The Language of Polarity, the Language of Unity

In • divide • dual.
One consciousness is split into separate bodies, with a dual nature: man and woman, spirit and flesh, right and left, X and Y, yin and yang. The cosmic duality dances an endless dance of coming together and splitting apart.

The word spells the nature of our being, but only when we really see or hear it. The language that we use to communicate globally, English, has a second layer of meaning that is very thinly veiled by the spelling. The spelling is a ‘spell’ that we are caught in. Unraveling the spell reveals a path to freedom that has been echoed by spiritual masters through the ages. Sometimes called the Middle Way, sometimes a union of opposites. The characteristics of the path and the nature of both ego and spirit are spelled out in our common everyday language. English, or should I say ANGLE-ish.

The second language of English cannot be accessed just in a linear fashion, using straight line logic. While it IS logical, it is a kind of ‘super-logic’. It’s a little bit like peripheral vision. The totality of what you can ‘see’ with your eyes is only describable in language by strings of words, linear sequences. The mind breaks these linear sequences up into whole images again, and gives them meaning. But the linear sequences are made up of forms and sounds and these forms and sounds paint a picture in invisible ink that becomes apparent (a parent) when you allow the words to ‘fall upon’ your hearing or your vision, with a beginner’s mind. In order to seek whence they come from you have to see and hear in a whole new way, a holographic way.

Opposition, is an O position, and contains the ‘posit’ of ‘positive’ in it. This means that opposition is 2 points in a circle, a whole, and so it is in essence an illusion. Essence is S sense, and S is a snake, or the feminine serpentine energy that winds up the Pole of polarity, and the spine to meet it’s opposite, and grow wings to ascend.

God is an abstract idea, so we’ve created many many images of things that are holy, in order to define what is essentially undefinable.

TWIN TOWERS

On 9/11, a state of emergency was created. A plane with people willing to die (and kill) for their cause flew out of the Middle-East, where the feminine is most suppressed and where their religion is war, and flew into the West, where the feminine is not at all suppressed but suffers from a case of mistaken identity. Yin masquerading as Yang rules New York City, the most egocentric city in the world. The twin towers, two magnificent erections, the heart of capitalism, world trade.

And what has the West traded in exchange for it’s magnificence? Why it’s traded it’s femininity and replaced it with a twin tower. Two towers of Babel, that have toppled.

So the Middle east are in T-error, because war can never be holy, and the West are T-errorized, and they also wage an unholy war because God and State have long been separate, and it is in both cases a male war, fought by male ego. The ego’s role is essentially feminine or receptive, to be guided by the masculine element. When the ego rules instead, it is the feminine masquerading as the masculine, and the cosmic forces are turned upside down. The causes may be just, but the methods will often be wrong because the ego uses force to achieve it’s aim.

We have George Bush and Bin Laden, leading countries into T-error. We all suffer from an identity crisis and a role reversal which will create havoc until it reaches a saturation point, and then it corrects itself.

In the cosmic duality, the world is feminine, and the spirit is masculine. The visible is feminine, the invisible is masculine. The ego is feminine, the spirit is masculine.

Anything with IN•DIVIDE•DUAL form is split by it’s very definition. The ego is the visible chariot, the spirit or soul is the invisible passenger, and God is the charioteer. When the ego is rolling along without the charioteer, it’s wheels get stuck in the mud, or it collides with another ego. What then? How does one give the reins back to the charioteer?

By stopping, becoming still and surrendering.

Invisible Design

Design is invisible when it works. The interface on my Macintosh is very carefully designed, but I don't even notice it. If it was buggy or poorly designed, I would notice it. It would annoy me and I wouldn't think much of the product. Without good design Macintosh wouldn't exist. (What about Windows, you might ask?) Getting back to the subject...

Good design IS invisible. We see it in nature all the time. The design of how trees branch works perfectly every time. You don't see some trees branching at the wrong angle or 'attempting' to branch. That design is built into the design of a whole system that extends not just to trees but also to nervous systems and coral reefs and root systems and neighborhoods.

We're talking about real objects here, but their design can be reduced to numbers or a c ode, just like the DNA code, which is a meta-program. In the case of trees branching, the code sequence is called the Fibonacci sequence. It is named after the man who invented it in the 12th century.

At some point a designer reaches a threshold where they realize that they cannot actually execute an idea that mimics nature without understanding math and programming. If you want to create an animation where trees branch realistically, then one way to do it is to simulate it visually on screen. But if you want to apply the meta-pattern to snowflakes, or raindrops or showing growth on a tree, it might be easier to figure out the code for it once, and then use it again and again. Similarly, if you want to change or impact the design of human consciousness, the meta-code you might turn to is DNA. The code of language impacts all of the above, and this code is more elusive, because we think we know what words mean. But it isn't called "spell" for nothing.

Good design is also visible in many everyday objects around us, frying pans, paper clips, wheels, cars. We are not stirred by the novelty of their design anymore because we're so used to them, but they are examples of good design that works. Our understanding of how to design things better has evolved, and keeps evolving over millennia because that's in the grand plan or 'design' of things. (Who designed that, you might ask?)

