Spirals

[VossistArts]

This afternoon I got caught in a spiral.. for like 3 hours. Thats what I call it when, I happen across a piece of stone or gem rough that suggests a spiral and I start a spiral carving in it.,.. and follow the momentum and lines and weight of it all until its all spiraled and finished hehe.. very scientific arent I? The one I found myself immersed in today was Idaho star garnet. Im reasonably pleased with it. I love carving spirals. I dont plot or calculate or measure but I let It define itself... its all mostly intuitive.
Im not going to say much more about my experience and thoughts on spirals until I see if any of you folks have thoughts and experiences with spirals. I suspect you do. I almost posted this in philosophy or religion.. because I think that somehow, spirals and the nature of spirals are behind everything.. what do you think?

[scameter]

:blink: i think it's beautiful. you are perfectly accentuating and following the beautiful naturality of nature intuitively, as you should, not with blocky reason, allowing your mind and feelings to just blend with nature. i tihnk it is absolutely beautiful. i don't do it myself, but i am not in real contact with nature often very unfortunately, but i do like to meditate, which is my form of natural connection that i can achieve as is; i allow my senses to open completely, to hear, taste, feel everything, usually closing my eyes inorder to lose all distraction, and i allow my mind to fade into clarity.it's one of my favorite parts of my day, because i value freedom and clarity and natural contact very much, and those meditative times of my day are very much so that in purity. course, my devotion is essentially to philosophy, which i thoroughly enjoy, but i am also devoted to nature. that is the only anomily in my devotion meaning of life truth which i am composing as is into real form and that i will eventually post here in finished product, but my point here is is that philosophers don't have one real devotion; they are essentially devoted to devotion, to thought. but, i will elaborate on my truth in another topic when i have fully comprised it into a real essaic form. :)

[abba]

Spirals have an ancient history in meditation and spirituality. Even modern thinkers use spirals. Our church has a spiral "Meditation Walk" planned in an area outside our new addition.

Personally, I have never "used" spirals in meditation, although I have enjoyed observing many examples of them in nature.

Having worked as a bench jeweler, I'm aware of the "total immersion" feeling that can come from such close work. But since I never worked with free-form sculpting of waxes or metals, I've never experienced any mental "release" as you seem to describe in your spiral sculpting. It sounds beautiful.

[scameter]

words are also my passion, however idealolgical, conceptual, or hollow they may be. i love the connections in them, the elaborations, the feeling, the literary archetecture of the placement of words, the logicality of them. everything about them is beautiful. for instance, i was at Barnes and Noble yesterday and i touched a beautiful, hardcover copy of the Red Badge of Courage, which i do not own and have never read, and just the textile contact of that and the knowing that there's an entire world inside of those little pages just gave me such an awe-inspiring feeling of joy and, well, inspiration lol. i asked my grandfather yesterday why do i feel that way towards written literature, and he said that it is my way of escaping and becoming immersed in something 'else'. but, he also said something very philosophical:"Allow yourself to enjoy the escapement into the books, but do not make them a lifestyle." i really didn't completely understand it, which i hope to make it clearer by your elaborations, but i do find my grandfather to be very wise, and very crazy, at times. :lol: but, i also sword fight as a form of meditation, which is also apart of Zen. i enjoy it alot too, but not near as much as i do linguistics, mind-clearing, or especially philosophy, especially discussion, as is done on here. :)

[Quantum Quack]

Just a thought, So often people will say that they are thinking in circles when in fact they are thinking on spirals.
Philosophy:
A spiral being a circle that has time.........A spiral is a circle that is moving........A circle is stasis, a spiral is a circle that grows.
Science:
contention:
Spacetime curvature is a spiral thus the universe is constantly moving.

[scameter]

also prevalent in expansion theory as i understand it.

[scameter]

The destinationless direction. :)