HOMO GRAVITAS

2017 ICOMOS CIPA-ICORP-ISCARSAH Joint Meeting HOMO GRAVITAS Ramiro Sofronie International Scientific Committee for the Analysis and Restoration of Structures of Architectural Heritage [email protected] ABSTRACT: The paper deals with human condition, gravitationally regarded from the perspective of Cultural Heritage. The secrets of the universe unlocked by Stephen Hawking at the end of the 20th century were received with great hope worldwide. Later he admitted that the mystery of gravity could not be disclosed. Since the case persisted, in 2017 he AI from destroying the human race. Looking back, history has shown that homo erectus had a natural evolution. The transitory process of acquiring consciousness by receiving a mind passed discretely. It was recently proved that the Sphinx in Egypt is a memorial devoted to that event. Then, the Legend of Oedipus disclosed the true identity of homo gravitas. Meanwhile other legends were decrypted. An advanced gravitational civilization was created on the Earth along a few millennia. Unexpected problems arouse by the growth in population. At the end of the 19th century Nietzsche asked for a Superman. A few decades later, in 1907, Brancusi carved in stone a little sphinx statue as though bewilderedly asking Quo Vadis? Thirty years later, in 1937, the same sculptor gave a revolutionary solution to the control of the body-mind equilibrium. That solution Key Words: Body, Congruence, Equanimity, Mind. Hawking, from ecstasy to concern At the end of the 20th the scientific world. For the first time the secrets of the universe were unlocked. Five years later Hawking disclosed his expertise in the science of gravity by presenting some fascinating ideas about the black holes. A black hole is a region of space-time from which nothing, not even light, can escape because gravity is so strong four basic forces of the universe: 1) the gravitational force, 2) the electromagnetic force, 3) the weak nuclear force, and 4) the strong nuclear force, with the hope to optimism regarding to the unification of the four basic forces. In the same book he presented a suggestive diagram of the explosive occurred in England around the year 1750. It is worth noting that a good part of the English steel produced then was used in Paris for erecting the Eiffel Tower in 1889 as a Memorial devoted to gravity (Sofronie, 2001). Then, suddenly and unexpectedly, GUT failed because the force of gravitation remained undisclosed (Hawking, 2005). It experimental tests made in the large hadron colliders of Geneva and Manchester Laboratories nothing changed. The gravitational force remained a great unknown. The n March 9, 2017, referring to the dangers of artificial intelligence and technology, Hawking declared for THE INDEPENDENT in London: On on May 22nd, 2017 OSHO Times International also took a firm position by the meditation or bust Homo Erectus According to Anthropogenic Sciences, the quadruped hominids passed through a process of evolution counted to twelve centuries. The bipedal condition of homo erectus, with enlarged feet soles, was reached at the end of the Pliocene era, about the year 500,000 BC. That major qualitative leap was possible only thanks to gravity. Gravity replaced the function of two of the four legs in controlling the static and dynamic equilibrium of hominid bodies. Thus gravity was incorporated as a new sense in the genetic program of homo erectus, beside the former five ones, remaining as such forever. In the subsequent cultures that followed the turning year 500,000 BC homo erectus passed through the advanced positions of Neanderthal man in the year 70,000 BC and Cro-Magnon man in 35,000 BC, while the year 15,000 BC marked its migration to the Americas across Behring Straits. It was Robert Bauval who found out the First Time. He started to study the monuments at Giza in 1994 and decrypted an inscription on a large stone, he had discovered located between the lioness paws of the Sphinx. Bauval reached to the conclusion that the beginning of time, or Zep Tepi in Egyptian Mythology, occurred in the year 11,451 BC. The Milky Way and the course of Nile mirrored each other at that time. It seems that Plato also has referred to that time, when consciousness was fixed in solid matter, in his book Timaeus. Bauval mentioned that the building projects along the Nile River were cyclically repeated within a period of 1,460 years beginning with the year 11,451 BC. The Sphinx might have been carved in the raw rock existing on that location before the year 10,000 BC because the walls surrounding the monument displayed signs of water erosion that could not have happened after that time. The Sphinx marked the end of the Age of Metamorphosis when the organizing principles of the universe became irreversibly absorbed inside the human body and guarded it against any slide