03-02-2011, 12:03 AM
Bob May wrote:
I've been working on this all day. Cutting and pasting (the old fashioned way with scissors and paste)
Tarot cards on the paths of the Tree of Life. Along with Hebrew letters.
I came across where the terminology and philosophy of Castaneda's " Tensegrity". It also started with a tree analogy.
R.Buckminster Fuller, whose perception of energy led him to observe a principle of fluid interconnectivity in nature which he called "tensegrity, a combo of tensional integrity, which describes the forces at work in a structure that is formed by a finite network of compression, or rigid elements interconnected through tensile, or elastic elements which give the structure its overall integrity. DUED TO THE ELASTIC PROPERTY OF INTERCONNECTIVENESS, WHEN ONE ELEMENT OF THE TENSEGRITY STRUCTURE SHIFTS, ALL THE OTHER ELEMENTS SHIFT AS WELL, OR ADAPT FOR A NEW CONFIGURATION , YIELDING WITHOUT BREAKING.
Fuller pointed to the essential supporter on earth, the tree, as a wonderful example of a tensegrity structure in nature. Arising from a seed, water , earth, air and sunlight, A TREE GROWS INTO AN EFFICIENT TENSEGRITY STRUCTURE with water and gases moving inside, ALLOWING IT TO BE BOTH FLEXIBLE AND INCREDIBLY RESILIENT, as it SWAYS AND ADAPTS, TO SHIFTING WINDS AND EARTH , AND LIFTS MINERALS --BITS OF STARDUST--AND WATER FROM EARTH TO SKY.
Buckminster Fuller: An Autobiographical Monologue/Scenario, Documented and Edited by Robert Snyder
The Tree of Life has been connected with Jesus by many of the early Christian writers. The first mention of of the Tree of Life is in first book of the Old Testament (Genesis) and the last reference to the tree is in the last book of the New Testament( Revelation). In Revelation 2:7, John speaks of "the Tree of Life in the midst of the Paradise of God."
Two of the images associated with the 6th Sephira , Tiphareth, are those of majestic king and a sacrificed god. Both images are related to Jesus in the Christian Kabbalah. The planet associated with Tiphareth is the Sun, also a symbol of Jesus, who said, "I am the light of the world."
As the Tree of Life is seen as the Body of God--Adam Kadmon--so it is also identified with the human body. Adam Kadmon is seen as the macrocosmus, and man as the microcosmus.
I've been working on this all day. Cutting and pasting (the old fashioned way with scissors and paste)
Tarot cards on the paths of the Tree of Life. Along with Hebrew letters.
I came across where the terminology and philosophy of Castaneda's " Tensegrity". It also started with a tree analogy.
R.Buckminster Fuller, whose perception of energy led him to observe a principle of fluid interconnectivity in nature which he called "tensegrity, a combo of tensional integrity, which describes the forces at work in a structure that is formed by a finite network of compression, or rigid elements interconnected through tensile, or elastic elements which give the structure its overall integrity. DUED TO THE ELASTIC PROPERTY OF INTERCONNECTIVENESS, WHEN ONE ELEMENT OF THE TENSEGRITY STRUCTURE SHIFTS, ALL THE OTHER ELEMENTS SHIFT AS WELL, OR ADAPT FOR A NEW CONFIGURATION , YIELDING WITHOUT BREAKING.
Fuller pointed to the essential supporter on earth, the tree, as a wonderful example of a tensegrity structure in nature. Arising from a seed, water , earth, air and sunlight, A TREE GROWS INTO AN EFFICIENT TENSEGRITY STRUCTURE with water and gases moving inside, ALLOWING IT TO BE BOTH FLEXIBLE AND INCREDIBLY RESILIENT, as it SWAYS AND ADAPTS, TO SHIFTING WINDS AND EARTH , AND LIFTS MINERALS --BITS OF STARDUST--AND WATER FROM EARTH TO SKY.
Buckminster Fuller: An Autobiographical Monologue/Scenario, Documented and Edited by Robert Snyder
The Tree of Life has been connected with Jesus by many of the early Christian writers. The first mention of of the Tree of Life is in first book of the Old Testament (Genesis) and the last reference to the tree is in the last book of the New Testament( Revelation). In Revelation 2:7, John speaks of "the Tree of Life in the midst of the Paradise of God."
Two of the images associated with the 6th Sephira , Tiphareth, are those of majestic king and a sacrificed god. Both images are related to Jesus in the Christian Kabbalah. The planet associated with Tiphareth is the Sun, also a symbol of Jesus, who said, "I am the light of the world."
As the Tree of Life is seen as the Body of God--Adam Kadmon--so it is also identified with the human body. Adam Kadmon is seen as the macrocosmus, and man as the microcosmus.