Most divinatory practices employ the concepts of waves, cyclicity, helical toroids, polarity, and evolution in their narratives. The following are those concepts distilled — the main elements of divinatory narratives. At its core, any divination is the helical toroid movement, a continuous spiral that loops onto itself in a wave-like motion between the polarities. Each iteration is a new cycle of difference and repetition. Arising and passing at every moment of time.

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3. Most divinatory practices
employ the concepts of
waves,
cyclicity,
helical toroids,
polarity, and
evolution
in their narratives.
The following
are those concepts distilled —
the main elements
of divinatory narratives.
At its core, any divination
is the helical toroid movement,
a continuous spiral
that loops onto itself
in a wave-like motion
between the polarities.
Each iteration is a new cycle
of difference and repetition.
Arising and passing
at every moment of time.

5. #waves
#oscillations
It’s well known
that #waves, #oscillations
and evolutionary cyclical
movement
are at the origin of this world.
If there is one thing to believe,
it’s this.
Things arise and pass by.
Seasonal #cycles,
night follows the day,
sensations emerge and recede,
a sound perturbs the air
and disappears...
Breath.
Heartbeat.
Neural oscillatory dynamics.
The sound and light are also
made of waves.
The sea and the sleep cycles also.

6. Figure 1:
A sine wave is the simpliest
wave. It describes a smooth
repetitive oscillation. This
pattern often occurs in
nature, including ocean
waves, sound waves, and
light waves.

7. Figure 2:
This image shows two sim-ple
sound waves. They are
both in phase (two oscilla-tions
of the grey one are in
sync with one oscillation of
the black one), so they are
perceived as being in tune.
That’s what harmony can
be like.

8. Figure 3:
A shimmering optical il-lusion
reveals oscillatory
nature of human perception.

9. #cycles
#patterns
#feedback
Time flows,
things change.
Their natural tendency
to disappear
is appreciated.
Along this tendency
patterns emerge:
repetitions,
traces,
things that are left behind
and forgotten,
(fragments of those).
Patterns produce the substance.
Their consistency is a sign
of intention within.
It is also a sign of procedures
that govern the process.
An entity
is a constellation of #waves
forming a pattern.

10. Figure 3:
Electrons (negatively
charged) rotate around
the nucleus of an atom,
which consists of protons
(positively charged) and
neutrons. Electrons are at-tracted
to protons. Elec-trons
also have wave-like
properties and atoms are
about the size of that wave,
so that electrons stay as
close as possible to protons
without touching them.

11. Figure 4:
Star constellations stay
within the fixed patterns,
which can be perceived
as constant in relation to
the constantly changing
universe.

12. Figure 5:
Wind ripples on the sand in
Afghanistan.

13. Figure 6:
Example of a feedback
loop in nature. The rela-tion
of prey and predators:
the more predators eat the
prey, the less prey there be-come,
the less prey there is,
the less predators survive,
the less prey they eat, the
more prey there becomes.
This balancing feedback
loop produces non-equilibri-um
stability.

14. #helix
#toroid
Helical Toroid
is one of the most fundamental
#patterns
that emerge in nature.
It combines
#wave-like cyclical movement
with intention.
It thrusts through the surface
and screws itself in.
It employs oblique strategies
(always approaching sideways).
It goes through the same #cycles
but with a difference
at each iteration.
The Solar System is a helix.
Flowers grow in helices.
Protein molecules
are shaped as helices.

15. Figure 7:
A helix is comprised of
both cycles and waves, it
is a kind of structure that
evolves through difference
and repetition.

16. Figure 8:
Cork opener is also a
helix. It can screw into
any surface with a
minimal effort.

17. Figure 9:
Solar System is also a
helix, as the Sun is moving
through the constellations
and the planets are rotat-ing
around it, forming a
vortex-like spiral structure,
penetrating the void into the
unknown....

18. Figure 10:
Example of a helical toroid
structure.

19. #difference
#polarity
#Helix traces a movement.
This movement goes somewhere.
In order for movement
to occur
There has to be
polarity
difference
tension
between the opposites —
The difference
between anything
that attracts or repels.
Helix perpetuates movement,
when it exists
within a field of polarities
(#patterns).

20. Figure 11:
The motion occurs between
the positive and the nega-tive
charges.

21. Figure 12:
A male and female.
Two competing survival
strategies together produce
non-equilibrium stability of
the humankind.

22. Figure 13:
Yin and Yang

23. Figure 14:
Computer code is based on
two states: 0 and 1.
Quantum computing oper-ates
through the same
states plus superposition
state, which can represent
any combination of those
two states but at the mo-ment
of observation will
only be one.
0 • 1

24. #networks
#connections
Things interact.
They come into contact
with one another.
Their interactions
form #patterns,
which can be respresented
as networks.
#Waves in these networks
trace oscillatory steps
of these interactions.
Whatever has meaning
is always connected.
It only makes sense
when it’s reflected.
A #narrative –
which is a sequence of events,
a code that’s to be implemented,
can also be represented
as a network.

25. Figure 15:
A Toroid network
structure is present in
most divinatory
narratives.

26. Figure 16:
Likely interactions
between human chro-mosomes
calculated
using chromosome
conformation capture
or 3C method, repre-sented
as a network.

27. Figure 17:
The alpha-helix is
a righthand-coiled
or spiral conforma-tion
(helix), which is a
common structure for
many proteins.

28. #narratives A narrative is a sequence,
a series of connections,
those connections
form the threads of the story
we tell ourselves.
A narrative can be as simple
as a line:
“I think, therefore I am”.
A narrative can be also
a feedback loop:
the more predators eat the prey,
the less prey there is,
the less predators there can be.
A narrative can also take the
shape of a helix: flowing through
the the same iterations, but each
iteration is different. Parts of this
narrative are distinct from one
another, and yet their relations
communicate the same message.

29. #divination Qabalah, Tarot, and astrology deal
with interconnected #networks of
relations between distinct signs.
Together those signs tell a story.
This story is the story of divina-tion
if it is to become real, but the
kind of real that is connected to
the divine.
The #narrative structure of divi-nation
plays an important role
in propagating the right content.
Those structures relate the signs
(and meanings) into #patterns
and then into a coherent story.
Divination is a narrative
that foresees and predicts.
It attempts to gain insight,
navigating through knowledge,
following the natural flow of life,
tracing oscillatory wave motion
reiterating within the #helix.

31. ISBN 978-0-9569569-7-2
This divination manual was
created based on toriod
network analysis of various
divinatory narratives and
practices.
We used InfraNodus.Com tool
to create the network,
Textexture.Com to analyze
text networks and
Gephi to visualize them,
calculate metrics, and apply
force-atlas layouts.
For more information and
methodology, see
www.divinatorium.com
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