If our reality constructs are strictly along the lines of the Euclidean methodology of black and white and the triangle response then we are doomed to robot like mechanical responses to anything and everything around us. Our operating parameters are thus predetermined, fixed and pitiful in the sense that events outside ourselves determine what we see and feel. The flaw in our thinking is that the universe is not so simple. It is more along the lines of infinite shades of gray. When we choose to accept that Euclidean methodology, though useful, has limited us in our ability to deal with the universe, we open up the incredible resources and possibilities of multidimensional mathematics and fractal geometry.
Fractals are such objects.
It is my intent in this issue of Metaphoria to suggest that while fractals may be a mathematical concept, they are also, by the inherent nature of their existence, definition and description an important psycho-spiritual metaphor of what we are and what we might become. Fractals form a new field of mathematics - sometimes referred to as the geometry of nature because these strange and chaotic shapes describe natural phenomena such as earthquakes, trees, bark, ginger root, coastlines, and have applications in astronomy, economics, meteorology and cinematography. I wish to add that fractals describe who we are. It is my contention that fractals have vast psycho-spiritual implications. They offer a rich insight into the essence of our being.