“It was when I was in prison learning to draw the tree of life. I was figuring out how to use sacred geometry to do it - that there’s more to it than just drawing circles and lines. That to do it correctly requires a very precise, mathematical procedure involving overlapping perfect circles. All at once I brushed against the intelligence behind mathematics. It makes no sense to most people, but I saw that there was an intelligence behind math that was just as sentient and aware as I was. I think it had something to do with the fact that my mind had been single pointedly focused upon one thing for several days. In this case, sacred geometry. Somehow it “unlocked” something, or allowed me access to a plane I normally wasn’t aware of.” - Damien Echols
