My very first crystal charger, built according to the Michael Teaching.
[Reference: Judithann H. David, and JP Van Hulls, Michael's Gemstone Dictionary]
The following two paragraphs taken from the above book give one an idea of "who is Michael":
"Michael" is the name taken by a group of 1050 individuals, once flesh and blood humans like ourselves. After completing their physical lives on Earth, they bonded in spirit form into an "entity" so cohesive that they now consider themselves a unit. Hence, the singular name "Michael".
Michael now teaches us, from a higher plane of existence speaking through human "channels". The goal of the Michael entity in teaching us, is to promote a planetary shift from a self-centered human society, to one of tolerance and mutual respect. The model used in our water PH experiments. A similar model I made later as my skill improved. Star 4-gonal anti-prism with a crystal ball and double helix inside. Actually I do not know if this is the proper name. I call this one "Communicator 0.1". Notice the quartz crystal cluster inside. The 5 Platonic solids: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. A little history of the Platonic solids. The ancient Greeks discovered that there are exactly five polyhedra with the following properties:
1. Each face is a regular polygon.
2. Each face is identical.
3. Each vertex is identical. This is to say that at each vertex, the same kind and the same number of faces meet in the same way.
Plato wrote about the regular polyhedra in his book Timaeus, from which they received the name Platonic solids.
Euler proved that there are only five Platonic solids in his book Elements. Another octahedron. Spherical octahedron. Another dodecahedron with inscribed tetrahedra. Interlocking terahedra. I call this one "As Above So Below, As Below So Above". The cylinders inside contain small magnetic disks, and the same polarity meet in the center. Cuboctahedron and its dual, Rhombic Dodecahedron.
I am very interested in cuboctahedron because in crystalline structure study, this structure is exactly FCC (Face Centered Cube) packing structure. Some of the metals that have the FCC structure include aluminum, copper, gold, iridium, lead, nickel, platinum and silver. This is part of another model. It perfectly shows the FCC packing. This unfinished piece is a cuboctahedron with a center node connecting to every outer node. All the edges have the same length. One can visualize 13 atoms pack together. Spherical form of cuboctahedron. Another view of a cuboctahedron. Another view of cuboctahedron's dual form, rhombic dodecahedron.
The rhombic dodecahedron can be used to tessellate three-dimensional space. It can be stacked to fill a space much like hexagons fill a plane.
Some crystals such as garnet form a rhombic dodecahedron crystal habit. All Platonic solids in one, plus more structures such as interlocking terahedra and 3D projection of a tesseract. A 3D projection of a 4-simplex (the corresponding counterpart of tetrahedron in 4D). A 3D projection of a 4D hypercube, also called tesseract.
In general, an n-dimensional hypercube, also called "measure polytope", has the following property:
The number of m-dimensional hypercube on the boundary of an n-dimensional hypercube (m <= n) is:
2^(n-m) C(n, m)
Therefore, for a 4D hypercube, there are 16 vertices (m=0), 32 edges (m=1), 24 faces (m=2), and 8 cubes (m=3). Another projection of a tesseract. Flattened versions of projections of a tesseract. A 3D projection of a 5D hypercube.
It has 32 vertices, 80 edges, and contains 80 faces, 40 3D cubes, and 10 4D hypercube. Another projection of a 5D hypercube. This is a 3D projection of 4D polytope called 24-cell.
Each of the 5 Platonic solids has its corresponding counterpart in 4D, but there is one more such polytope in 4D, which is self dual, and that is 24-cell.
The boundary of the 24-cell is composed of 24 octahedral cells with 6 meeting at each vertex, and 3 at each edge. Together it has 96 triangular faces, 96 edges, and 24 vertices. Contemplation on 5D hypercube
The world before us is in constant motion, folding and unfolding. If we are sensitive enough, and have open minds, we can have a glimpse of the fascination of the creation during each folding and unfolding. Knowledge comes to us. Everything in the universe is there, past, present, and future. All we need to do is to tune in.
Now, back to the hypercube. Let's start from a 3D cube. A 3D cube unfolds into 6 squares on 2D plane. Take one square, and 4 squares around it, plus one more tagging along the end of any direction, we can fold these 6 squares into a cube.
