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Wednesday, 3 February 2016

The Sacred Harmony of Geometry


The Sacred Harmony of Geometry

Sacred Geometry

There will come a day
when music and its philosophy
will become the religion of humanity.


-      Hazrat Inayat Khan

What Sacred Geometry Really Is

 

Sacred Geometry means literally "The Sacred Measure of the Earth". But it could also be called "The Blueprint of all Creation". In reality, Sacred Geometry is a profound spiritual science, which has been taught for thousands of years in spiritual traditions around the world. This is because Sacred Geometry reveals the actual patterns by which Spirit creates our World. 1

There are a Ton of esoteric teachings with Sacred Geometry all through them. Yet no one really knew what Sacred Geometry REALLY represented: The segmented BLUEPRINTS to ENERGY; The Mathematical Formula of CREATION.

Sacred Geometry represents the Segmented Blueprints of Magnetic Currents & Neutral Particles of Matter.
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One of the most important discoveries of the new quantum physics is that of the holographic nature of the universe. The geometric language of light, that forms the underlying matrix of this hologram, is the alphabet of the new paradigm.

The primary infrastructure of all existence is written in the Sacred Geometric language of light. All is light ... all is geometry.

Sacred Geometry is the 'graphic code' that reveals the processes of inherent order underlying all of creation.

The mathematical laws of Sacred Geometry govern every system of growth, every motion in the universe, from atomic bonds to spiraling galaxies.
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Sound structures form. Form is the shape of frequency. 4

Historically, definitions of Sacred Geometry vary. Invariably, all point to the same concept. But none takes Sound into account.

SACRED GEOMETRY IS THE THREE DIMENSIONAL INTERFERENCE PATTERNS OF THREE DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR STANDING WAVES.

Iconic Terra Prana Sphere / Cuboctahedron / Heptaparallelohedron


The construct depicted above comes from an accurately perceptual representation of pitch in 3 dimensional space, called HarmoniComb (3D Logarithmnic Pythagorean Lambdoma).

It is fully described in the new version of the chapter “The Fine Art of Combining Harmonics”.

Among others, it PROVES that the  Basics of the Music System, as presented on cosmometry.net is an arbitrary, abberant and futile attempt of associating the tones of the artificial equal tempered (out-of-tune) scale and Sacred Geometry.

The Harmonic Series Creates the Basic Geometric Pattern of Existence

 

The Harmonic Series is the hidden code, the starting point in creating the basic patterns of sacred geometry.

The Seed, Flower, Fruit and Tree of Life, Vesica Piscis and the Borromean Rings, Metatron's Cube and The Platonic Solids (Tetrahedron, Hexahedron, Octahedron, Dodecahedron, and Icosahedron), Golden Mean Spirals and The Torus, The 64 Strands of DNA, The Sri Yantra, The Endless Knot, Ankhs and The Human Merkaba - THEY ARE ONE AND THE SAME THING, AND THEY ALL COME FROM THE HARMONIC SERIES.

And the mechanism through which the Natural Harmonic Series comes into existence is nonlinear. In mathematics, a nonlinear equation is an equation that has among its terms at least one exponent larger than 1. This makes sense, as our perception of sound is logarithmic, meaning we hear succesive whole-number exponents of the same number (interval) as equal steps. In physics, nonlinear distorsion refers to the generation of harmonic frequencies that are not present in the original stimulus, that is, nonlinear relationship between "input" and "output".

Einstein's belief was that geometry holds the key to creating a unified equation of the universe.

The understanding of the holographic and fractal nature of the Universe, and the relationships that exist between all things led Nassim Haramein to conclude that Nature builds Life by a Perfect Blueprint. 5 It is the (unified) equation of this blueprint that Nassim may have discovered.

Sacred Geometry is just that: the blueprint of Creation and the genesis of all form. 6 Out of this, an equation can be derived at any level of manifestation.

But what is the blueprint of Sacred Geometry? How are the patterns of Sacred Geometry generated, how does Mind (Energy) turns itself into mass?

The answer is Music. The Harmonic Series is the perfect blueprint of the perfect blueprint - the creative force behind the creative force.


