Spiralling ...

As far as symbols go, Spirals show, or rather point towards, some deeper Truth ... employing the verb in the title, rather than the noun, indicating the problem and limitation of symbols themselves, along with words ... as often said: The word is not the thing described ... and still we act as if it is ...

Anyway, spiralling in two dimensions suggests the macrocosm and the microcosm equivalence, at least to this old blogger, and how conceptually we may leap across at any point to create another reality, beyond space and time ... a multi-dimensional spiral might be more accurate, though tricky to create ... mind boggles at this point, which is considered creative here, since a mind that is not prepared to boggle may be stuck in old stories ... taking us to the inspiration for today, the latest addition to the Library: Science, Order, and Creativity by Bohm and Peat ... both trained in scientific method, specifically physics ... regular reader(s) may recall David Bohm in dialogue with the World Teacher (as announced by the Theosophists at least), Krishnamurti J, a prophet with much to say about deeper reality. .. their common ground beginning with "The Observer is the Observed" ...

Frankly, your blogger is more comfortable with the mystics, being untrained in science, though Bohm and Peat were not just experts in the Quantum field, but mystics in their own right ... and since our psychology plays into the game of Consciousness, Bohm's modesty and vulnerability was more appealing than K's more acerbic, aristocratic demeanour. .. well, we all have our favourite gurus, don't we? Except the Gurus who know everything, of course ... the dangerous ones!

Bohm and Peat's contention is that playfulness is an essential part of creativity ... as seen in a child immersed in games with friends or alone ... the child encouraged to explore the worlds of their imagination is seen as free to create ... until that dreadful day arrives when formal so-called education arrives, to train the infant to forget all they found and learn instead what's needed in the local culture, trained and tested for retention of the information, marked against a template, allocated scores to determine their roles in a crazy world, where Love, being immeasurable, counts for nothing ... except in words in religious studies ... if this sounds harsh, remember this writer was briefly an official teacher, though not for long, enlisting instead in the world of Adventure Playgrounds, frequented often by truants with their own psychological issues and determined to challenge everything and everybody, including your poor idealistic young radical, with much to learn ... exciting times indeed!

This morning's walk high on the Fell was blissful ... yesterday's heavy snow having settled, this morning's sky clear and cold, producing landscapes like nights full of sparkling stars, but pure white ... scientists could explain it in meteorological terms, but who wants to know that? As with Rainbows, Sunrises and Sets, clouds and all of that heavenly magic, science rather spoils the bliss
... correct but not required today, thank you!

More books are on the way, exploring the wonderful worlds of Reality in different ways, through other lenses, in other timescales ... and when all the books, films, music, maths and their interpreters are silent, what's left? Peace of Mind? Find that at every step, by calming the only fragment you, dear reader(s) have to deploy, and you're on the Way ... sometimes called the Dao!