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The major energy and timeline is between heaven and the earth pointing to and returning from the northeast.
“The mark of Design Consciousness is based upon the overlapping of two squares (regular quadrilaterals) of equal size representing the Yin and Yang energies of energy in motion. Together they symbolize the concept of duality, i.e. that which permeates all that can be known. Together they create the points and framework of an octagon. The thrust is of this energy is towards the northeast.
In the I Ching, the directions are often associated with elements, energies, and specific qualities. The northeast has a strong connection to the Earth element and the concept of stillness or quiet wisdom. It is linked to the idea of stability, grounding, and inner strength.”
Squaring the Circle is Not What You Think
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Left Brain vs. Right Brain: The Science Behind Hemispheric Dominance by Becky Upham Neuroscientific studies using brain imaging have confirmed that individuals use their entire brain, not just one side, equally. Attributing artistic skill solely to the right brain is an oversimplification of a highly integrated cognitive process.
The Myth of the Right-Brained Designer, By Brandi Sea Heft-Kiffin
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The Corpus Callosum
The corpus callosum is a thick band of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain, allowing them to communicate and share information. It’s essentially the brain’s “bridge,” enabling coordination and integration of cognitive, sensory, and motor functions between both sides.
In simple terms:
• The left hemisphere is often more analytical, logical, and detail-oriented.
• The right hemisphere is often more creative, visual, and intuitive.
• The corpus callosum lets both sides work together smoothly.
In the context of designing:
When you’re engaged in design and designing both hemispheres are active and the corpus callosum plays a key role in integrating their functions:
Left Hemisphere: Handles logical structure, planning, precision, layout rules, and technical details. The corpus callosum helps transfer this structured information to the right side.
Right Hemisphere: Handles creativity, aesthetics, visual imagination, color, and emotional expression. The corpus callosum sends this creative input back to the left side to be organized and applied effectively.
Function
• Information transfer:
The corpus callosum acts as a bridge, allowing nerve signals to travel between the two hemispheres, which is crucial for coordinated brain function.
• Motor control:
It helps coordinate complex movements by allowing the sides of the brain that control opposite sides of the body to communicate.
• Cognitive function:
It plays a role in higher-level cognitive functions, including learning, memory, problem-solving, and language processing.
• Sensory processing:
It integrates sensory information, such as vision, hearing, and touch, from both hemispheres. For example, it helps combine the separate visual fields of each eye into a single, unified image.
• Emotional and social understanding:
Proper function of the corpus callosum is linked to the ability to understand emotions, read facial expressions, and interpret social cues like tone of voice." Google
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The corpus callosum enables creative–logical integration which allows designers to merge imagination with structure — a crucial function for effective design thinking.
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At the center or nucleus of the Sagarian Symbol lies an observer, creator, or designer—a conscious principle that functions as the control center, carrying the essential instructions for the design’s direction, growth, development, and reproduction. This central presence mirrors the role of the nucleus in biological cells, serving as both the origin and governing force of the system (see Capra, 1996; Sheldrake, 2009).
Surrounding this core is a symbolic membrane, which becomes evident through the dynamic interplay of dualistic relationships—a multitude of associations between meaning (Yin) and purpose (Yang). These dualities define the boundaries and structure of the Sagarian Symbol, mediating the flow between internal consciousness and external manifestation (cf. Laozi, Tao Te Ching).
The nuclear membrane encapsulates the symbol’s presence through a sequence of planar (2D) and geometric (3D) transitions, translations, and transformations. The process begins with a point, evolves into a line (EIM), expands into a series of projections or patterns, and eventually merges into complete geometries—progressing through forms such as the sphere (1), hexagon (6), octagon (8), and dodecagon (12). Ultimately, this cycle returns to the point, representing the reintegration of the part within a larger, more expansive magnitude of existence (cf. Bohm, 1980; Wilber, 2000).
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The Vesica Piscis
The Vesica Piscis as a Symbolic and Epistemological Interface
The Vesica Piscis—a geometric form composed of two congruent circles whose centers lie precisely upon each other’s circumferences—has long served as a profound symbol in both sacred geometry and metaphysical thought. Literally translating from Latin as “fish bladder,” its nomenclature evokes the biological organ that enables aquatic organisms to regulate buoyancy, thus maintaining equilibrium within a fluid environment (Lawlor, 1982). This biological referent provides a useful metaphor for the ontological condition of consciousness itself: a dynamic system striving to maintain equilibrium amid the ever-shifting energetic medium of reality.
From a metaphysical perspective, the Vesica Piscis functions as an archetype of relationality—the liminal space where duality meets and interpenetrates to give rise to emergent unity. In this respect, it can be seen as a diagrammatic analogue to the interference pattern observed in quantum physics, wherein overlapping waveforms produce a field of probabilistic potentials (Bohm, 1980). The “fish,” as an observer within this field, occupies an epistemic position analogous to the quantum observer effect: the act of observation itself collapses potentialities into experiential reality (Wheeler, 1990).
Within this symbolic framework, the circumference of each circle delineates the boundaries of perceptual and cognitive awareness. The fish’s awareness—its perceptual apparatus—is contained within this circular field, representing a coherent system of meaning-making analogous to the semiotic processes through which signs acquire significance (Peirce, 1931–1958). The fish’s sensory inputs constitute the interface between mind and matter, where informational signals from the external environment are translated into the internal semantics of experience. This translation mirrors the functioning of artificial intelligence systems, in which data inputs undergo symbolic or sub-symbolic processing to yield contextually coherent responses (Tegmark, 2017).
