TREASURE

1. This is an amazing article on Sacred Geometry that discusses the idea of Man as Divine. It explores how everything is connected via Sacred Geometry, which points to Divine Order & Intelligence. Included below are key excerpts from a very long article/page that may be of relevance and interest:

• As Skinner notes, “geometry and numbers are sacred because they codify the hidden order behind creation”. As such, they were sometimes considered to reveal the “mind” of God: as Galileo succinctly put it, “Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe.”
• Indeed, harnessing such “divine” geometry may be understood as a sophisticated and deliberate form of pattern recognition... By studying the nature of these patterns, forms, and relationships and their connections, it was felt that insight may be gained into the mysteries... sacred geometry has long been held to bridge the worlds of spirit and matter, through their energetic evocation of shape, vibration and symmetry.
• Living plants seem to follow these deep symmetries not because they are “obeying” some transcendental or abstract “law”, but because they spontaneously deliver extremely efficient as well as very beautiful modes or forms of survival and being: the Fibonacci sequence, for example, occurs in many forms that have spirals – leaves, branches, and petals, as well as pinecones and pineapples. These spirals mean that new leaves don’t block the sun from older leaves (the rotating pattern facilitates this), thereby ensuring that the maximum amount of rain or dew also gets directed down to the roots.
• We are embodied in the wider world, and the wider world is embedded in us: the differentiation between “human” and “cosmic” or “natural” breaks down, through these repetitions: this is the source of the power of da Vinci’s image of Vitruvian Man, which contains within the human body the entire process of the manifest unfolded world, which constitutes its (alienated) reflection.
• These patterns also reveal how we are deeply embedded in, and participate in, much wider fields and contexts: we are trees, within forests, within landscapes, each repeating and belonging to the other.
• Research has shown, for example, that when people view a natural and beautiful scene or geometrical presentation, the nerve cells in the opiate-rich pathway that connects the visual cortex to the parahippocampal gyrus become very active – that is to say, it is experienced as deeply “satisfying” and even calming. (We have a similar response when engaging with satisfying symmetries, structures, and sequences, as well as in processing satisfying mathematical and “rational” thinking activities). Some wonderful work done by researchers in Kyoto University in Japan demonstrates how the geometry of a space, place, or scene can suggest a pleasing picture to our subconscious which creates measurable effects in the brain resulting in feelings of connection, groundedness and well-being.
• Contemplation and study of these special geometries therefore seems to have significant healing effects on both human physiology and psychology, suggesting their interconnecting and integrative nature. As one commentator notes, “The fractally harmonic context-rich visual experience creates a perception process which releases bio chemicals that manifest feelings of health, happiness and well-being. When the mind, which is in essence the process of regulating the flow of energy and information, is freed from the rigid boundaries created by boxed scaling, it can move through the doors of perception at will.”
• To truly understand sacred geometry we have to understand that everything in the universe is made up of energy and is in a continual state of transformation. What we call “geometry” and “pattern” is the effect, not the cause, of these underlying living forms. As Lawlor notes, “Functioning then at the archetypal level, Geometry and Number describe fundamental, causal energies in their interwoven, eternal dance”.
  In his fascinating exploration of how the sense of beauty (which Plato had identified as a fundamental quality or expression of the Ideal Forms) has evolved, contemporary biologist Rupert Sheldrake shows how there is a striking resonance between the thing perceived and the structure of the perceiving consciousness, noting that every phenomenon has an intimate and necessary relationship to the whole of being (“holarchy”). This sense of resonance and relationship, he suggests, is what we understand as “beauty”. Holarchy also seems to emerge from the harmonic organisation of the universe, an organisation that allows the beings within it to be aware of the recurring patterns and ordering principles within all things. It also resonates strongly of course with the idea of sacred geometry. It’s deeply moving to observe this resonance, and even more deeply moving to participate in it.