🌀 The Spiral of Life Part I — Why Stillness in the Middle Is the True Death

I was in the shower when it hit me.

Life isn't just an upward spiral, as so many spiritual teachers love to preach.

It’s not just ascension, growth, healing, and “raising your vibration.”

That’s only half the truth.

The other half?

Life also spirals downward.

Into shadow.

Into collapse.

Into madness, despair, addiction, loss.

And right in the center — caught between the rise and the fall — is society.

A flatline.

A place of no real motion.

A place of distraction, numbness, and stagnation.

The middle is where people sit in routines, pay bills, obey, scroll, perform.

It looks like living, but it isn’t.

🔼 Upward Spiral: The Path of Remembering

The upward spiral is sacred. It is the path of expansion.

It’s the fire of remembrance, the return to self, the breaking free from the illusion.

It feels like freedom, clarity, divine love, and breakthroughs.

But it’s not always comfortable.

It comes with loss. Ego death. Identity crises. Painful awakenings.

It forces you to rise beyond what you thought you were.

🔽 Downward Spiral: The Path of Drowning

The downward spiral is also sacred.

It teaches you what light cannot: the raw truth of your inner wounds.

It strips you down. Shows you what’s broken. Forces you to feel.

It’s addiction. Isolation. Collapse. Rage. Emptiness.

But in that drowning, something is born.A fire. A will. A cry for something more.

If you survive it, you don’t come back the same.

🪞 The Middle: Society’s Illusion of Safety

The center is the trap.

It’s where people are neither falling nor rising.

They’re just existing.

Waking up. Working. Sleeping. Repeating.

No risk. No depth. No truth. No chaos. No revelation.

The middle is not bad — but it’s dead.

It’s the comfortable coffin that convinces you you’re still alive.

If you truly want to live, you must choose movement — either direction.

Go up.

Go down.

Ascend or collapse.

Heal or unravel.

But move.

Because the Spiral of Life doesn’t reward perfection.It rewards participation.

🔄 Hidden Energy in the Spiral — The Secret Code of Flow

If you soften those cones into curves…the whole structure transforms.

That simple Spiral of Life diagram I drew?

It becomes the energy flow symbol — the ancient shapes found in torus fields, infinity loops, yin-yang spirals.

It stops being just a diagram of movement — and becomes a living current.

⚡ What it Really Represents:

• 🔼 Upward current = Masculine → Conscious → Ascending

• 🔽 Downward current = Feminine → Subconscious → Integrating

• ➖ Society in the middle = The friction point, the flatline, the pause

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And when curved?

It mirrors the sacred circulation of energy.

The way life force naturally flows.

Always polar.

Always returning.

Always in motion.

🧬 Duality, Unity, and the Flow of Creation

This symbol I've brought to life doesn’t just show positive vs. negative…It encodes a universal truth:

“Duality isn’t separation — it’s a system of movement.”

From rising to falling, giving to receiving, expanding to collapsing —

we are not meant to stay still. We are meant to flow.

And the spiral? It’s encoded.

🔥 Final Words

Some will fear the fall.

Others will chase only the rise.But the real masters?

They know how to dance with both.

Much love,

Patrick Matthieu / Seraphalanuel

Master Creator, Spiral Walker, Truth Teller