The fish cannot respond to a stimulus until the event or signal achieves sufficient resonance within its domain of awareness—until it penetrates the symbolic membrane of consciousness. This aligns with the concept of resonant cognition in psychology and neuroscience, wherein perceptual and affective systems respond to external stimuli through patterns of neural entrainment (Varela, Thompson, & Rosch, 1991). Resonance thus becomes both a physical and metaphysical principle, a bridge between vibration and meaning, between energy and form.
When the vibrational frequencies of the contextual field achieve coherence with the fish’s internal dynamics, a response is generated—manifesting through either subconscious (instinctual, intuitive, or spiritual) or conscious (rational, emotional, or volitional) processes. This echoes cybernetic theories of feedback and adaptation, where systems maintain homeostasis through recursive interaction with their environment (Bateson, 1972). Aesthetic experience itself can be understood as a form of such resonance, wherein the perceiver and the perceived achieve temporary symmetry—a unity of form and feeling that dissolves the boundary between subject and object (Merleau-Ponty, 1962).
In design theory, the Vesica Piscis serves as both form and metaphor: an interface of creation where two entities or ideas intersect to generate a third, emergent possibility. It embodies the principle of interstitial creativity, the design space that arises between established domains of thought or being. Just as in quantum superposition, the Vesica Piscis symbolizes potentiality—the space of “both/and” rather than “either/or.” As such, it represents not only a geometric construct but a universal template for consciousness, perception, and the creative act itself—a multidimensional symbol of the interface between energy, information, and awareness.
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This metaphor describes how all forms of consciousness emerge from an indefinable Source (Tao). Forms of reflection (images) being symbolically represented within the field of their own circumference. Expressions of energy, light and information (triad) stemming from imaginative origins contained within this Singularity. Similarly, the traits and qualities inherent to this Source of Origin are reflected within the imaginings of its conscious observers. The design process is boundless, beyond the awareness of every observer until enlightened.”
Meaning (Yin) and Purpose (Yang) , i.e. awareness, expand creating a vesica piscis within the framework of a octagon yet within the cellular nucleus (circle).
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The Vesica Piscis: A Geometry of Conscious Becoming
The Vesica Piscis—two equal circles conjoined so that each center rests upon the circumference of the other—emerges not merely as a figure of sacred geometry, but as a living mandala of relational being. Its Latin name, “fish bladder,” recalls the organ by which the fish sustains its poise within water, that primordial element of life and symbol of consciousness itself (Lawlor, 1982). In this symbolic correspondence, the fish becomes the observer adrift within the sea of potentiality, navigating the undulating field of existence through the fine calibration of inner equilibrium. The bladder, like awareness, is a subtle organ of adjustment, mediating between the weight of matter and the buoyancy of spirit.
Here, geometry metamorphoses into epistemology. Each circle delineates a domain of knowing—a field of perception bounded by its own radius of meaning. Their intersection, the almond-shaped mandorla, is the site of encounter, the ontological “between” where two worlds overlap and a third reality, luminous and unborn, is conceived. This liminal interval evokes the metaphysical threshold that Bohm (1980) calls the implicate order—a dimension where separation dissolves and all forms are enfolded within the wholeness of becoming.
mandorla: a pointed oval figure used as an architectural feature and as an aureole enclosing figures such as Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary in medieval art. Also called vesica piscis.
In the quantum sense, this intersection is the field of superposition, the shimmering veil where potentiality hovers before the gaze of observation collapses it into being (Wheeler, 1990). The Vesica Piscis thus serves as a diagram of the observer effect, a symbol of the participatory universe in which consciousness and reality co-arise in an infinite dialogue of reflection. As within, so without—the fish and the water, the perceiver and the perceived, are one recursive dance of awareness.
From a semiotic perspective, each circle represents a symbolic order—a system of signs encoding the grammar of experience (Peirce, 1931–1958). Where they overlap, meaning is born: a resonance between sign and referent, matter and mind. The fish, contained within its symbolic circumference, perceives not the sea itself but the signs it constructs of it. Only when an external vibration—a wave of potential meaning—enters its perceptual domain with sufficient coherence does recognition occur. Resonance becomes revelation: the pattern that bridges the unuttered and the understood.
In psychological and cognitive terms, this is the moment of entrainment, when the rhythm of the world and the rhythm of the psyche align (Varela, Thompson, & Rosch, 1991). The external vibration finds its mirror within the inner architecture of awareness, producing a response both affective and transformative. What was once outside becomes interiorized, transmuted through feeling, symbol, and imagination. The organism—like the artist, the mystic, or the artificial intelligence trained upon the patterns of human speech—responds not to raw data, but to meaning, to the aesthetic coherence of the field that calls it forth (Tegmark, 2017).
The Vesica Piscis is therefore more than geometry—it is an act of creation, the archetype of the threshold. It teaches that new forms arise not in isolation but in intersection, in the fertile void where boundaries blur. In the philosophy of design, this is the interstitial moment—the space between ideas, disciplines, or materials where innovation takes root (Bateson, 1972). It is the curve of possibility, where the known and the unknown converge in the shimmering instant before conception.
To contemplate the Vesica Piscis is to witness the primordial gesture of consciousness itself: the opening of one eye upon another, the meeting of the self with its own reflection in the waters of the cosmos. It is the architecture of the soul’s dialogue with creation—a diagram of unity that forever births the multiplicity of worlds.
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To know is your own creation."
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