Cosmic Mandala from Bhutan
Cosmic Mandala from Bhutan
Image copyright: Johannes Quistorp
Entfaltung der Stimme


In the Vedas of the Hindus we read: Nada Brahma - sound, being the Creator. In the works of the wise of ancient India we read: 'First song, then Vedas or wisdom'. When we come to the Bible, we find: 'First was the word, and the word was God', and when we come to the Qur'an we read that the word was pronounced, and all creation was manifest. This shows that the origin of the whole creation is sound.

In the very depth of man's being the harmony of the working of the whole universe sums up in a perfect music. Therefore, THE MUSIC WHICH IS THE SOURCE OF CREATION, THE MUSIC WHICH IS FOUND NEAR THE GOAL OF CREATION, IS THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES.

Every thought, every word has its form. Sound alone is free from form.

When one looks into the past, the present and the future one sees that life is eternal, and what one can discover is that which has always been discovered by those who seek.

Philosophy or science, mysticism or esotericism will all agree on one point if they touch the summit of their knowledge, and that point is that behind the whole of creation, behind the whole of manifestation - if there is any subtle trace of life that can be found, it is motion, it is movement, it is vibration.

Music is behind the working of the whole universe. Music is not only life's greatest object, but music is life itself.

The religions of the world, the prophets and mystics who existed ages ago knew these things, [knew] that this is something which has always been known, and has been spoken of by those who knew it - but in spiritual terms.

The Vedanta speaks of Nada Brahma, the Sound-God, the sound that is God, of which all things are made. Sufis call it sawt-e-sarmad, the sound that intoxicates man. The Qur'an says: 'Kunfa-yakun - when God said "Be", it became'. Before this world was, all was in sound, God was sound, we are made of sound.
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3D Nonlinear "Standing Waves":
the True Sacred Geometry of Sound

 

Despite several thousand years of failure to correctly understand physical reality, there is an obvious solution. Simply unite Science with Metaphysics and describe reality from only one substance existing.

Given we all experience many minds and many material things, but always in one common Space, we are required to describe physical reality in terms of Space. We then find there is only one solution, a Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) where the electron is a spherical standing wave.
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Based on the present understanding of physics the universe may support large standing waves and because of the non-linearity of the wave equation we know that every wave will produce harmonics and in three dimensions these waves will also be standing waves. Taking a brave step [...], the assumption is that there is nothing but these waves. So forgetting all other known physics we state a single principle, the single axiom of the Harmonics Theory:

The Universe consists of a standing wave which develops harmonically related standing waves and each of these does the same.
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It is obvious that physical reality can only be a Spherical Standing Wave, because if you study Sound (or vibration or energy: the source of everything in existence) and Sacred Geometry (the segmented blueprints of energy; the mathematical formula of creation 2) you will come to realize that the vibratory infrastructure of energy pathways follows geometric patterns. 10 Form is the shape of frequency. 4
Spherical Standing Wave



SACRED GEOMETRY REPRESENTS THREE DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR STANDING WAVES.

Sacred Geometry manifests in three dimensional space as seemingly static structures because these structures are the harmonic result of spherical standing waves' interference patterns in three dimensions. So, in order to properly understand Sacred Geometry we have to know what standing waves really are, what harmonics really mean and how they behave in three dimensions.

Unfortunately, the current Western view of acoustics and music is a rigid system of indoctrination based on historical prejudice, inherited creeds, unquestioned values, stiff dogma and cultural hypnosis. None of it works: the physics describe an incomplete, two dimensional projection of a three dimensional movement, and the music is the embodyment of dissonance and discord because the tuning system is tempered, that is, artificially created.

All we (think we) know about music comes from the last 5000 years or so, from one ancient system of tuning, a spiraling scale of tones based on successive iterations of the interval between the second and third harmonics, often referred to as "cyclic". In order to form a clear picture of what music really is in its undistorted, uninterpreted version, we need to suspend that entire period and quit defining music as "the" system perfected by Bach, found in the sky by Kepler, imposed by the Catholic Church, re-discovered and used by Pythagoras, hidden in the Ṛg Vedas, which initially appeared in Mesopotamia, and was carried on by the Babylonians which inherited it from the Sumerians.

Fortunately, the Truth can stay no longer hidden and is constantly choosing new ways and individuals through which to manifest itself. This research led to the three dimensional model of linear "standing waves" in acoustic resonators (musical instruments), which is the closest model we can relate to that reflects the universal laws of music.

