The aesthetic beauty and symmetry of the Platonic Solids have made them a favorite subject of geometers for thousands of years. They are named for the ancient Greek philosopher Plato who theorized that the classical elements were constructed from five regular solids: the dodecahedron, icosahedron, octahedron, hexahedron and tetrahedron–there are no other possible regular polyhedrons. The 92 Johnson Solids are irregular polyhedrons which, as the Platonic Solids, are also made out of triangles, squares and pentagons.
The Platonic Scroll Series serve as analogy to our inter-connectivity and the imponderable quality of harmony that unify us. It is to be noticed that there is no set manner as to how these manifestations may be perceived by any observer. Our reality is ever so much more interesting than any image representing it or anything that can be explicated.
MN> The film My Dinner with Andre was recently canceled in Caracas.
RM> This is coincidentally one of my favorite movies of all times.
MN> There is also “Wings of Desire” (Der Himmel über Berlin), one may see them apart but with some connection…
RM> Having a profound impact during the Eighties, I came to own DVD’s for both of these films; you have just reminded me to view them again, like re-reading a good book. These days I seek a better understanding by reading J. Krishnamurti’s innumerable publications [Krishnamurti Foundation of America].
MN> Have you read through Osho Rajneesh? or traditional G.I. Gurdjieff? There is another movie kind of interesting Meeting with Remarkable Men by Peter Brook…
RM> I understand that in either instance leadership and methodology overshadow search for truth.
MN> That is right but the info is all about the same methods for increasing your consciousness…Sufi and new Indian…Interesting comments found on Powels book Gurdjieff. Also a very interesting approach to the knowledge in Ouspensky’s Fragments of an Unknown Teaching…
RM> I am mostly leery of anyone who pretends the attainment of truth through a technique, a method or a system, a belief or a dogma, for in doing so he/she succumbs to divisiveness. As much as I admire Krishnamurti, I don’t follow anyone’s authority: neither Jesus’, nor Muhammad’s, nor Buddha’s and much less any ashram’s or famous guru’s. I find it useful to recall a quote from J.K. which is very much apropos: “Beauty (truth) is in experiencing, not in experience. Reality has no resting place.” The understanding I take is that our collective past does not belong to anyone, though knowledge of it may be useful to establish its limits.
MN>Yes, the path is the one taken by a mind alone; I do share the same perspective about freedom. I used to say to my friends that I was a man of no land and no heroes.. or maybe not only was I mentally ill but, perhaps, socially disabled. It is very pleasant to communicate with you. In rare occasions does one truly have a dialogue.
RM> You meant not inclined to gregariousness, as opposed to socially disabled or unsociable. Though disability in terms of sociability is tantamount to the inability of compassion, I do see you as a most compassionate human being.
Observations On Perception 