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I'm working on the outline for the Cathedral III episode of Bitcoin And. This could get a little crazy. I have been working with a couple of concepts that I want to introduce into the way I go about describing Cathedral.

Cathedral's primary geometry (its perimeter) is a square. From a "Sacred Geometry" standpoint the square represents many things all of which made me catch my breath a little when I started researching it.

1. Stability & Structure: Four equal sides and four right angles create a sense of order, permanence, and balance.

2. The Earth Element: Many traditions connect the square to the physical, grounded, material world; soil, stone, and the human-built environment.

3. Containment & Foundation: A square is a boundary; it defines space, frames activity, and creates a platform to build upon.

4. The Four: It naturally invokes the number four: four seasons, four directions, four elements, and four winds.

If Cathedral’s outer frame is a square, but its functions (animal movement, seasonal cycles, harvest patterns) trace out repeating sinusoidal rhythms (and they do) then we're essentially embedding a "circle" inside the square. The sinusoidal pattern emerges through livestock rotation, rotational harvest schedules, and seasonal changes in canopy, pasture, and energy flows. It's literally the 2D graph of a circle’s rotation over time. This means the motion inside Cathedral mirrors the geometry of the circle. As it happens, a circle inside a square is one of the most ancient sacred geometry motifs.

Two other things I'm going to try and embed in Cathedral III are:

1. Hoyle's Resonance in the carbon formation process as it relates to

2. Collapsing the probability Wave Function

In stars, two helium-4 nuclei occasionally fuse to form beryllium-8 (Be). But Be is extremely unstable. Be exists for a mere 10^−16 seconds before decaying back into two helium nuclei. For carbon to form, another helium nucleus must fuse with Be before it decays.

Just as the Hoyle Resonance collapses an improbable intermediate state into carbon, Cathedral collapses potential (geometry, biology, design) into soil, carbon, and fertility.

I'm not sure if I can pull this off but it'll be interesting to find out. Stay tuned.

If you haven't seen Cathedral I and II here are the links.

Cathedral I: https://www.bitcoinandshow.com/cathedral-one-thousand-acre-years/

Cathedral II: https://www.bitcoinandshow.com/cathedral-ii-clocks-calendars-and-computers/

Pangaea 4mo ago 💬 3

Preparing for Cathedral III...

I remember reading something about the ratio of property line/fronteer/border to the (surface) area ~ acreage of the land. I will try to find the BIBLIO source.

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Thornless trees reverting to thorny variety. Townspeople hated Mollison after the thorned varieties came back. Had you heard of this town in Australia who hated Mollison after his introduction of trees to this desertified or desertifyig town--which made it green and covered the land with green--but later the thorns returned. I think i first heard it from Paul Wheaton and his Permies.com world domination space/empire--jokingly reminiscet oif the evil industiral captains and James Bond villains, or Permaculture Voices podcast, host of which was in California somehwere.

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Equivalent of old growth for prairie plants: WildFed episode--hosted by Daniel Vitalis, creator of SurThrival products--interviewing Sam Thayer x Herbicides who speaks about the maybe 500 year old grasses, forbes or prairie grasses that the use of Roundup or the chemical therein erased a multi-year, multi-decade or centurial perennial grasses or other prairie plants.

Here as well, i will try to find the timestamp (shortformed as my own acronym of TS for my Communication f.) of this keystone fact. Street and highway -sides disregarded, and maintained open with Glyphosate based products that liquify, erase, grub out, melt, poof,... this age old prairie that some humans at one point actually "broke"--they broke the prairie--and sequestered the age old, perennial grasses, frobs, plants, ?grains?,…

Herbicide, Habitat & Edibility with Sam Thayer — WildFed Podcast #147

https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/147

This podcast is now defunct, not-continued. Though there are some good eco-jewels, nuggets, historic gifts, legacy capitals,... to harvest and take 'vantage of. May that opportunity always exist.! Maybe Thayer, Vitalis and ex-Wild-Fed need to learn about Nostr eh?

Amoung others, thank you Jack Spirko!

If you are wondering about previous spelling conventions, i am of the Canuck, Kanada, spelling tendency.

Thank you DB, i am enjoying your exploration of/with Cathedral. Multifaceted. You are living the 8 Forms of Capital--a la Soloviev and It is the Understanding Knowledge read exemplified, iterated, imagined, dreamed, imaged (image vs. imagine; there is a difference).

I am eventaully getting my shit together to be able to send and receive lightning--and you are one of many, but first to be congratulated--whether of the honey locust or black locust crowd.

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Pangaea 4mo ago 💬 1

Diego was the name of the host of Permaculture Voices podcast who also did some Permaculture Voices conferences or meetups. I forget the right name.

Nunya Bidness 4mo ago

Diego is right. I went to PV III in San Diego.

Nunya Bidness 4mo ago

Thank you for this.

Yes. I have heard about the town that wanted to string Bill up, but I thought he had planted regular honey locust.

Two things:

1. I know of public schools that have thornless HL all over and have had for decades and they have yet to go thorned. Doesn't mean it won't happen but it seems slow to happen. Maybe the newer varieties don't express thorns for much longer?

2. The plan for Cathedral involves intensive management so if any thorned instances were to occur the management plan requires it's removal and replanting with another thornless sapling. We haven't gotten to the management plan yet but we will.

Pangaea 3mo ago

The quote referred to in 1st paragraph follows.

"The smaller the site the more the edge effect is emphasized, because the ratio of the perimeter to the total areas of the site increases as the site gets smaller."

—Chirs Meuli

"Sponge Ladders", Permaculture Drylands Journal, April 1996.