The folks at Ka Gold Jewelry continue to add exquisite new artistic creations to their extensive line of geometrically inspired, mystical, cosmic jewelry. Check out these new items which include a vesica-piscis-yin-yang-entangled pendant, star tetrahedra with and without enclosing spheres, Flower of Life, Seed of Life, zodiacal emblems and even a truncated icosahedron (i.e. soccer ball shape) where each face is a seed of life shape … and much more, drawing from a diversity of cultural traditions and contemporary visionary interpretations! Neat! … and you might also want to take advantage their current seasonal 15% discount; use Coupon Code – KAGOLD2014 which is valid until December 24, 2014. Enjoy!
2D Geometries
GeometryCode bulletin for October 2014
(1) News, Events, Interviews, Workshops, Classes, Exhibits, Products, Articles, Tutorials
Follow the bouncing ball: toroidal torsos, tetrahedra and truncated icosahedra
I recently saw a fun video on FaceBook showing soccer players with their torsos enclosed in protective toroidal bubbles, and then found this related Bubble Soccer USA site. Perhaps sport is now imitating what some believe is the shape of the human electromagnetic energy field? Below is a stylized illustration I did some years ago of nested rainbow colored toroids surrounding a meditator in lotus position.
Of course, the shape of a traditional soccer ball is roughly the projection of a truncated icosahedron onto a sphere. Since inflated bubbles provide superb cushioning, they are also found on this NASA Mars lander video; note the tetrahedral cushioning balloons (with 6 quasi-spherical balloons on each face) about 3.5 minutes into the video.
Solar System Geometry Calendars for 2015
I just updated the popular Martineau Solar System Series calendar for 2015. The models depicting averaged (circular rather than elliptical) orbit relationships are astonishingly accurate … and simple! Enjoy! :-)
Spiral shell sculptures
Sculptor, fellow artist, geometer and student of metaphysics, Stefán Geir Karlsson recently sent me some interesting conceptual images and commentary about making some really large spiral shell sculptures. His virtual vortices would be fun to explore as full size realized art forms. I’ve long had similar ideas for making huge models of polyhedra with mirrored interiors that we could walk inside, see the labyrinthine reflections and hear the equally fractal echoes; all metaphors of our projections mirrored back to us! Colleague Sara Frucht of Berkeley, Calif. has some excellent smaller models she calls ‘Kaleidoscapes‘ with wonderful interior mirror reflections.
(2) Websites, Books, Videos, Imagery, Music and Quotes
- Golden Ratio and sound – John Chowning audio
- A site featuring the work of noted geometer and scholar Tons Brunés and classic sacred geometry constructions
- 22 maps and charts that will surprise you; some interesting images for map enthusiasts; the last one (#22) about Laniakea and the Milky Way; is particularly impressive to keep our tiny earth-bound issues in perspective! :-)
- a related, linked video about supercluster Laniakea … staggering!
- a lovely photo of newly-discovered galaxy SMM J2135-0102
- Golden Ratio For Kids: Pinterest page
- Werner Vogt’s geometrically inspired architecture
- Lissajous figures (I used to make wild animations with an analog oscilloscope and a bank of oscillators in high school) and Hans Jenny’s Cymatics are kindred art forms. … John Martineau has a great little book on the Harmonograph (among his generous assortment of gems in his Wooden Books series; scroll down to the Wooden Books section on our Sacred Geometry books page. … Steven K. Roberts: “here was my childhood harmonograph with adjustable pendulums and U-joints to the drawing tool, with rack-and-pinion pickoff via servos to a second platform above.
(3) Request for Submissions
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.
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author of The Geometry Code book; co-author of The Geometry Code screensaver
author of Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook
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LA Talk Radio Interview with Dave Cohen
Hermetic Laws (such as Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause&Effect, Gender), Geometric symbolism, the Great Pyramid, intrinsic Oneness reflected in the principle of interconnectedness, UFOs, Atlantis, holographic projections, Fibonacci spirals, the Golden Ratio in nature, modern physics, architectural acoustics, flying, resonant toning, geological dating, Chambered Nautilus shells, galactic spirals, and DNA helices were just few of the topics we touched on in this initial interview – more to follow – with the exuberant Dave Cohen on his “Good Vibration Station” radio show on LA Talk Radio. We’ll just have to talk about Plato’s allegory of the cave (and his famous solids) … plus many other subjects in greater detail on a subsequent show – which we intended to get to, but ran out of time! BTW, I mentioned Dave’s very cool sacred geometry inspired shirts on a prior FaceBook post, but his elegant designs deserve mention here again.
Sacred Geometry interview with CA Brooks
CA Brooks, who hosts the “Simple Tales” show on 12Radio, interviewed me on August 26, 2014. We talked about the origins and history of sacred geometry in art, architecture and nature, the 5 Platonic Solids, dimensions, volcanos, symbols, the Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt, the seven Hermetic Laws of antiquity, golden rectangles, golden triangles, spirals, the vesica piscis, and much more. This show was evidently selected as the “Producer’s Choice of the Week”; what fun! Enjoy! :-)
I also was on CA’s other show (about A Course In Miracles) on Aug. 22, 2014; more details and the audio archive for that interview here.
GeometryCode bulletin for August 2014
(1) News, Events, Interviews, Workshops, Classes, Exhibits, Products, Articles, Tutorials
Geometric Symbolism and Egypt – audio presentation
While I was visiting my Mom in California a couple months ago, I was asked to give a talk on symbolism, Egypt and other related subjects of interest to her weekly metaphysical study group. Topics included Creative Dynamics (a metaphysical study group that several of us in the room were involved in since the early 1970s), New Frontiers of the Gold Country (a group my wife and I started in northern California that was a branch of the original group in the SF Bay Area, which led to me going to Egypt in 1992 with Gregg Braden and several others in my mother’s living room, where I met Gregg for the first time and rekindled my interest in what was now called sacred geometry), the Great Pyramid (which I’d studied since the early 1970’s, inspired by books such as Secrets of the Great Pyramid by Peter Tompkins and Pyramid Power by Pat Flanagan), modern physics (my father supervised cyclotron operations there in Livermore, California and I became interested in the more mystical side of physics almost by osmosis, living in that community), placebos, synchronicities, releasing judgment, and of course, geometric symbolism. As many talks I give these days do, this one moved into the nod-dual metaphysics that has become a primary focus since 2007. I removed some of the personal material toward the end, since I wasn’t sure how much of the Q&A the participants wanted to share. Enjoy! :-)
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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.
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.