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The Pythagorian philosopher Plato hinted
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enigmatically that there was a golden key
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that unified all of the mysteries of the universe.
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It is this golden key that we will return
to time
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and again throughout our exploration.
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The golden key is the intelligence of the
logos,
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the source of the primordial om.
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One could say that it is the mind of God.
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With our limited senses we are observing only
the outer
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manifestation of the hidden mechanics of self
similarity.
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The source of this divine symmetry is the
greatest mystery of our existence.
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Many of history's monumental thinkers such
as Pythagoras, Keppler,
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Leonardo da Vinci, Tesla and Einstein have
come to the threshold the mystery.
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Einstein said, "the most beautiful thing we
can experience is the mysterious.
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It is the source of all true art and science.
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He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
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who can no longer pause wondering and stand
rapt in awe
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is as good as dead. His eyes are closed."
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We are in the position of a little child
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entering a huge library filled with books
in many different languages.
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The child knows someone must have written
those books.
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It does not know how.
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It does not understand the languages in which
they are written.
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The child dimly suspects a mysterious order
in the arrangement of the books
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but doesn't know what it is.
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That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even
the most
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intelligent human being toward God.
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We see a universe marvelously arranged and
obeying certain laws.
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Our limited minds can not grasp the mysterious
force that moves the constellations.
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Every scientist who looks deeply into the
universe
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and every mystic who looks deeply within the
self,
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eventually comes face to face with the same
thing:
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The Primordial Spiral.
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A thousand years before the creation of the
ancient observatory at Stonehenge,
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the spiral was a predominant symbol on Earth.
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Ancient spirals can be found in all parts
of the globe.
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Thousands of ancient spirals such as these
can be found all over Europe,
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North American New Mexico, Utah, Australia,
China, Russia.
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Virtually every indigenous culture on Earth.
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The ancient spirals symbolize growth, expansion
and cosmic energy embodied within the sun
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and the heavens.
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The spiral form is mirroring the macrocosm
of the unfolding universe itself.
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In native traditions, the spiral was the energetic
source, the Primordial Mother.
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The Neolithic spirals at Newgrange, Ireland
date back five thousand years.
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They are five hundred years old than the Great
Pyramid at Giza
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and they are just as enigmatic to modern observers.
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The spiral goes back to a time in history
when humans were more
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connected to the Earth-to the cycles and spirals
of nature.
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A time when humans were less identified with
thoughts.
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The spiral is what we perceive to be the torque
of the universe.
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Prana, or creative force, swirls Akasha into
a continuum of solid forms.
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Found at all levels between the macrocosm
and the microcosm,
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from spiral galaxies
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to weather systems,
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to the water in your bathtub,
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to your DNA,
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to the direct experience of your own energy.
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The Primordial Spiral is not an idea,
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but rather that which makes all conditions
and ideas possible.
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Various types of spirals and helices are found
throughout the natural world.
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Snails.
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Sea coral.
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Spider webs.
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Fossils.
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Seahorses' tails.
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And shells.
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Many spirals appearing in nature are observable
as logarithmic spirals
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or growth spirals.
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As you move out from the center the spiral
sections get exponentially larger.
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Like Indra's Net of Jewels, logarithmic spirals
are self-similar
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or holographic such that the characteristics
of every part are
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reflected in the whole.
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2400 years ago in ancient Greece, Plato considered
continuous
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geometric proportion to be the most profound
cosmic bond.
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The Golden Ratio, or divine proportion was
nature's greatest secret.
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The Golden Ratio can be expressed as
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the ratio of A + B to A is the same as the
ratio of A to B.
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To Plato, the world's soul binds together
into one harmonic resonance.
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The same pentagonal pattern that exists in
a starfish,
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or in a slice of okra, can be seen in the
path of
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the planet Venus traced in the night sky over
an eight year period.
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The intelligible world of forms above and
the visible world of material
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objects below, through this principle of geometric
self similarity.
