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Gestures of Synthesis V2 - Realms

PROJECT

COMMISSIONED BY: INSTITUTE LUX CONSILIO

YEAR

2024

Volume 2 of the Gestures of Synthesis series has been created and externalized in four distinct manuscripts. The reason for this lies primarily with an aspiration to keep each volume small enough to encourage thoughtful interaction and large enough to sufficiently engage the abstract mind towards the fulfillment of its unique inner directives.

This volume, over its four iterations, examines all of the 64 hexagrams of the Yi Jing or Book of Changes. Each iteration brings into focus a quarter of the Great Wheel or 16 individual hexagrams. The original 1D (one dimensional) hexagram has been mathematically expanded into a 6D (six dimensional) geometry which includes both the primordial and elemental derivatives.

We have made no attempt to align this material with what has come before on this topic. The illustrations we created of each hexagram are unique. Nothing like them has ever been seen before in this way and in this we recommend that viewer discretion is advised. Piscean definitions and associations common to translations of the Yi Jing have in large part been removed. Only a basic amount of reference information has been given. This is not a book of divination, nor is it a commentary of what the hexagrams, as symbols of an abstract pattern or idea, are ‘supposed’ to mean.

It is our working hypothesis that the best way to directly introduce essential information into a local nervous system is via a ‘sacred’ geometry. We define a ‘sacred’ geometry as a mathematical shape or form that serves to fully express, without distortion, the abstract pattern in the World of Ideas to which it is bound in a relationship of interactive sympathy. Furthermore, it is our understanding that all abstract patterns of information in cosmic circulation crystallize (as one form or another) and become conditionally ‘effecting’ based on their geometric integrity. This is to suggest that all geometry and thus all form(s) (no matter the relative coherence or distortion) are symbolic representations/manifestations of patterned information conditionally acting upon the elements in any specific locale of Universe.

This is a reference guide for the modern day (Aquarian) traveler (修行者) and as such, it is assumed that the World of Meaning is a destination of great personal interest. To this end, the illustrations, calligraphy and pithy components are all designed to point directly toward the World of Meaning with the intent of facilitating a first-hand subjective experience. We assert that the only answers worth finding are those consciously discovered within the light of our own timeless inner group awareness. Consciously accessing this positional group awareness and actively engaging our innate creative agency upon it is the sole focus of the Gestures of Synthesis series.

We look forward to hearing about your travels and to sharing stories and music around the fire.

In closing, we ask that you remember: in-joy the journey, in-joy the discovery, take your time, and most especially, remember, there is no spoon.

Volume 2.1 - Sirius (Realms 9 and 4)
Volume 2.2 - Alcyone (Realms 3 and 8)
Volume 2.3 - Jupiter (Realms 2 and 7)
Volume 2.4 - Dubhe (Realms 6 and 1)

Volume 2 of this series is due to be published in print - 2024.

As part of our annual fundraising, 108 copies of the first edition hardcover, signed, enumerated and specially inscripted by the author Zed James are also available for a minimum donation of $108. If you are interested in this option please get in touch with the Institute and write in the subject line '108'.

Feel free to email us if you'd like to purchase the hardcover directly or you can https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTHQ21J3?binding=hardcover&qid=1711119009&sr=8-1&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_thcv

The following images are extracts from Volume 2 of this series and are provided to give an overall sense of the patterns being considered - these images comprise a small portion of what is found over all 4 iterations of Volume 2.

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