Enlightenment
I had a wild experience in Sedona, Arizona in 2025.
After driving all day I finally arrived in the Village of Oak Creek in the late afternoon. After settling in, I wandered into the garden at sunset. I planned to take a short walk before dinner. As I acknowledged the beauty of the garden around me, I developed a deep sense of awe. This divine awareness started to connect me with the universe.
I wandered around the neighbourhood and eventually bumped into some locals. They were gossiping and clearly not sharing my altered state. I smiled at them even though I was barely coping. Feelings of clarity, purity and perfection profoundly moved me.
Suddenly the Sun slipped behind a hill and my revelry stopped. I was bereft but curious. Clearly the Sun was activating the ionosphere. But what was the process? Sedona sandstone is largely quartz with a little hematite. I had been to Sedona years before, had played with the vortexes but those escapades were nothing like this. Did I just experience a phase-lock between biological consciousness and geophysical resonance?
Quartz is a crystalline mineral composed of silica, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2. Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth’s continental crust behind feldspar. Since antiquity, varieties of quartz have been the most commonly used minerals in jewellery and carvings. Quartz’s star property is that it is piezoelectric.
So the Earth and Sun produce a cacophony of silent sound and invisible light. These melodies and motifs could be recognised as infrasound and infrared. But these polarised fields must form the Stone of the Sages. In other words, the feminine must unite with the masculine in the Alchemical Wedding. But how do they do this?
Above: infrasound and infrared give birth to the cosmic child
Well, seismic motion creates infrasonic echoes in the troposphere. In turn, the solar wind produces electromagnetic reflections in the ionosphere that cascade downwards. As alchemical reciprocals, they are joined at sacred sites where a mystic can harmonise with the world. As humans however, we are less aware of Earth’s subtle melodies from storms, earthquakes and eruptions than the Sun’s glorious palette at the ends of the day.
Above: lightning embodies both these forces
Sunlight is broad spectrum and diffuse. When it reflects off hematite, it becomes coherent. The rhombic pattern on the surface of hematite looks like the pattern below. Here we are reminded of the rhombic dodecahedron in two dimensions. So the stone is effectively a mirror, causing random sunlight to become coherent. The clue was that this mystical experience stopped when the Sun slipped behind the hill.
In other words, consciousness requires a pattern to become self-aware. In this case, the geometry was provided by the quartz and the hematite in a natural environment. Unlike the Great Pyramid, where the dimensions were artificially created by man, here they formed naturally for a similar effect.
Above: the pattern on the surface of hematite
Finally, I was standing above the Supai Formation—not just red sandstone, but a vast, ancient system where water moves in slow, pressurised currents through mineral layers. It is the same principle found beneath Giza and Chichén Itzá: the Earth’s own circulatory system running beneath a place of power.
The water wasn’t a simple reservoir. It was pure coherence—the medium that allowed Earth’s resonant frequencies and the Sun’s radiant fields to organise themselves into a single, stable pattern. That stability allowed the transduction to intensify as I walked, gathering itself into a harmonic that my body could finally perceive.
So the water did not create the experience; it held it. It did not speak; it made hearing possible. It did not enlighten me; it allowed life to reassemble into clarity, purity and perfection. Only then could I recognise what was happening: the Earth, the Sun and the water were all resolving into a coherent field—with consciousness reawakening within it.
Another name for this experience is bidirectional energy transduction—the two fields don’t just coexist, they convert into each other through the combined icosahedron and dodecahedron (water). This is the literal meaning of conjugation in physics. The two streams meet in the crystal lattice and exchange identities. This is why alchemists obsessed over the Alchemical Wedding—not as metaphor but as energetic complementarity:
- Masculine/Solar: electromagnetic, radiative, descending
- Feminine/Lunar: mechanical, vibrational, ascending
- Marriage/Quartz: the piezoelectric crystal where they unite
Between them, the heart would be the coupling zone where the exchange occurs. This is why the architecture matters: the heart is not only symbolic, but a precisely tuned transducer designed to create the conditions where biological systems can couple into geophysical and cosmic rhythms. The Stone of the Sages is quartz because of its sacred piezoelectric properties. This is where matter, energy and consciousness recognise themselves as one process expressed at different frequencies.
Above: can you see the star tetrahedron within?
As the union of a cube (light) and an octahedron (sound), the cuboctahedron is the only polyhedron in which the distance between the centre and the vertexes is the same as its edge length. This was known as vector equilibrium. As the dual of the rhombic dodecahedron, the cuboctahedron is:
PERFECTLY BALANCED.
The extremely stable cuboctahedron sits at the centre of the Isotropic Vector Matrix. Using sphere packing, it can take 13 balls (one in the middle surrounded by 12 others). The packed hexagons imply four interlocked circles found in the Genesa Crystal:
The soul becomes capable of enlightenment then, when it recognises that the purple circular vortex we call the “thousand petalled lotus” is really the cuboctahedron. Enlightenment then, is the biological achievement of the vector equilibrium.