The internet is oversaturated with "crackpot" theories about truth, reality, frequency, consciousness, and especially of interest here, the link between Sound (Music) and Sacred Geometry. Most people are trapped inside a system of regurgitation, where nobody verifies the "bollocks" being spread around, to the divination of awe-struck unreasoning monkeys who feel the divine touch whenever they encounter something they don't understand, but which sounds cool because is fanciful and New Agey. We are all guilty of this.

Among the most preposterous theories about Sacred Sound and Geometry are those who atribute all geometric shapes and transcedental numbers to a single frequency expressed in Hertz. Others say that Music and the whole musical system comes from transcedental numbers, when in fact the opposite is true. By this I specifically refer to the "music based on the Golden Section" delusion. Nevertheless, none of these abberant theories can be proved. The authors/regurgitators have no working model, and none of them can prove their claims.

The What Music Really İs model aknowledges three dimensional "standing waves" as the underlying phenomenon behind physical existence. The primordial mathematics of creation is given by the Harmonic Series: that one universal constant consisting of two reciprocal sequences of integer numbers where each is the inversion of the other 1, 2, 3, ... and so on, and its mirror-set.

Mathematically, the Harmonic Series is the formula for the natural laws of relationships. These relationships are strictly based on integer values and/or fractions of integer values (harmonic) from which transcendental numbers like Tau (=2*Pi) (energy shape) and Phi (scalar scale of intensity) are born. This can be proven mathematically: visually through geometry and numerically through formulas and calculus.

Musically, the harmonic series is nature’s single perfect tuning system. Most of the cultural tunings currently employed over the world were developed according to man's limited intellect and his decrepit egoic mind. Many are based on the true harmonic series and represent a distant slice of it with irregularly missing members. Others, like equal temperament, are totally artificial despite any attempt to make them seem as an extension of natural harmonics.

For the first time in millennia, here it is: THE HARMONIC SERIES AS LINEAR "STANDING WAVES" IN THREE DIMENSIONS. The single step needed to finish this study and reveal the true connection between Sacred Geometry and Sound (besides completeing the model presented below) is programming another model, that will show the geometry of nonlinear harmonic "standing waves" in three dimensions.



Are you a talented programmer passionate about physics and music?
Consider helping completing the interactive model from the video above
by programing in Wolfram Mathematica — or even better,
using only HTML5 SVG, CSS & JavaScript.


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We're being told that "standing waves" are produced by the superposition of "waves" traveling to the right and left, reflecting back and forth between two fixed points, interfering with each other. That is not how sound really behaves in three dimensions; what we're being taught is a two dimensional projection of a three dimensional phenomena.

A "traveling wave" or "sine wave" is just an optical illusion of circular motion and is actually the side view of a spinning helix.

A "standing wave" is just an optical illusion of a body appearing to oscillate up and down, which in reality goes round just like a jump-rope, and is the result of simple addition of two components. These two spinning helices TRAVEL IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS, while SPINNING IN THE SAME DIRECTION around the green axis.

The addition of multiple spinning harmonics results in a beautiful and complex rotating vortex - not shown here.

1. Vesica - Institute for Holistic Studies
Sacred Geometry

2. Jon DePew - from multiple sources
Physics Past Papers / CoralCastleCode: Summary Part 1 (YouTube)
Coral Castle Code - coralcastlecode.com

3. Juliet & Jiva Carter -
The Template - A Holonomic Model of Transcendence:
The Sacred Geometry of The Template
The Creation Waveforms of Electricity and Magnetism

4. Juliet Carter -
"The Template & The Sound of Time" DVD Booklet
Worldbridger Phi-sonic Resonance


5. THE CONNECTED UNIVERSE film trailer
based on Nassim Haramein's physics paper
"Quantum Gravity and the Holographic Mass"


6. All of Creation Is Moving Light
sacred-geometry.com

7. Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 - 1927)
The Mysticism of Sound and Music [1996]

8. Geoff Haselhurst -
On Truth and Reality - The Wave Structure of Matter

9. Ray Tomes - The Harmonics Theory

10. Juliet Carter -
Transcript of Template DVD Intro, Part 1

Why Pi is wrong: Tau Manifesto




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Saturday, 3 October 2015

The Divine Feminine - Anima Mundi: Soul-Filled World


The Divine Feminine


Anima Mundi: Soul-Filled World

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Werner Hornung: Enter to Grow in Wisdom

