Fractal Enlightenment

Do you feel that the current situation of the global race and the use of resources is going to end up with humans destroying themselves? A story of Easter Island may bring to light human nature, competing with each other for power and status. It may also enlighten us about our path to self destruction.

What is Easter Island?

Easter Island, is an island in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile. The island is famous for its numerous moai, the stone statues located along the coastlines. Easter Island was given its common name of “Easter” because the first recorded European visit, by the Dutch was on Easter Sunday, 1722. It is Located 3,600 km (2,237 statute miles) west of continental Chile and 2,075 km (1,290 statute miles) east of Pitcairn Island. Easter Island is one of the most isolated inhabited islands in the world.

You may have heard of Easter Island or at least find the moai familiar. The island is famous for the numerous moai located along the coastlines.

What are Moai?

Moai are monolithic stone figures on Easter Island (“Rapa Nui” in Tahitian and today also in Rapa Nui language), Chile. Between c.1000-1700 AD they were cut from the islands quarries in Rano Raraku and set on ahu (platforms) facing the ocean along the perimeter of the island.

The transportation process from the quarries to their final positions required significant intellect, use of resources, creativity and is considered a remarkable feat of human endeavour.

How did the Rapa Nui Construct & Transport the Moai

This mystery has no proved solution till date although there are many theories as to how the Rapa Nui created and transported them, the most logical one is explained below.

In short, a bunch of people came to easter island, saw that it had plenty of resources, trees, stone, sweet potato etc. Just how our mother earth provides a bounty full of resources for us at the moment, oil, water, trees etc.

As the days went by the people began to compete with each other to build bigger Moai. In the process they would use more rocks, trees to transport, sweet potato as food as well as a lubricant in moving the moai.

Everything was going well except man’s desire to be more powerful than the others. The largest moai erected, “Paro”, was almost 10 meters (33 ft) high and weighed 83 tons while one unfinished sculpture would have been approximately 21 meters (69 ft) tall with a weight of about 270 tons.

This continued till one day they realized they have nearly depleted their resources and are on the verge of starvation. What do they do next? The begin killing each other for survival, a few of them escape into caves nearby and hide. They painted and carved out their entire history in caves besides the sea.

The surprising part is we have not yet managed to decipher the Rapa nui writings, Rongorongo. The Christian missionaries that came to the island destroyed most of the tablets that had their scriptures written. There are only 26 Rongorongo tablets left around the world in museums, its surprising we call ourself advanced, but cant learn from a civilization that managed to wipe itself out by doing just what we are doing now on a global level.

Read the Entire Easter Island Story

The Arrival of the Rapa Nui
Constructing the Moai
Erecting the Moai
Conflict: The Fall of the Moai
A New Cult
Lessons from the Past?

Will we rape Mother Earth till she has nothing left to offer us? Why are we part of this race, this competition makes, no sense to me. There is enough for everybody, I do hope we realize this one day.

Resources:

Easter Island Copes with World Heritage Designation
Did humans devastate Easter Island on arrival?
Easter Island Archaeology Quiz
Image Source:

Easter Island Statue Project

Who is Dr. Alesha Sivartha?
Dr Alesha Sivartha a.k.a. Arthur Merton (1834-1915) was an author, scientist and philosopher who wrote and illustrated books, between 1887 and 1903, like ‘The Book of Life or The Spiritual, Social and Physical Constitution of Man’ (1898) and ‘The Growth of Man into Coming Civilization: Harmonism, Christian, Greco-Roman, Semitic, Hindoo, Mongolian, Egyptian’ (1903).

One of his masterpiece of mysticism was ‘The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man’ where Sivartha maps out the human psyche like never seen before. Its truly a work of art created in beginning 1859 and was published by his son Holmes W. Merton in New York City in 1912.

