Bethe Hagens The Divine Feminine in Geometric Consciousness. The DIVINE FEMININE. GEOMETRIC CONSCIOUSNESSby Bethe Hagensbethehagensgmail. Bethe Hagens, Ph. D. School of Public Policy and Administration Walden University Anthropology of Consciousness, Vol. Issue 1, pp. 1 3. ISSN1. 05. 3 4. 20. Canopus Astrology Program' title='Canopus Astrology Program' />Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. The DIVINE FEMININE in GEOMETRIC CONSCIOUSNESS. Bethe Hagens bethehagensgmail. Bethe Hagens, Ph. D. School of Public Policy and Administration. American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permissions to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Presss Rights and Permissions website, www. Abstract Plato spoke of geometry as an extremely rare natural gift of consciousness, but also as a mode of perception accessible to anyone initiated into the tradition by a master. Such teachers were the shamans of his day, and it was these individuals who convened the mystery schools and sponsored initiations into the esoteric philosophies of geomancy that have grown from their vision. Though the history of women in ancient mystery traditions is largely lost to us, Greek mythology holds that our human capacity for geometric vision is a gift of the divine feminine energetic sources of wisdom conceptualized as a lineage of goddesses. Born from primal Chaos is Gaia, from whose name comes geometry geo earth metr measure, mother. She gives birth to Mnemosyne, goddess of Memory, from whose name comes mnemonic. The daughters of Mnemosyne are the Muses the arts and sciences. Memory is the legacy of the sacred Earth, and the arts enable humans to actively remember. The essence of this divine feminine lineage is sustainability of sacred place Chora through enduring values of order, proportion, a universal aesthetic, and connectivity. In this essay, I explore the ways in which I learned to embrace myself as a physical and spiritual geomantic consciousness and how I have used geometric vision as an interdisciplinary teaching and learning process. Keywords sacred geometry, divine feminine, mythology, archaeoastronomy, visualization World mythology and religion are replete with evidence of an ancient, eclectic, integrated geometric artscience geomancy in which certain principles of shape, numeracy and connection unified the experience of body, mind and essence through metaphors of Earth and the elements, All Beings, and Sky. I entered the tradition through Platos text Timaeus 1. A vibrating, invisible, female container for becoming, it births the five dynamic elements of creation Fire, Earth, Air, Water and Aether. Each element is a geometric shape, a color, and a place in the order of creation Fire is tetrahedron red first Earth is cube yellow second Air is octahedron white third Water is icosahedron black fourth and Aether is dodecahedron green fifth. Anticipating the synergetic geometry of R. Orthopedic Surgery Residency Programs By State'>Orthopedic Surgery Residency Programs By State. Catweb. se Internetguide, Lnkkatalog, Portal, Startsida. Sveriges sta mest kompletta guide, p ntet sedan 1997. Buckminster Fuller 1. Plato reveals how the 1. Although the etheric 1. Mc Ren The Villain In Black Zip there. Receptacle is itself never visible, the architecture of the five perfect shapes she holds can actually be seen at virtually ever scale imaginable from viruses, crystals, molecules, plankton, and pollen grains to Earth itself. Plato passed on to us an anciently derived anthropic principle the Receptacle is an unchanging constant, a template of natural structure for a carbon based world. In Phaedo, Plato graphically imagines Earth as seen from above as a ball composed of twelve patches of skin analogous to a modern soccer ball and identical in its structural geometry to a third form of carbon discovered in the mid 1. R. Buckminster Fuller. Hadrian Roman emperor 117138 ce, the emperor Trajan s cousin and successor, who was a cultivated admirer of Greek civilization and who unified and. Figure 1. THE COSMIC RECEPTACLE GAIA above composed of 1. Creation from left tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron. This Receptacle Gaia, the divine feminine is known in the East as the Dao or mother of all things. It appears as well in the arts and mythologies of many indigenous cultures in the Americas, but was conceptualized as hoops rather than triangles. In the Brul Sioux myth of Creation, for example, All was numberless hoops within hoops. The Maker Of Filigree Street. Primordial Mother Earth was composed of fifteen hoops to which the Creator called the various powers and manifestations of material reality including Sun, Moon, and stars. This view does not diverge significantly from the ancient view that Plato himself had been taught. A closer look at Platos geometry reveals that 1. Sioux mythology deviates only where it parenthetically adds local context a sixteenth hoop to represent Earths orbit around the sun the ecliptic. The color element symbolism in the cultures of the Americas is broadly consistent with Platos, but references to the five shapes are obscure and often set in the context of secret initiation rituals. Throughout this essay, when I invoke the divine feminine as geometric consciousness, I am referring to the 1. Receptacle. Figure 2. The Russian geometric map left symmetrically nests an icosahedron composed of 2. Becker immediately recognized the geometry of geodesic domes in this map, but felt it was missing major struts that were identified only as arrows of force. The Becker Hagens planetary grid model right adds these struts and is based upon the synergetic geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller as well as Platos divine feminine Receptacle described in Timaeus. A Vision. In 1. 98. Astrolearn-header-reduced.jpg' alt='Canopus Astrology Program' title='Canopus Astrology Program' />Bill Becker introduced me to an obscure whole earth mapping system developed in the late 1. Russia Bird 1. 97. The team of researchers had used an interlocking framework of spherical icosahedron and dodecahedron see Figure 2 to explain patterns of Earths geography, topography, climate, animal migrations, ocean currents, and the siting of ancient civilizations among other phenomena. It totally captivated me, and years of future teaching and research almost instantly flashed through my mind. The maps allure was its capacity to store information across a wide variety of fields in a single visual model. Also, it was efficient a modular system that packed the Platonic solids as well as other geometric solids into a single container. It was a womans tool, a tool for multitasking And I had not yet read Plato. The whole idea seemed, literally, divinely inspired to me. I went to Moscow to meet one of the inventors, engineer Valery Makarov, and was astonished to learn that in traditional Russian schools geometry and geography were always taught together from the very earliest grades. Once my eyes had opened to this connection, I began to see traces of the Platonic geometries everywhere. I found my skills in pattern recognition expanding exponentially, and for the next ten years, my undergraduate anthropology and geography students used a very similar map to explore the planet and its cultures. This planetary grid project, as it has come to be known, was done in full collaboration with Becker, a professor of industrial design at the University of Illinois Chicago. Following his engineering knowledge about how matter connects, we slightly modified the original Russian map by adding what Becker identified as missing structural supports in their dome over the earth. Simultaneously, we read Platos Timaeus and I began taping the geometry onto a world globe. The addition of the struts revealed the 1. Receptacle that Plato had struggled to describe with words. The experience was so powerful that I assigned globes and tape, rather than textbooks, to my students. Where Bill had seen a Bucky Fuller dome, a nursing student saw a blastomere. Another saw a virus.