Also, thanks for pointing out the conversation on pharaohs and the afterlife. Things go by quick here, I missed it when it was still live.

I’d like to add to it here, if I may, in response to Justin’s comment on the

need to “clear out” some reality in order to actually create these idealized symmetries and ratios.

which this brings to mind is heat convection cells, where, at the right temperature (not too hot, not too cold), regular hexagonal shapes are formed in the boiling water. It’s something I remember from back in high school chemistry.

I tried finding pictures of this, but the internet seems to be broken and I’m having no luck. The best I can do is this, which at least looks a whole lot like Ted’s Flower of Life…

This probably also relates to on-going thoughts about this:

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2009...-smartcard-human-url-system%E2%84%A2/

And the fact that I went to, essentially, a spiritist group meeting last night at a New Age shop and had been talking with people about encounters with ghosts and dream experiences with the dead: one of which significant in my life has been related to my grandfather’s death. His house appears many times in these visions.

Speaking of ancestors and the dead, I got a single card random tarot reading this morning, that showed this card.

It’s the equivalent card to Judgment in this voodoo deck. Interesting correlation, no? The apocalypse is upon us!

The coin in the mouth and having to cross an expanse to “join my grandfather’s house” suggests a visit to the underworld:

Charon, in Greek mythology, is the ferryman of the dead. The souls of the deceased are brought to him by Hermes, and Charon ferries them across the river Acheron. He only accepts the dead which are buried or burned with the proper rites, and if they pay him an obolus (coin) for their passage. For that reason a corpse had always an obolus 1 placed under the tongue.

Those who cannot afford the passage, or are not admitted by Charon, are doomed to wander on the banks of the Styx for a hundred years. Living persons who wish to go to the underworld need a golden bough obtained from the Cumaean Sibyl. Charon is the son of Erebus and Nyx. He is depicted as an sulky old man, or as a winged demon carrying a double hammer. He is similar to the Etruscan (Charun).

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/charon.html

I actually swallowed a couple coins as a kid - old enough that I should have known better.

This reminds me of our discussion of pharoahs visiting the Land of the Dead as well:

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2009...-states-dmt-pharaohnic-consciousness/

As in 25% of a whole circle-dollar?