For some reason, six TBs placed equidistantly in a circle seems
more potent than other circular arrangements of TBs. In the
spring of 2008, while visiting me in America, Cesco came up with
an idea incorporating this fact in a more complex arrangement.
It seemed worth testing out to me and we cleared a large space
on the shop floor to test it out.
Perhaps the simplest way to understand it involves the so-called
"18". To make an "18" one may first construct a regular hexagon.
Then he draws straight lines joining alternate vertices of the
hexagon. The lines cross in six new points inside forming a new
regular hexagon inside of, and concentric with, the first. Now
he repeats this process on the new inner hexagon to obtain a
third hexagon inside the second. After placing a TB on each of
the 18 points of the three hexagons, he has an "18".
To construct a "108" one may first construct 7 identical
hexagons as in the "18", and then arrange six of them around the
seventh, where one edge of each of the six touch one edge of the
inner seventh. The inner seventh "18" shares each of its
vertices with two of the other "18"'s, and each of the six other
"18"'s shares two of its vertices with its two immediate
neighbors. Thus the total number of vertices is 7 times 18 minus
12 minus 6, or 108. One places one TB on each of these vertices
to get a "108".
After we constructed a "108" on the shop floor, we noticed a
ring or wall of positive qi some distance away from the "108"
and concentric with it. We moved the old shop couch so that the
wall passed through it, and sat down on it. It felt quite
positive and relaxing on the couch. We were impressed enough by
this experienced that we decided to construct a more permanent
"108" outside, so that we could view it without the restrictions
of the ceiling and walls, and so that we could observe its
effects over time.
I purchased several sheets of plywood, cut it and arranged the
pieces into a square, and drew in the places for TBs on the
plywood. We made wooden cylinders with holes in them just large
enough to place the TBs inside. Then we moved the plywood into
the center of an adjoining field and glued the cylinders to the
plywood. Finally we placed the TBs into the cylinders, which
were designed to keep the TBs in place in case of wind.
Don and Carol Croft came visiting several days later, and they
told us that they had noticed an empty spot in the cloud cover
over the "108" long before they came with in sight of the field.
Cesco left with them later that afternoon, to spend several days
before returning home to Iceland where he was living at the
time, and explained to them how the "108" was constructed. They
built a few models which Don has described on EW.
Several weeks later some person or animal had kicked loose some
of the wooden cylinders on the plywood, and I had to go out into
the field to repair them. During the process I discovered that I
had not accurately drawn the geometrical figure for the "108":
there were 114 cylinders instead of 108. I emailed this fact to
Cesco, and about this time he took his drawing off his web site.
I was rather busy at the time, and did put attention to the
matter until this August, about a year and a half later. This
was after I learned that others were making "108"'s and that
there was public discussion of the subject. Since I had made the
mistake which led to Don and Carol's interest in it, I felt I
had a responsibility to look at both the "108" and the "114"
more closely.
I went out into the field and stared at the configuration on the
plywood. I found that not only were there six more TBs than in
the "108", but that they were arranged in a fundamentally
different way. The arrangement consisted of "18"'s, but the
"18"'s were placed together in a different manner. Instead of
the sides of the outer six being next to the sides of the inner
seventh, the vertices of the outer six touched the vertices of
the inner seventh. Thus each vertex of the inner "18" shared was
shared with the vertex of one of the outer six, each each of the
outer six shared two vertices, one each with one of the other
outer six. Hence the total number of vertices was 7 times 6
minus 6 minus 6, or 114.
I went back to the shop and made seven "18"'s, each on a
separate piece of plywood, so that I could arrange them either
as a "108" or a "114", and compare. I first looked at the "108",
this time outside. I found that there was a concentric wall of
positive qi around it, as before, but that the wall curved in
and joined together over the center as a dome or hemisphere.
Furthermore there was a cylinder of small diameter based at the
center of the "108", composed of negative qi, which extended as
high up into the clouds as far as I could perceive. There seemed
to be little motion of the qi, either in the dome or in the
column. It looked as if somehow the arrangement may, like the
Cesco "little secret coil" have separated neutral qi into two
parts: one positive and one negative.
What I found when I constructed the "114", I will describe in
another topic of the same name. At this point I will emphasize
that I am not promoting either the "108" or the "114" -- just
describing my observations.