Spirals

"Don't fight forces, use them." -Bucky

The spiral is one of the fundamental forms in the universe. Spirals are found everywhere, from atomic structures, to our DNA, to spiral galaxies.

 Buckminster Fuller was big on geometry and he had very little use for mathematics with imaginary objects such as 'the point' or 'the line'.  A point made of nothing?

His point was, what is this structure doing? Take three actual sticks, he says, not 'lines', and form a triangle. No matter how you do it, you have just formed the simplest spiral! Lines can be on planes, but sticks are three dimensional. This means that spirals take you to the next level, like a spiral staircase.

Cycles and repetitions are a pattern of creation, so without spirals, everything would stay at the same level. Actually we are spiraling every which way right now. As the Earth spins around the sun, the whole solar system is spinning around the galaxy, which is itself also spinning around in the universe. So year after year, as we go around the sun, our solar system has moved too, so we never actually go through the same place twice. Instead, we progress.

Even so it is with ourselves. But the spiral is to us a little scary, and also magic. We fear to spiral 'out of control'. A spiral takes us to a new place, it moves us, it changes things. 

Spirals are a little bit unnerving. We fear their power may suck us down under the waters, blow us away in tornadoes. 

That's why spiral magic is so powerful. Any repetitive pattern has a spiral inside and if we know how to ride it, if we can get on board and go to the next level.

"There are no solids. There are no things.

 There are only interfering and noninterfering patterns operative in pure principle, 

and principles are eternal."

- Bucky