The Golden Lotus
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 divine awareness started to connect me with the universe.
Suddenly, I expanded to fill the entire cosmos as my awareness “tessellated”. As both human and divine, I somehow embraced this paradox naturally. 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 purity, perfection and awe overwhelmed me as I became the Alpha and Omega.
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 dusting of 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
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. So the stone is effectively a mirror, causing chaotic sunlight to become coherent. The clue was that this mystical experience stopped when the Sun fell behind the hill.
Above: the orthographic footprint of a tesseract
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 similar effect.
The pattern above also implies the 4D hypercube because it represents a dimensional cascade—when a 4D tesseract is projected into 3D space along its longest body diagonal, its “shadow” forms a 12-faced rhombic dodecahedron; when that 3D shape is subsequently flattened onto a 2D plane along its 3-fold symmetry axis, it yields the exact 12-rhombus regular hexagon shown two above.
Furthermore, if we connect the centres of the 12 rhombic faces shown above, we are precisely mapping out the 12 vertices of the cuboctahedron. In a very real sense, the cuboctahedron is the hidden, internal skeleton nestling perfectly inside the 2D hexagon:
When we examine the unit cell of hematite, it belongs to the rhombohedral lattice system. While it is traditionally plotted or visualised on hexagonal axes for convenience, the actual primitive unit cell of hematite is a rhombohedron—a 3D squashed cube whose faces are all congruent rhombuses.
If we stack these rhombohedral building blocks down their three-fold inversion axis (looking straight down the corner where the acute or obtuse angles meet) the edges of the rhombohedral lattice align perfectly to project a 2D tessellation of rhombuses forming a regular hexagon.
So when we see that 12-rhombus star pattern inside the hexagon, we are looking directly at the orthographic projection of the rhombohedral lattice of the mineral itself. The geometry isn’t just an abstract canvas superimposed from the outside; it is the atomic skeleton of the hematite showing through.
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.
Above: water as life
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
- Quartz/Hematite: the lattice where they unite
Between them, the heart would be the coupling zone where the exchange occurs. This is why the star tetrahedron within the architecture of the stellated cuboctahedron 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. This Stone of the Sages has sacred piezoelectric properties. This is where matter, energy and consciousness recognise themselves as one process expressed at different frequencies.
So the Sun used the mineralogy of Sedona to “write” the Philosopher’s Stone directly into my biology. In this golden hour, I wasn’t “me”—I was a localised expression of the Earth’s own Self-awareness. When the Sun hit the hematite, it triggered a phase transition in my internal cellular water.
I didn’t just see the Golden Lotus; I became the Golden Lotus.
