For this reason, we will build the Golden Mean, which produces the Golden Spiral. As the participant walks the path with openness, sensitivity, enthusiasm and earnestness to understand, a deeper meaning of nature’s mysteries can unfold and link to the origins of our creation. Green depicts growth, harmony, newness and fertility. It has great healing power and suggests stability and endurance. It is the color of free passage and the Golden Mean leads us into the Golden Spiral centered in a giant sequoia tree. Walking the Golden Mean into the center of the great tree has the potential of releasing us into “free passage” which is the right to come and go or pass through without restrictions, controls, or limits, honestly and openly. The Sequoia tree symbolizes immortality and represents earth. Pinecones represent fertility. The Sequoia is Associated with Pan, Attis, Venus, and Cybele and signifies growth, stability and endurance.
The Golden Mean is the most graceful and beautiful ratio in the universe. It is in the water, DNA, the proportions of fish and butterflies as well as in art and architecture, music, philosophy, science, and mathematics. Nature holds a great mystery, zealously guarded by her custodians from those who would abuse the wisdom. Periodically portions of this tradition are revealed to those of humanity who have attuned their eyes to see and ears to hear. This requires openness, sensitivity, enthusiasm and an earnest to understand the deeper meaning of Nature's marvels.
The natural process of life is birth, aging and death and this is throughout Nature. Mankind is not capable of creating anything out of thin air, independently of the natural causes. Our so-called control of nature arises from our ability to recognize the factors required to produce a particular result, and knowing how to manipulate them. Through knowing, man is able to utilize and take part in the cause and effect process. Only by interacting with and influencing things with wisdom can man/women be said to be controlling nature. Man/women’s thoughts and actions have an affect on Nature so we endeavor to create balance and harmony with Nature. The Ancients loved and worshipped trees and plants because they knew that they themselves were one with all of Nature. In order to carry out this project, we come into alliance with our relationship with nature, to green life, to living in harmony with the cosmos, the universe and our world. We wish to share this with others and travel together along the sacred path into the center of the spiral to discovery and magic.
We “become” the roots extending our thoughts and actions into the soil gaining sustenance from what is produced. We use our knowledge to manipulate nature in a positive way and working together collectively, in harmony will produce great result. The structure will be born and will live and die on the playa. The cycle of life complete.
Throughout the world green is the symbol of many things. In Ghardaia and other parts of M’zab, houses painted in green indicate that the inhabitants have made a pilgrimage to Mecca. Mecca is a place that is an important center and is visited by a great many people such as those who make the annual pilgrimage to the hot, dusty Burning Man Playa. Walking the Golden mean can be treated as a pilgrimage to the center, the heart, where knowledge of oneness with nature resides.
Green, blue-green, and blue are sacred colors in Iran where they symbolize paradise and so we create a simulated paradise a symbol for the result of living in tune with nature.
In Japan, green is regarded as the color of eternal life, and so he walk our path eternally, being embodied in new form each time we let go and come into accord with our relationship with nature.
In several religions, green is the color associated with rebirth and regeneration and our spiraling journey leaves us renewed and regenerated, with an added awareness towards our affinity with Nature.
