WEBVTT 00:00:03.086 --> 00:00:06.088 The Pythagorian philosopher Plato hinted 00:00:06.088 --> 00:00:09.809 enigmatically that there was a golden key 00:00:09.809 --> 00:00:13.069 that unified all of the mysteries of the universe. 00:00:13.069 --> 00:00:17.064 It is this golden key that we will return to time 00:00:17.064 --> 00:00:21.002 and again throughout our exploration. 00:00:21.002 --> 00:00:24.047 The golden key is the intelligence of the logos, 00:00:24.047 --> 00:00:27.075 the source of the primordial om. 00:00:27.075 --> 00:00:33.039 One could say that it is the mind of God. 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:36.082 With our limited senses we are observing only the outer 00:00:36.082 --> 00:00:42.087 manifestation of the hidden mechanics of self similarity. 00:00:42.087 --> 00:00:52.035 The source of this divine symmetry is the greatest mystery of our existence. 00:00:52.035 --> 00:00:57.062 Many of history's monumental thinkers such as Pythagoras, Keppler, 00:00:57.062 --> 00:01:05.093 Leonardo da Vinci, Tesla and Einstein have come to the threshold the mystery. 00:01:05.093 --> 00:01:12.047 Einstein said, "the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. 00:01:12.047 --> 00:01:16.039 It is the source of all true art and science. 00:01:16.039 --> 00:01:19.008 He to whom this emotion is a stranger, 00:01:19.008 --> 00:01:23.064 who can no longer pause wondering and stand rapt in awe 00:01:23.064 --> 00:01:29.039 is as good as dead. His eyes are closed." 00:01:29.039 --> 00:01:31.088 We are in the position of a little child 00:01:31.088 --> 00:01:36.079 entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:40.034 The child knows someone must have written those books. 00:01:40.034 --> 00:01:42.045 It does not know how. 00:01:42.045 --> 00:01:46.057 It does not understand the languages in which they are written. 00:01:46.057 --> 00:01:51.028 The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books 00:01:51.028 --> 00:01:53.034 but doesn't know what it is. 00:01:53.034 --> 00:01:57.035 That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most 00:01:57.035 --> 00:02:00.009 intelligent human being toward God. 00:02:00.009 --> 00:02:05.057 We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws. 00:02:05.057 --> 00:02:14.459 Our limited minds can not grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations. 00:02:14.459 --> 00:02:17.026 Every scientist who looks deeply into the universe 00:02:17.026 --> 00:02:20.819 and every mystic who looks deeply within the self, 00:02:20.819 --> 00:02:26.062 eventually comes face to face with the same thing: 00:02:26.062 --> 00:02:41.081 The Primordial Spiral. 00:02:41.081 --> 00:03:00.083 A thousand years before the creation of the ancient observatory at Stonehenge, 00:03:00.083 --> 00:03:07.031 the spiral was a predominant symbol on Earth. 00:03:07.031 --> 00:03:11.086 Ancient spirals can be found in all parts of the globe. 00:03:11.086 --> 00:03:16.083 Thousands of ancient spirals such as these can be found all over Europe, 00:03:16.083 --> 00:03:23.099 North American New Mexico, Utah, Australia, China, Russia. 00:03:23.099 --> 00:03:28.019 Virtually every indigenous culture on Earth. 00:03:28.019 --> 00:03:35.159 The ancient spirals symbolize growth, expansion and cosmic energy embodied within the sun 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:37.011 and the heavens. 00:03:37.011 --> 00:03:43.379 The spiral form is mirroring the macrocosm of the unfolding universe itself. 00:03:43.379 --> 00:03:52.011 In native traditions, the spiral was the energetic source, the Primordial Mother. 00:03:52.011 --> 00:04:00.022 The Neolithic spirals at Newgrange, Ireland date back five thousand years. 00:04:00.022 --> 00:04:07.489 They are five hundred years old than the Great Pyramid at Giza 00:04:07.489 --> 00:04:14.599 and they are just as enigmatic to modern observers. 