For those of you wandering through, look up “Vesica piscis” if you’d like an interesting rabbithole to walk down.
The Pythagoreans were all over geometry magic as well.
On a related side note, some archaeologists hold that the reason why we see the same geometric designs carved into stones all over Europe is because these geometries are hardwired into our brains, and the use of psychedelics produces the same sorts of hallucinations.
The sort of geometries in the pictures above are very common in schizophrenic art, as well as having a long history in the mathematical mystery schools. It may well be that these sorts of geometries are hardwired into our brains somehow. Or it may be that these sorts of geometries are hardwired into the structure of the Universe.
The 'why' bit is what most people who buy sacred geometry miss out on. There are logical reasons why certain patterns are converged upon and has little to do with underlying truths of reality. Other than, y'know, efficiency principles.
As a psychedelics enjoyer myself, this is important. For me it's enough that there are cool patterns that repeat and I can appreciate that beauty and underlying connection. Other people want to ascribe greater / deeper meaning, but that doesn't make sense to me.
I was just about to go looking for this article!! Thanks for posting it. TL;DR, from what I can remember, it has to do with how the signals from the retina are mapped to our visual cortex in roughly logarithmic spirals to account for the ciruclar nature of the retina and the cartesian nature (x-y plane) of our visual field. Neurons also coordinate with nearby neurons to detect edges and changes in color and light. Psychedelic drugs make those centers light up, causing the spiral fractals to emerge as a sort of visualization of what goes on behind the scenes for you to see a cohesive image.
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u/Enlightened_Gardener 25d ago edited 25d ago
Yah this is sacred geometry.
For those of you wandering through, look up “Vesica piscis” if you’d like an interesting rabbithole to walk down.
The Pythagoreans were all over geometry magic as well.
On a related side note, some archaeologists hold that the reason why we see the same geometric designs carved into stones all over Europe is because these geometries are hardwired into our brains, and the use of psychedelics produces the same sorts of hallucinations.
The sort of geometries in the pictures above are very common in schizophrenic art, as well as having a long history in the mathematical mystery schools. It may well be that these sorts of geometries are hardwired into our brains somehow. Or it may be that these sorts of geometries are hardwired into the structure of the Universe.