His writings and drawings speak clearly of his conviction in the oneness of Body and Mind and in the oneness of our Physical and Spiritual Constitutions. The Book of Life is at once scientific and biblical: evolutionist, creationist, messianic, and spiritualist. All woven together to create a fascinating mixture of ancient and modern points of view. His father was a Hindu, mother a Unitarian, and Sivartha believed that science could finally answer the deepest mysteries to prove religion. Some might call it Biblical Humanism with a Judaic twist; others call it Theosophy. ‘The Growth of Man into Coming Civilization: Harmonism, Christian, Greco-Roman, Semitic, Hindoo, Mongolian, Egyptian’ (1903) was published by the Theosophical Society, an organization founded in 1875 to promote understanding of the nature of the universe and humanity’s place in it and cross-cultural harmony.

You can read his book, ‘The Growth of Man into Coming Civilization online. In it, Sivartha brings together scientific discoveries about the geologic history and Darwinian evolution to make the case that science shows the way toward creating an ideal social structure and harmony on earth, a task that eluded previous great civilizations because their scientific understanding was incomplete.
The Growth of Man: “Seven great forces were concerned in the vast movements of early creation. Gravity marked elliptic orbits for the path of worlds. Electricity and magnetism polarized and thus rotated these worlds on their axes. Chemic force, heat and light built up the solid rocks and arranged their wide-spread layers. And the vital force crowded the sea and land with the myriad tribes of animal and plant life.”

Resources:

Sivartha’s Chart of the Earth and Heavens

New Age Religions

Stereograms are 3D images that have another dimension hidden within them. To unlock that dimension you need to trick your brain to either to make your eyes focus either beyond the image or before the image.

“Have you ever seen a stereogram?
The ‘Truth’ the Stereogram shows us is there in front of us. Training and work doesn’t make us see it. It’s a point of view, a different way of looking at it. When you see it you try to explain it to someone else and you realize you can’t. It simple, super simple, yet almost impossible to explain. There are ‘techniques’ to see them but some people may spend years trying without results. Others can do it in seconds. It doesn’t change the fact that the image is there all the time in front of us.
And it’s Beautiful.” ~ T.R. Cordón

How to See Stereograms?

When we usually look at anything, a picture, a cd or anything we focus on the object. This is how we have trained our eyes from the time we are born. Using this method we do not see the third dimension in Stereograms.

There are two methods where by we can see the hidden 3D images in sterograms.

One is the Parallel Method and the other is the Cross Eyed Method.

The Parallel Method:

Is also known as the divergence or Magic Eye method, the point of focus is moved beyound the image. Basically it is to look through the image and focus at a point beyound. The line of site is sort of parallel when approaching the image hence its named this. When you use this method the muscles inside your eye that control the focusing lens relax and lengthen.

The Cross-Eyed Method:

The Cross Viewing method, can be enabled by focusing your eyes at a point before the image in the middle of it. This way the line of sight from each of your eyes cross in front of the image. When you use this method the muscles inside your eye that control the focusing lens contract strongly and shorten.

A Couple of my Favorite Stereograms:

I have tried staring at a Stereogram for hours and never managed to see it. Until my friend Warrel actually took the trouble of teaching me to do it. The first Stereogram is the one below.

The first time I saw it, I was zapped stared at it for 5 minutes and kept on doing it. Looking at the world in 3D is so much fun.

Here are some more that I liked

Stereograms In India:

Stereograms with Aum symbols are available in India. These stereograms help in meditation, this kind of Meditation is knows as Pranava Yantra.

It seems if you look into the stereograms for 3 – 5 minutes everyday they can have many beneficial effects such as:

Relaxes your mind

Improves concentration

Balances emotions and reduce mental tension

Freedom from worries and anxiety

Cure headache, insomnia, high blood pressure, depression and other stress related problems.

About Stereograms:

Stereogram was discovered by Charles Wheatstone in 1838. He found an explanation of binocular vision which led him to construct a stereoscope based on a combination of prisms and mirrors to allow a person to see 3D images from two 2D pictures.

Stereograms were re-popularized by the creation of autostereogram on computers, where an 3D image is hidden in a single 2D image, until the viewer focuses the eyes correctly. The Magic Eye series is a popular example of this. Magic Eye books refer to autostereograms as stereograms, leading most people to believe that the word stereogram is synonymous to autostereogram.

Salvador Dalí created some impressive stereograms in his exploration in a variety of optical illusions.

Resources

Wonderful collection of Optical Illusions! (Must See)

All About Stereograms

Source of Methods to View Stereograms