Apr 2007
Formation of Fibonacci Spirals In Nature
30Apr2007 10:47 AM Geometry-MathPermalink
Thanks to Rich in Penn Valley, California for this
article:
Scientists find clues to the formation of Fibonacci spirals in nature.
Scientists find clues to the formation of Fibonacci spirals in nature.
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Mission, Vision, Values
I found this bit of musing on a page from my old
website, while moving files over to the
new one:
I see a world
where the intent of all creation is:
• to deeply feel the love of the Great Spirit, the Creator, and express that love in every thought, word and action, by unfettered choice, with commitment and integrity
• to know, with every atom of one's being, that what appears to be "we" is really "I"; to realize, more profoundly than the mere notion that we are all interconnected, that we ARE indeed cells of an infinite organism and each cell is boundless and precious beyond measure
• to become aware of the glorious unlimited spectrum of life in its inexhaustible beauty, wisdom and diversity, treating all creatures with compassion and respect
• to live in a sustainable way where we cherish the freedom and responsibility to share the truth and care for all aspects of the seamless fabric of life
• to recognize that all appearances of polarity and duality are but illusory reflections of a more profound underlying unity, and grasping the gift of this omni-present mirroring, savor the full range of life's blessings while not taking any thing too seriously
• to find joy and meaning in each moment, purpose in each atom, divine order in every pattern from the most minute to the most unimaginably vast
• to see the Universe through the eyes of gratitude, appreciation and humor.
I see a world
where the intent of all creation is:
• to deeply feel the love of the Great Spirit, the Creator, and express that love in every thought, word and action, by unfettered choice, with commitment and integrity
• to know, with every atom of one's being, that what appears to be "we" is really "I"; to realize, more profoundly than the mere notion that we are all interconnected, that we ARE indeed cells of an infinite organism and each cell is boundless and precious beyond measure
• to become aware of the glorious unlimited spectrum of life in its inexhaustible beauty, wisdom and diversity, treating all creatures with compassion and respect
• to live in a sustainable way where we cherish the freedom and responsibility to share the truth and care for all aspects of the seamless fabric of life
• to recognize that all appearances of polarity and duality are but illusory reflections of a more profound underlying unity, and grasping the gift of this omni-present mirroring, savor the full range of life's blessings while not taking any thing too seriously
• to find joy and meaning in each moment, purpose in each atom, divine order in every pattern from the most minute to the most unimaginably vast
• to see the Universe through the eyes of gratitude, appreciation and humor.
Unsuggester and SGDS
I guess
I need to encourage more folks (73 more, evidently)
on the Unsuggester website
to
fess up to owning (or just order :^) a copy
of my book, before it will
tell me what I (we mystical geometers) probably
won't like... Here's what it spit back to me when
I tried it (just out of curiosity and a sense of
whimsy)... to see what might be interesting to
read as the "opposite library" to get a complete
perspective! 
Unsuggester takes "people who like this also like that" and turns it on its head. It analyzes the thirteen million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely to share a library with the book you suggest. The unsuggestions come from LibraryThing data, not from Amazon. LibraryThing also produces great suggestions. (Update 2/24. I just regenerated the recommendations. Some of the examples on the right are no longer the first result. I'll update them soon.)
UnSuggestions
for
Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook: Universal
Dimensional Patterns by
Bruce Rawles
2 members (690,229 more popular). Members with the book have have a total of 1,879 books in their libraries (see good suggestions).
Sorry. A book must be owned by at least 75 members to have unrecommendations.
Unsuggester takes "people who like this also like that" and turns it on its head. It analyzes the thirteen million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely to share a library with the book you suggest. The unsuggestions come from LibraryThing data, not from Amazon. LibraryThing also produces great suggestions. (Update 2/24. I just regenerated the recommendations. Some of the examples on the right are no longer the first result. I'll update them soon.)
UnSuggestions
for
Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook: Universal
Dimensional Patterns by
Bruce Rawles2 members (690,229 more popular). Members with the book have have a total of 1,879 books in their libraries (see good suggestions).
Sorry. A book must be owned by at least 75 members to have unrecommendations.
Cosmic Rays and Great Pyramid
27Apr2007 09:50 PM Permalink
Here's a
recent email from my friend Tim in China who was
interested in energy photographs of pyramids, and my
response.
