Why do identical geometric patterns appear in cultures that never had contact with each other?

Drake and Holly explore the mysterious universality of sacred geometry, from Egyptian pyramids to Tibetan mandalas, revealing how certain shapes and ratios appear across all human civilizations. They examine scientific evidence that these patterns exist at every level of reality - from quantum particles to galactic structures - and discuss why human consciousness seems naturally attuned to recognise and create these forms.

Key Topics:

• The golden ratio in nature and architecture
• Jung's discovery of spontaneous mandala creation
• Islamic geometric art as contemplation tool
• Platonic solids from ancient philosophy to modern physics
• Cymatics: how sound creates geometric patterns
• Fractal geometry in nature and consciousness
• The flower of life as universal blueprint

Featured Concepts:

Anamnesis: The remembering of knowledge the soul already possesses

Cymatics: The study of visible sound creating geometric patterns in matter

Vesica Piscis: The almond shape formed by overlapping circles, representing intersection of worlds

Tensegrity: Fuller's principle of structural integrity through balanced tension

Essential Quote: "These patterns aren't just out there in the world. They're in here, in consciousness itself. The mandala emerges spontaneously from the psyche because the psyche itself is patterned on geometric principles."

Practical Takeaway: Begin noticing geometric patterns in nature - spirals in shells, hexagons in honeycomb, branching in trees. These observations can awaken recognition of the same patterns within your own consciousness.

Key References:

• Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols
• Benoit Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature
• Eugene Wigner, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences"
• Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics

About Ab Immemorabili: Ancient wisdom meets modern minds. Join Drake & Holly for explorations of philosophy, consciousness, and transformation.

Contact: podcast@maaoot.org | www.maaoot.org

The wisdom you seek has always been within you. You're not learning it. You're remembering it.

What if you could sit with Plato's Republic, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, or the Bhagavad Gita line by line, with a brilliant guide walking you through every argument?

In this special bonus episode, Drake and Holly introduce their sister podcast, The Primary Texts. Hosted by Adam, this companion show does something rare in the philosophy podcast world: it reads the actual texts. Not summaries. Not greatest hits. Eighty percent or more of each chapter, explored in depth over episodes that run two hours when the content demands it.

From the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Popol Vuh, The Primary Texts works through philosophy's foundational works with the care and attention they deserve. This episode features the official trailer, giving you a taste of what Adam brings to these ancient sources.

If Ab Immemorabili is the conversation about wisdom, The Primary Texts is the deep study of its source material.

Essential Quote: "Complete engagement with philosophy's foundations."

Practical Takeaway: Subscribe to The Primary Texts wherever you listen to podcasts and begin with whichever text calls to you most.

About Ab Immemorabili: Ancient wisdom meets modern minds. Join Drake & Holly for explorations of philosophy, consciousness, and transformation.

Contact: podcast@maaoot.org | www.maaoot.org

The wisdom you seek has always been within you. You're not learning it. You're remembering it.

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If the true Dao cannot be spoken, why did Lao-tzu write 5,000 words about it?

Drake and Holly dive deep into philosophy's greatest paradox - how mystics across all traditions use language to point beyond language itself. From Lao-tzu's opening declaration through Wittgenstein's limits, from Zen koans to Sufi poetry, they explore the sophisticated strategies developed to express the inexpressible.

Key Topics:

• The Daodejing's opening paradox and Chinese linguistic ambiguity
• Apophatic theology across Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions
• Nagarjuna's tetralemma and Buddhist logic
• Mantras, sacred repetition, and consciousness transformation
• The unpronounceable name of God
• Mystical poetry as consciousness technology
• Silence as the deepest form of communication

Featured Concepts:

Apophatic Language: The via negativa - speaking through negation to point beyond concepts

Anamnesis: The unforgetting of eternal wisdom already present within

Shabda: The cosmic vibration underlying all language in Hindu philosophy

Essential Quote: "The ineffable isn't distant or complex. It's the simplest thing, hidden in plain sight—too intimate for words, too immediate for concepts, too present for representation."

Practical Takeaway: The ineffable isn't a philosophical problem to solve but a lived reality. All mystical language is preparing you to step beyond words into direct experience - like learning to swim, eventually you must enter the water.

Key References:

• Lao-tzu, Daodejing
• Pseudo-Dionysius, Mystical Theology
• Nagarjuna, Mulamadhyamakakarika
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

About Ab Immemorabili: Ancient wisdom meets modern minds. Join Drake & Holly for explorations of philosophy, consciousness, and transformation.

Contact: podcast@maaoot.org | www.maaoot.org

The wisdom you seek has always been within you. You're not learning it. You're remembering it.