[Dokescoonse]

dear friends,

hey what do you know...people are awakening. i wrote something along this line over 5 years ago which i sent you, but i can't seem to find it. i'll keep searching...

http://www.realitysandwich.com/shape_universe

be well, be love.

david

the shape of the universe
howard rheingold
this article originally appeared in whole earth review.

if you are fortunate enough to share a neighborhood with a leafy elm, a gnarly oak, a soaring redwood, take another look at its silhouette against the sky. that self-similar 4-d explosion of branching branches is a clue to a cosmic riddle or two and a key concept in fields as unrelated as vascular surgery and software design.

the buddha knew this, and so do neurologists, database programmers, and mythologists.

axis mundi, the axis of the world, is the tree at the center of everything sacred. mythologist joseph campbell, referring to the buddha's awakening, noted that: "this is the most important single moment in oriental mythology, a counterpart of the crucifixion of the west. the buddha beneath the tree of enlightenment (the bo tree) and christ on holy rood (the tree of redemption) are analogous figures, incorporating an archetypal world savior, world tree motif, which is of immemorial antiquity."