Alright, here's a fun little experiment of art and spiritual/developmental science that I have put together. I have been studying the AQAL framework - a sort of map which integrates All Quadrants & All Levels, and also All Lines, States, and Types of development - put forth by Ken Wilber, for the last few years. If it sounds a little overbearing, well, it's just a map, it's not the territory. I may go into more detail in later posts if I feel like it, or people are interested, but for now, if you'd like a little overview I suggest http://www.integralwiki.net/index.php?title=AQAL. Also, I have been studying Spiral Dynamics, which is a system of organizing decades of psychological research, and was created by Don Beck as an extension of the developmental work of Clare Graves. This image up and to the right ................................................--------------------^ shows how Spiral Dynamics can be woven in with the AQAL framework to create a biopsychosocial illustration of the qualities of different stages of development. I suggest http://spiraldynamics.net/index.shtml and also the book Boomeritis, by Ken Wilber for more information on the Spiral Dynamics Intergral. This interwoven map is the one that has been of the most use for me.
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As an artist, student of science, and student of geometry, I have also been fascinated with the Golden Spiral (aka the Golden Ratio) for some time. Here is my Golden Spiral (in turquoise) that I traced.---------------->
What inspired me to trace this Golden Spiral were the two straight lines that intersect at the origin of the spiral. It somehow reminded me of the AQAL map and so....
As a visual and creative exercise, I've overlayed
the Golden Spiral onto the AQAL/Spiral Dynamics map, and it's pretty fascinating, synchronistic and amazing how these 3 images fit together. What's cool is, if you look at the rectangles that
are formed by the dimensions of the continuing arc, starting at the center with the smallest, it takes 5 rectangles to get to the Archaic realm, and it hits the map right on the archaic level 1 number; then only one completed rectangle later we are at the Magic realm, hitting the ethnic tribes level 2 number on the dot; the very next rectangle charts right between levels 3 and 4, a jump that lands between the Power Gods/Egocentric realm (3) and the Mythic realm (4); continuing on to the next rectangle we are, again, right between two levels, the Scientific/Rational/Modern realm (5) and the Pluralistic/Postmodern realm (6); the next rectangle is a quantum leap type growth through Pluralistic/Postmodern, Integral (7), and Holistic (8), in fact, this rectangle ends at the outermost edge of the map, it ends at the place where a 9th realm would be... and so we are approximately at the end of our charted territory; but there is one more rectangle on this illustration: the area that this completed rectangle covers represents the space of about five and a half levels, essentially, the last two rectangles cover more space than the whole of the AQALSD map. My theory about this is that we, humans, are in tune with a sort of learning curve of evolution that we can "steer" into ever-more alignment with. It is ever steepening (if that is a made up word, it means: getting steeper). I think that each level, or realm, is circular because you exist in them going round and round like the Earth round the Sun, gathering experience. As you move up through the levels, you need to spend less and less "time" in them in order to realize them. Just to realize them, not necessarily to instantly fully realize them, though that did just happen somewhere out there, but more to be able to recognize them and tune in with them more and more quickly and easily the next time, which makes the next level that much more likely to be recognized, and the next, and the next, and then I believe the spiral comes in again by plotting out the path of someone/thing moving "too fast," if you aren't prepared for the levels and the speed at which it's moving you may spin out and have to return to a lower orbit, which is probably right where you should be if that happens, but if not, you keep riding the learning curve of evolution to higher-in-quality, wider-in-scope-and-embrace states of consciousness. And we are obviously a large influence on everything on the entire planet and our actions are tuning in the rest of the Earth with this growth. I think that each rectangle represents a sort of biological psychological spiritual piece of acrchitecture. Maybe they represent a certain amount of time/space ratio, and the smaller ones are denser amounts of time with less space, and the bigger rectangles contain less time, and there is more and more space. I'm up for ideas, I'm inspired.
May All Be Blessed by Visions in Tune with Infinity.