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.047 The spiral goes back to a time in history when humans were more 00:04:17.047 --> 00:04:22.129 connected to the Earth-to the cycles and spirals of nature. 00:04:22.129 --> 00:04:26.004 A time when humans were less identified with thoughts. 00:04:26.004 --> 00:04:33.074 The spiral is what we perceive to be the torque of the universe. 00:04:33.074 --> 00:04:42.011 Prana, or creative force, swirls Akasha into a continuum of solid forms. 00:04:42.011 --> 00:04:45.979 Found at all levels between the macrocosm and the microcosm, 00:04:45.979 --> 00:04:47.008 from spiral galaxies 00:04:47.008 --> 00:04:53.159 to weather systems, 00:04:53.159 --> 00:04:58.379 to the water in your bathtub, 00:04:58.379 --> 00:05:01.036 to your DNA, 00:05:01.036 --> 00:05:09.009 to the direct experience of your own energy. 00:05:09.009 --> 00:05:11.909 The Primordial Spiral is not an idea, 00:05:11.909 --> 00:05:18.129 but rather that which makes all conditions and ideas possible. 00:05:18.129 --> 00:05:29.559 Various types of spirals and helices are found throughout the natural world. 00:05:29.559 --> 00:05:34.949 Snails. 00:05:34.949 --> 00:05:45.729 Sea coral. 00:05:45.729 --> 00:05:56.509 Spider webs. 00:05:56.509 --> 00:06:01.899 Fossils. 00:06:01.899 --> 00:06:07.219 Seahorses' tails. 00:06:07.219 --> 00:06:16.659 And shells. 00:06:16.659 --> 00:06:21.409 Many spirals appearing in nature are observable as logarithmic spirals 00:06:21.409 --> 00:06:22.729 or growth spirals. 00:06:22.729 --> 00:06:32.839 As you move out from the center the spiral sections get exponentially larger. 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:37.909 Like Indra's Net of Jewels, logarithmic spirals are self-similar 00:06:37.909 --> 00:06:42.077 or holographic such that the characteristics of every part are 00:06:42.077 --> 00:06:44.999 reflected in the whole. 00:06:44.999 --> 00:06:51.169 2400 years ago in ancient Greece, Plato considered continuous 00:06:51.169 --> 00:06:56.469 geometric proportion to be the most profound cosmic bond. 00:06:56.469 --> 00:07:02.024 The Golden Ratio, or divine proportion was nature's greatest secret. 00:07:02.024 --> 00:07:04.249 The Golden Ratio can be expressed as 00:07:04.249 --> 00:07:10.919 the ratio of A + B to A is the same as the ratio of A to B. 00:07:10.919 --> 00:07:18.939 To Plato, the world's soul binds together into one harmonic resonance. 00:07:18.939 --> 00:07:22.839 The same pentagonal pattern that exists in a starfish, 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:26.419 or in a slice of okra, can be seen in the path of 00:07:26.419 --> 00:07:39.061 the planet Venus traced in the night sky over an eight year period. 00:07:39.061 --> 00:07:51.749 The intelligible world of forms above and the visible world of material 00:07:51.749 --> 00:08:02.069 objects below, through this principle of geometric self similarity. 00:08:02.069 --> 00:08:06.149 From the self-similar spiral patterns of the Romanesco broccoli 00:08:06.149 --> 00:08:11.029 to the arms of galaxies, logarithmic spirals are a ubiquitous and 00:08:11.029 --> 00:08:15.669 archetypal pattern. 00:08:15.669 --> 00:08:20.039 Our own Milky Way galaxy has several spiral arms which are logarithmic 00:08:20.039 --> 00:08:23.599 spirals with a pitch of about 12 degrees. 00:08:23.599 --> 00:08:32.006 The greater the pitch of the spiral, the tighter the turns. 00:08:32.006 --> 00:08:37.011 When you observe a plant growing in time-lapse video you witness it 00:08:37.011 --> 00:08:51.005 dancing with the spiral of life. 00:08:51.005 --> 00:09:07.024 A golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral that grows outward 00:09:07.024 --> 00:09:10.035 by a factor of the Golden Ratio. 00:09:10.035 --> 00:09:14.779 The Golden Ratio is a special mathematical relationship that pops up 00:09:14.779 --> 00:09:18.829 over and over in nature. 