 


by Iona Miller


NUMINOUS & LUMINOUS PSYCHE: Anima Mundi, the feminine principle or mode of Being was historically considered the "soul of the world," the fertility of human, animal and plant life. Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno said the World Soul “illumines the universe and directs nature in producing her species in the right way.” She is the magical world of creative mystery. Our geocentric understanding of ourselves has expanded to the realization that we are an intrinsic part of Cosmos. The Universe is also literally within us. No longer limited merely to our planet, Anima Mundi is the personification of the whole natural world – the Universe. This light, the dynamic reality of the energy field, is within us as within everything. Embodied nature is the link between the archetypal and formative worlds, the hyperdimensional matrix of eternal patterns with sacred proportions and unique manifestations. She is also infinite potential, the possibility of bringing creative ideas to birth, to manifestation. In the deepest sense, she is the universal wave function, the unmanifest ground of our being, spacetime and the radiant light of virtual photon fluctuation, which underlies all matter and manifestation.  http://ionamiller2009.iwarp.com/whats_new_37.html

Global emphasis on urgent ecological awareness implies a reflowering of the Neo-Platonic and alchemical notion of ANIMA MUNDI the Soul of the World. Anima Mundi is not an archetype, but an archetypal way of seeing -- seeing through the world. Our narcissistic tendency is self-absorption, over-valuing individual subjectivity at the expense of the real problems of the world. The language of Anima Mundi includes beauty, aesthetics, depth, inner life and political activity -- psychological practices of larger groups.

We are all engaged in making the world soul even as she shapes us. We have a drive to love the world, even an erotic desire for anima mundi. She invites us into a relationship of intimacy with the world and its objects and processes. The psychic reality of the world soul is available to all in images and imagination. We cannot separate our souls from the souls of others and the environment.

Care of the soul doesn't mean isolating ourselves from the reality of the world and its phenomena -- experiences, substance and objects. Soul makes images that add a depth dimension to concrete life, that go beyond literalness to psychological metaphysics that expresses our legitimate need to go further, even beyond mythical fictions through imagination to speculative freedom.

Thus, anima mundi is the field of infinite meanings, created from metaphors of different places, points of view, and narratives. New understandings arrive with new images at the surprising edge of things, new expressive forms that arise of their own accord.
 

 


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"ANIMA MUNDI: Soul-Filled World"
By Iona Miller, 2009



“God redeems humanity, but nature needs to be redeemed by human alchemists, who are able to induce the process of transformation, which alone is capable of liberating the light imprisoned in physical creation.”
~Stephan Hoeller, Sufi Journal, Issue 67, Autumn 2005


"Let us imagine the anima mundi neither above the world encircling it as a divine and remote emanation of spirit, a world of powers, archetypes, and principles transcendent to things, nor within the material world as its unifying panpsychic life-principle. Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, the seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then anima mundi indicates the animated possibilities presented by each event, as it is, its sensuous presentation as face bespeaking its interior image--in short, its availability to imagination, its presence as a psychic reality. Not only animals and plants ensouled as in the Romantic vision, but soul is given with each thing; God-given things of nature and man-made things of the street."
~James Hillman, “Anima Mundi,” Spring, 1982


NUMINOUS & LUMINOUS PSYCHE


Anima Mundi, the feminine principle or mode of Being
was historically considered the "soul of the world," the fertility of human, animal and plant life. Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno said the World Soul “illumines the universe and directs nature in producing her species in the right way.” She is the magical world of creative mystery.

Our geocentric understanding of ourselves has expanded to the realization that we are an intrinsic part of Cosmos. The Universe is also literally within us. No longer limited merely to our planet, Anima Mundi is the personification of the whole natural world – the Universe. This light, the dynamic reality of the energy field, is within us as within everything. Embodied nature is the link between the archetypal and formative worlds, the hyperdimensional matrix of eternal patterns with sacred proportions and unique manifestations. She is also infinite potential, the possibility of bringing creative ideas to birth, to manifestation.

In the deepest sense, she is the universal wave function, the unmanifest ground of our being, spacetime and the radiant light of virtual photon fluctuation, which underlies all matter and manifestation. Kabbalist Azriel of Gerona claimed "faith" meant entering into a relationship with one's "nothingness" and the "unknown" of the infinite, the ultimate ‘yin’ of non-existence that is the mother of all form.