back into the old ways of procreation. That spontaneous process of matter precipitating out of mind lasted only for a brief interval of time and was never repeated during the history. of mankind (Black, 2007). ANCIENT CULTURES AND LEGENDS Oriental Cultures Modern philosophy admits that matter and mind are not contemporaneous with each other. Two opposite alternatives are thus possible: either the matter had already existed, and the mind was later attached or the existing mind created the matter, after a while. By lacking some physical proofs, consisting in facts not words, both alternatives are nowadays theoretically supported. When the human body was considered as matter, the ancient Oriental Cultures took the evidence as basis and confidently adopted the first alternative. Therefore, at the time when homo erectus spontaneously received a mind and became conscious, its physical body had a life experience of 500,000-11,451 = 488,549 years, i.e. almost half a million years. The human body was already mature at that time. That is why it was in the Oriental Cultures that they first met; the body and the mind appeared like playing the roles of the old host and young guest. The body is made of earthen matter with its two basic properties: 1) gravity and 2) inertia, has only a single life and then disappears as a mortal thing forever while the mind, just like the soul too, has an immaterial or spiritual identity, comes from nowhere when the body is born, and then disappears in the same nothingness when the body dies. The mind is very likely to have innumerable lives as a thing with an immortal identity, but this statement has not been practically proved yet. Regarded separately, the body came to that meeting supported by solid references of autonomy and independence. The body was endowed with some vital organs for reproduction, digestion, circulation, breathing and coordination. All these organs and their accessories work together, like a complex machine to produce and consume vital energy. By supporting all these activities, the body is the greatest miracle ever created on the Earth. Each individual body is unique in the world and constitutes a universe in itself. The body has its own discipline and coherent rules of function in harmony with everything around, more or less close. That is why the body always lives and activates only in the present time, never in the past nor in the future. The body is also endowed with its own instincts controlled by the vital organs and senses. Since the matter of the body has origin wisdom of the Earth. As long as the body life is concerned, it is nothing else but a than energy consumption and ceases in the contrary case. With such a solid It looks like that nothing infrastructure the body is missing. The body detain all the mysteries and secrets of the life. To be known they should only decrypted. The question is who should do that decryption? The body does not speak any language, does not laugh or cry, does not sing or dance, and so on. Providentially, the mind came as a guest and totally dissolved into the body like a spice, essentially changing its life. The body and the mind melt into each other so intimately that any demarcation between them does not exist any longer. Symbolically, envelope of protection. However, the partnership between the body and the mind is far from perfection. For instance, the mind acts only in the past and the future, never in the present like the body. There are frequent asynchronies between them. The mind is a permanent source of noise. Also the mind is often produces amounts of undesirable thoughts that load the body in vain. And what is worse the mind creating heel, a permanent source of conflicts between body and mind. In spite of these inconveniences, always unexpected, the material body is further submitted to the man being as a whole is absolutely connected in itself. The body is connected with the mind, and then, together, the body and the mind or the soma and the psyche, are both connected to a transcendental soul hidden deep into the being (Osho, 2003). The Legend of Oedipus it, but he correctly interpreted it as a riddle concerning the ages of man. A baby walks in four legs, grows up to walk in two legs, until so old that a third leg, or walking stick, is needed. By this answer Oedipus communicated to mankind that in human life gravity plays the role of the stick providing the vertical stability. At that very moment homo erectus became homo gravitas and it has still preserved this Latin appellative until now. Oedipus was indeed the first homo gravitas, but the Legend also mentioned at, and 2) Oedipus himself killed a man that was later proved to be his own father. According to some statistics homo gravitas carried out 5,000 wars during the last 3,000 years. The homo gravitas is a warrior. The Legend of Narcissus In