The Flower of Life

that horizontal line intercepts the diagonal line exactly at its phi ratio [Fig. 7-31] as well as that of the vertical line from head to feet. Assuming it’s at that perfect point, not slightly above for females or slightly below for males, this means that the human body is divided into phi ratios from top to bottom, which we stated earlier. If these lines were the only places in the human body where the phi ratio is located, it would probably be just an interesting fact. But the truth is, the phi ratio is located in thousands of places throughout the body, and it is not just a coincidence.

Here are some obvious phi-ratio locations in the human body [Fig. 7-32]. The length of each bone in the finger has a phi ratio to the next bone, as shown in the lower drawing. That same ratio occurs with all your fingers and toes. This is a somewhat unusual relationship because one finger is longer than the other in what appears to be an arbitrary fashion, but it’s not arFig. 7-31. Leonardo’s drawing bitrary—nothing in the human body is. The distances on the fingers marked A to B to C with more lines, one of which to D to E are all in a phi ratio, as well as the lengths of the phalanges, F to G to H. (the horizontal line) divides both If you compare the length of the hand to the length of the lower arm bone, it has a the vertical and diagonal. phi ratio, just like the length of the lower arm bone compared to the upper arm bone. Or take the length of the foot to the lower leg bone, or that bone to the thigh bone and so on. This phi ratio is found throughout the entire bone structure in all kinds of places and ways. It’s usually at places where something bends or changes direction. The body also does it through proportionate sizes of one part to another. If you study this, you will be continually amazed.

Figure 7-33 is another way of showing the phi ratio. You make a curve so that you Fig. 7-32. Phi ratios can see how one curve is linked with another, and you can see all the cascading phi Fig. 7-33. on human body. ratios of the human body. This is from The Power of Limits by Gyorgy Doczi. I highly Doryphoros the Spear-Bearer’s recommend this book. Notice that on this male he drew the line for the navel slightly phi ratios. above where the actual phi ratio is located. He knew about that, and very few people I have read understand it.

I want to talk about this Greek statue. The Greeks were well aware of this understanding of phi ratios. So were the Egyptians and many, many other people in ancient times. When they created a piece of art like this, they were actually using both sides of the brain simultaneously. They were using their left brain to very carefully measure everything—I mean really carefully, not kind of or sort of. They were measuring to make sure that everything was exactly mathematically correct according to the phi proportion. To be as creative as they wanted, they were also using their right brain.

They could put any expression on the face and have the statue hold anything or do anything they wanted. The Greeks combined the left and right brain.

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