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From the self-similar spiral patterns of the
Romanesco broccoli
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to the arms of galaxies, logarithmic spirals
are a ubiquitous and
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archetypal pattern.
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Our own Milky Way galaxy has several spiral
arms which are logarithmic
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spirals with a pitch of about 12 degrees.
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The greater the pitch of the spiral, the tighter
the turns.
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When you observe a plant growing in time-lapse
video you witness it
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dancing with the spiral of life.
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A golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral that
grows outward
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by a factor of the Golden Ratio.
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The Golden Ratio is a special mathematical
relationship that pops up
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over and over in nature.
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The pattern that is observable follows what
is called the Fibonacci series
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or Fibonacci sequence.
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The Fibonacci series unfolds such that each
number is the sum of the previous two numbers.
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The German mathematician and astronomer Keppler
discovered that self similar
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spiral patterns are observable in the way
leaves are arranged on stems of plants.
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Or in the floret and petal arrangements of
flowers.
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Leonardo da Vinci observed that the spacing
of leaves
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was often in spiral patterns.
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These patterns are called "phyllotaxis" patterns
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or leaf arrangement patterns.
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Phyllotaxis arrangements can be seen in self-organizing
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DNA nucleotides
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and in everything from the family trees of
reproducing rabbits,
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to pine cones,
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cacti,
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to snowflakes
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and in simple organisms such as diatoms.
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Diatoms are one of the most common types of
phytoplankton;
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single celled organisms that provide food
for countless species
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throughout the food chain.
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How much math do you need to know to be a
sunflower or a bee?
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Nature doesn't consult the physics department
to grow broccoli.
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The structuring in nature happens automatically.
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Scientists in the field of nanotechnology
use the term self-assembly
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to describe the way complexes are formed such
as
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in the initial hexagonal phase of DNA formation.
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In nanotechnology engineering, carbon nanotubes
are
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comprised of a similar arrangement of materials.
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Nature does this type of geometry over and
over, effortlessly.
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Automatically. Without a calculator.
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Nature is precise and extremely efficient.
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According to the famous architect and author
Buckminster Fuller,
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these patterns are a function of timespace.
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DNA and honeycomb are the shape they are for
the same reason a bubble is round.
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It is the most efficient shape for requiring
the least amount of energy.
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Space itself has shape and allows only certain
configurations for matter,
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always defaulting to what is most efficient.
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These patterns are the strongest and most
efficient way to build
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architectural structures such as geodesic
domes.
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Logarithmic spiral patterns allow plants maximum
exposure to insects
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for pollination, maximum exposure to sunlight
and rain
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and allow them to efficiently spiral water
towards their roots.
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Birds of prey use the logarithmic spiral pattern
to stalk their next meal.
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Flying in a spiral is the most efficient way
to hunt.
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One's ability to see the spiral of life dancing
Akasha into material form
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is related to one's ability to see beauty
and symmetry in nature.
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Poet William Blake said, "the vegetative universe
opens like a flower
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from the Earth's center, in which is eternity.
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It expands from stars to the mundane shell
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and there it meets eternity again both within
and without."
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The study of patterns in nature is not something
that is very
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familiar in the West, but in ancient China,
this science was known as "Li."
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Li reflects the dynamic order and pattern
in nature.
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But it is not pattern thought of as something
static,
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frozen or unchanging, like a mosaic.
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It is dynamic pattern as embodied in all living
things.
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The arteries of leaves, the markings of the
tortoise
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and the veined patterns on rocks are all expressions
of nature's
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secret language and art.
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The labyrinth is one of many Li patterns.
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It is found in coral structures,
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mushrooms like the morel,
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cabbages,
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and in the human brain.
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The cellular pattern is another common pattern
in nature.
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There are a myriad of different cellular structures
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but all have a similar orderliness defined
by their purpose and function.
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It is easy to be mesmerized with the constant
play of forms,
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but what is most interesting is that certain
archetypal forms
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seem to be woven into the fabric of nature
at all.
