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

pvdbovenkamp
Jul 18
2 min read

There it was.

Right in front of our eyes the whole time.

I looked at the energy symbol again today — the loop, the eternal motion, the representation of flow. And suddenly it hit me deeper than ever before:

Turn the loop horizontal, and you see: as within, so without. A mirrored balance, energy in motion between our inner and outer worlds.
Turn it vertical, and you get: as above, so below. The sacred alignment between spirit and matter, divine and human.

But then I saw it: Where does society place itself in all this?

Right in the middle.

Not as a channel.

Not as a bridge.

But as a block.

Look at the image I attached:

Positive on top.
Negative at the bottom.
Society smack in the center, wedged between two triangles, where the flow of energy should move freely. But it doesn't.

Society has become the artificial axis, cutting the spiral. It doesn't support upward movement. It doesn't ground downward integration. It interrupts the flow.

And here's where it connects perfectly with my earlier realization:

The Spiral of Life — Why Stillness in the Middle Is the True Death.

A spiral represents life itself. Movement. Transformation. Evolution.

But stillness in the center?

It doesn't mean peace.

It means stagnation.

When society positions itself in the center and refuses to evolve with the flow, it becomes the very thing that halts life. It creates an illusion of control. A false balance. A spiritual traffic jam.

And the cost? We leave souls behind. We create division. We weaponize duality.

But what if we changed that?

What if we returned the center — that middle point — back to its true purpose?

Not as a gatekeeper, but as a conduit.

Not as a filter, but as a funnel.

A channel that allows energy to rise from below and descend from above, freely and without distortion.