At different eras in human history the focus or emphasis was on different things। Cave men were designing tools with stone, today it's more complex. But still design. Some designs have been perfected in their function, but stylistic differences keep evolving, like toasters, or bows and arrows. Others seem to evolve infinitely, like star systems or computer systems.

Sacred Geometry and Logo Design

Yin and yang. Male and female. Creative and receptive. Ego and spirit. Unity and duality. Sacred geometry is the path which reconciles opposing forces in a situation, and creates an idea that can transform or change the situation.

The geometry behind the famous yin/yang symbol is a circle which contains 2 smaller circles. The top-half of one and the bottom half of the other are cut off and this creates the division and movement of 2 equal and opposing forces, half up half down, half visible half not. Each flows and transforms into the other in a constant cyclic process of transformation.

This country was founded on principles that were grounded in spirit. The vitality that created those principles has shaped the country for 200 years. Sacred geometry is a way to revitalize that spirit and apply these invisible principles to shape an organization to conduct it's business in accordance with cosmic laws.
Sacred geometry is a map of the invisible. It’s the structures and patterns, sometimes atomic, sometimes galactic, that define forms and systems. Understanding sacred geometry can give meaning to life, and simplifies the ability to navigate your ship in an increasingly complex world. These patterns repeat themselves in species and objects, in social systems, behavior patterns, and in cycles of change. They show up as symbols—in business brands, art and architecture, mythology and religion.

The Principles of Sacred Geometry
There are two main principles in sacred geometry: the masculine and the feminine. Defined by the number One and Two, this universal duality goes by many names, and usually refers to a pairing of opposites: X and Y, 1 and 2, Heaven and Earth, yin and yang, black and white, Up and down, visible and invisible, cross and a circle, positive and negative, ego and spirit. Simply stated, ANY relationship can be defined in terms of maleness and femaleness.

The relationship between a leader and a follower for example is a male-female relationship. The masculine is assigned the number 1, and the feminine is assigned the number 2.

Sacred Geometry and Web Design
If you think of the web as the nexus for ideas, a melting-pot of Mind, your website is the starting point for a piece of communication that spirals outwards, infinitely repeating itself, like the Golden Section or PI. So the starting point for your communication is the most important element because it is the essence of what spirals out in greater complexity. The starting point is a simple definition of goals. Simple definitions are difficult because it is a very small place, the razor’s edge, you might say. When you reach that small place, original goals—the root idea becomes apparent. From there you can build a plan. It’s difficult to talk about sacred geometry or define it with words alone. It has to be shown. Here are a few world-class logos and the sacred geometry imbued in their symbol. I don’t know whether these symbols were designed with this understanding in mind. But it’s because of the meaning they imbue that people are attracted to certain forms. These forms keep repeating themselves through history.

From the sacred to the profane

The pentagram was the symbol of the Pythagoreans, a group of Greek philosophers who thought the secrets of the universe were hidden in numbers and expressed through geometry and music. The pentagram is a universal symbol for growth and regeneration. Penta or five is the center, the mathematical middle of nine (femi-nine) coming together in a circle. The cross is a co-ordiante of a vertical and a horizontal ordinate. X and Y, which stand for direction, and also designate the male and female chromosome. It symbolizes direction and crossroads, and of course, when viewed from below it is the Christian crucifix.
	The Texaco logo derives it’s power from these 2 secular symbols, the pentagram and the cross.
	Mastery of 3-dimensions is symbolized by the 3-pronged Mercedes-Benz logo. 2 symbolizes duality. Three is a trinity, or tri-unity. Every tension of opposites culminates in a release, out of which comes the “third”. In the third, the tension is resolved and the lost unity is restored. Carl Jung.
	The image is also mimicked in the Hindu greeting “Namaste” which symbolizes a meeting of minds and hearts, and a union of left and right.
	The Fish The Christian fish symbol, comes from the center carved out of the intersection of two circles whose circumference just touches the center of the other. This geometry is called a Vesica piscis—vesica means bladder which could be likened to a sac containing something fluid, in this case “piscis” which means pointed oval. In geometry a Vesica Piscis, Yin and yang coming together in Taoism, and the center of creative vision by experience.
	If you draw another vesica piscis inside the center and erase everything but the oval in the center, you get a pupil, a symbol used in Hindu mandalas, and geometric meditation diagrams symbolizing “vision”
	CBS evolved these forms and made all the circles one, and we have the famous CBS eye. So what does it matter/ Couldn’t CBS have used any eye? Yes, but because the form of their symbol resonates throughout history and is embedded in sacred geometry, it is a powerful image, it echoes in the collective unconscious.
	TWA uses the same geometry in their original logo, symbolizing the union of different worlds through travel.
	And mastercard uses it to denote the power of credit:
In all these cases, the form derives it’s original power from the meaning of a union of opposites. The meanings associated with it by brand came later. Those are more individual to the brand. The meaning of the logo and the power of the symbol is universal.

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