female legs & pink flamingos - the secret behind real beauty

While I continue to hear and read about all the bad things that happen to human minds using Facebook or other social networks, I wish to put that aside for a bit here. Let me just add one detail. In some comic drawings, they illustrated Facebook as being today´s drug - worse than heroin!

I would like to write about something slightly, no...far more..no completely the opposite of the digital world today. I would like to talk about nature.

Have you ever heard of Fibonacci?
He was an Italian mathematic during 12th Century Pisa. But I would like to suggest that his knowledge went far beyond the limits of what is considered mathematics of today.

Fibonacci discovered some relations between certain numbers, of what we can call "magic numbers". This relation is an important pattern whcih many artist, architects, musicians use to achieve a work in harmony with nature. Why is that?

Yes, because the same pattern as Fibonacci found between numbers, you can find in nature. You can see it in flowers, butterflies, crystals, dolphins or trees which are some of the most preciously beautiful creations we have on earth.

Not only. World famous musicians such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart both used the series of Fibonacci to create their music. 

So, what is my conclusion here?

What nature made is beautiful and filled with harmony. What was created this way always will be.

At the contrary, a lot of what is created today is not in harmony with natural laws. Consider modern pop music, modern art, modern buildings and cars.

During my recent trip to Rovinj, Croatia, I was wondering how some places seems so incredibly magical, while others appear to have no soul at all. I strolled around the narrow white cobblestoned streets, surrounded by the blue ocean, marveling at the pastel colored buildings created by the Venetians during the 15th-17th Centuries. I was just out of breath of all this beauty human kind was capable of.

Then, I thought through all the countries I have traveled, all the cities I have seen, all the historical buildings I kept vivid in my heart. And all the most amazing creations I have seen, made by human kind, have always been at least five hundred years old.

Take Alhambra, outside of Granada for instance. This Arabic kingdom, located in Spain, has its origins from the 13th Century and is one of the world´s masterpiece considering geometria and perfection in art.

Angkor Wat, Cambodia, is another case of human creation affined with perfection. It was also constructed around the same time, during the 12th Century.

So my theory is that people living five hundred years ago, or longer, they had an eye for building in harmony with nature and perfection. They knew what beauty was. Their only interest was to serve beauty, and no other interest which might prevail today such as economy, comfort or efficiency.

I would by this like to say that today´s crisis is not so much a crisis of economy, as it is a crisis of values, of culture and of beauty.

I wish human beings could learn from the past, rather than building stuff that they think will be enjoyable to look at in the future. In my view, Fibonacci was right all the time. We don´t need to look into the future for beauty. Real harmony can be found today, in nature.

running and running, but never leaving the Colosseum

Some people look for power
some people look for fame
some people look for prestige
to me its all the same

Some people look for love
some people look for honey
some people look for trouble
to me the problem in everybodys mind is money

Some people look for passion
some people look for travel
some people look for beauty
to me the essence of life is on another level

                                                                     Me


I have been writing on a few articles lately, not having to much spare time, nor inspiration to write
on my blog. However, I have come to the conclusion, the conclusions in my articles are always the same.

If you look at the paper I wrote on the microcosmos of bees, you will see how I through the text draw a red line comparing the bees with humans. If you look into a beehive, as you actually can do by watching a wonderful documentary called "More than bees", what you will learn is that bees have a complicated and intelligently built social pattern. They are all dependent on each other for the colony to survive. Each and every bee has a task to accomplish. The beehive survives through cooperation.
Through the documentary, it is a sad fact to see how the bees have been extinguished in certain parts of China by humans, while in the US they are being exploited and killed by millions.
While human beings are killing and extinguishing the bees, we are living in an increasingly individual society. This means we are not longer dependent on each other for survivance, and will in the end lead to a less integrated and more egoistic society. This is also a society where capitalistic powers can have a stronger control on the small individuals. Nature can therefore be less protected.
In an imaginery society where human beings would live just like a beehive, we would be dependent on each other, helping, caring and living in harmony with each other and with nature.

                                 Humans used violence against nature thousands of year ago, my question
                                            is: have we really come that far since Colosseum was the arena of violence?



Then, I also made a profound analysis of the profetia Maya. Discovering the myth behind the profetia, traveling nine hundred chilometers on Mexican territories, I found important insights behind the origins of it. Visiting Villahermosa, where the "Il Tortuguero numero 6" is located, I got a direct translation into Spanish of what was written in Mayan language thousands of years ago. What was really only the prediction of a god that would come down on earth to put some order, was by western fanatics interpreted as an apocalypse, for no real reason. There is no evidence that such a dramatic event would happen. There is, on the other hand, evidence that proves, that the world, in the eye of the Mayas, would not end. There is an inscription in the pyramids of Palenque stating a date far beyond December 23rd (not 21st!) 2012 when the apocalypse was predicted to destroy the earth.
However, what I find reasonable to believe is that the profetia only concerned the Mayan people. Many Mayan intellectuals have stated that they believe the profetia was intended for their own people. They believe their community should have some kind of compensation due to how they have been treated since the Spanish conquered their territories in the 15th Century. Many thinkers also believes the western world should learn from the Mayans: their respect for nature, their worship of mother earth, their capacity of being in harmony with the living beings.

In the end, my conclusion is always the same - human beings are threatening the survivance of mother earth and not living in harmony with her origins. Exploiting is not a long-term solution. Capitalism is destroying important balances which may never be replaced again. Humanity´s greed for more are leading us on a dangerous path, where only we, today can change its course.
We are running, and running, always looking forward. Maybe we should stop, stand still and reflect upon this: what are we running for and have we ever thought about where we are going to end up?