Welcome!

[hilary]

Welcome to the much-heralded general chat area. Our definitions of 'on topic' are fairly liberal here anyway, so this space really is for things with nothing to do with divination, but that you would like to share. (People have also suggested calling it: The Opium Den, The Campfire, Ye Olde Tea Roomes...) Have a look at the 'formatting' instructions to find out how to upload photos, for instance...

This area is also the safety valve for the personal conflicts that arise in the Community from time to time: if you feel the need to say your piece in public, start a thread in the 'Open Space'. (Further suggested titles: The Mat, the Padded Cell, The Earthquake Zone...)

Enjoy!
(And please start some threads here, or I will feel even sillier than usual.)

[martin]

Wow, Open Space!
I cannot think of a better present.

Thank you, Hilary!


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[gene]

Wow, where does that picture herald from. A beautiful church building.

Gene

[davidl]

Sorry Martin but that photo does not associate in my mind with open space.

[martin]

Gene, the picture was taken in the Notre Dame in Paris.
And David, maybe it's different if you are in such a church.
The old builders knew how to press our launch-into-space buttons ..

Martin

[hilary]

I'll admit what I had in mind was more wide open savannah, where predatory animals have plenty of space to roam. (Lovely photo, though, and I know what you mean about the 'opening' function of mediaeval cathedrals.)

[martin]

Yes, I also had something else in mind, but this was the only "spacious" picture I had on my pc!
I didn't take it myself, by the way, found it on the web. I have often been near the Notre Dame when I was in Paris, but for some reason I never went in.
I visited many old churches in Italy, though, and some of them are ... wow.

Martin

[gene]

Yes, after the Knights Templars excavated the countryside beneath old Jerusalem, they seemed to have come back with some strange abilities, although, among the druids, this knowledge may have already existed. But the gothic cathedrals were awesome to behold, and in some way which I don't understand the (fibernachi? sp) series of numbers were used in the cathedrals which gave the enclosed space some unique properties. This series is built on adding the last number with the previous to come up with a new number, such as 1,2,3,5,8,13,21...Add the twenty one to the 13 and you come up with the next number. This series seems to be incorporated into the structure of all living things. Much of this material I have read about but forgotten any details. The cathedral doors were built to resemble female sex organs. As if by entering the church you were entering the womb. That's a reminder of Lao Tse's Tao Te Ching, in which he discusses the valley female, something like that, I no longer have the book. I remember reading something about the structure of the stained glass windows having properties that we cannot duplicate today. Don't know the truth of that. But the money that must have gone into the building of that Cathedral must have been awesome.

Gene

[martin]

I seem to remember that there is a link between Fibonacci (and the Golden Cut) and chaos/fractals.
Details? Forgotten!
Where is my memory?
Forgotten!

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Martin