Have you noticed similarities
among
mandala
motifs,
crop circles
and
fractal images?
Have you noticed that they are frequently reported
as being seen in dazzling beauty by many who share
their reports of near-death experience and other
altered states of consciousness? (Note:
See the
UFO/NDE connection page)
Similarities and connections abound.
As
Pythagoras
taught,
Sacred Geometry
is an ancient, universal language (land-guage).
Geometric formations hold information and communicate
ideas; not necessarily at a cognitive level, but
often at a cellular level. They in-form us cellularly,
just as our cells, the building blocks of our physiology,
inform our bodies, providing a template for our
development. Our cells are vehicles of involution;
the movement from spirit to matter, as well as vehicles
of evolution; movement from matter to spirit.
One
such tool of Sacred Geometry is the
Phi Ratio,
the number 1.6180339... (1.618
is commonly used)
The progression or development
of the whole of nature, from the subatomic to the
supergalactic, follows this ratio. The twelfth century
Italian mathematician,
Leonardo P. Fibonacci,
observed a predictable sequence of all natural development
as shown by a progression of numbers:
0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,
21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ad infinitum.
[1 + 0 = 1] [1 + 1 = 2]
[2 + 1 = 3] [3 + 2 = 5] [5 + 3 = 8] [8 + 5 = 13]
etc.
The
Fibonacci Sequence
demonstrates the idea that each stage of natural
growth or development refers to its prior state
in order to take its next evolutionary step. (This
is not unlike
Piaget's principle of
rapprochement
in child psychology.)
It also follows the Phi Ratio, e.g. [5 X 1.618 =
8.09] or approximately 8.0, and over the course
of the sequence, 1.618... is exact.
The spiral is a common
element of Sacred Geometry as well as to all natural
development. Spirals in nature tend to follow the
Phi Ratio or Fibonacci Sequence in their rates of
expansion.
The
Sanskrit term mandala roughly translates to "magic
circle" or "sacred circle". Mandalas, ancient and
modern, frequently offer beautiful examples of radial
symmetry and contain elements of Sacred Geometry.
They tend to act as activation templates of consciousness.
Near-death experiencer
Carl G. Jung
studied mandalas from a wide field of world cultures
and eras, as well as having advocated for creating
our own mandalas as vehicles of soulwork. He noted
that when we draw mandalas from the center outward,
we tend to process our personal issues or challenges
du jour and often gain increased clarity and energy
which we can apply to our lives. We are similarly
informed simply by gazing at these designs.
The phenomenon of crop
circles is also intriguing. These landscape images
have been seen for decades, primarily in agricultural
regions, yet also in the sands of the Sahara, in
arctic snow, and may also be referred to as sand
circles or snow circles. Most often, they are found
in northern European countries, especially each
summer in southwest England in fields of grain and
other crops. Since the early 1990's, they've appeared
in greatest number, often dozens per season. There
has been considerable speculation and controversy
concerning their origin, purpose and validity. There
has also been the belief that the entire phenomenon
has been a hoax, however, it appears that the hoax
theory itself
is a hoax.*
Among the interesting
features of crop circles is that the crops are laid
over in such a way that the stalks are not damaged
and continue to grow. This seems impossible to replicate
with mechanical means or even by hand. Also, the
stalks and surrounding soil are electromagnetically
altered, as measured with instrumentation. People
who walk into these formations often report anomalies
such as distorted sense of balance, depth perception
and more.
Crop
circles are typically 100 – 300 feet in diameter,
although one of 787 foot diameter occurred at Milk
Hill in Wiltshire, UK, Aug., 2001. Many of them
resemble mandalas. Photograms and images of other
shapes have appeared in fields as well and many
examples have been aerially photographed. Several
elements of Sacred Geometry appear in these designs
including
Platonic solids,
Vesica Pisces,
pyramids or tetrahedrons, the
Golden Mean
and more. Many angles of the designs follow the
Phi Ratio. Sometimes the designs are further articulated
with apparent reference to our solar system and
other star systems as well as a form of hieroglyphics,
in a style reminiscent of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The
Qabalistic glyph of the
Tree of Life
has appeared in perfect proportion, as well as symbols
from other religious and spiritual traditions. One
photogram appeared in Aug., 2001, clearly depicting
the
Face on Mars,
even with a crop line across the face at the same
angle which is seen in the Viking (NASA/JPL) photographs
of the actual Face on Mars.
Of the myriad
explanations of the crop circle phenomenon, one
that seems most relevant to me is that of one of
my teachers,
Bashar,
which he offered in a taped, group sharing in the
early 1990's. In response to a participant's query,
he stated that crop circles are symbolic communication,
preparing us for further contact with other beings
and other civilizations. Although there has been
speculation that these other beings are of extraterrestrial
origin, Bashar suggested that many of them are Earth
inhabitants, but are extradimensional beings within
other dimensions or higher octaves of our dimension.
He also suggests that crop circles and crop formations
(not necessarily just the circles) are produced
through the collective consciousness of these beings
and many humans engaged, in certain states of consciousness,
in awakening ourselves on a cellular level to higher
dimensions of awareness through this symbolic communication.