00:09:18.829 --> 00:09:23.959 The pattern that is observable follows what is called the Fibonacci series 00:09:23.959 --> 00:09:26.074 or Fibonacci sequence. 00:09:26.074 --> 00:09:33.098 The Fibonacci series unfolds such that each number is the sum of the previous two numbers. 00:09:33.098 --> 00:09:38.031 The German mathematician and astronomer Keppler discovered that self similar 00:09:38.031 --> 00:09:43.959 spiral patterns are observable in the way leaves are arranged on stems of plants. 00:09:43.959 --> 00:09:49.031 Or in the floret and petal arrangements of flowers. 00:09:49.031 --> 00:09:52.041 Leonardo da Vinci observed that the spacing of leaves 00:09:52.041 --> 00:09:55.006 was often in spiral patterns. 00:09:55.006 --> 00:09:57.098 These patterns are called "phyllotaxis" patterns 00:09:57.098 --> 00:10:02.949 or leaf arrangement patterns. 00:10:02.949 --> 00:10:08.041 Phyllotaxis arrangements can be seen in self-organizing 00:10:08.041 --> 00:10:16.879 DNA nucleotides 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:21.769 and in everything from the family trees of reproducing rabbits, 00:10:21.769 --> 00:10:23.819 to pine cones, 00:10:23.819 --> 00:10:25.031 cacti, 00:10:25.031 --> 00:10:25.959 to snowflakes 00:10:25.959 --> 00:10:30.086 and in simple organisms such as diatoms. 00:10:30.086 --> 00:10:34.689 Diatoms are one of the most common types of phytoplankton; 00:10:34.689 --> 00:10:37.075 single celled organisms that provide food for countless species 00:10:37.075 --> 00:11:05.649 throughout the food chain. 00:11:05.649 --> 00:11:15.379 How much math do you need to know to be a sunflower or a bee? 00:11:15.379 --> 00:11:19.022 Nature doesn't consult the physics department to grow broccoli. 00:11:19.022 --> 00:11:22.099 The structuring in nature happens automatically. 00:11:22.099 --> 00:11:27.199 Scientists in the field of nanotechnology use the term self-assembly 00:11:27.199 --> 00:11:29.097 to describe the way complexes are formed such as 00:11:29.097 --> 00:11:35.029 in the initial hexagonal phase of DNA formation. 00:11:35.029 --> 00:11:38.048 In nanotechnology engineering, carbon nanotubes are 00:11:38.048 --> 00:11:43.041 comprised of a similar arrangement of materials. 00:11:43.041 --> 00:11:47.091 Nature does this type of geometry over and over, effortlessly. 00:11:47.091 --> 00:11:51.017 Automatically. Without a calculator. 00:11:51.017 --> 00:11:54.054 Nature is precise and extremely efficient. 00:11:54.054 --> 00:11:59.439 According to the famous architect and author Buckminster Fuller, 00:11:59.439 --> 00:12:01.097 these patterns are a function of timespace. 00:12:01.097 --> 00:12:08.006 DNA and honeycomb are the shape they are for the same reason a bubble is round. 00:12:08.006 --> 00:12:13.209 It is the most efficient shape for requiring the least amount of energy. 00:12:13.209 --> 00:12:18.006 Space itself has shape and allows only certain configurations for matter, 00:12:18.006 --> 00:12:23.629 always defaulting to what is most efficient. 00:12:23.629 --> 00:12:26.006 These patterns are the strongest and most efficient way to build 00:12:26.006 --> 00:12:41.093 architectural structures such as geodesic domes. 00:12:41.093 --> 00:12:45.709 Logarithmic spiral patterns allow plants maximum exposure to insects 00:12:45.709 --> 00:12:53.072 for pollination, maximum exposure to sunlight and rain 00:12:53.072 --> 00:12:59.049 and allow them to efficiently spiral water towards their roots. 00:12:59.049 --> 00:13:07.149 Birds of prey use the logarithmic spiral pattern to stalk their next meal. 00:13:07.149 --> 00:13:23.839 Flying in a spiral is the most efficient way to hunt. 00:13:23.839 --> 00:13:28.879 One's ability to see the spiral of life dancing Akasha into material form 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:36.709 is related to one's ability to see beauty and symmetry in nature. 00:13:36.709 --> 00:13:40.879 Poet William Blake said, "the vegetative universe opens like a flower 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:44.074 from the Earth's center, in which is eternity. 