In ancient times Anima Mundi declared her impenetrable mystery by reiterating that "I am Isis; no man has lifted my veil." This Muse of superconsciousness is bathed in the Light and concealed by it. Thus she alludes to herself as dazzling Solitaire in her virgin nature, that sense of wholeness within oneself, which is the Feminine source of wisdom, magic and meaning.

The natural light of the soul is illumination, embodied in the pineal light of the “spirit molecule,” DMT. Likewise, alchemists seek the divine spark, the light hidden in matter. To work creatively in the world, the Light of Nature needs to be released through inner alchemy. Our own light or divine spark is part of the light of the World Soul, so we can understand the mysteries of creation and the secrets of nature. The tools of inner transformation help Anima Mundi reveal her divine light.

Whether called Isis, Shakti, Maya, Shekinah, Sophia, Demeter/Persephone, Mary, Great Mother, White Goddess or any cultural variant, Anima Mundi is the universal animating principle, the upwelling spring of the creative Imagination, the dynamic flow of imagery, pattern, and form. She is personified internally as a soul guide or Initiatrix and externally embodied as the Soror Mystica. Glimpsing inspiring inner workings of our soul helps us realign our lives, our hopes and our dreams.


ANCIENT & CONTEMPORARY MODELS


Spiritual alchemy has long been informed by depth psychology. Carl Jung’s work in this area is well-known. Less known is that of the main proponent of archetypal psychology, James Hillman who places Anima Mundi as center of his psychological theory. This archetype of the psyche is inherent in the prima materia. It fosters the return of psychological subjectivity to the outer.

Alchemy works in just this projective, animated manner with a deeper level of participation. Phenomenology is the art of dissolution, a natural alchemy, learning how to see again, a way of being in the world between thinking and perceiving. In this aesthetic paradigm, Hillman asserts that images derive autonomy and operate according to their own will, similar to gods.

Gods and goddesses are an intrinsic part of Hillman's archetypal psychology, as they are in alchemy. In mythical perception, gods, metals, plants, minerals, animals, scents, colors, planets and more correspond with one another through the Doctrine of Signatures. Different forms share the same essential nature.

The symbolic nature of metals is the skeleton of spiritual alchemy. The word ‘metal’ means ‘search,’ strongly suggesting the nature of our alchemical work. We don’t seek a natural metal but the virtual metal, it’s essence. The lunar metal of Anima is silver and the white earth (albedo). Jung said, “Earth and moon coincide in the albedo.” (CW14, para. 154)

Silver is washed into veins in faultlines in the earth, and we can take advantage of the analogous process in our psyche. It takes place in that egoic illusion called “mine.” We can mine our own psychic faultlines. Silver is found in lead-silver vein mineralizations, sometimes with gold and zinc. Silver, the seed of the moon in the earth, is refined from the dross of lead-silver concentrate into the silvered mirror of the mind. Solutions emerge from our puzzlement. Reflection gives shape to the imaginal.


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MINING THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON


Insights can tarnish, losing their shiny clarity. Just as silver is prone to blackening, this phase of the Great Work can be derailed by Saturn’s depression, the destructive illusion of separation. But the depression is the mine. Albedo emerges from blackness, transpersonal release, and emotional relief from the nigredo of personal identity. But the urge to white is not an escape from black – a whitewash -- since there is no soul without body.

Each object or body is also an imaginal image. We can extract silver moments from our leaden body – motions and emotions that regulate the neurochemistry of the body. Alchemical silver can be mined for many rich metaphorical associations (aha moments), just as silver requires polishing for reflection. Friction leads to clarified reflection. Shame is washed away.

Without shadow, whiteness becomes blankness. Shadow that is built into psyche’s body becomes transparent. Shadow is built into the nature of whiteness, as all colors unite disappearing into white. The world becomes an alchemical dream – the terra alba of anima inspiration.

Imaging itself is a mode of mining silver, psychical facts and essences, sometimes by speculation, resonance and artful listening. We may temporarily become a bit of a “lunatic” in the transmutative process The mysterium coniunctionis is moon-madness combined with solar brilliance.

It takes intense heat, intense introspection in the depths, to refine our inert nature. Then the luminous consciousness of the worked on soul arises. Dissolved by desire from its old ground for fusion in the dissolution of gender, anima no longer is exclusively feminine. Passive fantasy becomes transcendent active imagination, revealing the images within nature, the secret heart of nature.


