Tour of Wholeo, Text Path

The tour starts outside the dome, then goes inside. The views start in the south, sweep the two sun paths, look to the north, and move up to the top of the dome. As you read, click on highlighted words to open related images. GIF images are generally smaller than JPEG images.

| medium JPEG | larger GIF | Fisheye lens view: looking at Wholeo from the middle of the floor straight up and all around 360 degrees. Or take a look around.

Wholeo From the Outside

"Wholeo looks small from the outside and big from the inside," said an observant child.

| small GIF | larger JPEG | Wholeo at Harmony, Sonoma county, California.
| larger JPEG | Wholeo in Monte Rio, outside, from the northwest.
| larger JPEG | Looking over the signature panel in the northwest.

Views Within Wholeo

The design of Wholeo is deliberately a patchwork. Each figure serves as a ground for another figure, making a rich tapestry of visions that invites your participation.

When you enter Wholeo you see broad arcs of rainbow colors that stretch along the sun path from east to west. The earth below completes the arcs as circles.

South - the Vision Quest

In the green arc below the aqua arc, sits a person in contemplation, asking for visions of the whole self.

| small GIF | larger JPEG | In the south is a person whose head is in a breathing cloud.
| small GIF | | larger JPEG | The aqua surrounds the green arc. Tiny energy sources (shown as green/gold sandwiches) could be called "cosmic juices."
| larger JPEG | Above the breathing cloud, a prism sends rainbows from due south.
| larger JPEG | Detail of the prism in the south.
| larger JPEG | To the right in the aqua arc, flying forms and a prototype cell.

Sun Path - Birth, Consciousness, and Death

Close up, the person sees what is most familiar. That is the arc of birth, consciousness, and death. Birth is placed in the east near the rising sun, consciousness at high noon, and death near sunset in the west.

Views at dawn

| small GIF | larger JPEG | Looking east, the "Smallest Unit of Life (SUL)" is the rounded form.
| larger JPEG | Rebirth, as if recycled through the earth from death in the west.
| larger JPEG | Dawn between rebirth and the SUL.
| larger JPEG | Another view of dawn.
| thumbnail | larger JPEG | Etched and layered flash glass, detail of the SUL.

Noon, consciousness, and death end

| small GIF | larger JPEG | Overview of consciousness, say it's a brain cell.
| larger JPEG | Four phases of brain cell activity.
| larger JPEG | Detail of associations in the brain cell.
| small GIF | larger JPEG | Looking up in the south.
| small GIF | larger JPEG | Overview of the western end of the sun path.
| small JPEG | | larger JPEG | Death, from left to right, moment of death, slow death, and transition.
| small GIF | larger JPEG | Death end.
| small JPEG | | larger JPEG | Death end, detail.

Beyond the Sun Path - Creation, Breathe In, and Breathe Out

| small GIF | larger JPEG | Focus on spring and creation, drenched in red.
| small GIF | larger JPEG | Paths spring from the sides of the panel devoted to spring and creation.
| small GIF | larger JPEG | Looking at an arc from east to west.
| small GIF | larger JPEG | Looking northeast past spring and creation, a panel about breathing in.
| larger JPEG | Detail of breathe in.
| larger JPEG | Cosmic juices, the green/gold sandwiches, as transmuted in a person.

North - From Essence of Being to Aura

| small GIF | larger JPEG | Looking north. An overview of an aura and essence of being.
| small GIF | larger JPEG | Essence of being a wholly developed person.
| larger JPEG | Upper double helix.
| larger JPEG | Upper double helix in reflected light.
| larger JPEG | Lower double helix.
| small GIF | larger JPEG | Looking to the left or west of the being.
| larger JPEG | Looking to the left, detail.
| larger JPEG | Looking to the right or east of the being.

Looking Up at Aura/Wavelengths

| small GIF | larger JPEG | Looking straight up gives a wide-angle view from south to north. The aura is the blue mandala with chiseled flecks of rainbow colors that forms a notation for wavelengths. {Cross-references}
| larger JPEG | Overview of Aura/Wavelengths.
| small GIF | larger JPEG | Brighter Aura/Wavelengths.
| larger JPEG | Detail of Aura/Wavelengths.

Looking Up - Above

| larger JPEG | Across the top of the dome, in the background, is an arrow composed of juxtaposed after images.
| larger JPEG | Tweezle wootz (playful name of a new species) and cosmic juices.
| small GIF | larger JPEG | Looking up in the south at "Triangulation." The panel relates the coordinates on one sphere to the coordinates on another sphere via the stars.
| small GIF | larger JPEG | Detail of "Triangulation."

This page last modified : 20 June, 2008

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