This is a topic that I have set up for oldbill4823.

odbill4823 has asked me to set up this thread for the discussion of ideas on the subject of his dream spire.

olbill4823 would like a suitable place for the discussion of his ideas as there is no other obvious place for this on the site.

Vivid

I am thrilled about your dream SA.

Let me tell you a little about the history of this project and you might understand why.

Dream Spire history part 1

I live in a very old house. Its late Medieaval, early rennaissance. Surprisingly, no one really knows much about the history of the place. Experts believe that it is either the last remaining part of a chateau, or  a 'gentiehommerie', a gentlemans house/manoir dating from this period. This area of France is littered with Templar buildings and history so it is possible that this house was also a Templar structure. In fact the house is about 1 hour from 'La Rochelle' where the last Templars were reported to have dissappear from with all their treasure.

The front of the house has a stone tower on the front. Inside the tower is a stone spiral staircase giving access to the main rooms. Some of the treads are so worn with 600 years of human traffic they are completely 'dished'.
It amazing to think of the history held within the stone here. The amazing changes they have been witness to.

It is believed that the tower had its point cut off during the French revolution several hundred years ago. Since coming to live here it has always been my dream to restore the house to something approaching its former glory. This has meant rebuilding the tower point.

For several years I have been researching and visiting towers across the region. Looking at techniques and styles of construction. Angles, designs, materials, heights, etc. All are really important to get right.
Earlier this year I started the work on the 'charpente', the main wooden structure that forms the tower.

It has been a complex structure to create. Although it is a two sloped cone on the exterior, its internal frame has 24 sides. One for each hour of the day. It has four main supports, which correspond with the seasons, etc etc. A central octagonal post which forms the axis for the structure 'floats', so that it only touches the cross beams beneath it.

The more I thought about it the more I realised that the tower construction had started to become a piece of 'poetry' and 'imagination'. In fact, equally as much as a a piece of architectural engineering. Before long I was literally dreaming about it. It was at that moment that I realised how a physical structure could capture and focus the attention of dreams.

Thats why I really loved reading about your dream. You can draw your own conclusions about it. However, one thing I am sure of is that the more attention we place upon 'dreaming', the more we will become concious within them.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to dream 'ensemble'? We could all add our 'dreaming mass' together. Then the fun would really begin.

In my next post I want to write about the influence of a secret living tradition of French 'artisans' had on the 'dreaming spire'. Its a guild whose unbroken lineage dates back over 1500 years. Dan Brown has nothing on this and its all true.

Raz,

I know my posts can be a bit 'loose' sometimes but yours are a genre unto themselves.

I think the closest I can get to it is 'pop mystic'  (with a definite chivalric influence)



When you say that 'video game magic is going to be a reality', yep it really can be.

There is a famous quote in the Western Magic Tradition that says 'imagination is the ass that carries the ark'.

Chinese medicine and philosophy also has the theory of 'mind, chi, spirit.'  It says virtually the same thing.

So it all starts with pooling our imagination towards a common point.  Letting rip with the mental stuff inside.

The diagram is Vivids input. I just liked all the pretty colours and arrows.

I did once believe Vivid when he says he knew about physics and stuff. He even told me he had read Carl Sagans last book, 'The bluffers guide to being clever'.

Then he went and ruined the effect with his second suggestion of the ice cream cone.

Yes It could .

Vivid could tell his grandchildren about about the 'ice cream dreamings', an aboriginal creation story.

Ayres rock could have new ice cream drawings smeared across it. I can see him there now talking to his grandchildren (the mini-vivids) "Now then little cobbers, this one is called Raspberry ripple serpent dreaming".

Meanwhile

Excellent, everyone post your picture on the Gallery! I know I will.