Greek Mythology Narcissus was a young hunter known for his beauty. After seeing his own image reflected in the water of a pool he apparently fell in love with it. Unable to leave that image of his reflexion Narcissus lost his will to live. He committed suicide by starring at his reflexion until he died. An ancient Greek reflexion for too long. In a paper published in 1914 Sigmund Freud called the case a personality disorder. In his book Republic, claimed that reality and truth could only be seen by mirroring. In these conditions the image seen by Narcissus was that of a body free of gravity and also free of mind. He committed suicide not for the love of himself or of someone else, but for fear. As a hunter he was unable to understand what happened with his image and suddenly, Gravity and mind have the same structural nature, and 2) By mirroring both, the gravity and the mind, can be controlled by homo gravitas. The Legend of Adam and Eve This Biblical Legend is perhaps the most beautiful one ever written. Adam was a man endowed with all the vital organs to live autonomously. He was lacking only a body, was not a woman, but mind. By its nature the mind is curious. Despite the prohibition to touch the tree of knowledge the sly snake deluded the mind to urge Adam to taste the forbidden apple. At that moment Adam learned what is good and what is bad, as it was foreseen for him, but instantly he was punished by losing his immortality. Together with his wife, later detached from owns rib, they were chased away from that holy place, cursed to work hard all their lives, and their remaining to return into the earthen soil where they had come from. The Legend of Diogenes Diogenes was a Greek philosopher. He was born in Sinope, Turkey, in 412 BC and died in Corinth in 323 BC. He was known as Diogenes the Cynic, and once met Alexander the Great (356 -323 BC). Plato (428-348 BC), a student of Socrates (470-399 BC) and a teacher of Aristotle (384why this Legend has been chosen for this chapter of the paper. The first one is because Diogenes was a good looking man in his youth. He was conscious of his beauty and he used to appear naked in public. He mentioned that he loved his body and praised it for its internal and external virtues. It was a shame to hide a great creation like the human body behind clothes, he used to proclaim in public. The second reason is because when Diogenes got old he used to carry a lit lamp in the daytime claiming he was searching for light. It was obviously a paradox about which Albert Einstein stated that "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." Particularly, the nature of gravity cannot be decoded with the aid of gravity. The l age is confirmed, homo gravitas cannot find the gravity. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Zarathustra Zarathustra in Old Persian and Zoroaster in Greek, was probably a priest. It is unclear when and where he was born. He is said to have received a vision from the Wise Lord who appointed him to preach the truth. Zoroaster began preaching his message of cosmic strife between the God of Light, and the Destructive Spirit, who embodies the principle of evil. According to the prophet, man had been given the power to choose between good and evil. The end of the world would come when the forces of light would triumph, and the saved souls would rejoice in victory. This dualism was part of an evolution towards monotheism in the Middle East. Zoroaster's teaching became the guiding light of Persian civilization. After Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire in 330 BC, destroyed Persepolis and moved its Capital to Babylon, Zoroastrianism began to die out in Persia, but it survived in India where it became the basis of the Parsi religion. Of the Spirit of Gravity In the human mind the usual perception of gravity comes from the flight of birds. Humans cannot fly alike because they are not weightless. Even the ostrich, the bird that runs faster than any horse, cannot do it and sticks its head heavily into sand, as if ashamed. On the other hand, humans call earth and life heavy. That complaint generates the Spirit of Gravity. The one, who wants to become light like a bird, and virtually fly, experiencing that special feeling of real flight, must love oneself with a sound and healthy love, disregarding all the conventional rules issued by society. The one who wants to learn how to fly a real flight one day must first learn to stand and to walk and to run and to climb and to dance. One cannot learn to fly by flying! Everything should be done in a personal way without any pattern, model or guide previously followed by someone else. The Spirit of Gravity bears a subtle key of joy and happiness in life. With the aid of the Oriental Ancient Philosophy Nietzsche expressed his brilliant ideas that proved to be, astonishingly