Postscript
I transcended 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 “Alpha and Omega”.
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 magician can harmonise with the cosmos. 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—it was the moment when the anima mundi became the anima universalis. In other words, the consciousness field of the Earth developed cosmic coherence. Life unified itself courtesy of the rhombic tile:
As the dual of the rhombic dodecahedron, the cuboctahedron is the only polyhedron in which the distance between the centre and the vertexes is the same as the length of the edges. In other words, it has the same length vectors in 3D space, otherwise known as vector equilibrium. In this sense the cuboctahedron is:
PERFECTLY BALANCED.
Using sphere packing, it can take 13 balls (one in the middle surrounded by 12 others). As a 3D Metatron’s Cube, this is the master blueprint of the universe expressed by the chromatic scale. The soul becomes capable of transcendence then, when it recognises the ultimate symbol that we call the Philosopher’s Stone.
