I cannot visualize what the divine is—though I know that it lies within the zero time state—but I can lay myself open to it by restricting known societal interferences that hinder the following of a free path through this realisation. This is what I mean by following a divine path. By following your true desires and letting Gaia/nature guide you, you are letting the universe take its true way. What stronger way can there be? Keeping faith that it will be your best path and your greatest good is the only test to have to pass. Being true to your self. Any other way is an unphilosophical guess.
So my path and intention has been to follow my natural way without societal constriction, and to trust that it is the most apt route to bring what is good; the universe's providence. My path has led to Pentegraph.
Pentegraph is divinely conceived, meaning that it isn't based in any of the ground mechanisms which are anchored in survival. It hasn't been influenced by society. It is a pure exploration of body movement following paths that are based upon the encirclements that lie within the pure geometry of nature.
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Pentegraph was born out of a desire to continue my martial art practices but without having to go to the dojo. This necessitated the development of a continuous blocking technique so that the timing of movements learnt and rehearsed in a martial situation would not be necessary.
My extracurricular researches into karate had led me to the Okinawan origins and to the Kojo family style which used a technique of performing two figure of eight's as a blocking method called tatsumaki uke. I taught myself this technique but didn't know whether it should be performed clockwise or anticlockwise, and so used a rotating method to reverse the direction. I first of all used 8 divisions as the number of intercessions, and over a number of years experimented with 12, 6 and 7 also, but it was 5 that I became drawn to and only later found that this was the number that is natural to the sphere.
I conceived that the shoulder joint would receive a considerable work out using this technique and to demonstrate to myself the fullness of the exercise, I used some crayons to draw the rotating eights upon paper and found that it did indeed cover the paper completely (and therefore also work the shoulder joint completely and efficaciously), and produced a very interesting texture which I later expounded upon to develop my art technique.
The drawing of circles in the air as part of these rotating eights, led me to wonder how the circles would fit together if drawn completely around me in a sphere. I suppositioned correctly that it would probably have something to do with the icosahedron, but experimented with the truncated icosahedron (right), with its 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons, constructing a full size 6 foot diameter one in my garage, within which I stood and got my first glimpse of what would develop into the Pentegraph Orb.
I also mused upon the concept of how a path other than a circle would circumnavigate a sphere and join back up with itself, and despaired at the seemingly impossible task of working it out, until one day I saw that the answer had been staring at me for years, and it was the pentagram that existed as the path drawn inside the five circle cluster I called the Penter. I couldn't be sure I was correct and so took to the computer and taught myself how to model in 3D and constructed what I would later call the Aster. I have been unable to find this on the internet as yet, presumably because all geometric examples I have seen use the great circle in their patterns, and this does not.
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The word "pent" comes from the Proto Indo-European root meaning "path". With this etymology "Pentegraph" can translate as "Drawing a path" as "graph" comes from Greek meaning "to draw". The Greek word "pente" means "5", and hence "Pentegraph" can also mean "5 drawing" referring to the Penters and Asters which are the paths that are traced in its performance. 5 is the significant number embedded into the divisioning of a sphere.
Pentegraph = Five drawing
Pentegraph = Drawing a path
I cannot see my personal path, I can only follow it as it happens and trace where I have been and where I might be going. The purity of the geometry of Pentegraph and its base naturalness, and its divine providence, allow an assurance of rightness to my path, furnishing me with the faith needed to continue its pursuance. The compiling of One Turning and Self Form, which have happened in conjunction with it, assure that the right guidance is bestowed upon it by prioritizing the attributes of mental awareness and relaxation and abandonment, which is necessary to walk this path. There is always a fine balance between abandoning to it and controlling it. Its evolvement into Megak throws it into the esoteric.
My path has not been an efficient route, and I am always disappointed at the speed of development. The discoverer of a system cannot follow the optimum path to master its performance, as the revelations do not occur in the right order for it. The originator of a system cannot see the end result either; it has never existed before. There is no goal, it is not like inventing something which has been envisaged. I can only follow the unmediated path that unfolds before me. It will be the person who learns it from me who can most benefit and be the founder of its school. I am not an alpha male, more of an omega man, or perhaps only an omicron or just an iota, but my way is very different and if only that then there is validity, and any investigation into it will reveal a world of uncompromised and interesting things.
