DOCTOR MIZZIERI'S SPIRITUAL TOUR OF NEW YORK'S GRAND AXIS
Great cities are designed to create positive energy flows in the pursuit of prosperity and tranquility. Ancient Egypt had several focal points of spiritual alignment and energy flow, none more powerful than the Avenue of the Sphinxes that connects the Temples of Luxor and Karnak. Paris reverberates along its Historical Axis beginning at Notre Dame, enhanced by the eclectic mix of architectures at the Louvre, pierced by the Luxor Obelisk on Place de la Concorde, and graced by the great arches stretching from the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel to La Defense. And one only needs to breathe and gaze to experience the Feng Shui walking the grand alignments of Beijing’s Forbidden City. Like so many of the great cities of the world, does New York have its own grand axis of alignment and energy flow?
There has been much debate on the degree of design and planning that went into the creation of the Manhattan grid. To some historians, the grid design was a rushed, uninspired draft with rectangular units stretching northward for miles, only the crooked stretch of Broadway breaking this relentless surrender to commerce. So quickly was this design approved that there was barely a thought for an integrated placement of parks, except for the vast openness of Central Park after nearly sixty blocks of merciless grid.
But are these naysayers realistic in thinking that the blueprint for what would become the most dynamic island in the world was just a lazy design, a fortuitous accident? No, there surely were powerful geometric principles built into the design that directs its energy flow, influenced by the placement of important monuments and buildings. With greater contemplation of its shape and ratios, we will find this energy flow centered along the grand axis of Fifth Avenue, New York's Champs-Elysees and Avenue of the Sphinxes, an energy flow released by geometry and the strategic placement of standing and flowing water, gardens and greenery, buildings, monuments, and light.
It doesn't matter whether we start this journey north or south as long as we follow its trajectory. Our journey through consciousness is up and down a spiral that extends from the quantum center of our brain through whatever expanse we can imagine, and back again. The power of the Fibonacci sequence, the progression where the sum of two numbers in a sequence is always in the same proportion to the number preceding it, creates these spirals that are so evident throughout nature and human experience. These geometries, colors, sounds, and light effects help us to acquire advanced synesthesia, the blending/crossing of the senses in scientifically applied proportions. As vision, hearing, tasting, smelling, touch and intellectual stimulation merge, our sensorium expands exponentially and becomes wavelike. I chose today to start at the upper end of Fifth Avenue at 88th Street, where the avenue cuts a path between the Central Park Reservoir and the Guggenheim Museum.
There has been much debate on the degree of design and planning that went into the creation of the Manhattan grid. To some historians, the grid design was a rushed, uninspired draft with rectangular units stretching northward for miles, only the crooked stretch of Broadway breaking this relentless surrender to commerce. So quickly was this design approved that there was barely a thought for an integrated placement of parks, except for the vast openness of Central Park after nearly sixty blocks of merciless grid.
But are these naysayers realistic in thinking that the blueprint for what would become the most dynamic island in the world was just a lazy design, a fortuitous accident? No, there surely were powerful geometric principles built into the design that directs its energy flow, influenced by the placement of important monuments and buildings. With greater contemplation of its shape and ratios, we will find this energy flow centered along the grand axis of Fifth Avenue, New York's Champs-Elysees and Avenue of the Sphinxes, an energy flow released by geometry and the strategic placement of standing and flowing water, gardens and greenery, buildings, monuments, and light.
It doesn't matter whether we start this journey north or south as long as we follow its trajectory. Our journey through consciousness is up and down a spiral that extends from the quantum center of our brain through whatever expanse we can imagine, and back again. The power of the Fibonacci sequence, the progression where the sum of two numbers in a sequence is always in the same proportion to the number preceding it, creates these spirals that are so evident throughout nature and human experience. These geometries, colors, sounds, and light effects help us to acquire advanced synesthesia, the blending/crossing of the senses in scientifically applied proportions. As vision, hearing, tasting, smelling, touch and intellectual stimulation merge, our sensorium expands exponentially and becomes wavelike. I chose today to start at the upper end of Fifth Avenue at 88th Street, where the avenue cuts a path between the Central Park Reservoir and the Guggenheim Museum.