Presenters will focus on:

1. Olsen: Plato’s occult philosophic doctrine & the golden geometric key to the mysteries, expressed throughout nature and aesthetics via the Golden Section, Fibonacci & Lucas numbers, √2, √3 and √5. Illustrated through visual images, geometric constructions, drawings and measurements of participants.

2. Harding: The Canon of Human Proportion, including the ancient Egyptian, Greek, Vitruvian, and Desiderian canons, with reference to Hindu temple measure, Le Corbusier’s Modulor, and Schwaller de Lubicz’s Temple of Man.

3. Grey: Transformative and practical applications of this universal aesthetics through integrated drawings of the human figure, Kabbalistic Tree of Life and the Divine All-Seeing Eye.

4. Gregory: Practical constructions involving squaring the circle, making a golden compass and creating full-body figures of participants which illustrate their universal, yet uniquely expressed ratios and proportions.

Materials: good compass, straight-edge, pencils (regular & colored) or pens, eraser, sharpener, tape, scissors, sketch-pad (medium to large), tracing paper. Other materials will be provided.

Scott Olsen *
Professor of Philosophy and author of the award winning, The Golden Section: Nature’s Greatest Secret, Scott first received international acclaim by successfully decoding the geometric mysteries of Plato. A student of physicist David Bohm, religion guru Huston Smith, artist/ author John Michell, and esotericist Douglas Baker, Scott teaches and writes on ancient wisdom, comparative religion and transformative states of consciousness. He will present The Mystery of the Divine Proportion at the NY Open Center’s Mysteries and Philosophy of Antiquity in Samothrace, Greece this September. Click for more information.

C. Lance Harding *
Lance did his dissertation under Keith Critchlow at the Prince of Wales School of Traditional Arts. A world authority on ancient systems of proportion, his dissertation is titled: The Geometric Origin of the Ancient Greek Canon of Human Proportions: a Study of the Desiderian Canon.

Alex Grey *
Inspirational artist and teacher, Alex is co-founder with his wife Allyson of CoSM. Ken Wilber states that he "might be the most significant artist alive." And Scott Olsen maintains "he is our William Blake of the 21st century and may well become the world’s greatest visionary artist ever!"

Zachariah Gregory *
One of CoSM’s own, Zach is a highly energetic and broadly skilled artist, whose exquisite illustrations helped Olsen’s Golden Section win 1st place for design at the 2007 NY Book Show.

*Note: all four presenters have trained under Keith Critchlow and his Kairos school of sacred geometry.