00:13:44.074 --> 00:13:49.047 It expands from stars to the mundane shell 00:13:49.047 --> 00:14:09.004 and there it meets eternity again both within and without." 00:14:09.004 --> 00:14:12.029 The study of patterns in nature is not something that is very 00:14:12.029 --> 00:14:19.309 familiar in the West, but in ancient China, this science was known as "Li." 00:14:19.309 --> 00:14:27.499 Li reflects the dynamic order and pattern in nature. 00:14:27.499 --> 00:14:30.379 But it is not pattern thought of as something static, 00:14:30.379 --> 00:14:33.016 frozen or unchanging, like a mosaic. 00:14:33.016 --> 00:14:43.089 It is dynamic pattern as embodied in all living things. 00:14:43.089 --> 00:14:47.329 The arteries of leaves, the markings of the tortoise 00:14:47.329 --> 00:14:51.066 and the veined patterns on rocks are all expressions of nature's 00:14:51.066 --> 00:14:55.073 secret language and art. 00:14:55.073 --> 00:14:58.879 The labyrinth is one of many Li patterns. 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:03.086 It is found in coral structures, 00:15:03.086 --> 00:15:07.043 mushrooms like the morel, 00:15:07.043 --> 00:15:10.139 cabbages, 00:15:10.139 --> 00:15:18.249 and in the human brain. 00:15:18.249 --> 00:15:23.006 The cellular pattern is another common pattern in nature. 00:15:23.006 --> 00:15:26.639 There are a myriad of different cellular structures 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:33.529 but all have a similar orderliness defined by their purpose and function. 00:15:33.529 --> 00:15:40.067 It is easy to be mesmerized with the constant play of forms, 00:15:40.067 --> 00:15:44.569 but what is most interesting is that certain archetypal forms 00:15:44.569 --> 00:15:51.809 seem to be woven into the fabric of nature at all. 00:15:51.809 --> 00:15:56.379 The branching pattern is another Li pattern or archetypal pattern 00:15:56.379 --> 00:16:26.074 that is observable at all levels and in all fractal scales. 00:16:26.074 --> 00:16:30.066 Take for example, this incredible image of a supercomputer simulation 00:16:30.066 --> 00:16:32.055 known as the "millennium run" 00:16:32.055 --> 00:16:36.042 showing the distribution of dark matter in the local universe. 00:16:36.042 --> 00:16:41.036 It was created by the Max Planck Society in Germany. 00:16:41.036 --> 00:16:49.369 Dark matter is what we previously thought of as empty space. 00:16:49.369 --> 00:17:00.259 It is like an invisible nervous system that runs throughout the universe. 00:17:00.259 --> 00:17:04.001 The universe is literally like a giant brain. 00:17:04.001 --> 00:17:08.077 It is constantly thinking using a type of dark or hidden energy 00:17:08.077 --> 00:17:14.074 that science is only starting to understand. 00:17:14.074 --> 00:17:19.339 Through this immense network, unfathomable energy moves 00:17:19.339 --> 00:17:42.082 providing the momentum for the expansion and growth of the universe. 00:17:42.082 --> 00:17:50.309 Nature creates branching patterns automatically when we set up the right conditions. 00:17:50.309 --> 00:17:55.419 Nature is an art generating machine or a beauty-creating engine. 00:17:55.419 --> 00:18:00.409 Here, electricity is being used to grow silver crystal branches. 00:18:00.409 --> 00:18:05.659 The footage is time-lapsed as they grow over several hours. 00:18:05.659 --> 00:18:10.075 The crystals form on the aluminum cathode as ions are electrodeposited 00:18:10.075 --> 00:18:13.045 from a silver nitrate solution. 00:18:13.045 --> 00:18:15.789 The formation is self-organizing. 00:18:15.789 --> 00:18:23.026 You are seeing artwork generated by nature itself. 00:18:23.026 --> 00:18:26.024 Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe said, 00:18:26.024 --> 00:18:31.559 "beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws which otherwise 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:37.087 would have been hidden from us forever." 