I spent a good part of the day looking at several sites, including your blog, hoping to get closer to an understanding of exactly how Sacred Geometry affects us mentally/emotionally/physically. I found an energy photograph taken of a pyramid. The pyramid, based on the Great Pyramid, has energy streaming in a double vortex (like DNA) out the apex. It is clear that something is going on.
The photograph of energy around pyramids I wish I had a copy of was created by a composite of computer data compiled by a former neighbor of mine, Nick Chakakis, who was working for Lawrence Livermore Lab in the early 1970s and had set up an elaborate set of parallel detectors underneath the 2nd pyramid at Giza, Egypt (usually ascribed to Kephren, in much the same way the White House might some day be called the Pelosi House by future archaeologists, I imagine Any way, what Nick showed me
before I went to Egypt in the fall of 1973, was
a photograph (computer simulation, really)
showing the accumulated totals of cosmic ray
particles that had passed through the massive
thickness of limestone blocks composing the 2nd
pyramid. My understanding is that when a high
energy cosmic ray particle (mu meson if I recall
my college physics correctly?) passed through an
X-Y matrix of wires in an evacuated, (inert gas
filled?) chamber, it was registered and within a
nanosecond, give or take, it would also register
with a similar X-Y matrix a meter or so away.
Depending on the angle, the number of particles
registered varies widely. Measurements were
taken over many days to give a "portrait" of the
thickness of the stone. They took these
measurements from several places far enough
apart that they could create a 3D model of the
thickness of the stone in order to pinpoint
where any hidden chambers might be. Most of
their "photos" looked upward, but they "took"
one photo looking (through hundreds of feet of
solid limestone) toward the Great Pyramid. What
was evident in the image was an unmistakable
outline of the Great Pyramid on the horizon,
which was black (since below the horizon there
are vastly fewer cosmic particles that make it
through thousands of miles of earth compared
with a few hundred feet of stone). However...
and this is what impressed me most... there was
a distinct "halo" or "corona" around the Great
Pyramid with a bright emphasized area around the
capstone area. If the pyramid shape was
"neutral" there should have just been an abrupt
edge with roughly the same intensity for the
"sky" area" and fairly uniform intensity for the
"Great Pyramid" area. However, this corona
seemed to match what I'd just learned from
attending a lecture by Patrick Flanagan around
that same time, that the shape acts as a lens to
focus cosmic energy, and everything in my direct
and indirect experience seems to support
this. I also heard
somewhere (perhaps Peter Tompkins book?)
anecdotally that pilots don't fly directly over
the Great Pyramid, because their instrumentation
goes wacky... I was able to contact Nick a few
years ago, but he wasn't able to find that
photo...alas.
I spent a good part of the day looking at several sites, including your blog, hoping to get closer to an understanding of exactly how Sacred Geometry affects us mentally/emotionally/physically. I found an energy photograph taken of a pyramid. The pyramid, based on the Great Pyramid, has energy streaming in a double vortex (like DNA) out the apex. It is clear that something is going on.
The photograph of energy around pyramids I wish I had a copy of was created by a composite of computer data compiled by a former neighbor of mine, Nick Chakakis, who was working for Lawrence Livermore Lab in the early 1970s and had set up an elaborate set of parallel detectors underneath the 2nd pyramid at Giza, Egypt (usually ascribed to Kephren, in much the same way the White House might some day be called the Pelosi House by future archaeologists, I imagine
Any way, what Nick showed me
before I went to Egypt in the fall of 1973, was
a photograph (computer simulation, really)
showing the accumulated totals of cosmic ray
particles that had passed through the massive
thickness of limestone blocks composing the 2nd
pyramid. My understanding is that when a high
energy cosmic ray particle (mu meson if I recall
my college physics correctly?) passed through an
X-Y matrix of wires in an evacuated, (inert gas
filled?) chamber, it was registered and within a
nanosecond, give or take, it would also register
with a similar X-Y matrix a meter or so away.
