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Amazing! It's the ancient enneagram symbol, in "Vortex Math!"
I was surprised to see in the posted Randy Powell video the figure of the enneagram, a nine-sided geometric figure which plays a big part in the teachings of George Gurdjieff.
How strange to see this "mystical" symbol pop up in a "scientific" video! Randy Powell has his own Youtube channel here with a 16-part series on "vortex math".
The Fourth Way enneagram is a figure published in 1949 in In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky, and an integral part of the Fourth Way esoteric system associated with George Gurdjieff. The term "enneagram" derives from two Greek words, ennea (nine) and gramma (something written or drawn).
The enneagram is a nine-pointed figure usually inscribed within a circle. Within the circle is a triangle connecting points 9, 3 and 6. The inscribed figure resembling a web connects the other six points in a cyclic figure 1-4-2-8-5-7. This number is derived from or corresponds to the recurring decimal .142857 = 1/7. These six points together with the point numbered 9 are said to represent the main stages of any complete process, and can be related to the notes of a musical octave, 9 being equivalent to "Doh" and 1 to "Re" etc.
The points numbered 3 and 6 are said to represent "shock points" which affect the way a process develops. The internal lines between the points; that is, the three-point figure and the six-point figure, are said to show certain non-obvious connections, although here very little elucidation is offered.
under "Origins" Wiki has this to say:
As reported by Ouspensky the enneagram was introduced by George Gurdjieff to his study groups in St Petersburg and Moscow in 1916. Ouspensky records this original explication in his book of Gurdjieff's teaching In Search of the Miraculous where the enneagram appears as Figure 44 and in further diagrams.[1] It was presented as an ancient secret being released for the first time, the truth behind for example the Philosopher's Stone.
Ouspensky quotes Gurdjieff as saying; "The knowledge of the enneagram has for a very long time been preserved in secret and if it now is, so to speak, made available to all, it is only in an incomplete and theoretical form without instruction from a man who knows".
Gurdjieff also remarked "In order to understand the enneagram it must be thought of as in motion, as moving. A motionless enneagram is a dead symbol, the living symbol is in motion" [2]
This appearance of the ancient mystical symbol in a scientific series on "Vortex Math" has convinced me to give Powell's videos a go.