00:18:37.087 --> 00:18:43.097 In this sense, everything in nature is alive, self-organizing. 00:18:43.097 --> 00:18:49.082 When higher voltage is used the fractal branching becomes even more obvious. 00:18:49.082 --> 00:19:21.899 This is happening in real time. 00:19:21.899 --> 00:19:26.038 In the human body, tree-like structures and patterns are found throughout. 00:19:26.038 --> 00:19:29.096 There are, of course, the nervous systems that 00:19:29.096 --> 00:19:32.429 Western medicine knows about. 00:19:32.429 --> 00:19:37.022 But in Chinese, Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine the energy meridians 00:19:37.022 --> 00:19:41.539 are an essential component to understanding how the body functions. 00:19:41.539 --> 00:19:45.919 The "nadis," or energy meridians form tree-like structures. 00:19:45.919 --> 00:19:51.071 A post mortem examination will not reveal the chakras or the nadis, 00:19:51.071 --> 00:19:55.429 but that does not mean they do not exist. 00:19:55.429 --> 00:19:59.021 You need to refine your tool that you use to look. 00:19:59.021 --> 00:20:02.076 You must first learn to quiet your own mind. 00:20:02.076 --> 00:20:08.026 Only then you will observe these things first within yourself. 00:20:08.026 --> 00:20:12.009 In electrical theory, the less resistance in a wire, 00:20:12.009 --> 00:20:15.032 the more easily it can carry energy. 00:20:15.032 --> 00:20:18.399 When you cultivate equanimity through meditation 00:20:18.399 --> 00:20:22.008 it creates a state of non-resistance in your body. 00:20:22.008 --> 00:20:29.069 Prana, or chi, or inner energy is simply your inner aliveness. 00:20:29.069 --> 00:20:33.007 What you feel when you bring your consciousness within the body. 00:20:33.007 --> 00:20:38.419 The subtle wires within your body that carry Prana, the nadis, 00:20:38.419 --> 00:20:42.094 become able to move more and more pranic energy through the chakras. 00:20:42.094 --> 00:20:50.529 Your wiring becomes stronger as you use it, as you allow energy to flow. 00:20:50.529 --> 00:20:55.549 Where ever consciousness is placed chi, or energy, will begin to flow 00:20:55.549 --> 00:21:00.051 and physical connections blossom. 00:21:00.051 --> 00:21:03.071 Within the brain and nervous system, physical wiring patterns 00:21:03.071 --> 00:21:08.096 become established by repetition. 00:21:08.096 --> 00:21:11.058 By continually placing your attention within 00:21:11.058 --> 00:21:15.035 and lowering resistance to the sensations you are experiencing, 00:21:15.035 --> 00:21:33.095 you increase your energetic capacity. 00:21:33.095 --> 00:21:37.085 In Taoism, the yin yang symbol represents the inter-penetration 00:21:37.085 --> 00:21:40.084 of the spiral forces of nature. 00:21:40.084 --> 00:21:46.014 The yin yang is not two and not one. 00:21:46.014 --> 00:21:49.002 The ancient concept of the "hara" is represented by 00:21:49.002 --> 00:21:52.799 a yinyang or spiral swirl. 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:57.049 It is the power center located within the belly below the navel. 00:21:57.049 --> 00:22:02.169 Hara means literally sea or ocean of energy. 00:22:02.169 --> 00:22:05.046 In China, the hara is called the lower dantien. 00:22:05.046 --> 00:22:08.789 In many forms of Asian martial arts, 00:22:08.789 --> 00:22:15.074 the warrior with strong hara is said to be unstoppable. 00:22:15.074 --> 00:22:19.919 In the Samurai tradition one form of ritual suicide or 00:22:19.919 --> 00:22:26.006 seppuku was hara kiri, which was often mispronounced as "hairy cairy". 00:22:26.006 --> 00:22:30.919 It means to impale one's hara thereby cutting off one's 00:22:30.919 --> 00:22:37.058 chi or energy channel. 00:22:37.058 --> 00:22:41.022 Moving from this center creates the grounded graceful movement 00:22:41.022 --> 00:22:52.269 that you see not only in martial arts, 00:22:52.269 --> 00:22:57.013 but in great golfers, 00:22:57.013 --> 00:23:07.919 belly dancers, 00:23:07.919 --> 00:23:09.659 and Sufi whirling dervishes. 