Syntagma’s new network magazine, 21st-century Phi, has just been launched and, while Spiritual Nirvana is not included in this one, we will be in the next, LifeTimes, covering lifestyles and celebrities.

Phi is a letter of the Greek alphabet that’s used by science to describe the mathematical formula behind a spiral form that occurs over and over in nature. The spiral of a conch shell is phi.

Phi also has mystical connotations, if only because of the mystery of its appearance time and again in nature. Clearly, it shows a background intelligence at work, a “mind” far beyond the human one.

We’ll be discussing these matters in more depth in the coming weeks.