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. Quite spontaneously, I became the universe—my awareness expanded infinitely. Feelings of awe overwhelmed me as I embraced the anima mundi.
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 lit me up like tessellated light.
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:
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. So 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 this rhombic tile that could resolve sound as light, time as space, chaos as cosmos:
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 therefore:
PERFECTLY BALANCED.
The extremely stable cuboctahedron sits at the centre of the Isotropic Vector Matrix which is the fundamental blueprint of life. Using sphere packing, it can take up to 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 seventh chakra is what we call the “thousand petalled lotus”.