actual after more than a century. It was a successful mediation between the two philosophical worlds (Nietzsche, 1969) Of the Higher Man After three metamorphoses, when the spirit successively passed from a camel to a lion and then to a child, man was created. Then by lightning, a heavy drop from the cloud became Superman in an instance. Despite all the imperfections, that man became a rope. A rope over an abyss fastened between animal and Superman. The Superman bears the meaning of the Earth; it has nothing to do with extra-terrestrial space. The man is a bridge not a goal; he is only a going-across. The Higher Man is a tight-rope walker, balancing not only great aspirations, but also responsibilities. First of all, he should be honest and non-liar. Beside other virtues the Higher Man should learn how to be a great laughter and a good dancer too. Laughing sincerely, from all heart and beyond oneself is expressing the joy of life. The same feeling is experienced by dancing. This idea was painted by Henri Matisse in 1909. Later, Mircea Eliade, professor at the Chicago University, explained that by rotating like all cosmic bodies, the dancer demonstrates that s/he belongs to the universe as an intrinsic part of it (Eliade, 1991). BRANCUSI, THE WISDOM OF THE BODY Brancusi arrived in Paris in 1904 at 28. At that time the city where Guy de Maupassant had that terrible obsession of the Eiffel Tower was in full blossom of modern culture. Coming from a Romanian patriarchal village with a quiet life, Paris suddenly opened unexpected doors of creation to him. During the years 1905-1906 he -arts, and at the beginning of then aged 31, Brancusi moved to 54 rue de Montparnasse, where he started to work on his own by the technique of directly carving in stone. The two miniature statues he created the same year were named The Kiss and The Wisdom of the Earth by Brancusi himself. The first statue, whose only name was inspired by Rodin, with dimensions of 28x2.1x21.8 cm, Brancusi used his concept of congruence or mirroring for the first time as it was later extended to The Gate of the Kiss in his Sanctuary at Targu Jiu (Plato, 1994) (Fig. 1). Figure 1. The second statue, carved in crinoid limestone, with the dimensions of 56.5x16.5x24.9 cm, remained wrapped in mystery for a long time. A paper written two years ago made the first attempt to disclose the puzzle of this statue 108 years after its creation (Sofronie, 2015). The author then assumed that in 1907 Brancusi was still under the strong impact of the new environment of Paris where he had moved. Probably then, he felt in his sub-consciousness rather than understood, as he was a feeler with an advanced intuition, that something was wrong with the human body. If so, before receiving a mind homo erectus behaved autonomously by using its own instincts only. In the case of homo gravitas the mind was located in the brain that radically changed the internal functions of the body. In order to keep the equanimity between body and soul, so often claimed by Somerset Maugham in his writings e.g., a represents a sphinx is well supported. A sphinx is nothing else but an enigmatic personage. The Egyptian Sphinx was made up of a lioness body with a female head and fixed as a statue. The Greek Sphinx had the same components, but it was mobile and acted like a monster. In this case, with an inspiration of genius, Brancusi had different options. A naked female, in all its natural beauty, was chosen as a body. It represents the roots through which the human being is connected with the Earth. As concerns the head he probably decided to symbolically replace the usual human one with a well-balanced body like the Globe of the Earth, sculpturally adapted for his and connects the body to cosmic energy. The sculptor carved a mask of a meditating sad face on the head (Fig. 2). Thus he created a statue that appears to be deeply concerned like that of a watching sphinx, as if asking Quo Vadis? Since the body was , the statue actually represents the wisdom of originally created from the Earth right for its own wisdom to be preserved and not violated by the mind. BRANCUSI, THE WISDOM OF THE MIND In 1935 Aretia Tatarescu, the President of the National League of the Women of the Gorj County, asked Brancusi to create a War Memorial in the mining town of Targu Jiu, not far from his birthplace. It was supposed to be a Memorial devoted to the soldiers killed during the First World War, in October 1916. The work on the site started early in 1937, and was completed one year later, on October 27, 1938. But eighty years ago the Column was erected in only three months, as the only Endless Column in the world. For his latest sculpture masterpieces Brancusi used three advanced concepts of shaping as follows: The first concept is that of anthropomorphism and refers to the stylization of human