Are They Upwards in self or an Uzumaki?
When you think of a spiral which way do you initially think of the flow of direction? We mostly see it as a downward spiral, like we are spinning down the drain like from the sink or shower. This form of thinking is inspired by the Uzumaki, a manga or live action film that shows the pull of the universe downwards through a curse of the downward spiral. I’ve noticed a trend online about snails through artistic movement or silly content creation. This connects to the story of Uzumaki as some of the cursed town turned into snails, while others were captivated by them. One costume I saw on Instagram stood out to me; it looked like a performance piece which links back to The Allegory of the Cave.
The artist created a frame and utilized a paper shell and a light source to cast a puppet show through the shell. In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato describes the most tormented and chained couldn’t see the fire (the sun) only a dim glow that allowed them to see more shadows dancing around the cave walls. We could relate this to psychology and the use of shadow work of the self to free the self from its internal sand trap. Those who free themselves from their chains within liberations, utilizing a Jungian practice of shadow work helps them see a clearer picture of the world and navigation of their own minds. Sometimes this shadow work can exist within dream interpretation. I’ve gone back on my dream records highlighting parts that stand out to me, so I can find more synchronicity.
The original wanderers didn’t dance with the community around the fire, because those closed within the mind are truly trapped thinking the fire is their apollo or is it apollo 11 to some? As this fire was considered the sun and burned too bright for those who were already metaphorically on fire within the mind. For me, this wanderer who took to shadow work to find their liberation saw the moon reflecting the true suns energy. You could say those cave dwellers in the Allegory who are looking at a fire as the sun are content with their needs not truly finding liberation through freedom of the cave or the mind but finding the comfort around the fire with their community. Some would consider them fools, but being trapped in a comfort zone shelters one from seeing the bigger picture, which to me is the earthly garden and finding the ikagai of life and knowing of what could be for the future of society.
Though self-liberation there are ways to spiral up, through self-discovery, finding connections with a higher frequency within community, and through connections to a spiritual path. I have found a school within my thought process of storytelling my life through the earth mind. One found through philosophical, psychological, myth and legend and connection to nature through synchronicity. This has become my reality, of connection to oneness within the theory of quantum entanglement on how we exist on different dimensions, frequencies, or helixes that balance the bridges of birth to self to connection to others. If we look at family connections our immediate family is our first pillar of connection. It’s how we learned to adapt, communicate, and learn. Family is a blend of generations, sharing or forcing us to be like them? For me it seems like a path is available through guided or pushed like an agenda. Honestly, it is only pushed as they want me to thrive and live within a similar realm of existence for them. As we can always adapt to our environments through the separation of work and play. Exploration, knowledge gathering, and experimentation is a form of play. Though our experience of life, we get to choose our family through our friendships and new connections as we experience life in our own ways.
My family helped me survive, but my new pillar or spiral upwards has been a connection to spirit through the universe and closer-knit family of those who see and synchronize within spirit. You could also look at this upwards spiral as a form of science or DNA which connects or disconnects between 2 helixes. Metaphorically, it could be the concept of blending or creating a new universe through creation and the genetic code of procreation or survival of all living beings. My immediate family has worked for me and gifted so much wealth in order guide me towards a place to thrive. Now I spiral myself through the 9 layers of hell of not knowing or for me the Inferno. Playing the roles of both Dante (mankind) and Virgil (Human Reason) on how to survive without my families help. This new adaption has shown me radical self-reliance and how my morality doesn’t bend or stray too far in times of strife. Though needs rooted through addiction or emotional upheaval pushes us to exist outside of our moral understanding of ourselves and our true guiding morals or connections to spirit of religions.
This makes me think of community on a grander scale of the one that we exist within our neighborhoods. How we all connect as we exist within different frequencies of reality? This is looking at community within the lens of the disability spectrum and how could inquisitive minds reach those who communicate through body language? How could we all learn more about each other though this form of play in a grey area within societal structures. All of us exist within the overarching plane of purgatory (greed) of capitalism. This switch of humanity to a product of environment or product to be bought and sold or advertised via social media has led us astray within community today. It highlights the individualist culture as one of narcissism and protection of self through ego development. I keep mine balanced by not looking too far over one shoulder as it leads to overthinking the past too much. I keep my conscious mind thinking straight ahead, sometimes getting lost in speculative futures. These futures are only paths and forks in the road, sometimes they are crossroads. I only trust true content as stone only withers through erosion. If preserved our morality and ego can exist within the realm of meeting in the middle or finding balance as we have no control of others’ psyche’s. This is what feeds the white wolf in me. I have found original thought and flow within the universe, but how do I market that?
Do I need to sell my face or create a new identity that will keep me on an even plane in purgatory or do I find more spirals upwards in creating new characters for myself like an actor would. don’t want to, I feel as though content and information and ideas should be read like a book. It’s not something that should be marketed in my opinion. Communities have libraries, on the streets and in community spaces. This should be a spiral up in creation and design of the world. Though I am not responsible for its misdeeds or judgements. Though I feel blamed for everything, that my raging fire within myself is not able to be managed or is seen by reality even though I mask and show good intentions. Intelligence does not matter to the greater whole of society.