Wednesday, April 15, 2015

The Story Of Sacred Geometry And A Small-Block: How One Of My First Lessons In Wellness Came From An Olds 350


For those of you who have followed my blogs on wellness and audio entrainment, you no doubt have discovered one thing, if not the only: I really like to compare the human body to a car or truck!

So here we go again, but today's lecture on sacred geometry and engines actually serves as a time portal. Today, the "time portal" in question is one that takes us back to the fall of 2001, and the scenario is one that took place in the auto shop halls of Granada Hills High School in Granada Hills, California.


Now for those of you who have followed my work on GM late-model performance, you already know that I'm a fan of Rick Seitz, GM EFI magazine and the work that they do. But anyone who attended Granada Hills High School, during the 2000-01 school year knows that Japanese performance was all-the-rage on the street racing scene, not leaving much room for shop projects involving American iron.

In that vein, the two guys from Mike Izzo's auto shop who stand out, in my mind, are John Gallo and Steve Erickson. Erickson himself drove a '68 Firebird with a 400 mill, but both he and Gallo were GM guys like myself.


Long before I had ever become a member of CORE Centers in Northridge, California or learned about "sacred geometry," alignment was something that made sense to me, if not for our cars then our bodies, for sure. For anyone who's ever followed Aaron Baker, Leo Gura or any other self-empowerment guru, then you know that alignment is the cornerstone behind using sacred geometry toward wellness.

Not sure if John Gallo or Steve Erickson understood these things back in 2001, as they tried to time an Oldsmobile small-block in Mike Izzo's advanced class. But the fact that they had an assignment to time a small-block V-8 showed that alignment was an important issue for Izzo himself.

It took alignment to get it running. For most motoring enthusiasts in 2015, adjusting rocker arms on a conventional small-block isn't that big of a task; it wasn't a big task in high school either! But look where a lot of us are right now: using alignment to get our bodies and brains running better, using audio entrainment to "dyno-tune" our left-and-right hemispheres, a word that has the prefix, "HEMI" in it?!


Not to bring "spirit science" into the world of gas and pistons, but yeah, timing that Oldsmobile 350 in high school took timing. For Aaron Baker to rise above his own, physical challenge and heal took timing. All-in-all, it seems like we need to start using that "automotive language," the one that only some understand, more from now on!


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