The Shape of the Universe

solve_et_coagula · 20-01-2011, 04:06 PM

The Shape of the Universe

Howard Rheingold

This article originally appeared in Whole Earth Review. http://www.wholeearth.com/index.php

If you are fortunate enough to share a neighborhood with a leafy elm, a gnarly oak, a soaring redwood, take another look at its silhouette against the sky. That self-similar 4-D explosion of branching branches is a clue to a cosmic riddle or two and a key concept in fields as unrelated as vascular surgery and software design.

The Buddha knew this, and so do neurologists, database programmers, and mythologists.

Axis mundi, the axis of the world, is the tree at the center of everything sacred. Mythologist Joseph Campbell, referring to the Buddha's awakening, noted that: "This is the most important single moment in Oriental mythology, a counterpart of the Crucifixion of the West. The Buddha beneath the Tree of Enlightenment (the Bo tree) and Christ on Holy Rood (the tree of redemption) are analogous figures, incorporating an archetypal World Savior, World Tree motif, which is of immemorial antiquity."

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elijahb · 20-01-2011, 05:32 PM

Self similar reappearing patterns ”as above – so below"

http://urbanshakedowns.wordpress.com/page/5/

elijahb · 22-01-2011, 08:22 PM

Oops. Wrong link:

http://urbanshakedowns.wordpress.com...rns-of-nature/

20-01-2011, 04:06 PM	#1
solve_et_coagula Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Zurich, Switzerland Posts: 1,535	The Shape of the Universe The Shape of the Universe Howard Rheingold This article originally appeared in Whole Earth Review. http://www.wholeearth.com/index.php If you are fortunate enough to share a neighborhood with a leafy elm, a gnarly oak, a soaring redwood, take another look at its silhouette against the sky. That self-similar 4-D explosion of branching branches is a clue to a cosmic riddle or two and a key concept in fields as unrelated as vascular surgery and software design. The Buddha knew this, and so do neurologists, database programmers, and mythologists. Axis mundi, the axis of the world, is the tree at the center of everything sacred. Mythologist Joseph Campbell, referring to the Buddha's awakening, noted that: "This is the most important single moment in Oriental mythology, a counterpart of the Crucifixion of the West. The Buddha beneath the Tree of Enlightenment (the Bo tree) and Christ on Holy Rood (the tree of redemption) are analogous figures, incorporating an archetypal World Savior, World Tree motif, which is of immemorial antiquity." Continue to read: http://www.realitysandwich.com/shape_universe

20-01-2011, 05:32 PM	#2
elijahb Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 205	Self similar reappearing patterns ”as above – so below" http://urbanshakedowns.wordpress.com/page/5/ __________________ Omnia in numeris sita sunt

22-01-2011, 08:22 PM	#3
elijahb Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 205	Oops. Wrong link: http://urbanshakedowns.wordpress.com...rns-of-nature/ __________________ Omnia in numeris sita sunt