Depending on the angle, the number of particles
registered varies widely. Measurements were
taken over many days to give a "portrait" of the
thickness of the stone. They took these
measurements from several places far enough
apart that they could create a 3D model of the
thickness of the stone in order to pinpoint
where any hidden chambers might be. Most of
their "photos" looked upward, but they "took"
one photo looking (through hundreds of feet of
solid limestone) toward the Great Pyramid. What
was evident in the image was an unmistakable
outline of the Great Pyramid on the horizon,
which was black (since below the horizon there
are vastly fewer cosmic particles that make it
through thousands of miles of earth compared
with a few hundred feet of stone). However...
and this is what impressed me most... there was
a distinct "halo" or "corona" around the Great
Pyramid with a bright emphasized area around the
capstone area. If the pyramid shape was
"neutral" there should have just been an abrupt
edge with roughly the same intensity for the
"sky" area" and fairly uniform intensity for the
"Great Pyramid" area. However, this corona
seemed to match what I'd just learned from
attending a lecture by Patrick Flanagan around
that same time, that the shape acts as a lens to
focus cosmic energy, and everything in my direct
and indirect experience seems to support
this. I also heard
somewhere (perhaps Peter Tompkins book?)
anecdotally that pilots don't fly directly over
the Great Pyramid, because their instrumentation
goes wacky... I was able to contact Nick a few
years ago, but he wasn't able to find that
photo...alas.
Updated page on Martineau Solar System Series &
article in journal Symmetry
26Apr2007 08:42 PM Geometry-MathPermalink
Another
update on the "cattle drive" I'm doing this week :
here's an update on my Martineau Solar System
Series. I also just
received a complimentary copy of
Symmetry: Culture and Science, Vol
16, No. 2, 2005, (Journal of the
Symmetrion, editor: György Darvas, Polyhedra, Part
3; postal address: Budapest, P. O. Box 994, H-1245
Hungary) which has an article I submitted a few
years ago on this subject on pages 193-196. You
can also get a calendar with all 12 of these
images here, and another
with my Homage to Kepler art
as a
bonus cover image here. Here's an image
from one of the first exhibits of this work at
South Yuba Club in Nevada City, California.
New Community page and SSI
25Apr2007 06:56 AM Friends &
FamilyPermalink
I'm
doing a "cattle drive" this week : moving about 12
years worth of web content from our intent domain
(which is going to a new steward on May 1 who plans
to do some inspiring things with it!)... so here's
a new community page
on
my newest website
(still VERY much
a work in progress this week), but you can see
some of the little dogies in the new pasture
before the rest arrive
BTW, kudos for whoever invented Server Side Includes (SSI)... this little method of building pages on the fly from the server (and not duplicating a gazillion identical block of HTML!) is already saving me a ton of time! This is why most of the pages on my new site have a .shtml suffix instead of a .html one.
BTW, kudos for whoever invented Server Side Includes (SSI)... this little method of building pages on the fly from the server (and not duplicating a gazillion identical block of HTML!) is already saving me a ton of time! This is why most of the pages on my new site have a .shtml suffix instead of a .html one.
Sonic Wind Sculptures by Ross Barrable
24Apr2007 06:28 AM Geometry-MathPermalink
Thanks
to Tim A. in China (and North Carolina) for
this link with a great quote from
Galileo, inspiring text and very interesting (and
lovely) sculptures; I'd enjoy
hearing the wind through them... I 'resonate' to
the text, so I'll post a link to my blog about
them...
A couple of minor corrections on that page:
Geometry literally means “the measure of the earth" ... adding 'sacred' just adds the meaning and significance of that word
Also, on that same page, the author/artist refers to the square root of 3 as transcendental. In mathematical terms (to be technically correct), I believe that number is just irrational. However, Pi, (the circumference/diameter proportion of any circle) which is almost always "nearby" or present whenever the square root of three is involved geometrically (either with the vesica piscis made from two circles, or the diagonal of a cube which can be perfectly inscribed or circumscribed by a sphere containing an infinity of circles) IS a transcendental number. In my presentations, I often share the metaphor that an irrational number (like the square roots of 2, 3, or 5) is not resolvable by our conscious 'rational' minds; however a transcendental number (like Pi) is not only irrational, it also transcends this 'dimension', since it can't be expressed even as a polynomial fraction (a fraction made of whole number polynomials, or numbers raised to higher powers or 'dimensions' metaphorically.)
Here's a link to the MathWorld reference on transcendental numbers. Along with Pi, Euler's number, e (the base of natural logarithms) is perhaps also commonly known to many.