bodies. Traditionally, memorials like those erected for Trajan in Rome, Napoleon in Paris, and Nelson in London were built as massive stone columns, all over 30 m in height, each supporting a big statue on its top. Brancusi never imitated other creations. For the funerary monument at Targu Jiu his option was a slender column in a modular composition of less than 30 m in height. Along a steel core, a score of identical modules of coated cast iron was successively laid, one over the other, in the vertical direction of gravity. According to their statute of representing young heroes, the modules were shaped like stylized coffins. Each module was represented by an isosceles decahedron with four vertical plans of symmetry and a horizontal one in the middle. That decahedron satisfied the topological theorem of Euler between facets, peaks and edges F+P=E+2, namely 10+12=5x4+2. The height of each module was 180 cm; the middle square was 90x90 while the two end squares were 45x45, following the proportion 4:2:1. Owing to the existing horizontal plan of symmetry each decahedral module could be regarded as composed of two identical hexahedral units. They were used by Brancusi in composing the column by 15 full modules and 2 halves located at the two ends, which was equivalent with 16 modules. By adding a short guard length at the base of the Column its total effective height was h=29.35m. Therefore, from an anthropomorphic perspective, the Memorial Column consisted in a row of 16 standing identical coffins. The second concept is idiomorphic and is related to the perfection of shaping. In the theory of aesthetics, the unit used for measuring the perfection of monuments, and thus for evaluating the beauty of human creations, is the golden mean or triangle, also called the sacred proportion, =1.618. It was used, for instance, for the Cathedral Notre Dame of Chartres in France (1134-1220), but also to for the Petrindu Church in Romania (1612). In the case of the decahedral module created by Brancusi on each of its facets, four golden triangles were identified. That means that only a single module contained 4x8=32 golden triangles, while the whole Column was based on 8x8x8=512 golden triangles. This remarkable figure explains why Brancusi asked for his Column to be painted in a golden yellow color. By comparison, the Keops Pyramid at Giza, Egypt (2601-2515 BC), which geometrically is a pentahedron, and two by two in the vertical plans of symmetry, perpendicular to the base sides. A surprise came from Mesopotamia. The reconstituted dimensions of the former Babel Tower, erected as a ziggurat probably by the King Hammurabi the Great (1792-1750 of 90x90x90 centimeters, precisely at the scale of 1:100. This means that the Babel Tower contained 4x4=16 golden triangles which explains its worldwide and long lasting fame. As far as the Column height was concerned it was not randomly chosen at all. It is easy to observe that 16 modules meant 10 , with an error of only 1.125%, which proves the golden choice of the Column height. But what is really amazing is that the height h=29.35m adopted by Brancusi for his Column at Targu Jiu differs by less than 1% in the diameters d=29,426m of the two megalithic circular sanctuaries at Stonehenge, UK and Sarmizegetusa, Romania. In addition, since both the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Keops Pyramid in Egypt are monuments devoted to gravity, the height of the Endless Column at Targu Jiu was 1:10 of Eiffel, 1:5 of Keops and 1:3 of Babel. Therefore, the idiomorphic concept of shaping the Endless Column was fulfilled. The third concept is that of auto or isomorphism and explains the unique quality of the Column: that of being endless. In composing his Column out of decahedral modules Brancusi has used the topological law of self-generating the forms based on congruence or the well-known mirroring effect. Indeed, after repeating the congruence of the modules several times, the topological law of isomorphism came in force consecrating the endless feature of the Column. In fact, the mirroring effect caught the attention of thinkers long ago. For instance, in Egyptian Mythology the beginning of time Zep Tepi was marked in the year 11,451 BC when the Milky Way and the Nile River perfectly mirrored each other. Later, in his book Republic, Plato (429-347 BC), recommended to all artists to use looking glasses in doing their creations. A much stronger influence of that effect on humans came from the Myth or Legend of Narcissus. According to Greek Mythology, saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with it. Unable to leave the beauty of his A classic version of this legend was included by Ovid in his Metamorphoses, and in modern times, Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Grey. Although Brancusi never confessed, it seems he was the only human being