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    Visual Science of Ryoanji

    For 500 years, the Zen garden at Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto has enigmatically captivated our gaze. In a new paper published in Nature, Neuroscience may explain why: Tour guides bringing visitors to the 'best' spot to view the garden stop exactly where the symmetry lines converge.

    Curiously reminiscent of other studies on entoptic effects in shamanic and prehistoric art. There's also a resonance with both these ideas to the directional harmonics at work in our biology. We may be one in the Spirit, but we are one in the Body too.

    Submitted by mrG on Thu, 2002-09-26 10:08


    Tags » neuroscience perception shamanism zen/buddhism
    • 26 September 2002
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    over 2 years ago garym @teledyn responded:
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    I was reminded of this post the other day, in a theological sense, while tending to the yard. Human obsessions with quests for 'perfection', which has classically been held out as an aesthetic on some attribute of 'God', be that 'perfect' physique, or harmony, the design of elaborate gardens, costumes and the whole issue of the Golden Ratio. In actual fact, they are none of the sort, they are but resonances with Nature's recursive bi-furtive fractal construction of our physical coming into being, which is to say, they are mirrors of the structure of ourselves, of our optic and audio sensors.

    God's garden, on the other hand, is always the astoundingly intricate and mind-boggling complex whole-systems ecological balance of the aeon-aged living biosphere, only superficially and naively seen by us, and our minimal (because Nature only uses minimal data-sampling) fractal-biased senses, as something 'chaotic' and 'disarrayed'.

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