Foreword

My name is Cinzia Valente and I am the creator of “Progettazione Aurea® (Auric Design), a technique that deals with creating practical tools to understand and recreate Universal Beauty.

In this circular article, each paragraph is a sector connected to both the previous and the following, to get to the heart of the Auric Golden Ratio issue through its expansions. I would like, for the first time, to go through some reflections that are fundamental today. We will talk about Universal Beauty, resonance, the language of Nature and symbiosis to understand the biological and aesthetic sense of designing according to auric semantics. The mathematical part already has an extensive bibliography, there is no need to repeat it.

Enjoy the reading.

Sector 1 – Universal Beauty

There are at least two types of beauty, the subjective one, which depends on taste, and the universal one, which pertains to resonance.

Beauty can be said to be universal, or universally recognised, if the observer can resonate with it beyond culture, religion, place of birth and one’s own aesthetic canons.

Sector 2 – Resonance

Resonance is a complex and fascinating phenomenon, still widely studied.

The most immediate example is offered by the tuning fork, that small metal object used to tune musical instruments, which begins to vibrate when hit by the note to which it is calibrated.

The phenomenon of resonance can occur between a guitar string and a tuning fork because they are both designed to emit the same note.

When the instrument is not well tuned the phenomenon does not occur, so we intervene by modifying the tension of the string until we obtain the sound capable of vibrating in phase with the tuning fork. Two elements are in resonance when their vibrations (the primary and the induced one) become indistinguishable from each other.

The same principle can also happen for us human beings when we resonate with something designed like us. We can feel an energetic phenomenon, perceptually similar to what we define as empathy.

Sector 3 – An Orchestra called Life

Our organism is a set of instruments (organs, tissues, systems, cells) that emit specific vibrations, generally in harmonious balance with each other, like an orchestra led by a good conductor.

When an instrument loses its tuning, it emits out-of-tune notes, destabilizing the entire orchestra. While a guitar needs mechanical action from the outside to get back into tune, the human being is able to calibrate himself autonomously, thanks to the ability to return to the original vibration, typical of the living being; Pythagoras had already noticed it in his musical therapeutic experiments and today it is the founding principle of all energy/ frequency disciplines.

In a conceptual “gamble”, we can imagine that Universal Beauty is composed of infinite tuning forks capable of conducting the correct frequencies to tune our instruments. It really depends on how many false notes influence the reception of the useful ones. As we will see, the environment always has a fundamental impact. It is the filter through which all information, physical and energetic, reaches us. It is the orchestra that most influences our lives. 

Sector 4 – Logic and Auric Function

Universal Beauty is the expression of the aesthetic logic of Nature. The shapes and colors of living organisms are structured according to the activity they need to perform. Orchids, for example, simulate the desire aspect of the insect they must attract, displaying an extremely useful beauty.

Everything that is generated in the ecosystem Earth is preparatory to obtaining the efficiency of each system in relation to its context; a recurring feature is the use of a special multi-dimensional handwriting, which we will see to be auric.

The things created or modified by the human being, proportional to his evolution, have instead increasingly deviated from natural harmonic canons, transporting us into the field of subjective beauty, with implications that are not just aesthetic ones. 

Sector 5 – Environmental Influence

The beauty of a tree, of a flower, of an animal in freedom is unquestionably engaging and attracts us because it resonates with a part of our biological being.

With a simple 360° look at the things around us, we can realize that they were created ignoring the logic of the forms born in harmony with the ecosystem. On the contrary, they are the blameless carriers of continuous disharmonies; they interfere with our music. Instead of finding eurythmic environments in which to expand and with which to create healthy fortifying resonances, our m usic bumps into edges, artificial materials and configurations that restore anything but coherence.

We are constantly attracted to what facilitates the re-tuning process because it serves to keep us in balance, counteracting the effect of what hits us with altered vibrations.

As epigenetics demonstrates, even genetic changes can occur in response to environmental stimuli. Any plant, animal or human being changes according to the place in which it is immersed.

The modern human habitat is capable of isolating us in different ways (visual, perceptual, energetic) from the natural environment. In our box-like homes, there is no way to resonate with the rebalancing music of the planet.

Already in the 70s, Professor Paul Nogier (father of Auriculomedicine) explained how a nylon stocking was sufficient to block the passage of what he defined as polarized energy; fundamental permeating and restorative energy of the Earth organism. It is difficult to imagine that this vital force can penetrate through the 5 cm of polystyrene of the modern thermal coat.

The high complexity of our increasingly artificial “habitat” is proving to be incompatible with the biology of the ecosystem in which we should thrive.