in the world who clearly understood that the beauty seen by Narcissus in the pool came not only from the lack of gravity, but also from the lack of mind control. Any human body liberated from the confinement of gravity and mind control, feels the display of a brighter mirrored image than the original one. It looks like the mirror bears the key to liberation and immortality. Thus Brancusi discovered exactly what he arduously needed for, in reaching the target of his Memorial: keeping the bodies in coffins symbolically and allowing the souls to leave the material space along the visible unlimited way, opened by the repeated congruencies of the modules. Brancusi expressed his art by Geometry, but he consequently created through Topology. Therefore, the concept of auto or isomorphism has a strong support in history and it definitely proves that topologically the Column erected in 1937 is really endless. Afterwards Brancusi did not create anything else. He passed away 20 years later in Paris, content that he fulfilled his duty on Earth (Fig. 3). The recent tests carried out on the shaking table of INCERC Iasi, showed that the whole spectrum of seismic excitations. In addition, the test carried out on the kohama National University in Japan, variations of the Column crossand did not appear at all. Considering the two types of tests one can state that the Column is not only endless, but also everlasting (Sofronie, 2013). From the perspective of homo gravitas the Endless Column is a creation of the conscious mind. But it is well known today that the conscious mind has three forms, namely individual, collective and cosmic ones. Additionally, each of the three forms has two more components namely a sub-conscious and a super-conscious one. Therefore, there is a total of 3x3=9 forms of the conscious mind contributing to the act of creation performed by Brancusi. Indeed, if the Endless Column is carefully examined its nine-dimensional degrees can be identified. That is why it was the convention to of this paper only. Thus the work of Brancusi extended over 30 years, between 1907 and 1937, from the Wisdom of the Body to the Wisdom of the Mind becomes perfectly coherent and entirely fulfilled. BRANCUSI SANCTUARY AT TARGU JIU The Sanctuary is developed along a West-East axis of 2.5 km in length, from the bank of Jiu River to the former hey market, and crosses the Public Garden of Targu Jiu town. The Alley of War Heroes such created successively contains: 1) The Table of Silence, 2) The Alignment of the Stools, 3) The Gate of the Kiss, 4) The Orthodox Church devoted to Saint Apostles Peter and Paul, and 5) The Endless Column. Each group of sculptures was created and located by the sculptor in full accordance with its function. For instance, the Table of Silence, together with its 12 surrounding Stools, was devoted by the sculptor to the silence of the mind. But human mind is eternal, like gravity, without a beginning and an end. Its life is circular. That is why the Table and all its Stools are also circular as shape. The Table consists in a slab of limestone with 2.15 meters in diameter and 0.43 m in thickness, supported by another slab also made of limestone of 2.00 meters in diameter and 0.45 m in thickness. The Stools were carved in the same rock as the Table and shaped like circular clepsydrae. Initially, the Stools were disposed in pairs, closer to the Table edge. Later they were rearranged at the present distance at equidistant spaces between them. Before the regularization of the nearby river the waters flowing from the mountains created a comforting ambience. The Alignment of the Stools connects The Table of Silence with The Gate of the Kiss. The Stools were designed by the sculptor for the bodies to rest. But the human body is ephemeral; it has a beginning and an end. Therefore, its life is linear. That is why all Stools of the Alignment were shaped like squared clepsydrae. They are arranged in five groups of three Stools on each of its two sides, all carved in limestone and shaped as squared clepsydrae. There is a total of 2x5x3=30 identical Stools. The Gate of the Kiss, massive like a triumphal arch, appears as a conceptual development of the statue created by Brancusi in the memory of Tania Rachevskaia in Montparnasse Cemetery of Paris in 1910 as a congruent and gravitational Kiss. Those 40 images of the statue carved in travertine suggest the fascinating idea of the kiss by perfect superposing two by two of the involved faces, according to the vertical direction of gravity, also including the eyes. The perfect horizontality of the embrace emphasizes the gravitational orientation of the whole monument. In turn, The Endless Column is composed of a succession of identical metallic modules, all connected in series, as a funeral monument. When the erection of all modules was completed under his