A couple of minor corrections on that page:
Geometry literally means “the measure of the earth" ... adding 'sacred' just adds the meaning and significance of that word
Also, on that same page, the author/artist refers to the square root of 3 as transcendental. In mathematical terms (to be technically correct), I believe that number is just irrational. However, Pi, (the circumference/diameter proportion of any circle) which is almost always "nearby" or present whenever the square root of three is involved geometrically (either with the vesica piscis made from two circles, or the diagonal of a cube which can be perfectly inscribed or circumscribed by a sphere containing an infinity of circles) IS a transcendental number. In my presentations, I often share the metaphor that an irrational number (like the square roots of 2, 3, or 5) is not resolvable by our conscious 'rational' minds; however a transcendental number (like Pi) is not only irrational, it also transcends this 'dimension', since it can't be expressed even as a polynomial fraction (a fraction made of whole number polynomials, or numbers raised to higher powers or 'dimensions' metaphorically.)
Here's a link to the MathWorld reference on transcendental numbers. Along with Pi, Euler's number, e (the base of natural logarithms) is perhaps also commonly known to many.
Big Wisdom, Great Music, Short Film
23Apr2007 10:36 PM Film
& VideoPermalink
Check
out this touching, funny, inspiring and
very wise little film
online (you can
watch it in about a half hour - time well
spent!)...
Wombat: We're All One... Interconnected
22Apr2007 10:01 PM SustainabilityPermalink
How
perfect for Earth Day ... Thanks to Charley for
sending the link to this fun and astute little
animation!
Truchet Tiling
21Apr2007 07:58 PM Permalink
For
tesselation and tiling fans, here's a page from
MathWorld about a tiling that uses diagonals of a
square to make some decorative patterns:
Truchet
Tiling.
Here are a
few other pages I've contributed
to on MathWorld, courtesy of Eric Weisstein.
Foster Gamble & The Fundamental Patterning of the
Universe and Us
20Apr2007 08:09 AM Film
& VideoPermalink
I
checked out an excellent video from
RVML:
Foster Gamble
who
spoke on The Fundamental Patterning of the
Universe and Us. His
fascinating talk links together work of other
esteemed colleagues such as Arthur Young,
Nassim
Haramein, and
Walter
Russell. The sections
describing the unified field implications of the
Isotropic Vector Matrix and how the Periodic Table
of the Elements relate to geometric models were of
particular interest, with many more worthy topics
explored. I met Foster briefly in Ashland a few
years ago.
Dana Thibault - Fractals: The Language Of Nature
19Apr2007 09:29 PM Film
& VideoPermalink
I
checked out an excellent video (VHS) from
RVML:
Dana Thibault - Fractals: The
Language Of Nature. This may be the
best video I've ever seen on fractals, with some
of the simplest explanations for both novice and
veteran explorers alike. He also does an excellent
job of explaining the fractal nature of some key
crop circle formations.
Platonic Solids Info
18Apr2007 01:26 AM Geometry-MathPermalink
Thanks
to Dan Radin for sending me a link to his
website on Platonic
Solids which has
animations, Origami and more.
Multinacci
17Apr2007 09:27 PM Geometry-MathPermalink
For
those of you interested in a generalized Fibonacci
sequence (summing the
prior n terms) here's a reference; thanks to
Michael in Arizona.
Yi-Jing Algebra
16Apr2007 08:28 AM Geometry-MathPermalink
Water-powered Cars
15Apr2007 11:19 PM SustainabilityPermalink
Species Alliance
14Apr2007 11:17 PM SustainabilityPermalink
Thanks
to Charley for this link to a video about the Species
Alliance... our planet
needs our support!
Sri Yantra meets Sound of Music meets Lewis Carroll
13Apr2007 06:00 AM Film
& VideoPermalink
Thanks
to Nancy,
Robin & Ed (and
probably a few others) for suggesting this film.
Last night a couple of friends, my wife & I
went to see the movie,
The Last
Mimzy. I was
immediately reminded of the classic Julie Andrews
in the Alps panorama (from the Sound of Music) in
the breathtaking opening (and closing) scenes.
