Fig. 6.3. The planetary vortex.
The movements of the inner planets, shown
dynamically over a period of one full Saturn cycle
of 29.46 years, actually describe a vortex, with
each planet describing its own spiral path about
the Sun.
be described as divergent, decelerating, dissipating, structure-loos-
ening, disintegrating, destructive and friction-inducing.
While the explosive dispersion of energy creates noise, its cre-
ative concentration of energy, is silent. As Viktor often insisted,
'Everything that is natural is silent, simple and cheap.' A natural
forest can be a haven of silence. The millions of chemical and
atomic movements and interactions taking place are energetic
processes, an extraordinary concentration of quiet creative energy.
In contrast, its destruction brings the horrendous racket of chain-
saws, heavy machinery and crashing trees. Our mechanical forms
of movement are almost always axial —> radial and heat- and fric-
tion-inducing. Nature's dynamic processes, on the other hand, use
the opposite form of movement, the slowest at the periphery and
the fastest at the centre. The movements of a cyclone or a tornado
are a good example, flowing from the outside inwards with increas-
ing velocity, which acts to cool, to condense, to structure. The cen-
tre of a cyclone is not hot; it is cool.
Radial —> axial (centripetal) motion can be defined as conver-
gent, contracting, consolidating, creative, integrating, formative,
friction reducing.^6 The dynamics of evolution must therefore follow
this centripetal path, for if the opposite were the case, all would have
come to a stop almost before it started.
Force is the employment of energy to do work, and can be meas-
ured as acceleration. It is important to distinguish between two
forms of acceleration, for one form breaks apart and the other con-
solidates. In the deconstructive form the radius of rotation is
expanding and the form of acceleration is pressure- and friction-HIDDEN NATURE