00:23:09.659 --> 00:23:12.098 It is the cultivation of single-pointed, 00:23:12.098 --> 00:23:17.007 disciplined consciousness that is the essence of hara; 00:23:17.007 --> 00:23:31.000 the stillness in the eye of the hurricane. 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:49.409 It is the gut instinct in connection to one's energy source. 00:23:49.409 --> 00:23:55.789 A person with good hara is connected to the Earth 00:23:55.789 --> 00:24:04.038 and to the intuitive wisdom that connects all beings. 00:24:04.038 --> 00:24:08.039 To think with your belly, "hara de kanganasaii" 00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:16.047 is to tap into your inner wisdom. 00:24:16.047 --> 00:24:20.399 The ancient Australian Aboriginees concentrated on the same area 00:24:20.399 --> 00:24:25.889 just below the navel-where the cord of the great rainbow serpent lay coiled. 00:24:25.889 --> 00:24:32.549 Again, a representation of the evolutionary energy in humankind. 00:24:32.549 --> 00:24:43.082 It is no accident that it is in the hara where new life begins. 00:24:43.082 --> 00:24:54.048 The 00:24:54.048 --> 00:24:59.139 Enteric nervous system, sometimes referred to as the "gut brain" 00:24:59.139 --> 00:25:02.058 is capable of maintaining a complex matrix of connections 00:25:02.058 --> 00:25:07.058 similar to the brain in the head, with its own neurons and neurotransmitters. 00:25:07.058 --> 00:25:12.085 It can act autonomously, that is with its own intelligence. 00:25:12.085 --> 00:25:17.033 You could say that the gut brain is a fractal version of the head brain, 00:25:17.033 --> 00:25:22.006 or perhaps the head brain is a fractal version of the gut brain. 00:25:22.006 --> 00:25:28.159 A healthy bear has strong hara. 00:25:28.159 --> 00:25:31.000 When a bear knows where to forage for herbs, 00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:34.639 it follows the movement of chi through its senses, 00:25:34.639 --> 00:25:37.036 centered in the hara, or belly. 00:25:37.036 --> 00:25:41.057 This is the bear's connection to the dream lodge; the place in native 00:25:41.057 --> 00:25:51.071 traditions where all knowledge comes from - to the spiral of life. 00:25:51.071 --> 00:25:55.062 But how did ancient peoples know about the spiral if modern science 00:25:55.062 --> 00:25:59.095 is just starting now to recognize its significance? 00:25:59.095 --> 00:26:09.076 Ask the bees, for they have not forgotten how to love. 00:26:09.076 --> 00:26:12.069 Bees have a special connection to the source 00:26:12.069 --> 00:26:18.929 as part of a symbiotic system helping beauty and diversity to flourish. 00:26:18.929 --> 00:26:23.799 They are a bridge between the macrocosm and the microcosm. 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:28.099 There is one heart that connects all, a hive mind if you will. 00:26:28.099 --> 00:26:32.083 Like an open brain, the hive sends out its dreams to the world 00:26:32.083 --> 00:26:47.419 to be manifested. 00:26:47.419 --> 00:26:51.058 In nature many creatures know how to act unison, 00:26:51.058 --> 00:27:42.062 to move with one spirit, one direction. 00:27:42.062 --> 00:27:46.036 But not all benefit the other species around them. 00:27:46.036 --> 00:27:50.679 For example, the locust will devour everything in its path. 00:27:50.679 --> 00:27:55.049 A locust has no choice but to act like a locust. 00:27:55.049 --> 00:28:00.139 It will never make honey or pollinate plants the way a bee does. 00:28:00.139 --> 00:28:04.012 A locust's behavior is rigid, but a human is unique 00:28:04.012 --> 00:28:09.429 in that we can act like a bee or we can act like a locust. 00:28:09.429 --> 00:28:12.044 We are free to change and manipulate the patterns 00:28:12.044 --> 00:28:15.049 of how we interact with the world. 