IT IS BUT IT ISN’T


Virtual places, phenomena, and experiences can be just as “real” as material perceptions. The brain responds to the virtuality as if there is no neurological difference between imaginal and externally stimulated imagery. In this sense, imagination is reality. We perceive the sensate world through the non-linear imaginal world, its enfolded imaginal potential.

Anima Mundi embodies the pandemonium of all forms in external and internal perceptions. She bridges our perceptions of the world by stimulating the imaginative faculty. Yet, being attached to materialistic images is not the same as being attached to Mater, matter and earth.

As alchemists, we have to build a relationship with the very essence of the world. Being in soul is a continuous intentional process. The Astral Light is synonymous with the alchemical Anima Mundi. Jung’s idea of the Collective Unconscious as the treasure house of fluctuating imagery is a modern description. This light represents the immanence of the world-soul. She dwells in us and we are enlivened by her Being.

Aristotle conceptualized soul as the form, or essence of any living thing, not a distinct substance from the body it inhabits. Only possession of soul (of a specific kind) makes an organism an organism. The notion of a body without a soul, or of a soul in the wrong kind of body, is completely unintelligible. Soul mediates between mind and body, idea and matter, actualities and the Beyond.

James Hillman (1975) observes that soul, “refers to the deepening of events into experiences; second the significance of soul, whether in love or religious concern, derives from its special relationship with death. And third…the imaginative possibility in our natures, the experiencing through reflective speculation, dream, image, fantasy—that mode which recognizes all realities as primarily symbolic or metaphorical.”

Paracelsus thought the soul was beyond the individual, beyond our control. Plotinus saw all individuals as one soul. Gerhard Dorn said the third degree of the alchemical coniunctio, the most mature phase of individuation, is the personal realization of communion with an original unitary reality. Grounded intuition of a centered sphere of soul opens a microcosm that mirrors the Cosmic macrocosm: "As Above, So Below.”


PSYCHOLOGICAL FAITH


We need a new cultural proving ground, a new paradigm for the energetic potential of the bodymind and the culture for which it is the ground. In our culture, the body and our fantasies about it have come to represent the lost Feminine element of deep interior processes.


We have lost touch with our primal femininity, the animating principle (nature, body, instinct). We have become estranged from the body through the mechanistic mind/body split, which is also non-relativistic. We talk a good game about 'wholeness' but don't really connect as much as nostalgically yearn for it.

Spontaneous imagery soulfully joins spirit and body. It doesn’t solve our troubles (pathologies) nor "save" our souls. Direct engagement, meditatio, with images for soul-making deepens us through personal experience.

No longer divided against thinking, imagination becomes the ground of certainty. Direct knowledge, gnosis, is demanded by the silvered mind so the soul can understand itself. Conjunctions come when we no longer focus on opposites or meaningful coincidences or conjunction. Imagination is as elusive as the goal of the alchemical process itself.

Through illumined senses we can see through the nature of apparent reality for ourselves, if we but try. Things become transparent, shine and speak. Signs echo within us. Then we develop our own philosophy, apart from consensus. When it comes to questions of speculation on the unknown, we can either accept what others have said, or look for ourselves, perhaps even into delusional lunacy.

The wounded-healer typically passes through a period of madness. Is it avoidable? Perhaps only by educating the psyche with alchemical training, giving it a silvered voice and attentive ear to avoid clinical literalism, paranoid delusion, vitrification, and dissociation. Even then, there is no guarantee lunacy can be avoided.


POESIS


Anima Mundi is NowHere…the very spirit of life, the ethereal angel of our destiny, the animated archetypal ground and individually the radiant subtle body. More than just the life-spirit, the sacred field body is a natural force, the cosmic energic principle of primordial Consciousness, implicate order – the essence of being and sacred embodiment.

Primordial mankind saw everything as saturated with meaning, both human and cosmic. We, too, can see ourselves as full participants with the interior life of the natural world and cosmos. Not only signs and symbols can be read in the multidimensional environment, the metaphorical nature of symptoms – ours and the world’s – can be discerned. Fantasies open to one another in resonance, recognition, insight, and astonishment.

Alchemy is a poetry-science whose language and experimentation has a naturally therapeutic value. This poetic art and science of experientially reclaiming this relationship and worldview raises conscious recognition of anima mundi. Let the images come into your body. Tuned responses receptively embrace the image. This art is not separate from life, but is infused with life. The substance of the insubstantial is what makes psyche matter. And it is an intrinsic part of alchemical method.