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The branching pattern is another Li pattern
or archetypal pattern
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that is observable at all levels and in all
fractal scales.
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Take for example, this incredible image of
a supercomputer simulation
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known as the "millennium run"
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showing the distribution of dark matter in
the local universe.
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It was created by the Max Planck Society in
Germany.
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Dark matter is what we previously thought
of as empty space.
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It is like an invisible nervous system that
runs throughout the universe.
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The universe is literally like a giant brain.
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It is constantly thinking using a type of
dark or hidden energy
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that science is only starting to understand.
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Through this immense network, unfathomable
energy moves
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providing the momentum for the expansion and
growth of the universe.
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Nature creates branching patterns automatically
when we set up the right conditions.
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Nature is an art generating machine or a beauty-creating
engine.
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Here, electricity is being used to grow silver
crystal branches.
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The footage is time-lapsed as they grow over
several hours.
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The crystals form on the aluminum cathode
as ions are electrodeposited
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from a silver nitrate solution.
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The formation is self-organizing.
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You are seeing artwork generated by nature
itself.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe said,
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"beauty is a manifestation of secret natural
laws which otherwise
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would have been hidden from us forever."
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In this sense, everything in nature is alive,
self-organizing.
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When higher voltage is used the fractal branching
becomes even more obvious.
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This is happening in real time.
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In the human body, tree-like structures and
patterns are found throughout.
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There are, of course, the nervous systems
that
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Western medicine knows about.
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But in Chinese, Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine
the energy meridians
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are an essential component to understanding
how the body functions.
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The "nadis," or energy meridians form tree-like
structures.
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A post mortem examination will not reveal
the chakras or the nadis,
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but that does not mean they do not exist.
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You need to refine your tool that you use
to look.
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You must first learn to quiet your own mind.
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Only then you will observe these things first
within yourself.
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In electrical theory, the less resistance
in a wire,
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the more easily it can carry energy.
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When you cultivate equanimity through meditation
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it creates a state of non-resistance in your
body.
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Prana, or chi, or inner energy is simply your
inner aliveness.
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What you feel when you bring your consciousness
within the body.
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The subtle wires within your body that carry
Prana, the nadis,
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become able to move more and more pranic energy
through the chakras.
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Your wiring becomes stronger as you use it,
as you allow energy to flow.
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Where ever consciousness is placed chi, or
energy, will begin to flow
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and physical connections blossom.
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Within the brain and nervous system, physical
wiring patterns
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become established by repetition.
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By continually placing your attention within
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and lowering resistance to the sensations
you are experiencing,
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you increase your energetic capacity.
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In Taoism, the yin yang symbol represents
the inter-penetration
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of the spiral forces of nature.
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The yin yang is not two and not one.
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The ancient concept of the "hara" is represented
by
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a yinyang or spiral swirl.
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It is the power center located within the
belly below the navel.
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Hara means literally sea or ocean of energy.
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In China, the hara is called the lower dantien.
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In many forms of Asian martial arts,
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the warrior with strong hara is said to be
unstoppable.
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In the Samurai tradition one form of ritual
suicide or
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seppuku was hara kiri, which was often mispronounced
as "hairy cairy".
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It means to impale one's hara thereby cutting
off one's
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chi or energy channel.
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Moving from this center creates the grounded
graceful movement
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that you see not only in martial arts,
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but in great golfers,
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belly dancers,
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and Sufi whirling dervishes.
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It is the cultivation of single-pointed,
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disciplined consciousness that is the essence
of hara;
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the stillness in the eye of the hurricane.
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It is the gut instinct in connection to one's
energy source.
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A person with good hara is connected to the
Earth
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and to the intuitive wisdom that connects
all beings.
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To think with your belly, "hara de kanganasaii"
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is to tap into your inner wisdom.
