As I read and reread this fine paper by Stanly Krippner and Mark A. Schroll, it began to dawn on me that geomantic earthmind might be a practice of Earth yoga: a planetary union of body, mind, and heart (spirit). If this were the case, the way to earthmind would be an evolving, nurturing, enli- vening, disciplined, individualized quest. This is a path I have been on quite unconsciously for many years. Writing this review has meant ex- posing (to myself, really) the roots of my own trusted portals to memory, morphic resonance, the sacred, electro-magnetism, and most impor- tant, Earth identity. Mind and logic were already familiar to me when I was very young, but even an inkling of integration with body and heart eluded me until 1981 when I first saw Chris Bird’s (1975) write-up of a crystal-like “planetary grid” in New Age Journal. Earth was in- stantly different for me. Russian researchers had placed Earth’s body inside a geometric cage (Fig. 1) made up of two of the five “perfect” geometric shapes Plato describes in Timaeus (Lee, 1972). Cor- ners and edges of this “crystal” were proposed to map—among other things—ancient sites, resources, ocean currents, and bird migrations. If Earth had an etheric, geomantic skeleton—what I might now call a resonant morphogenetic field—“it” was no longer just a haphazard spheroid conglomerate. Its life, its very body, was sacred—was evidence of the Order of Things, as above, so below. Radiolaria, plants, molecules, viruses and even the universe embody variations of the five Platonic shapes (Hagens, 2006). All of these figures are inter- connective and “co-exist” geometrically within a sphere. Plato has a difficult time communicating this co-existence, and ultimately presents it essentially as a soccer ball “with 12 patches” and 120 identical trian- gles (ten to a patch). He names the sphere alternately as chora (danceground), world soul, and nurse of becoming. Wm. Becker (an industrial designer and geometer) and I saw Bird’s model as identical, but missing the hypotenuses of the 120 triangles. Adding them re- vealed that each earth energy line was a circular me- ridian. The implication was that Plato’s World Soul was identical to Buckminster Fuller’s geodesics. Literally hundreds of people I have never met have written to me over the years about their dreams of this sphere, of knowing the geometry intuitively Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal Vol. 5 No. 4 66 Fig. 1 (Left) Chris Bird’s Planetary Grid. (Center) Plato’s World Soul (Right) Becker -Hagens Grid. Note: A free app to explore earth energy lines on Google Earth is available at my website, http://bethe.missionignition.net . Geomantic Earthmind: Practicing Earth Yoga A Response to Krippner and Schroll Bethe Hagens