Fractal images represent the timely marriage
between mathematics and computer science. They are
often thought of as a new art form as many of them
are quite beautiful and inspiring. Among their interesting
properties is "self-similarity" or "fractal recursion."
This means that if one zooms into any portion of
such fractal imagery, infinite design continues
to unfold ... similar to peering more deeply into
the atom or peering further into deep space.
Prof.
Benoit Mandelbrot,
a mathematician at Oxford University, discovered
a fractal formula in the 1960's, the
Mandelbrot Set, which is regarded as one of
the classic fractal formulae. Earlier in the 20th
century, French mathematician
Gaston Julia, discovered a fractal formula referred
to as the
Julia Set, characterized by spiral patterns
which follow the phi ratio and mimic the energy
flow in various natural phenomena, including the
nautilus, lightning, spiral-armed galaxies, etc.
Since their discoveries, numerous fractal equations
have been created. These designs often carry elements
of Sacred Geometry and communicate to us on many
levels, as well as dazzle us with their beauty.
I invite you, if you're so inspired, to peruse
the following websites and to draw your own conclusions
concerning the myriad connections among these subjects,
including their relationship to altered states of
consciousness such as NDE.
Related websites
on Sacred Geometry can be found here:
[1],
[2],
[3],
[4],
[5].
 Dr.
Mandelbrot delivered a lecture at Oxford Univ. in
1991 concerning his discoveries associated with
fractal geometry and the Mandelbrot Set. In a slide
presentation, he showed several depictions of the
Set, including the signature Mandelbrot image. The
following morning in a corn field a few miles from
the university, a crop circle appeared which perfectly
depicted the Mandelbrot image. Local residents were
variously concerned, alarmed and intrigued by this
development. According to
Dr. Chet Snow
and other sources, the British Army was called in
by the government that morning to burn the field
and the design, and a diversionary explanation for
the media regarding the occurrence was asserted.
This was the birth of the hoax theory which suggested
that two Englishmen, known simply as Dave and Doug,
had been creating crop circles throughout the English
countryside for two decades, using little more that
sticks and wooden boards.
Although some crop designs
may have been created in a like manner by people,
there is little comparison in size, precision and
measurable physical effects to the crops and the
soil of these, and the majority of crop circles
discovered to date.
Drunvalo Melchizedek makes a distinction between
'dead' crop circles (those made physically by humans)
and 'live' crop circles.
In the late 1990's, several
crop circle enthusiasts and cereologists (those
who study crop circles) captured on videotape the
creation of crop circles as described in the above
text. What they had observed and recorded showed
two balls of light, each approximately the size
of a soccer ball, appearing above a field of crops,
usually at night, moving very rapidly in circular
patterns, causing the crops to lay over and forming
complete designs in the course of 6 - 12 seconds.
Then, these balls of light quickly vanished in the
sky. This has been recorded repeatedly. Some of
the video footage has been lab-tested in the US
and UK, verified as authentic and unmolested, and
can be viewed on video copies available commercially.
Mandalas
Phillip has drawn mandalas
from 1981 to 1994. Many of them contain elements
of Sacred Geometry. Many, especially those of his
Inner Temple Series, show depth toward the center,
as if one could enter the mandala. People that have
commissioned personalized mandalas have sometimes
reported that in gazing at them or meditating upon
them, they would have the experience of entering
them and gaining access to "soul information," as
if their personal mandala served as a consciousness
grid or template which would facilitate a kind of
soul travel. Many of these designs were created
in a meditative state and the particular design
elements would reveal themselves as he began to
move his pen. Several of the designs contain elements
found in crop circles which appeared in later years
in southwest England. Most of them are rendered
in prismatic coloring and are generally intended
to communicate the idea that it is a beautiful experience
to go inside one's self.
Late in the night of
August 17, 1987, while camping at the holy mountain
of
Baboquivari, a very significant place of power
in southern Arizona for many Native Americans, Phillip
was shown a most amazing and indescribably beautiful
light show of mandalas during an out-of-body experience
in which he experienced himself just outside of
Earth's atmosphere. He produced a number of mandalas
following this experience in which he attempted
to replicate some of those visions.
The following examples
show three types of mandalas that he has drawn:

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"Megamion"
© 11-'87
Phillip S. Mitchell |
Megamion is an example of the Medallion
Series, which Phillip has chosen
as a personal logo. The pyramid
and sun motif appears in variations
in many of his mandalas.
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"Enheartenment"
© 10-'87 Phillip S. Mitchell |
Enheartenment is an example of radial
symmetry with clockwise movement
and a center image that offers a
glimpse of the cosmos, suggestive
of the idea of beauty and expansiveness
in traveling inward. Those that
claim to see our chakras often report
similar rotation in them.
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"Temple
of Inner Space"
© 10-'87
Phillip S. Mitchell |
Temple of Inner Space is an example
of the Inner Temple Series which
offers an inviting temple which
one can enter, travel inward, and
thus access the heart of creation
through their own being.
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