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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
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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
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eventually comes face to face with the same
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The Primordial Spiral.

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A thousand years before the creation of the
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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
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They are five hundred years old than the Great
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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
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A time when humans were less identified with
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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
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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
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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
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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
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reflected in the whole.

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2400 years ago in ancient Greece, Plato considered
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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
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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
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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
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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
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in the initial hexagonal phase of DNA formation.

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In nanotechnology engineering, carbon nanotubes
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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
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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
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always defaulting to what is most efficient.

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These patterns are the strongest and most
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architectural structures such as geodesic
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Logarithmic spiral patterns allow plants maximum
exposure to insects

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for pollination, maximum exposure to sunlight
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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
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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
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The study of patterns in nature is not something
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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
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frozen or unchanging, like a mosaic.

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It is dynamic pattern as embodied in all living
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The arteries of leaves, the markings of the
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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
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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
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but what is most interesting is that certain
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seem to be woven into the fabric of nature
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The branching pattern is another Li 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
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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
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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
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe said,

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"beauty is a manifestation of secret natural
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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a yinyang or spiral swirl.

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It is the power center located within the
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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
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In the Samurai tradition one form of ritual
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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
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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
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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
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A person with good hara is connected to the
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and to the intuitive wisdom that connects
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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
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The

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Enteric nervous system, sometimes referred
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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
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It can act autonomously, that is with its
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You could say that the gut brain is a fractal
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or perhaps the head brain is a fractal version
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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
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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
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They are a bridge between the macrocosm and
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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
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For example, the locust will devour everything
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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
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A locust's behavior is rigid, but a human
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in that we can act like a bee or we can act
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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
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but it was never thinking that connected us
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We have always been connected.

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Thinking has been what keeps us in the illusion
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sushumna, along the center of the spine, energizing
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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
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that dances your human life into existence.

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It is a different order of energy than we
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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
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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.