Often with confused messages, they no longer resonate meaningfully within us. Many of the symbols we do know have lost their psycho-spiritual significance for us. I believe that today we are starved of such symbols that can speak to us and deliver meaning into our lives.
SPIRAL OF LIFE MEANING FREE
And as a symbol it’s free of dogma – religious, political – but also a living experience. I see it as an archetypal symbol corresponding to the underlying reality of nature. The protean spiral is nature’s most favoured pattern of growth and most efficacious deployer of its energy – life-inducing, life-protecting and life-supporting: from the DNA molecule to the human heart where crucial fibres in the ventricles run in spiral lines. Spiral energy fields are all around us and within us, patterning our very existence, from microcosm to macrocosm, determining structures from the tiny vortices of sub-atomic particles to the awesome “island universes” of galaxies where stars are born and the conditions for life created. Such an approach can surely only be positive, for then we can see that humankind and life itself exists because it must, and not by accident or default.įor me, the ubiquitous spiral represents the trajectory of conscious, the shape of time and the pattern of spiritual growth.
Mine is an esoteric world view but one which is based on the idea of consciousness as a gestalt, a uniting human experience rather than one subjective only to the individual. Indeed, to suggest that we might have had such a science, working to a completely different set of principles, available to us for thousands of years, which we have allowed to fall into neglect, but which we may now revive for the world by means of what I have described as transcendental pragmatism. In my book, Spirals: the Pattern of Existence (Green Magic, 2nd edition 2013), I leaned towards Hermetic and Gnostic traditions in attempting to uncover hidden connections and correspondences within a living universe which have been revealed throughout human history in sacred geometry, art and occult writings.Īn important part of my aim was to attempt to unite conventional scientific thinking and these alternative traditions to suggest the possibility of a much wider and more radical science emerging from the two areas. I would hope to see philosophy re-created in the ancient sense of the term, that way of stepping back from the ‘close-up’ everyday position and seeing the bigger picture, the numinous pattern behind the structures of our universe.
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