Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00979)

Dear Cass,

Your daughter has the trick. All we have to do is make a mental rotation of 
the 2-D image in our mind's eye and then look at it from any angle we want to 
-- including from the back side. People with great mechanical aptitude or 
artistic talent do this automatically. Anyone who tries this and practices until 
they can easily draw any object from the same 3-D angle they see it in their 
mind, will be born with that "talent" in their next life. It's not much 
different from learning to ride a bicycle -- which the brain-body doesn't forget 
(at least during this lifetime). However, the mind, especially its higher 
aspects of intuitive memory, never forgets. Although, to be an adept artist in a 
new body, it will take practice in training the new brain to improve the skill 
and teach it how to coordinate the eye with the hand so the action becomes 
automatic. Incidentally, the same process works with sound and skilled 
musicianship. 

BTW, such visualization practice also teaches us to recognize that the 
consciousness or spirit is separate from what it sees or experiences, and is one of 
the most important aspects of meditation practice that leads to self 
realization or enlightenment. (Vide, Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms.) The trick there is to 
advance visualization to such a state that one can see beyond 3-D into the 
higher fractal dimensions -- such as symbolically pictured in my chakrafield 
diagrams:
http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/chakrafield.html
http://users.aol.com/leonmaurer/invlutionflddiagnotate.gif 

You might also be interested in seeing how the fractal spherical geometry and 
the fractal regular polygon (octahedron) geometry interrelate -- by 
meditating on these 3-D images:
http://users.aol.com/leonmaurer/UNIOMNIFORMexploded.gif

Best wishes,

Leon

In a message dated 01/24/05 10:08:08 PM, silva_cass@yahoo.com writes:

>
>Dear Leon
>Had fun with the Tesseract 4, and notice that it reduces to two dimensions.
> My daughter draws in 3D, when I asked her how she did it, she says she
>sees everything from above or outside of the image, as if looking down
>on it.
>Cass
>
>leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
>
>
>In a message dated 01/19/05 7:03:22 AM, silva_cass@yahoo.com writes:
>
>>That is my question.
>>Cass
>
>Depends on what you are capable of imagining -- based on how well developed
>
>is your power of imagination. 
>
>I could imagine in 3D and color since I was a young child. It started me
>
>drawing in 3D and perfect perspective (that amazed my family and teachers)
>before I was 7 years old. Most of the students I met, when I studied art in 
my
>teens at a special school for talented children, also had that capability. 
Some 
>of us could even draw in 3D from our imagination and even with our eyes
>closed or not looking at the paper. (In fact, that was one of the tests for 
entry
>into that school.) Such a skill came so naturally to me, that I couldn't
>imagine that anyone else couldn't do it -- until I tried teaching such
>drawing ability to all my untalented neighborhood friends. :-) 
>
>I still believe it can be trained, however -- since, in later years, I was 
>successful in teaching others to visualize in 3-D. Incidentally, only one of 
my 
>brothers had a similar talent (and he became a well known comic book 
>illustrator, and later, an animation and film production designer)... 
Although,
>none of my children showed that same early talent. Incidentally, my intuitive
>understanding of how we see and imagine in 3D depth, helped me invent 3D
>Comic books in the early 50's. See: http://www.ray3dzone.com/LM.html 
>
>So, perhaps, for those born with it, it's a talent that was developed in
>a previous life. (And, therefore, could be trained in this life.) I know 
that 
>after some years of meditation and visualization practice, I am able to 
imagine 
>forms in 4 and even 5 dimensions. For example, I can see a 4D hypercube
>or tesseract, and even a 5D hypertesseract in my minds eye... But, I can't
>describe such images -- except, possibly, as a 2-D or 3-D line drawing... 
Vide,
>my chakrafield diagrams -- which symbolically, represents an imaginary 
cross-section
>of a 7 or more dimensional sphere. Also, look at how a 4D tesseract is drawn 
>in 2D and animated in 3D at:
>http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Geometry/Tesseract.shtml
>
>Enjoy your imaginings,
>
>Leon...