Infinite petals
emanate from stillness,
blossoming motion.
Sacred geometry is an amazing phenomenon of patterns that reoccur throughout nature. From the spirals in DNA strands, to the arrangement of petals on a flower; these geometrical patterns can be found repeatedly pointing at the infinite nature of the universe. These repetitions can be expressed through mathematics in the concepts of the golden number and Fibonacci Sequence.
“The Fibonacci Sequence turns out to be the key to understanding how nature designs... and is... a part of the same ubiquitous music of the spheres that builds harmony into atoms, molecules, crystals, shells, suns and galaxies and makes the Universe sing.”
Quote from Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy
These patterns are like pointers from something beyond, drawing our attention to the outside. Sacred geometric motifs also show up in a variety of religious symbolism - Buddhist mandalas, Islamic geometric art on mosques, and even ancient Egyptian iconography of the ouroboros snake eating its own tail pointing to the cyclic nature of life and death.
I believe that these patterns in nature are a manifestation of how consciousness is conserved, much like the law of conservation of energy in modern day physics. The same law is shown through these patterns as a manifestation of recycling consciousness - the flower that grows in exactly the same geometric pattern as the rings of the tree, the movement of water draining mirroring the spiral of a DNA string in the formation of animal life... all are the motion of conscious growth, movement on the micro mirroring the macro.
When we take certain hallucinatory substances people often see these fractal patterns of infinity... what they are really seeing are the repressed expression of these patterns of consciousness in the human psyche.
To read more about the aesthetics of true haiku, and the difference between haiku and senryu, please check out my post: Haiku Vs Senryu - The Aesthetics of Form
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