GENERATING THE FIVE PLATONIC SOLIDS WITH NICHOLAS OF CUSA’S METHOD OF FOLDING, UNFOLDING, AND ENFOLDING

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There is a Nicholas of Cusa method for generating the five Platonic solids by way of folding, unfolding, and enfolding. And, you don’t need a compass, a straight edge, or any mathematical calculation to do the work. All you need to do is to wave your hands around like a chorus director. I like to call this the ironic waving around a knotty Divine Proportion, because it causes you to be creative by having your mind make an axiomatic backward flip into yourself to locate a higher epistemological level; that is, into a domain which discards all simple hypothesis of circular folding and takes you into the higher hypothesis of continuous doubly-connected circular action.

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