art being sacred??

Have you ever had one of those nights where you're hanging out with a bunch of friends at a party or some sort of social gathering...and find it ironic that sometimes alcohol can lead to really philosophical and interesting discussions with some of the people you'd least expect it from?

At a party last year, one of my friends, who I always thought was a bit dim (for lack of a better way of saying it)..mentioned the notion of sacred geometry and what it was. I was fascinated with all the facts and how fast he was spitting out all these ideas and research he had come across. Unfortunately, I haven't learned as much as I would like about it, but I somehow suddenly remembered our conversation when I came across a website.

This idea of 'sacred geometry' is taken from the beliefs of ancient cultures, such as the Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Indian. Basically they have a belief that all forms of life, or creation, in nature has seen to have certain shapes in it - to say it in the most simplest way.

"Sacred Geometry is the blueprint of Creation and the genesis of all form. It is an ancient science that explores and explains the energy patterns that create and unify all things and reveals the precide way that the creation organizes itself. On every scale, every natural pattern of growth or movement conforms inevitably to one or more geometric shapes."

Sacred geometry has tons of information on it but one of the things i thought was cool was the idea of the fibonacci spiral. I know theres a lot of mathematics involved in this stuff (yeah i was one of those weird art kids who loved math and science as well), but basically theres this theory that says that this ratio of a spiral is found in many things, and many art is based on it


thats the basic ratio of the spiral...

just two examples I could find a picture of...its found in the Vitruvian man as well in Orion's constellation...and the pyramids in Egypt were built based on the fibonacci spiral.















I still have to find out more on this but i'm just throwing this out there to think about..