supervision, Brancusi asked the workers to paint the Column in the yellow colour of the ripe wheat fields. The late architect Silvia Paun ascribed a megalithic stylization to that Memorial of modern art. She identified the Table of Silence and its twelve Stools with a Cromlech or a Circular Temple of Menhirs, the Alignment of Stools with a horizontally extended Linear Temple of Menhirs, The Gate of the Kiss with a Dolmen, and The Endless Column with a vertically extended Linear Temple of Menhirs. Once these functions were recognized as such, the Targu Jiu Memorial was integrated with other vestiges of World Megalithic Cultures like Carnac in France, Stonehenge in Great Britain and Sarmizegetusa in Romania. It was for the first time in History when modern sculpture at such large scale reflected so faithfully the ancient art expressed by stone not only in shape, but mainly in the meaning of their messages (Paun, 2001) (Fig.4). Figure 4. Megalithic stylization of Brancusi Sanctuary For thirty years, from the Kiss in 1907 to the Endless Column in 1937, i.e. in all his creative life, Brancusi also used the congruence for the circular clepsydrae of the Table of The Silence, for the squared Stools of The Alignment of Stools and for The Gate of The Kiss; once perpendicular on the direction of gravity and four times parallel with gravity. In all cases his works received a particular purity by eliminating the mind. That subtle effect is not beca mirroring, the images lose their gravity at the same time with the mind. This effect suggests that mind and gravity have the same immaterial composition. That is why the mind has not been able to disclose the nature of gravity so far, to Hawking disappointment. It seems that many years ago, in ancient time, when the wise people who wrote the Bible, they knew that homo gravitas was not yet prepared to handle gravity properly. Indeed, even when the atomic and nuclear forces were discovered, less than a century ago, they immediately received military destinations as well. On the other hand, it has been known for long time that for homo gravitas the standing position is essential for homo gravitas. Indeed, in the vertical direction the body is parallel with the lines of the gravitational field. Then miraculously the induction of the gravitational energy in the human body reaches maximum values. That energy, also called cosmic energy, induced directly in the body, but not in the mind, means life and vertical stability. On the horizontal direction the induction of gravitational energy in human body ceases, and death may occur. Homo gravitas is a complex energetic machine that normally works only when the body and the mind are balanced. The law of universal gravitation postulated by Isaac Newton is equally valid on all planets. The only difference consists in the intensity of the gravitational field. Conclusion Homo gravitas is neither a man nor a woman. It is the archetype of the biped endowed with a conscious mind. Its body originates from Earth while its mind originates from gravity. The UNESCO World Heritage proudly preserves its achievements. The 21th century has started with great expectations from homo gravitas. Despite the unequal development of the body-mind couple, the potential of homo gravitas to keep its balance remains high. Its inner self universe is still carefully explored. Practically, this task lies in putting its mind under self-control. The balancing solution proposed is based upon the mirroring effect discovered by Plato. Brancusi, the sculptor of genius, controlled the mind by repeated congruencies. His idea can be extended to all the nine levels of mind: individual, collective and cosmic, each as conscious, subconscious and superconscious one. Gravity is the common propriety of body and mind. Homo gravitas has to discover how the body-mind couple manages the matter energy. Additionally, homo gravitas direct, non-verbal, communication, courage, innocence, doubt, purity and accuracy of the original five senses. By self-balancing, the psychosomatic body-mind couple aspires to reach its equanimity. Keep standing, homo gravitas! Acknowledgements The unconditional support of the UNESCO Chair #177 in Bucharest, Romania, during those 21 years devoted to searching the works of the sculptor Constantin Brancusi is gratefully acknowledged. Heartfelt thanks are also due to the author s dear friends Ioana and Valentin Feodorov. Bibliography References from Books: Black, J., 2007. The secret history of the world. Quercus, London, pp.150-160. Eliade, M., 1991. Solilocvii. Humanitas. Bucuresti Hawking, S. W., 2005, The Theory of Everything. The Origin and Fate of the Universe. Phoenix Books. Beverly Hills, CA. Nietzsche, F., 1969. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Penguin Books. Osho, 2003. 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