(Sunday, April 2, 2017) moon first quarter Gemini / tarot Strength
My next ceramic piece will be a mobile based on my dream of the three-dimensional, spinning Star of David, the merkaba. I shared this dream at our retreat last fall. The sculpture will have three elements: merkaba, heart-at-the-door, and a kite or kite tails.
Interestingly, I picked up Dr. Thomas Cowan’s book from the library called “Human Heart, Cosmic Heart.” I heard him present on a webinar and wanted to learn more about his approach to cardiology. He is an advocate of Rudolf Steiner (like Thom Hartmann) and also Weston A. Price. Surprising influences on a modern physician.
Steiner said the three most important things for the further evolution of humanity are: 1. that people stop working for money, 2. that people realize there is no difference between sensory and motor nerves, 3. that the heart is not a pump.
Cowan has spent nearly 40 years trying to decipher what Steiner meant about the heart. During his research he discovered an artist named Frank Chester who has created three dimensional objects based on Steiner and a bioengineer named Dr. Gerald Pollack. The sculptures end up using four equilateral triangles and three kite-shaped quadrilaterals, tilted at a 36 degree angle within a box. Steiner described the heart as a seven-sided form that sits in an imaginary box in the chest. The actual shape that Chester ended up with was based on Pollack’s research into vortexes and the electrical flow of “structured water” and “bulk water.” The heart tilts at 36 degrees within the chest cavity.
Fascinating stuff. I dreamt of this living shape last night, resting at an angle within a small box. My sculpture will include a heart framed by a door (similar to Steiner’s box concept) and a kite. The merkaba is the union of male and female tetrahedrons. In chakra language that would mean the heart, the centerpoint of the lower and upper chakras.
This little summary looks at sacred geometry but deep into the book Dr. Cowan focuses on the imperfections of science and medicine. He examines with great poetry the spiritual components of illness and of healing.