Spiral Within, Spiral Beyond
Tracing the Path from Inner Pattern to Outer Presence
We often imagine progress as a straight line, but in truth, it moves in spirals.
The double helix of DNA isn’t just a symbol of life, its spiral is life. Twisted and infinitely personal. We all carry a spiral within us, a record of origins, possibility, and change. This spiral is not only biological but metaphorical. It reminds us that every return inward is not retreat, but refinement.
When we follow the spiral inward, we do not disappear. We discover. We find the quiet truths buried beneath noise: what we value, what we cherish, what we truly are. And the deeper we descend into this self, not as ego but essence, the more we prepare ourselves to emerge again.
Because every inward spiral has an outward arc. Once we understand the pattern of our own becoming, we can recognize it in others. The caring friend. The loving partner. The innocent child. We see not from above, but from beside. The spiral doesn’t separate us from others—it threads us to them.
So let us spiral inward—not to get lost, but to return more whole. And let us spiral outward—not to fix, but to witness, to serve, to carry what we’ve found in the depths of ourselves to the edge of someone else’s need.
Inward to remember. Outward to become.
— A Fellow Traveler in the Aether
Rememeber that the helix is one presence, not two separate spirals. Either spiral is simply phasing from one end to the other faster than we can concieve... Like a guitar sting resonating when it is struck by a wave, you see the surfacing amplitudes scattered structurally around a carrier wave..
As soon as you are aware that ontological viewpoints are only half the story... Do you truely stop looping and being barrel rolling like the planetary systems in space, or like Starfox 64 where you pitch, yaw, lift, drag, or stall on purpose... While spamming the L buttons in opposite directions of your pitch.
HMU if that strikes within A.Flat.
loved reading this!