A functional ecosystem lives on the synergistic and symbiotic cooperation of its elements. It sees abundance of resources and there is no waste.

Sector 6 – Biological Intelligence

We don’t have to be David Attenborough to realize that we no longer live in symbiosis with other species and that we consume resources without being useful in any way (just to be kind).

We civilized people are a species that is no longer suited to life. We have become dependent on all the artifices we have invented and, precisely because we are adaptive beings, we have become accustomed to living in captivity.

Technology has evolved faster than our biology. We are incredibly physically similar to our ancestors: we do not have an extra organ to release anger or to transmute an electromagnetic field.

Overloaded by requests which are far from the logic of Life, we have also physically weakened, tending to become chronically ill, unlike animals that live in a wild state, which practically do not get sick.

A pristine ecosystem does not manifest diseases because it keeps itself in balance. Each constituent has its role which, coincidentally, coincides with its reason for existence. Everyone participates in the maintenance of the system, preserving its existence; and what is no longer functional ceases to exist.

In Earth’s symphony orchestra, humans are part of an ensemble of instruments that has lost the A note. To put it in more concrete and sadly realistic terms: we have turned into parasites (those who consider themselves masters will be deluded).

In the evolutionary rush – healthy in certain important aspects – we have severed fundamental ties, renouncing the biological intelligence typical of other earthly inhabitants.

For example, we are no longer able to recognize our nourishment. Every other living being knows this. Even an amoeba, which is a single-celled organism, is perfectly capable of moving towards glucose and away from toxins. It’s not at all obvious how it knows this. With what meaning? It’s a cell! (thanks Paolo Renati)

Probably, at a certain point in the evolutionary process, we began to lose the profound sense of belonging and to nourish the personal sense of possession. Feeling like masters of the small piece of space we had demarcated, we began to perceive ourselves as isolated.

We have gradually self-confined ourselves in more or less golden cages, as if outside there was something to be afraid of.

In the exercise of unconditional power, linked to a will without consciousness, we have arrogated to ourselves the right to violate Nature in the ways that progress has presented to us, ignoring the consequences on a systemic scale.

Clearly, we cannot think of returning to a primitive state and giving up the well-being we have achieved, but we can look to the future with a biological filter, that is, a logical one for life.

An organized and coherent complex, like that of living things, always tends to restore balance between its systems; it seeks to recreate harmony and re-establish its original and evolutionary functions. We have a clear example of this every time we cut ourselves: epidermis, dermis and connective tissue are immediately activated in the reconstruction of the damaged tissue, in an obvious, but by no means trivial, regenerative process.

A field that is no longer cultivated fills with different herbs and flowers just as an abandoned house will soon be absorbed by wild vegetation.

Sector 7 – The Fabric of Life

Nature restores the energetic web that concerns life through its own expansion and seeks to increase biodiversity to the point of re- establishing autopoietic ecosystems.

Let’s help it do so. Let it heal the “rips” by recreating its indispensable circuits. We facilitate in any way the immensity of fundamental processes, aware of the fact that as long as they occur the Earth organism is still capable of regenerating itself.

Every time some roots, down to the tiniest root systems, thicken the space of the soil mantle, or that a ground cover is spread over a surface, we can witness the miracle of the earth’s fabric recovering space, in a sensible, osmotic and capillary complexity of processes transmutative, necessary for the life of the entire planet (similar to the healing of the epidermis after a wound). We participate by planting trees, shrubs, lawns and giving back as much space as possible to the soil free to express itself.

Observing the Earth from afar it is as if in certain points there was no longer blood and lymphatic circulation and the epithelial tissue had disappeared, replaced by concrete streets and buildings and other structures: as if they were synthetic scars that have nothing in common with biology, the physics, logic and beauty of the fabric of Life.

Sector 8 – The Language of Nature

(we build fluid solids)

Nature is extremely functional, regenerative and synergistic. It changes range, but the substance remains similar and the forms – manifestations of vital energy – are recurring and translatable into a precise language. We managed to identify many geometries, distances, proportions and realize that we can translate them into design tools thanks to two irrational numbers: PI and Phi. Circle and Spiral.

The issue that I would like to bring to your attention regarding the auric proportion is that both numbers speak to us of ratios, not of measurements.

In the famous Fibonacci series, for example, Phi stands in the relationship between consecutive elements as the sequence progresses. The auric link, moreover, is present for any series of numbers in which a term is equal to the sum of the two previous ones regardless of the two starting elements.

