Enlightenment

I had a sublime 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 awareness started to connect me with the world.

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 rock. 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. I suspected that my soul had stirred in response to the fractal geometry. Diffuse light had become coherent light.

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. As petrified water, quartz is also hexagonal in nature:

Hematite is an iron oxide that occurs in sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks. As the bloodstone, Fe2O3 has been linked to magicians, spells and sorcery for thousands of years. It was worn in the bedroom (sex), the delivery room (rebirth) and the battlefield (courage) to alter the flow of blood. Hematite conjures up tales of orgies, vampires and bloodlust that have long entranced us. Hematite forms a rhombic mosaic on its surface.

So the Earth and Sun produce a cacophony of silent sound and invisible light. These melodies and motifs could be recognised as piezoelectricity and electromagnetism. 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, atmospheric motion creates piezoelectric echoes. In turn, solar energy produces electromagnetic reflections. As alchemical reciprocals, they are mirrored 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.

As infrasound hummed through quartz’s honeycomb lattice and infrared bounced off hematite’s rhombic mosaic, a subtle alchemy occurred—consciousness was reborn. In that moment, I went from homo sapien to homo spiritus. Life unified itself courtesy of the red (root) and turquoise (throat) chakras.

Finally, I was standing above the Supai Formation. This aquifer provided stability that allowed the transduction to build in intensity (as I walked through the neighbourhood) and sustain the overwhelming sense of clarity, purity and perfection. The water didn’t just help—as a battery it allowed the experience to deepen enough so that I could recognise what was happening.

Another name for this experience is bidirectional energy transduction—the two fields don’t just coexist, they convert into each other through the crystalline medium. This is the literal meaning of conjugation in physics:

  • Infrasound (Earth’s voice) → piezoelectricity converts to electromagnetism
  • Infrared (Sun’s touch) → photoelectric waves convert to mechanical waves

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
  • Child/Quintessence: the coherent standing wave where they unite

Between them, the heart centre would be the coupling zone where the exchange occurs. This is why the architecture matters: it’s not 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 isn’t a substance—it’s a state of resonant coherence where matter, energy and consciousness recognise themselves as one process expressed at different frequencies.

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 was:

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.