Curious about the depth to which they delve? Watch the following vid.
This vid will resonate mostly with people who have heard of the Fibonacci sequence before, and like the band Tool.
However, even if you haven't and/or don't, then bare with me. The reason for putting this vid up has a purpose.
Here it is:
What should be understood is that I'm not putting this up to promote Tool (even though they're awesome. (woops).). The focus here is the Fibonacci sequence (google it).
I had an interesting psychedelic experience come over me one day where i became completely aware of all things in life occurring in spirals. Thoughts, events, feelings, situations, time, patterns, objects, nature, everything. And then in those spirals there were other spirals, and in THOSE spirals there were spirals. The pattern continues until BANG - we have what we perceive as reality. The spirals are so deep within spirals within spirals within spirals and so on that we don't even recognise them as spirals.
It's hard to explain, and nevermind if you don't understand. (Hell, even i can barely understand my own epiphany at this stage). But the point is, it was this experience that felt so significant and real that lead me to ask questions about spirals and its relation to the nature of the flow of life. I pursued for knowledge. I thought to myself, "Surely, somewhere in the world somebody else has had similar realizations too", so i googled away, and sure enough, "the truth was out there".
Enter the concepts of the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio (google them).
If you can't be bothered googling for yourself. Here's some links from a quick dig i just did then:
- The Fibonacci Number (wiki)
- The Golden Ratio (wiki)
- The Fibonacci Sequence, Spirals and the Golden Man
- Scientists find clues to the formation of Fibonacci spirals in nature
- The Divine Proportion
- The Fibonacci Series
- Fibonacci Numbers in Nature
That should be enough for now.
The Fibonacci Sequence, although simple, i believe has a complex significance to it that could provide answers to the nature of the flow of life. I believe there is a divine meaning behind it, and understanding it could reveal answers about reality and time. Just gotta study it now.
Hah, Mr Blagshore you know I'm a tool junky/fanboy but as I told you when I was trying to explain this concept (even half wasted as I was) the one thing I love about the implication here in that video is this.
ReplyDeleteMaynard is trying to tell us that we should be able to embrace the random, understand, accept and flow through life with understanding that doesn't have a knowledge pre-requisite. But at the end of it there's always that missing sequence that suggests "yeah, understand, read, digest however fuck all of that, just do -what you want- what makes you feel alive.
"Listen to what I have to say, but make your own decision" which in itself is incredibly circular.
In addition to all of this, on the Fibonacci spirals. I'm sure you've done the research enough to know that there's thousands of organisms (flora and fauna) that display this mark and some theologists theory that if god exists, this is his fingerprint.
Words for thought.
I don't remember talking to you face-to-face about it? If we did, then i must've been drunk too. :p
ReplyDeleteI just remember pondering about spirals of life and the fibonacci sequence one day, then later that day when i was at kim's, roxi showed us the lateralus vid and said that you showed her. This happend on the same day! Interesting synchronicity i reckon.
That's interesting, your interpretation of what maynard was trying to achieve. I can definitely see that. I don't know if it would be that specific though. My thought was that he was more writing a song that relates the theories of fibonacci sequence and how it parallels with the flow life itself. Its this knowledge that can be taken as such to be able to know that learning about the fibonacci sequence = learning about LIFE.
So in that way, it's like, as you mentioned - Maynard's intention with the song is to awaken, via offering a door, that we have to open ourselves.