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Beginning with World War I, science, technology, and industry began the epochal and ever-accelerating shift from track to trackless, from wire to wireless, from visible to invisible, and from Newton’s norm of changelessness to Einstein’s norm of constant, dissynchronous evolutionary transformation. Man entered into the vast ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum. Within the electromagnetic spectrum visible light is exquisitely minute. At the present moment in history 99.9 percent of humanity’s important physical evolution-- scientific, technical, industrial, and biological-- is taking place in that major portion of the Universe of which man has no direct apprehension, but with which he does have exquisite instrumental hook-up.
“This brings us to the historical era of invisible architecture. In invisible architecture the harmonics are apprehensible only by our intuitions and subconscious aesthetics, and operative only in the twilight zone between conscious and subconscious awareness. This is the area of intuitive and aesthetic formulation. Just as we may instruct ourselves to wake up in three hours and 37 minutes, and do so with reasonable accuracy, so also does the subconscious measuring capability of man’s eye”
