One of the ways the art does this is through expressions of harmonic form in general and through the use of the Golden Mean in particular. A recent confirmation of the vitality of the Golden Mean as an organizing principle of this emerging art movement can be found in a group of crop circle patterns that appeared in southwest England during the summer of 1996. Many of these huge and complex formations that mysteriously appeared in farmers' fields made prominant use of sacred geometry and fractal mathematics in thier designs. To fully describe the substance of the emerging spiritual renaissance art movement is beyond the scope of this book. However, a discussion of the vitality and relevance of the Golden Mean would not be complete without mention of its role in the generation of this new art movement in our time.
Every movement needs identifying symbols.
In the Sixties the peace symbol served to define and unify the hippie movement. The peace symbol is versatilr can be made with a hand gesture. And the hand gesture for Phi is made by holding up the side of your fist to reveal the golden spiral in your hand. Phi is a wonderful symbol because it is simple yet complex, meaningful yet mysterious, useful yet transcendental. The Golden Mean shows the connection between the physical and spiritual universes in the simplest, most direct way possible.