Symbols - What does heaven look like
Spiral
The spiral has more than one meaning. It can represent the gyre – the basic unit of energy of the universe.
Alternatively it can also represent a portal. Vortexes of energy can occur within spiritual experiences and are frequently a means of travel from one level or layer to another acting somewhat like a tunnel. Thus the out-of-body traveller may find himself or herself picked up in one area and dropped in another – all this remember is within the experience.
If the sign is placed on a rock or stone a spiral sign can mean that that is the spot where this may happen. In other words this spot can produce a spiritual experience.
In the picture below we have the ultimate spiral marker at New Grange County Meath in Ireland.
A clockwise spiral is generally regarded as a portal to ‘the sun’ – symbol of exit from reincarnation, an anti-clockwise portal as a portal to ‘the moon’ symbol of reincarnation
Double spirals are also possible.
The spiral by association is also connected to the spiritual path and clockwise movement is regarded as ascension, whereas anti-clockwise movement is descension – descent.
The Order of Creation was a spiral commencing from the centre and the Ultimate Intelligenceand proceeding outwards system by system. Thus a spiral can also be used in this context as representing creation.
By extension the anticlockwise movement represents destruction, whilst the clockwise movement represents creation.
Observations
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- Benjamin, Walter - On Hashish - Puppets
- Blake, William - He sunk down into the sea a pale white corse
- Blake, William - In deluge o’er the earth born man, then turned the fluxile eyes
- Burne-Jones, Edward - The Golden Stairs
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Third Day
- Cirlot on snakes and serpents
- Cirlot on spirals
- Clark, Fay Marvin – Into the Light – Communicating with Adeline after death, and the disappearing hotel key
- Crowley - 13 Death
- Crowley - 17 The Star
- Delville, Jean - Satan's treasures
- Delville, Jean - Dante drinking from the Waters of Lethe
- Dorothy Counts [1983] - Near Death and Out of Body Experiences in a Melanesian Society – Andrew
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – A man with a weak heart has a NDE
- Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Expanding universe - No big bang
- Enel (Michel Vladimirovitch Skariatine) - La Langue Sacree - The unit of energy and the Word
- Escher - spirals
- Escher - whirlpools
- Experiencing hypnotic regression therapy
- Gaudi - Professional work - 04 The Sagrada Família
- Giuoco delle Minchiate Fiorentine and Visconti-Sforza - 7 - The Chariot
- Glastonbury Tor
- Hagman, Larry – The Liver transplant
- Heine, Heinrich - In the wild whirl of the dancers
- Hennell, Thomas - His body was no bigger than a glow worm
- Hokusai - Phoenix
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Egg and the Labyrinth
- Incas - Macchu Picchu - Temple of the Sun
- Isaac Luria - Etz chaim shaar 1 anaf 1 - Ein Sof
- Jajrom [Jajarm]
- Japanese tea ceremony 1
- John Michell - The View over Atlantis – Choosing sites and shifting sites
- Klimt - Fulfilment and Expectation
- Koestler, Arthur - Janus - Wormholes
- La vision de l'eternite Amanita muscaria by Alligator_427
- Lame Deer - Native American Indians - Medicine Deer Rock
- Legrand - Windmills of your mind
- Lethbridge, T C - A Step in the Dark – The spiral, the pendulum and ascension
- Malta - 02 The Temples detail
- Malta - 06 Tarxien Temples
- Malta - 07 The Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni
- Marcus Tullius Cicero - On De Divinatione
- Masters and Houston – The chalice
- Mircea Eliade - Australian Aboriginal Initiation rites
- Mircea Eliade - Australian aboriginal ropes and stairs
- Mircea Eliade - The Ladder
- Morrells, Luce and Minis spinning
- Morrells, Luce and the party
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Speak, Memory - Spirals and Eggs
- Neiye - Verse 09
- Ogotommeli - Drums
- Ogotommeli - Order of creation
- Ogotommeli - Spirals
- Ogotommeli - The Word
- Ogotommeli - Weaving
- Out of body in dentist
- O’Keeffe, Georgia - Horns and flower
- Paul Devereux - Sacred Places - Symbols
- Paul Devereux - The Bushmen of the Kalahari
- Physical abuse
- Plato - Republic X - 02 Tale of Er
- Poetic Edda - Sayings of the High One [extract]
- Pueblo and Mojave - Native American Indians - The hummingbird
- Rider-Waite - 07 The Chariot
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Dante's Dream
- Sacred geography – Picts – Barrows 01
- Seven Ages of Man - 01 The Boskopoid people – from Lyall Watson Dreams and Dragons
- Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - The material and spiritual worlds sprang from one Breath
- Sheridan, Clare – I felt myself being drawn up in a kind of spiral out of my body
- Spencer, Stanley - Portraits 03
- Sting - A Thousand Years
- Strings 'N' Thing - Out of body on ketamine
- Swedenborg, Emanuel - The Infinite - Atoms
- Swedenborg, Emanuel - The Infinite - Unit of energy shape
- Symbols – Picts – Sacred site - Spirals [blind springs]
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre - Pensees - Increments of evolution
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre - Phenomenon of Man - Tree of life
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - The Cairn
- The Ancestors - Neolithic Orkney - Maes Howe
- The Ancestors - Neolithic Orkney - Skara Brae
- The Loop Amanita muscaria by CuriousJim
- The Saami - A Cultural Encyclopaedia - The Power of the Drum
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 02 - 1 The Garden of Live Flowers
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 06 - 5 Jabberwocky explained
- Uxmal - Mayan - West building, man with scroll
- Vatican - Vatican Museums
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - On gods
- Watson, Lyall - Spirals
- Yeats, W B - A Dialogue of Self and Soul - I summon to the winding ancient stair