This is the story of a life-long quest to uncover the Principle of Equilibrium (or Symmetry) at the heart of all existence. In the Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett, KH refers to the one universal law as the Law of Equilibrium. Through a collaborative effort I can now demonstrate how the One is simultaneously the geometric, harmonic and arithmetic mean of Plato's Indefinite Dyad of the Greater and Lesser golden ratios and their square powers. We will consider the role played by spiritually transformative experiences (STEs), the Colonel Henry Felt lecture in HPB's NY apartment in 1875 that triggered the founding of the Theosophical Society, the alchemist/egyptologist Scwaller de Lubicz's primordial scission in the Temple of Man, Mohamed El Naschie's derivation of the quark and elementary particle masses, the interrelationship of the sun and moon including lunar eclipse cycles, and the way this Symmetry or Golden Balance is translated through Fibonacci and Lucas numbers into plant phyllotaxis, nucleotide arrangement, and the microtubules involved in Penrose and Hameroff's Orchestrated Objective Reduction theory of Consciousness. All of this emerges out of a single cut or primordial scission, the Golden Section.

A fundamental principle of harmony or equilibrium, found in Nature and the Cosmos, arises out of Plato's Principles of the One and the Indefinite Dyad (expressed through his Divided Line). As a non-dualist, Plato makes it clear that: “Two things cannot be rightly put together without a third; there must be some bond of union between them. And the fairest bond is that which makes the most complete fusion of itself and the things which it combines, and proportion (analogia) is best adapted to effect such a union.” Timaeus 31b-32a. Come discover with me how Plato's Intelligible and Sensible realms, the immaterial and material respectively, are bonded together through the Principles of the One and Indefinite Dyad giving rise to the Golden Balance enfolded throughout Nature and the Cosmos.

Together these panelists will explore what is heard, felt, and seen in spiritually transformative experiences (STEs) and beyond-the-veil encounters (BVEs). Sheri, Jessika, and Scott will discuss the objective evidence and insights surrounding electronic voice phenomena, distance healing, subtle energy fields, brain wave correlations, and the underlying geometric patterns, resonances, and symmetries. Join them for a mind-expanding and spiritually enriching journey through the science surrounding STEs and BVEs.

Near the end of a seven-year period of isolation and intense concentration, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, founder of Eranos, began doing geometric paintings that depicted the Quest of the Self towards psychosynthesis or individuation. Performed in a trance-like meditative state, during one painting Olga felt called to build a temple (lecture hall) to “study Theosophy, Mysticism, the Esoteric Sciences and Philosophies, and all forms of spiritual research.” She sought out fellow Theosophist Alice Bailey to form the Center for Spiritual Research. They began the school with a “Talk on Symbolism, and Demonstration of Occult Symbols” using 80 of Olga’s paintings. Bailey said the paintings “represent the Path of Initiation as trodden by the human being.” Paintings lining the lecture hall depicted the Grail Quest. The school ran from 1930 to 1932. After Jung criticized the Om painting calling it the “dark spirit,” the school became known as the Shadow (Schatten) of Eranos.

The most central – primal – issue facing each one of us – right from birth – is who are we? And what if it’s true that each of us is born with a purpose? The trick then becomes figuring it out during one’s lifetime so one can do something about it. The ageless wisdom is intimately tied to this process. And it is sometimes symbolized by the building of the antakarana – the rainbow bridge – bonding together the above and the below into a unified whole as one forges one’s path. Scott will share some of his own path of discovery and experiences with the renowned esotericist Douglas Baker.

Aryel and Scott, two veterans of the esoteric trenches, will draw their discussion from a variety of esoteric subjects: Krishnamurti and David Bohm, “brain mutation” & transformation of consciousness, Golden Balance, American Experiment, Revival of the Mysteries, overcoming ego and outmoded Victorian language.

Near the end of a seven-year period of isolation and intense concentration, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, founder of Eranos, began doing geometric paintings that depicted the Quest of the Self towards psychosynthesis or individuation. Performed in a trance-like meditative state, during one painting Olga felt called to build a temple (lecture hall) to “study Theosophy, Mysticism, the Esoteric Sciences and Philosophies, and all forms of spiritual research.” She sought out fellow Theosophist Alice Bailey to form the Center for Spiritual Research. They began the school with a “Talk on Symbolism, and Demonstration of Occult Symbols” using 80 of Olga’s paintings. Bailey said the paintings “represent the Path of Initiation as trodden by the human being.” Paintings lining the lecture hall depicted the Grail Quest. The school ran from 1930 to 1932. After Jung criticized the Om painting calling it the “dark spirit,” the school became known as the Shadow (Schatten) of Eranos.