Individual numbers extrapolated from the series have no more value than a leaf removed from the tree. A further mathematical confirmation of the fact that the magic of life resides precisely in the context; in that continuous harmonious relationship between the various components, which are integral and inseparable functions of a holos, and therefore capable of continuous synergistic transmutations.

A systemic complexity that we find at all ranges of observation. From the microcosm to the macrocosm we observe auric ratios, without interruption, translatable thanks to PIGreek and Phi. If we compare a spiral galaxy with a foraminifer, a microscopic single-celled organism, we find the exact same design, an auric logarithmic spiral.

A tree and a lung have a very similar structure; a trunk that first divides in two and then develops smaller branches, with exact bifurcations, up to leaves or alveoli.

Could it be a coincidence that both are responsible for the process of transformation and exchange of oxygen/carbon dioxide?

Nature “designs” respecting a precise outline that we can learn to use. By knowing the conformations of the planet’s fabric and using its functional textures, we facilitate the restoration of the primordial texture and stop randomly violating its “skin”.

Heart – LET’S DESIGN A GOLDEN – AURIC FUTURE

The purpose of auric design is precisely maintaining, where it still exists, and restoring, where it has been interrupted, the energetic texture of the organism which we are part of.

We have seeen that Nature tends to create ecosystems that are capable of self-maintaining, in the most complex and functional expression of a fractal network. In the ecosystem the network is shared by different species, exactly those necessary for its maintenance/evolution.

With Auric Design we can improve what is built and build the new by reproducing forms that have the same physical, structural and consequently energetic parameters as biological conformations. These new homes are no longer isolating, isolated and anomalous systems with respect to the context, but true bio and technological hybrids at the service of the small ecosystem that they will implement, respecting the larger one in which they are inserted.

Only “harmonic agreements” to create synergistic habitats both with the external environment and with the inhabitants: suitable for life in terms of shape and materials. The planet’s energy can (and must) become our primary power supply again, even inside the buildings.

Everything is home or nothing is home. Dealing with a small square of space as if it were, in some way, autonomous and not influential on the rest of the system is no longer a possible method. Believing this is literally an ideological falsehood, a deception in which we should no longer remain. We have already caused much damage by continuing to ignore the spatial and causal relationships of the living system of which we are part. (No more rabbits in Australia)

Using the biological filter and taking into account the 8 described sectors we can implement short, medium and long term interventions.

Short term:

  • Let’s surround ourselves with living earthlings capable of helping us transmute the energy of our environments. Plants above all, so that we are not the only ones bringing vital energy into the spaces we frequent most.
  • Let’s fill our environments with auric elements that can perform the function of the tuning fork and help our instruments find tuning again.

Medium term:

  • We consciously renovate apartments and buildings, using auric, eco- compatible forms and logic.
  • We only use natural materials, for example hemp thermal coats.
  • Let’s create harmonious places with auric furnishings, so as to have “nests” in which to reconnect.
  • We build the new by ensuring that it has the boundaries of a cellular membrane, which protects while remaining connected to the outside and the inside.
  • We respect the energy fabric of the planet, inserting our buildings gracefully into the ground and ensuring that they remain permeable to vital energy.
  • We adopt multi-species condominium strategies, allowing the inhabitants of the soil to continue to live undisturbed under and above our homes. Man can occupy a portion of land by returning it to the roof of his building.

Long term:

  • Let’s rethink an entirely auric urban planning by continuing the engineering work that has always been underway on our planet.

By observing how a forest expands, how a shell grows, how a sprout arranges its leaves and thanks to the last 25 years of experimentation, I have developed tools to design in harmony with Nature.

I wrote an informative book, “Auric Design – Form and Function of Universal Beauty”, to explain this technique; in the second edition it makes use of the precious scientific contribution (in the healthiest sense of the term) of the researcher Paolo Renati “The Auric Law of Life“. In the conclusions he reports: “When we move in a natural environment – among the desert dunes, on the banks of a stream, in the middle of a forest, on the shoreline of a beach – we always find ourselves in a context that reflects this self-similarity with the living. Designing with this criterion, as Cinzia showed us, is one of the first great revolutions to return to life”

I also report a contribution from Mauro Sartorio, 5LB Magazine, taken from the article dated 06.29.2023: “Nature is biodiversity and abundance which, translated into its language, is FOREST.

Life wants nothing more than to fill the world and, if you, the human being, who is part of it, want to collaborate with it to get the maximum benefit from it, you can only indulge it and help it by reproducing agroforestry systems.”

We all do our best by being an influential knot in the fabric of existence.

Let’s join the stitches.

Thank you.

Cinzia Valente