Overall, I'm glad I saw the film, since it did
offer the public some interesting glimpses and
questions about the importance of following
intuition, the relationship of geometry to
consciousness, dreams, and energy technology
(although I'm waiting for a Hollywood film to show
an entire region of a country suddenly and
mysteriously powered perfectly by a benign energy
source, eliminating the need for non-renewables,
rather than the cliché blackout scenario - I guess
that will require some clever script-wiring to
make that seem dramatic! It almost seems like the
mass thinking imposed by a trillion dollar energy
industry requires commercial films to
portray innovative technologies
as
disruptive.
The story was fun (although why not lose the 'scary factor'? Perhaps the script writer indulged in our cultural bias toward trembling when the subject of math is raised? I also enjoyed a handful of other
geometric references, the Sri Yantra (page 195
of my book) got the most
exposure, although never mentioned by name, not
that words are needed for geometric symbols to
convey their wisdom! I also enjoyed a cameo
appearance of a ZomeTool model... a REAL
fun toy I recommend highly! Other animations and
graphics showed geodesic, helices, spirals and a
handful of other geometric archetypes, mostly for
artistic effect, but I guess turning the story
into a documentary would have "broken the spell".
Some lovely scenery, fun visuals and relatively
minimal abuse of important topics that Hollywood
rarely touches. I liked the levitation scenes,
although I'd like a time travel/futuristic movie
to show teleportation (without external
technology) as being our natural state as
described as one of our natural abilities in
the Baird Spalding
books. Aside from the
minuses already mentioned, some valid concerns on
other movie reviews, and some
blatant semiconductor and soft drink
product
placements, I liked the
film.
The story was fun (although why not lose the 'scary factor'? Perhaps the script writer indulged in our cultural bias toward trembling when the subject of math is raised?
I also enjoyed a handful of other
geometric references, the Sri Yantra (page 195
of my book) got the most
exposure, although never mentioned by name, not
that words are needed for geometric symbols to
convey their wisdom! I also enjoyed a cameo
appearance of a ZomeTool model... a REAL
fun toy I recommend highly! Other animations and
graphics showed geodesic, helices, spirals and a
handful of other geometric archetypes, mostly for
artistic effect, but I guess turning the story
into a documentary would have "broken the spell".
Some lovely scenery, fun visuals and relatively
minimal abuse of important topics that Hollywood
rarely touches. I liked the levitation scenes,
although I'd like a time travel/futuristic movie
to show teleportation (without external
technology) as being our natural state as
described as one of our natural abilities in
the Baird Spalding
books. Aside from the
minuses already mentioned, some valid concerns on
other movie reviews, and some
blatant semiconductor and soft drink
product
placements, I liked the
film.
Constance Demby - Luminescent Sonic Immersion
12Apr2007 10:07 AM Film
& VideoPermalink
Thanks
to friend and author Jodine Turner
for
providing a link to a lovely 5-minute,
visually and
musically rich excerpt
from Space Music pioneer
Constance
Demby's
Luminescent Sonic
Immersion ... The metal
rod/sheet (?) instrument evidently called a "Space
Bass" looks like it would be great fun to
play...
Tesseract Turning Inside Out
11Apr2007 09:39 AM Permalink
Thanks
to Alan and folks in the Polytopia Yahoo group (some
neat geometric posts!), here's a neat little
animation of a Tesseract (Hypercube or 4D Polytope
equivalent of a cube) Turning Inside
Out
Another example of how our limited 3D body-minds get kinda warped trying to grok our infinite nature (and the various manifestations thereof...
Another example of how our limited 3D body-minds get kinda warped trying to grok our infinite nature (and the various manifestations thereof...
Excerpt from Dan's Interview at Mobius
As part
of the First Friday art
series,
last
Friday (see my blog post for 6 April 2007) I was
in Ashland, Oregon at the Mobius Gallery showing
and answering questions about giclée (and
larger) prints of my "Martineau Solar
System Geometry" Series which will be on
exhibit there through the end of this month.
Many thanks to Dan Shaw of Vortex Maps who sent me this clip of the video he took of me talking about the art! Greatly appreciated, Dan!!!
Many thanks to Dan Shaw of Vortex Maps who sent me this clip of the video he took of me talking about the art! Greatly appreciated, Dan!!!
