I’m really loving this guy’s visualization style. And the esoteric subjects too. I’ve got a bunch of esoteria visualized in my book. Sadly, for me, I think Michael does a better job.
The Great Circle
Spook! Many of the ancient ‘wonders of the world’ are apparently on the same latitude.
Precession
A key idea in the current Mayan 2012 end-of-the-world meme is that December 21st, 2012 coincides with the end of the Precession of the Equinox, a 26,000 galactic cycle. Hmmmmmm…
Mayan Interdimension Starmap
What would a Monday morning be without some Mayan mind mank?
Check out his Photostream on Flickr. Let me know if you find any other cool visualizers.
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Very interesting. Couldn’t help but notice the similarity: http://bit.ly/1elDsC
Isn’t that a picture of the chakras (sp?) as well?
Er — that isn’t a line of longitude (long, through the poles), nor is it even a line of latitude (parallel to the equator), it is a great circle set at an angle to the earth’s axis. And more intriguing because of that.
Um, I think you mean latitude (which describes north-southness) not longitude (which describes east-westness). HTH.
Awesome illustrations indeed!
Just want to note that the places on the “Great Circle” are NOT on the same longitude. See Michael’s reference: http://home.hiwaay.net/~jalison/
thanks for all those who pointed out my long / lati confusion
Still wrong. ;) As E pointed out, they’re on a circle, but not on the same latitude.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~jalison/
That Mayan Interdimension Startmap is amazing! Make a wallpaper please. :)
that is really neat, although I have to admit the last one is completely incomprehensible to me. :)
This Mayan interdimensional star map is all wrong. They would not use the chakra map. Additionally, there is far more to the 2012 story than the Mayan calendar. Dig deeper, 10 other ancient cultures have always known about the end of days.
All is one: Looks like The Sefirot/Tree of Life in Jewish Kabbalah (wikipedia and/or http://www.byzant.com/Mystical/Kabbalah/TreeOfLife.aspx)
It looks to me like he has cherry-picked his “wonders” to fit his theory. Why Egyptian pyramids and not Mayan ones, or Teotihuacan?
interesting considering that the continental plates have been moving all the time.
A key idea in the current Mayan 2012 end-of-the-world meme is that December 21st, 2012 coincides with the end of the Precession of the Equinox
Given that it’s a cycle, I can define tomorrow as the “end of the Precession of the Equinox”. December 21st, 2012, will be a busy shopping day, not the end of all things.
Especially since the earth’s axis has shifted (shifting of the continents within the timeframe of mankind is negligible), it might seem that climate played a larger part in the location of civilization’s ancient wonders than a geometric alignment.
The Mayan Star map is beautiful, but it does have one curiosity. Were the Mayans really aware of greek letters? I also wouldn’t over-read it to the Kabbalah, Chakras, etc. into it. It’s just an interconnected grid, for example you could draw the same with major roads in Manhattan, it doesn’t mean that Wall Street is Crystal Earth and SOHO is the OmniGalactic Source!
It’s really nice reading it as it made me aware of completely unknown facts. And it increase my knowledge to bit. Thanks for sharing such informative post.
I LOVE your work and the entire collection you’ve presented! What a fantastic collage of the mess we’ve created, here on planet earth… Impossible to single any one of them out, they’re all terrific and terribly revealing. …Uh-oh, at the moment I think I’m overdue for work on my Soul rendition!
I basically squeal with delight every time Michael Paulkner posts a new image. I don’t know what deep vein in my psyche his work is mining but the man knows what I like.
Interesting stuff.. this guy is a genius
That circle containing the wonders of the ancient world isn’t a great circle either, I’m afraid. A great circle is formed by the intersection of a plane, passing through the centre of the Earth, and the surface of the Earth. If you extend that circle inwards, you won’t meet at the centre of the Earth. It appears to be a circle on the Earth, which is formed when any old plane passes through the Earth. Still remarkable though, if true.
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