Fractals
Channel: Luminance Healing
Date: 2020-11-28

Fractal
Pronunciation /ˈfraktəl/ /ˈfræktəl/ 

A curve or geometric figure, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole. Fractals are useful in modeling structures (such as eroded coastlines or snowflakes) in which similar patterns recur at progressively smaller scales, and in describing partly random or chaotic phenomena such as crystal growth, fluid turbulence, and galaxy formation.
‘Many natural chaotic systems form fractals in the patterns that record the process.’
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/fractal

a complicated pattern in mathematics built from simple repeated shapes that are reduced in size every time they are repeated: 
The way that the trunk of a tree divides into smaller and smaller branches and twigs is an approximate fractal pattern.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fractal 


Fractals are one of those things that once you know about them, you can’t unsee them. They are so magical that every time I come across one it feels like a little burst of connection to the universe, to the magic that lays beyond what my mind can comprehend. 

As above, so below.

The key to all magic. It means that what is within me is outside of me. As it is on earth, so it is in heaven. As I am, so are my cells, so are my atoms, so is God. Basically, as I believe the world to be, so it is.

- adapted from The Emerald Tablet

One of the things that makes fractals so fascinating to me is that they are the embodiment of the theory that the macro is a reflection of the micro, and vice versa. Fractals feel very logical to me, I can wrap my mathematical brain around them. If fractals make sense, then I can fairly easily extrapolate that the universe, with all the planets, stars, and galaxies are a large reflection of us. And, that we are a large reflection of what is happening in the energetic or at the level of the quantum. 

We can’t measure or verify with science so many of the spiritual concepts that I think about regularly. However, the idea of fractals and the mathematic presence behind them support my faith in so much of what I believe.