week five

my (a)symmetrical world: 

if you photograph the two halves of your face and put each together with it's own mirror image, you generally get two very different looking faces.  so i guess the notion of symmetry is a little odd to me. i mean, maybe we're kind of symmetrical from right to left, but from front to back and top to bottom there's a whole lot of variation.  seems like symmetry depends a lot on your vantage point. looking out across the hillside and the trees and mt. tam right now i see a symmetry in some of the tree shapes, but not a real equal balance in the overall design. anyway, i feel comforted and inspired by it. when i'm walking in nature, i find myself drawn to the beauty and grace that is the variation. the decaying and dying. the scarred, the cracked, the worn. i guess the innate symmetry and sacred geometry of the natural world goes way beyond surface appearances and resonates in my being in a way that a plastic laminate entertainment center never will, regardless of how geometrically balanced it might be. 

what does "cp violation" really mean?:

cp violation means change is possible. random variation exists. that even within systems where more than 99% of the time everything is completely routine, expected and symmetrical, there are moments of unpredictable asymmetry. well, "we" can predict that it will occur, but not when. 

this reminds me that i was talking with an elder friend last night. a man in his seventies who sleeps on the floor on a small mat, spends his days taking walks, having tea ceremonies,  and reading books on native cultures, poetry, and spirituality. always collecting and giving amazing little gifts like stones from the ocean.  he was telling me about early african peoples and how they valued that which was different. the deformed seed pod was more sacred, because it had encountered adversity and survived. the gnarled tree. the three legged animal. the physically different or deformed human. the mentally challenged human. these were all highly valued in terms of spiritual power. that which was different being a clear and divine expression of spirit. anyway, seems like cp violations would qualify. variations rare and inexplicable enough to be considered sacred. carrying the potential for all of us to change instantaneously and radically. a cool breeze. a sigh of relief.

connections between sacred geometry and physics:

hey! what about the aliens? i mean, how do you think all those ancient sacred geometric pyramids got built all over the world that have meaningful patterning when seen from above that you would never notice from ground level? made from distant resources for which there is no explanation? maybe it was divine inspiration. maybe they were a lot smarter then. maybe they were channelling. maybe humans used to fly. maybe i've read too many drunvalo malchizedek books... anyway, as the physical world comes in sacred geometric patterns, it seems that physics is inextricably linked to these templates. and it seems that whatever we are about to discover, it is not only already within us, but has been a working part of the human knowledge base in our ancient past.