Similarly, a 4D hypercube unfolds into 8 3D cubes. Take one 3D cube, and 6 cubes around it (in all 3 directions), plus one more tagging along the end of any direction, we can fold these 8 cubes into a tesseract (4D hypercube).
A 5D hypercube unfolds into 10 4D hypercubes. Take one 4D hypercube, and 8 4D hypercubes around it (in all 4 directions), plus one more tagging along the end of any direction, we can fold these 10 4D hypercubes into a penteract (5D hypercube).
Higher the dimension, the more "compact" is the hypercube, the more information does it contain.
When we can tap into the higher dimension, we receive knowledge that we don't get normally. And when we are present in higher dimension, we see more at once.
When the dimensionality goes to infinity, the hypercube becomes so "dense" that it turns into a point. At that point, one sees everything, past, present, and future. There is no time. And it is God. Metatron's Cube. 64-tetrahedron Grid. Walking Through Labyrinth -- Surrender to the unexpected.
A labyrinth and a maze are not the same. A maze presents the seeker with puzzles as to where to go at certain points. A labyrinth takes the seeker to the center without any obstacle except for those in the mind of the seeker. The path is clear, yet not easy. Labyrinth (2) -- Symbol of Life's Journey
This is a symbol for Life's Journey in American Papago Indian tradition.
A person (represented here by a crystal) finds his dreams in the center of the labyrinth, and has a final opportunity to look back upon his path (the last turn in the design) before being taken to the next realm.
I am fascinated by the labyrinths because unlike mazes they do not have dead ends. In my view, life is like a labyrinth, there are no wrong turns on the way to the center. Tree of Life & Tree of Death, my dear husband's version. I love candles and candle sticks. So I made quite some of them. Squaring The Circle & Don Quixote (化圆为方 & 唐吉珂德)
Squaring the circle is to construct a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge.
In 1882 the task was proven to be impossible as pi was proven to be a transcendental number.
The expression "squaring the circle" is sometimes used as a metaphor for trying to do the impossible.
In the 1965 Broadway musical " Man of La Mancha" (梦幻骑士) the principal song is called "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)". Its lyric goes as follows:
To dream ... the impossible dream ...
To fight ... the unbeatable foe ...
To bear ... with unbearable sorrow ...
To run ... where the brave dare not go ...
To right ... the unrightable wrong ...
To love ... pure and chaste from afar ...
To try ... when your arms are too weary ...
To reach ... the unreachable star ...
This is my quest, to follow that star ...
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far ...
To fight for the right, without question or pause ...
To be willing to march into Hell, for a Heavenly cause ...
And I know if I'll only be true, to this glorious quest,
That my heart will lie will lie peaceful and calm,
when I'm laid to my rest ...
And the world will be better for this:
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,
To reach ... the unreachable star ...
In this song, Don Quixote(唐吉珂德) explains his quest and the reasons behind it ... in doing so, he captures the essence of the play and its philosophical underpinnings. The Universe Through My Being
I believe that there are moments in everyone's life that one began to think about the Universe, or at least amazed by it. The earliest time in my memory that this happened was when I was about 4, the darkest time in my life, desperately, hopelessly, and silently missing my grandma whom I love dearly to this day. Those days I would look at the sky and wonder where the edge of the Universe was, and if there was an edge what was the other side of the edge. Sometimes my imagination went so far that the image of the cloud scared myself that I started to cry, well, again, hopelessly. I think that my early experience drastically changed my personality and after more than 40 years I started to heal. So, parents, never underestimate what are in your kids' minds, and they could be quite sophisticated. Say "I love you" and give them a hug instead of assuming that your kids should take it as a default.
No criticizing. I love my mom and dad from my heart. And I am growing, too, spiritually.
Well I went too far. Now back to the Universe. I love the movie "Interstellar" and I think that I understand it fully. It may seems weird to some people that the past and future appear at the same time, but I understand it. If we can put our consciousness in higher dimensions, there is no time. Everything, past, present, and future, is there.