Cloth as Barrier and Disarticulated Smokey Particles

Dr. Steven B Halls | February 2026

This material was originally posted to Facebook on 2026-02-05 - view original post.

Cloth as barrier, discarded and becoming disarticulated smokey particles (little tori), or limp fabric fragments. I've been posting about the idea that cloth hanging down from the waist (in symbolism) could represent the outer wall of flux tubes, and whereas the flux inside can go through the a portal, it's outer wall cannot. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/187YeUf4b7/
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Cloth as barrier, discarded and becoming disarticulated smokey particles in little tori, or limp fabric fragments. Cloth hanging from the waist represents the outer wall of flux tubes; the flux inside can pass through a portal but the outer wall cannot. One artist's work shows clothing as several layers of barrier around central energy flux, another shows clothing becoming like smoke or clouds with frayed edges, and transparency marks high-density material we cannot detect. Cross-linked patterns use alternating torus symbols as the usual barrier structure, and smoke is made of those little tori drifting apart, usually an upward flowing symbol.

Image A came along today, and this artist's work seems to include the idea of clothing being like several layers of barrier around central energy flux. Image D by Remedios Varo has the idea of clothing becoming like smoke or clouds. She often shows several clothing layers with frayed edges. Image C uses transparency, a symbolism way of meaning that the material is high-density ( very small tori) that we cannot detect from our-reality. Image B is one of many cross-linked patterns using alternating torus symbols. Barriers (in symbolism) are usually of this kind of structure.

I think of the smoke symbol being made of those little tori from image B, but no longer interlinked. Drifting apart. I was brought up thinking there was something mysterious about "divine" or "spiritus" energy coming down to us from heaven/higher density, but what if it is coming in the form of little tori that ultimately become the building blocks for structure in our-reality, and some becomes the flux stuff that is attracted into spiralling-inward vortices, to return to higher density, and some becomes the flow through a torus center, becoming magnetism (via protons) or the "charge" from magnetic moment (via electrons).

Smoke is usually an upward flowing symbol, with chaotic eddies. But maybe "life" and "matter" uses it first during the phase where little tori expand, before they later deflate and disappear. https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/smoke/