Sacred Geometry and Genesis by Michelle Monk
As the diagram shows, evolution occurs from the inside out, from within us, from center to periphery and not according to what we make with our hands--be it car, spaceship or computer. Can you hear the enlightened Hindu who cries upon meditating, " I am That! " Can you hear God exclaim " I Am That I AM "? Can you sing with the Navajo, "The mountain, I become it." Can the reader realize this in her or his self?
Were the ancients as ignorant as we think they were? Perhaps our "fall from Eden" was in line with the beginning of what the Hindus call the "Kali Yuga," or Dark Age. No sense in debate, just contemplation.
For me, the progress of western civilization is an illusion. While
our technology has become more complex with jets, cars, computers
and inter-nets, we have not evolved. Just consider the last
fiasco in Congress regarding the debt ceiling. These kinds of
dramatic theatrics are expressions of the human ego, not the depths
of our being. They are akin to identifying the Ocean by the surface
level waves, visible only to the human ego, and not the underlying
processes and currents deep within us and deep within nature and
space.
The writings and re-emergence of sacred geometry over the past 50-75 years is one sure sign that we may be coming out of the Kali Yuga, as many have predicted for our age.
In like fashion, Endre's work with sacred geometry brings beauty to what many consider abstract. Meditate on the following:
Spiral Mandala by Endre Balogh
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/endre-balogh.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=129261
How does this impact you? Where does it lead? Can you see this pattern in whirlpools, shells, and other activities in Nature? Can you see that the Abstract and the Concrete are one and the same? Indeed, perhaps the Concrete (e.g., your body) is saturated with the Abstract (i.e., the Self or Nature)?
During the course of the past four to six thousand years, many of the words in our language have taken on meanings that are different from their epistemological roots. One of these words is religion. The epistemological roots of the term is the French religere, literally meaning to connect. This meaning is a far cry from the theological, theoretical, debating, warring, and self-centered arrogance expressed by many of the institutions claiming to define religion in our current day. For example, a Protestant may attack others regarding their belief as much as a right winged conservative may attack a left winged liberal. Unfortunately, dualism imprisons people into mindsets that often collide with the ultimate consequence being war.
Dualism breeds the jealousy, scarcity-thinking, competition, alienation, and hierarchies that inevitably lead to violence and destruction. Like sharing food at table together, like immersion in Nature, art lets us see through another's eyes, hear through another's ears, and dance through another's body. Art heals dualism (the lie that drove us from the garden) and allows us to rejoin and rejoice in the abundance of the All. Let us respond to its clarion call. Let us celebrate the many artists, such as Endre, who call us home to the understanding that "Love, Justice, Truth, and Beauty are the four attributes that permit us to perceive the Divine within our world. "
To listen to an interview of Endre on Envision This! Visit: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/envision-this/2013/10/17/endre-balogh-sharing-the-ravishing-beauty-of-our-world
To learn more about Endre's works, visit
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