers throughout time. That is to say is humankind Inherently good or are they Innately evil?

On the side that Humans are good are those who state things like:

What you and I see Humans doing on this planet, is in my view inhuman, that is it is not originating from human beings but from the mind programming that they have fallen prey. All of this programming can be purged from the species, and not with Technology, simply with a desire for personal honesty about what is happening here.

Yes indeed that is a good argument, that Humans are good, but along the way have been manipulated and taught to fear and hate. That today modern mass media hysteria and purported education, politics and society of our Civilizations is causing mankind to act out. That in part our own Technology is also partially to blame. But mankind is able to chose is he not? Have they chosen to accept this. Isn't religion indoctrination the same? What about nationalism too? Family honor or even the Your team VS mine, them and us scenarios, okay so they, we, us are acting out and sure, well we can call that inhuman? But who is to say that is not the norm of Humanity and that Humans are Innately evil, Bad or inhuman for that matter?

Is man Inherently good or is he Innately evil? That is the age old question and to cloud that question with excuses for why he is acting out like an animal is besides the point, as if man is so good, why cant he over come such brutal and violent behavior? Social programming aside, what is wrong with this picture. I leav e the last word up to you. Think on it.

Lance Winslow

Author:: Lance Winslow
Keywords:: Humanity, good vs evil, Bad, Inherently, Innate, Civilization, Technology, mind programming, Humans
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