Useful Resources for Ecology & Economy
09Apr2007 08:45 AM SustainabilityPermalink
Nancy
found this handy reference for local
resources (Jackson County,
Oregon) for ecology and economy; anything but the
landfill, please! You probably have a similar
resource online where you live. Favorites you
probably already know about are FreeCycle and
Craigslist ... there are
MANY others that help finding appropriate homes
for items no longer needed.
Upper Table Rock - Flowers du jour
08Apr2007 07:57 AM PhotographyPermalink
flyer I made for last night's Artists Reception
Here's a
flyer I made for last night's Artists Reception at
the Mobius Gallery/Venue in Ashland, Oregon, showing:
representative samples of my work (from left to
right):
Calendars of the Martineau Solar System Series
The Geometry Code Screen Saver & Meditation Tool
Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook
Calendars of the Martineau Solar System Series
The Geometry Code Screen Saver & Meditation Tool
Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook
Mobius Art Exhibit & First Friday Event
Tonight
(Friday, 6 April 2007) I will be in Ashland, Oregon
at the Mobius Gallery from 4:30-9PM showing and
answering questions about giclée (and larger) prints
of my "Martineau Solar System Geometry" Series which
I just finished hanging; thanks to Marla from the
Mobius for her assistance! Here's a press release I'm
sending out last minute:
===
Press Release – For Immediate Release
Accurate Geometric Models of Solar System - Art at Mobius Gallery in April & First Friday
Where: The Mobius, 281 4th Street, Ashland, Oregon 97520
When: Exhibit open now through April 30; First Friday artist reception 5-9PM 6 April 2007
What: 12 giclée prints of "The Martineau Series", digital art inspired by breakthrough discoveries about our solar system and how the orbits of the planets relate to simple geometric models.
Who: artist and geometer Bruce Rawles
As part of the First Friday art series, the Mobius is currently exhibiting (through the end of April) the artwork of local digital artist and author, Bruce Rawles. Inspired by line art in a book by fellow UK author & geometer, John Martineau, Rawles' 3D computer rendered images incorporate NASA imagery as well as nature photography as backdrops to stunningly accurate (most 99.9% or better) models of our solar system that pick up where Johannes Kepler's explorations left off. Framed archival giclée prints as well as larger posters, card and books will also be available at the First Friday event at the Mobius.
More information about Rawles' "Martineau Series" is available here.
This award-winning exhibit was recently shown at ScienceWorks in Ashland, as well as the Rogue Gallery, and has also appeared at galleries in California, Switzerland and Austria. More information about Rawles' "Martineau Series" exhibits and other presentations, etc. is available here.
Rawles is also the author of Sacred Geometry Design SourceBook, published in English and German as well as co-author of a geometric screensaver and meditation tool based on ancient laws of nature
He maintains a blog about a variety of related interests.
===
Press Release – For Immediate Release
Accurate Geometric Models of Solar System - Art at Mobius Gallery in April & First Friday
Where: The Mobius, 281 4th Street, Ashland, Oregon 97520
When: Exhibit open now through April 30; First Friday artist reception 5-9PM 6 April 2007
What: 12 giclée prints of "The Martineau Series", digital art inspired by breakthrough discoveries about our solar system and how the orbits of the planets relate to simple geometric models.
Who: artist and geometer Bruce Rawles
As part of the First Friday art series, the Mobius is currently exhibiting (through the end of April) the artwork of local digital artist and author, Bruce Rawles. Inspired by line art in a book by fellow UK author & geometer, John Martineau, Rawles' 3D computer rendered images incorporate NASA imagery as well as nature photography as backdrops to stunningly accurate (most 99.9% or better) models of our solar system that pick up where Johannes Kepler's explorations left off. Framed archival giclée prints as well as larger posters, card and books will also be available at the First Friday event at the Mobius.
More information about Rawles' "Martineau Series" is available here.
This award-winning exhibit was recently shown at ScienceWorks in Ashland, as well as the Rogue Gallery, and has also appeared at galleries in California, Switzerland and Austria. More information about Rawles' "Martineau Series" exhibits and other presentations, etc. is available here.
Rawles is also the author of Sacred Geometry Design SourceBook, published in English and German as well as co-author of a geometric screensaver and meditation tool based on ancient laws of nature
He maintains a blog about a variety of related interests.
