Careful observation reveals many nature patterns are repeated in the human body. As we recognize more and more patterns in Nature being repeated in the human body, we may begin to accept that maybe humans really are a mirror image of Creation. The awe that we feel in nature is a recognition of seeing ourself outside of ourself… This year I discovered that the pine cone and our pineal gland are one of those mirror images. The word pineal references the word pine cone.
Look carefully and you’ll notice that the bracts that make up the cone are arranged in a spiral. Actually two spirals run in opposite directions, one turning in and one fanning out from the cone’s base to its tip. One description of this pattern is called the golden ratio. The golden ratio describes a predictable pattern on everything from atoms to huge stars in the sky. The western world understands this ratio as described by Leonardo Fibonacci. A Fibonacci sequence is very simply where each number is generated by adding the previous number to it. It seems to me like a type of relational stair stepping, where we acknowledge what has gone before and simply add to it. Whatever name you give this phenomenon, Nature uses this ratio to maintain balance.
Did you know the Pineal Gland is the only part of the brain that is “single,” not possessing a left and right hemisphere? The pineal gland is often called the third eye as it is located in the geometric center of the brain, while managing intuition and the perception of light in the body. Matthew 6:22 says it this way: The light of the body is the eye: if your eye is single, therefore your whole body shall be full of light. From classical African civilizations, to Asian to European, the pine cone has been depicted at the top of a staff, symbolizing the pineal gland’s connection to the spine. Here is where we make a sharp SANKOFA turn back to the beginning.
Christians have often criticized Druids and other ancient religions for what they thought was tree worship. And yet modern Christmas celebrations are often more concerned about the tree in their home than the presence of Jesus. Does some aspect of our collective being know that we are way too disconnected from our common Earth Mother and all our relations?
Once we understand the symbolism of the pine tree and its fruit, the pine cone, we may have a different conclusion. Is it possible that the ancient Druids initially saw the pine cone as a mirror image of energies that spiral into and out of the human soul? Did it remind them to focus on God’s light that is inside? Is that why they thought trees were so special? And then like humans often do, did they forgot the meaning and just focus on the external form? Sort of like forgetting Jesus in our Christ’s mass {Christmas} celebrations?
After wrestling the angel at the riverside, Jacob calls that place Peniel or Face of God Genesis 32:30-31. “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved”. How about we wrestle with all of the cultural layers of the Christmas holiday until we are deep inside of our own ray of eternal light where we fully embrace the face of God.
Have a happy pineal/pine cone season.
In Spirit and Truth
Dele