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“when the heart expresses the emotion of love it creates a cascade of golden mean electromagnetic waves, creating gravity just like the atom does when it attracts via golden mean braiding electromagnetic waves into the still-point” miro krawczynski director: new earth design & deveopment faculty a song of the loving heart The nature of consciousness suggests that man lives always on the threshold of something more. Art, Poetry, Architecture, Music and Dance are tangents which exist as conduits to that beyond. The connections between words and the visual representation of ideas, pulsating sounds, electric gestures, often unexpected, give rise to a contemplative awareness that transcends the bondage of the moment. For a long time, pseudo-scientific determinism like many other dogmas made us believe that conscious awareness originates in the brain alone. On the contrary, our own experience suggests that consciousness actually emerges from the brain and body acting together as a whole. Recent, growing body of evidence suggests that the heart plays a particularly significant role in this process. Our design story based on recent understanding of fractal geometry goes to the heart of it all. The term “fractal” was coined by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975 and popularized in a scientific paper by him two years later. In just the last couple decades, we have learned that fractal geometry – and its related field of chaos theory – forms the very basis of science. “Chaos,” as its name implies, is the study of processes that appear so random that they do not seem to be governed by any known laws or principles, but which actually have an underlying order. We now know that the physical, biological, social and the economic universe is not random, and we’re beginning to determine just what that underlying “code” is. Researchers are learning that everything natural is created by the immutable laws of fractal geometry. This includes static elements as well as energy flows, living things, and their behavior patterns. They are all built on self-similar patterns that replicate each other on increasing and decreasing scales, sort of like Russian nesting dolls. The various levels of scale are not all exactly alike, but they are all self-similar and build one on top of the other based upon a fundamental ‘code’ that reproduces itself on different scales. In both the metaphysical and practical sense, the entire universe is built by fractal geometry. While it’s a relatively simple concept to under-