Pi and Healing
There are many ways to envision how the rational mind meets one’s spirit. We have explored this meeting as a deep embrace within the Soul. This deep embrace has many expressed corollaries. In our day-to-day lives it may be a gesture, a smile, a posture, a song or word(s), creation of any kind, a random act of kindness or an intense and needed challenge to our notion of self. Its expression is limitless and yet simultaneously precise. It is a manifestation of Pi.
Pi or ð is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry, approximately 3.14159....... Pi is a mathematical constant and a transcendental, and therefore irrational, real number, with many uses in mathematics, physics, engineering and healing. It is also known as Archimedes' constant. By its very definition Pi is a mathematical and cosmic relationship between a finite distance (the diameter) and its infinite correspondent (the circle). The descriptive terms used in its definition help us to see its larger meaning. Terms like transcendental, irrational and real.
Seemingly random yet exactingly precise. Mathematicians have carried the expression of pi into the billions of digits with no known end. This precision expressed as a random and non-repeating sequence is a direct metaphor for conscious living by seeing there is only one optimal expression in each moment. If we as seemingly imperfect human beings do not recognize this optimal expression, yet another moment arises that carries the potential for yet another optimal expression. These moments as opportunities for authenticity repeat infinitely, the only condition for this optimization being our deep listening. A soulful form of listening that carries us into often inexplicable choices and new possibilities. Presence in this context illustrating in our choices the seemingly random yet exactingly precise nature of decision-making made through wisdom. The acknowledgement that like Pi, conscious choices will present as both random and new, mirroring the gift of the beginner's mind. In this way conscious living can be clearly seen through Pi’s wondrous transcendent and irrational nature.
- Excerpt from the forthcoming book Language of the Soul: A Path of Simplicity
