Hello and welcome to Psychic Teachers Podcast. I'm your host, Deb Bowen.

And I'm Samantha Fe. We're just delighted and honored that you have joined us this week as we are going to be discussing one of our all-time favorite symbols that just goes on and on and on in its implications for us.

The jumping off point of our discussion for today was a book entitled Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, Volume 1 by Dr. Velo, Michelle Zadek.

In this book, he wrote a great deal about ancient Egypt and Lemuria and Atlantis and brought together the connection of the information about those topics and many more in that amazingly beautiful symbol called the Flower of Life.

So Samantha, let's take a look at that and tell folks all about that amazing symbol, shall we?

Sure. So the Flower of Life symbol consists of 19 overlapping and interconnected circles. It defines sacred geometry as harmonic energy patterns by which nature creates and designs.

So in many ways, the Flower of Life is seen as the basis of creation. The name Flower of Life stems not from a flower image but from the cycle of a fruit tree.

So if we observe this cycle, we can see that the tree grows flower buds and these eventually transform into fruit. The fruit carries the seed within it and when the fruit falls on the ground, these seeds eventually create new trees.

This is the cycle which turns from tree to flower to fruit and tree again. So this within the symbol of the Flower of Life is the miracle of life, which is really fascinating to think about.

The other thing that I found really mind-boggling is well before oceanic travel, this Flower of Life symbol appeared throughout the world.

You can find it in temples, churches, secular buildings, burial sites, art objects and manuscripts. It's even been carved in Egypt in some of the pyramids.

It's in the Rama temple in India on the ceiling of a church in Italy. You can find it in the ruins of Pampai. You can find it in China where it's carved in a sphere underneath the foot of a lion guarding the entrance to a city.

The Flower of Life has also been seen in Germany, Denmark, temples in Japan, and ancient synagogues in Israel. You can find it in Austria, Spain and Turkey just to name a few.

And you all know who listened to this podcast, know how much Samantha and I love the concept of symbols that connect us from so many world cultures.

The Flower of Life does that. And if you can envision it with us as we're talking, that might be helpful to you. And you've seen it. I know a lot of folks wear it as a pinduck, for example.

And it's exactly that. It looks like semi-circular petals all interlocking with each other inside a double circle. And it's just, it's just an amazing geometric form. And we're going to be talking in a little while about how that form came into being and its foundation.

Well, I think it's neat that the first example of the Flower of Life can be found in the Temple of Osiris in Egypt. Some say this symbol in the Temple of Osiris in Egypt is 6,000 years old, but some believe it's even older going back possibly to 10,500 BC, while other people claim it dates to the second century AD, which means we don't really know.

But what's so neat about this symbol that's found in the Temple of Osiris is that it was not carved into the granite. It may have been burned onto it or lasered into it, but what we do know is it's in there with perfect precision.

I wonder how that was done.

Don't you though?

I do. But that's true for me for this symbol and others that I've seen in places I know I was in Cornwall and there's a seven-circuit labrith, which is a whole other conversation, but it was a seven-circuit labrith that was carved into this stone just along the roadside that had been there for thousands of years.

And nobody quite knew who or how it got put there. And it's the same labrith that you find in Crete and in the Minoan era, and the carving was so precise.

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