Green For Free ECOnomic=ECOlogic checklist
05Apr2007 06:16 AM SustainabilityPermalink
Thanks
to Marge & Janaia of Sierra Nevada Deep Ecology
Institute for emailing a
great ECOnomic=ECOlogic checklist, courtesy
of Solar Cascade. Although most
of us are already doing many of these, a refresher
is always good, and some neat new ideas here
too... Rather than print out this liks, try email
first, and print only if necessary... (I keep a
supply of 8.5" x 11" scratch paper I get from
rough drafts and mistakes as well as 'tree spam'
a.k.a. junk mail on top of my printer for things
that really must be printed (maps with complex
driving directions, etc.)
Another Step 3 addition might be to suggest long range lifestyle, community & career planning that allows walking/biking to work/telecommuting as the norm rather than the exception: web & internet-based livelihood (with generous walks & outdoor time to balance out the glued-to-the-monitor hours) seem to be contributing to that idea becoming more widespread. If best practices are integrated into everyday, it's no big deal!
G4FflyerSnap
G4Fflyer
Another Step 3 addition might be to suggest long range lifestyle, community & career planning that allows walking/biking to work/telecommuting as the norm rather than the exception: web & internet-based livelihood (with generous walks & outdoor time to balance out the glued-to-the-monitor hours) seem to be contributing to that idea becoming more widespread. If best practices are integrated into everyday, it's no big deal!
G4FflyerSnap
G4Fflyer
Worthwhile Yoga Videos & Breathing
04Apr2007 08:59 AM Film
& VideoPermalink
Thanks
to many teachers (most of whom I either have lost
contact with or don't recall their names) who have
given me introductory instruction in basic stretching
and yoga postures... and breathing!
Speaking of Breathing, I've found these breathing techniques quite simple and practical to use when wants to emphasize a particular element (e.g. focus on water when one needs to cool down, focus on fire when one wants to warm up, focus on earth when one needs grounding, or air when one could use some uplift and inspiration. Thanks to James who gifted me a copy of this Puran Bair's book, Living from the Heart, which suggested these element-breath associations... try them!
Fire (In: mouth; Out: nose)
Earth (In: nose; Out: nose)
Air (In: mouth; Out: mouth)
Water (In: nose; Out: mouth)
Here are a couple of videos we checked out of our soon-to-close library
that are great for perennial novices like me... Basic Yoga Workout for Dummies, and Yoga For the Young At Heart - Accessible Yoga for Every Body.
Speaking of Breathing, I've found these breathing techniques quite simple and practical to use when wants to emphasize a particular element (e.g. focus on water when one needs to cool down, focus on fire when one wants to warm up, focus on earth when one needs grounding, or air when one could use some uplift and inspiration. Thanks to James who gifted me a copy of this Puran Bair's book, Living from the Heart, which suggested these element-breath associations... try them!
Fire (In: mouth; Out: nose)
Earth (In: nose; Out: nose)
Air (In: mouth; Out: mouth)
Water (In: nose; Out: mouth)
Here are a couple of videos we checked out of our soon-to-close library
that are great for perennial novices like me... Basic Yoga Workout for Dummies, and Yoga For the Young At Heart - Accessible Yoga for Every Body.
Flower of Life grid at different sizes
03Apr2007 02:58 PM Geometry-MathPermalink
Thanks
to Andrew M. for alerting me to this lovely
illustration that appears to be a hand-drawn Flower-Of-Life
variation with overlapping
scalings... neat!
Beautiful Symmetry-E8 computation
02Apr2007 10:24 AM Geometry-MathPermalink
Although
the math is a bit beyond my conscious fathoming, I
find the idea that there is a collaboration exploring
beauty and symmetry in higher (would you believe
248?) dimensions ... and finding it! ... to be a
satisfying notion Here is a link to
"E8" research
and
a "string art"
visualization.
Here is a link to
"E8" research
and
a "string art"
visualization.
Great Start to Earth Month - Wangari Maathai
01Apr2007 10:31 AM SustainabilityPermalink
I
watched an inspiring interview on Link TV featuring Wangari
Maathai, who started by
planting 7 trees in Kenya. That number grew to
over 30 million, by paying women 4 cents per tree
to plant and keep them alive. Her Nobel Peace
Prize was justly deserved; she demonstrates the
principle of interconnections between ecology,
economy and community in wonderfully pragmatic
ways.