Spiral #midnighthaiku

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Spiralling within
A chalice of great beauty
Touched by sunlit tears

About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue  passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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15 Responses to Spiral #midnighthaiku

  2. bobcabkings says:
    August 4, 2017 at 00:31

    An interesting fact: All known static spirals (as opposed to the moving ones, like galaxies and water going down a drain) are made by living things.

    In his introduction to “Mind and Nature: A necessary Unity”, Gregory Bateson described a conversation with his daughter:
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    When she was about seven, somebody gave my daughter Cathy a cat’s-eye mounted as a ring. She was wearing it, and I asked her what it was. She said it was a cat’s-eye.

    I said, “But what is it?”

    “Well, I know it’s not the eye of a cat. I guess it’s some sort of stone.”

    I said, “Take it off and look at the back of it.”

    She did that and exclaimed, “Oh, it’s got a spiral on it! It must have belonged to something alive.”

    Actually, these greenish disks are the opercula (lids) of a species of tropical marine snail. Soldiers brought lots of them back from the Pacific at the end of World War II.

    Cathy was right in her major premise that all spirals in this world except whirlpools, galaxies, and spiral winds are, indeed made by living things. There is an extensive literature on this subject, which some readers may be interested in looking up (the key words are Fibonacci series and golden section).

    What comes out of all this is that a spiral is a figure that retains its shape (i.e., its proportions) as it grows in one dimension by addition at the open end. You see, there are no truly static spirals.
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    Bateson, BTW, was English, although he spent much of his career in the US.

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  3. Jonathan Caswell says:
    August 4, 2017 at 00:37

    Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
    HAIKU AND FLOWERS SATISFY THE SUMMER HOURS!

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  5. jenanita01 says:
    August 4, 2017 at 09:01

    I wonder why snails like roses so much? They don’t seem to eat them…

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  6. Widdershins says:
    August 5, 2017 at 01:34

    Snail wanted to stop and smell the roses. 🙂

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