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The Geometry of Being: An Extended Structure
Paperback
PhilosophyMetaphysical General
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 28 2026
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Everything is one continuous medium, best called consciousness; to be anything at all is to be a local way the whole is related to itself.
The Geometry of Being begins from this single claim and follows it wherever it leads: through the structure of a soul, the ways a life closes and opens, the practices by which it returns, and the patterns that repeat from the body to the cosmos.
At its centre is one object seen under seven names, the point, the torus, the vortex, the helix, the web, the jewel and the rope: the shape a continuous medium makes when its flow folds back on itself and holds. From it the book draws a single distinction that runs through every scale. A configuration may be held open by the current passing through it, or held in form by a wall. The difference between a winding, which makes a thing definite, and a knot, which binds it, becomes the key to suffering, release and freedom.
The argument moves in eleven parts. It asks what a soul is, if it is neither a detached substance nor an illusion. It describes how a person seals, usually without ever deciding to, and why the sealing is never complete. It gives an account of opening: attention, prayer, awe and gratitude, forgiveness as the precise reverse of a knot's tying, and love as the state in which nothing blocks the current. It follows the same pattern into relationships, institutions and whole civilisations. And it reads the body as an aperture rather than a prison, death as the same release practised throughout life, and the world as the one school in which our kind of knot can be untied.
The book draws on Plotinus and Proclus, the Upanishads and Madhyamaka, Kabbalah and the sophiology of Solovyov and Bulgakov, alongside topology, knot theory and the physics of plasma. The traditions are treated as reports from different stations on the same medium. The physics is offered as illustration, never as proof, and every claim is marked for what it is.
This is the extended structure of the framework first set out in the author's earlier The Geometry of Being: what that book outlined is here worked through part by part, its distinctions made exact and its implications followed to the end.
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