Ancient philosophers proclaimed the world soul, a pure ethereal spirit, is diffused throughout all nature. The notion of soul as imaginative possibility, in relation to the archai or root metaphors, is what Hillman has termed the “poetic basis of mind.” Whitening into psychic reality is embodiment of spirit and inspiriting of body, eliminating oppositional tension.


PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESONANCE


In alchemy, Anima Mundi acts as the soul-guide to our heights and depths. Beauty is simply manifestation, the display of phenomena, the appearance of the anima mundi. Union with her is consciousness of our primal existential self, and our deepest ecological self, right down to the virtuality of the Void – the primordial field.

Beneath the alienation from nature, which our culture has created, lies a deep resource we can tap which is fundamental wisdom about the unity of life. We are embedded within that seamless fabric of Cosmos, the Feminine source of wisdom. The importance of the present depends on its effect in the realization of a specific future. An experience is important if it suggests or fulfills visionary sight.

Anima Mundi is the secret powers of nature. We need those powers to heal and transform. The intentional use of imagination and image building is a foundation of mysticism. This wisdom is deep ecology, which reveals the way of living in balance through intuition. She is the dark of the Void and the natural Light of the Soul--illumination. She bridges our perceptions of the world by stimulating the imaginative faculty.

Alchemy is a meditation science and art that purposefully cultivates a human relationship with Anima Mundi. To experience psychic reality means to be in soul, in the realm of the imagination, as if interacting with its inhabitants and locales. Inner visionary experience, be it wrathful or beatific, is an expression of soul. Through images the unconscious affects our worldview, health and relationships. Imagination not only conditions our reality, it is our reality. Soul is the middle world between gross materiality and the spiritual world.

This is a psychological approach to art and life--giving voice to soul, living life as art. It means the return of a subjective feminine eye on reality. It means the enlivening of our bodies and the world of nature with imagination. When we see soul as the background of all phenomena, we become aware of the animating principle and direct relationship with Her. The point is not to dissect her soul, but celebrate her body.


LIGHT OF THE SOUL


The soul generates images unceasingly, purposefully ordering our lives. Artists are able to capture and express some of that ceaseless flow. The soul lives on images and metaphor, especially epistemological metaphors--how we know what we know. These images form the basis of our consciousness. All we can know comes through images, through our multi-sensory perceptions. So, this soul always stays close to the body, close to corporeality, to what "matters."

Physical reality becomes psychic and psyche becomes real. It "matters." The difference between soul and external things no longer matters. Inner and Outer worlds are real. They are One World. Image, metaphor and symbol bridge the abyss between matter and spirit. They are integrated with feeling, mind, and imagination through wonder and awe. We can see soul in all natural objects. We can notice our fantasies constantly conditioning our experience of reality.

When spirit as energy and matter as form are in balance, the body becomes the living "Temple of the Spirit." A sense of immortality deepens the sacred dimension of life. Soul’s immortality is sensed in direct experience of non-spatial, non-temporal, nonlocal, four-dimensional reality. Real alchemical work is for the sake of the whole of which we are a microcosm.


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Hillman J. (1977). Re-Visioning Psychology. New York: Harper Perennial.
Hillman, James (1980). “Silver and the White Earth, Part I.” Spring, 1980, 21-48.
Hillman, J. (1981). “Silver and the White Earth, Part II.” Spring, 1981, 21-66.
Hillman J. (1982). “Anima Mundi: The Return of the Soul to the World.” Spring, 1982, 71-93.
Hillman, J. (1985). Anima: An Anatomy of a Personified Notion. Dallas: Spring Publications.
Jung, C. G. (1963). Mysterium Coniunctionis. Collected Works, Vol. 14. Princeton N. J.: Princeton University Press.
Jung, C.G. (1968) Psychology and Alchemy. Collected Works, Vol. 12. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press.

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The anima comes out of an emotional act, taking place in darkness, the compensation for the crime against the fire; the anima is the compensating element that must be extracted from matter.
 ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 32.


The ‘realm of the Mothers’ has not a few connections with the womb, with the matrix, which frequently symbolizes the creative aspect of the unconscious.
~Carl Jung, CW 5, Para 182.


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