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The ancient Australian Aboriginees concentrated
on the same area
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just below the navel-where the cord of the
great rainbow serpent lay coiled.
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Again, a representation of the evolutionary
energy in humankind.
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It is no accident that it is in the hara where
new life begins.
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The
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Enteric nervous system, sometimes referred
to as the "gut brain"
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is capable of maintaining a complex matrix
of connections
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similar to the brain in the head, with its
own neurons and neurotransmitters.
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It can act autonomously, that is with its
own intelligence.
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You could say that the gut brain is a fractal
version of the head brain,
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or perhaps the head brain is a fractal version
of the gut brain.
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A healthy bear has strong hara.
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When a bear knows where to forage for herbs,
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it follows the movement of chi through its
senses,
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centered in the hara, or belly.
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This is the bear's connection to the dream
lodge; the place in native
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traditions where all knowledge comes from
- to the spiral of life.
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But how did ancient peoples know about the
spiral if modern science
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is just starting now to recognize its significance?
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Ask the bees, for they have not forgotten
how to love.
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Bees have a special connection to the source
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as part of a symbiotic system helping beauty
and diversity to flourish.
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They are a bridge between the macrocosm and
the microcosm.
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There is one heart that connects all, a hive
mind if you will.
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Like an open brain, the hive sends out its
dreams to the world
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to be manifested.
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In nature many creatures know how to act unison,
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to move with one spirit, one direction.
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But not all benefit the other species around
them.
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For example, the locust will devour everything
in its path.
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A locust has no choice but to act like a locust.
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It will never make honey or pollinate plants
the way a bee does.
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A locust's behavior is rigid, but a human
is unique
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in that we can act like a bee or we can act
like a locust.
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We are free to change and manipulate the patterns
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of how we interact with the world.
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We can exist symbiotically
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or as a parasite.
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Today humans try to understand the spiral
with the rational mind
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but it was never thinking that connected us
to the spiral of life.
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We have always been connected.
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Thinking has been what keeps us in the illusion
of separateness,
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within our own identities.
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Thinking IS the creation of separateness.
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The experience of limitation.
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The more we align with thought, the more removed
we become from the source.
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Ancient cultures that were less thought-oriented
aligned themselves
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with the spiral in a more direct and personal
way than we do today.
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In ancient India, Kundalini is a representation
of one's
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inner energy which moves in snake-like or
helix-like pattern up the spine.
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In the ancient yogic traditions of India the
inner worlds of people
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at that time were comparable to those of hara
centered cultures.
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To balance the power of the spiral with the
stillness of your
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witnessing consciousness is to align with
your full evolutionary potential.
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To blossom into the unique multi-faceted being
you were designed to be.
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"Ida"-the feminine or moon channel is connected
to the right brain
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and "pingala" the masculine or sun channel
is connected to the left brain.
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When these two channels are in balance, energy
flows up a third channel,
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Sushumna, along the center of the spine, energizing
the chakras
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and unlocking one's full evolutionary potential.
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The word "chakra" is an ancient Sanskrit word
meaning energy wheel.
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Kundalini is nothing less than the primordial
spiral
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that dances your human life into existence.
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It is a different order of energy than we
normally understand.
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Like a bridge from "gross matter" to the most
subtle energies.
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You are that bridge.
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Kundalini is not energy that can be forced
by will, effort and friction.
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It is analogous to growing a flower.
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All we can do as good gardeners is prepare
the soil and proper conditions,
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and let nature take its course.
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If you force a flower to open prematurely,
you'll destroy it.
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It grows with its own intelligence, with its
own self-organizing direction.
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The egoic mind which fixates on the outer
world
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is what keeps you from experiencing your true
inner vibratory nature.
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When consciousness is turned within it becomes
like the sun's rays
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and the lotus within begins to grow.
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As Kundalini awakens within one's self one
begins to see
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the signature of the spiral in all things.
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In all patterns within and without.
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This spiral is the link between our inner
worlds and our outer worlds.
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