00:28:15.049 --> 00:28:16.087 We can exist symbiotically 00:28:16.087 --> 00:28:35.007 or as a parasite. 00:28:35.007 --> 00:28:39.529 Today humans try to understand the spiral with the rational mind 00:28:39.529 --> 00:28:50.019 but it was never thinking that connected us to the spiral of life. 00:28:50.019 --> 00:28:57.062 We have always been connected. 00:28:57.062 --> 00:29:01.002 Thinking has been what keeps us in the illusion of separateness, 00:29:01.002 --> 00:29:03.899 within our own identities. 00:29:03.899 --> 00:29:06.082 Thinking IS the creation of separateness. 00:29:06.082 --> 00:29:09.063 The experience of limitation. 00:29:09.063 --> 00:29:18.299 The more we align with thought, the more removed we become from the source. 00:29:18.299 --> 00:29:21.058 Ancient cultures that were less thought-oriented aligned themselves 00:29:21.058 --> 00:29:26.529 with the spiral in a more direct and personal way than we do today. 00:29:26.529 --> 00:29:31.036 In ancient India, Kundalini is a representation of one's 00:29:31.036 --> 00:29:38.098 inner energy which moves in snake-like or helix-like pattern up the spine. 00:29:38.098 --> 00:29:43.509 In the ancient yogic traditions of India the inner worlds of people 00:29:43.509 --> 00:29:48.012 at that time were comparable to those of hara centered cultures. 00:29:48.012 --> 00:29:51.179 To balance the power of the spiral with the stillness of your 00:29:51.179 --> 00:29:56.096 witnessing consciousness is to align with your full evolutionary potential. 00:29:56.096 --> 00:30:02.769 To blossom into the unique multi-faceted being you were designed to be. 00:30:02.769 --> 00:30:10.013 "Ida"-the feminine or moon channel is connected to the right brain 00:30:10.013 --> 00:30:18.279 and "pingala" the masculine or sun channel is connected to the left brain. 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:23.799 When these two channels are in balance, energy flows up a third channel, 00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:28.006 Sushumna, along the center of the spine, energizing the chakras 00:30:28.006 --> 00:30:33.046 and unlocking one's full evolutionary potential. 00:30:33.046 --> 00:30:42.009 The word "chakra" is an ancient Sanskrit word meaning energy wheel. 00:30:42.009 --> 00:30:45.072 Kundalini is nothing less than the primordial spiral 00:30:45.072 --> 00:30:48.059 that dances your human life into existence. 00:30:48.059 --> 00:30:53.139 It is a different order of energy than we normally understand. 00:30:53.139 --> 00:30:57.789 Like a bridge from "gross matter" to the most subtle energies. 00:30:57.789 --> 00:31:00.063 You are that bridge. 00:31:00.063 --> 00:31:04.073 Kundalini is not energy that can be forced by will, effort and friction. 00:31:04.073 --> 00:31:07.035 It is analogous to growing a flower. 00:31:07.035 --> 00:31:14.139 All we can do as good gardeners is prepare the soil and proper conditions, 00:31:14.139 --> 00:31:20.097 and let nature take its course. 00:31:20.097 --> 00:31:25.019 If you force a flower to open prematurely, you'll destroy it. 00:31:25.019 --> 00:31:32.279 It grows with its own intelligence, with its own self-organizing direction. 00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:35.006 The egoic mind which fixates on the outer world 00:31:35.006 --> 00:31:40.509 is what keeps you from experiencing your true inner vibratory nature. 00:31:40.509 --> 00:31:45.279 When consciousness is turned within it becomes like the sun's rays 00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:52.008 and the lotus within begins to grow. 00:31:52.008 --> 00:31:56.279 As Kundalini awakens within one's self one begins to see 00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:59.669 the signature of the spiral in all things. 00:31:59.669 --> 00:32:03.046 In all patterns within and without. 00:32:03.046 --> 99:59:59.999 This spiral is the link between our inner worlds and our outer worlds.