Why are you always walking in circles? By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Come here, darling, and let me blindfold you. No, not for that. We'll save that for later, with the rum and the oils and the fur-lined blankets, the soft hum of the night.

For now, just the blindfold. Comfortable? Tight enough? No light, no landmarks, no stars, no touch, no way to navigate except via your own internal compass and maybe some low and expectant moaning? Excellent.

And now, off you go. Start walking. Or perhaps swimming. Or even sailing. Any sort of locomotion, really, that would employ only said internal guide and no way to know in just what direction you're moving, but endless space in which to move.

Are you afraid? Worry you might walk on forever, never to return? Concerned you might fall off the edge of the world? Fear not. You won't get lost. You won't get swallowed by the Void. Here is the big secret: You'll come back around eventually. Hell, everyone does. ...

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. A primordial survival benefit..to get us back home..eventually?

[silverweb]

2. You beat me to it. :)

Glad I checked before posting this. A wonderful column today. Here's my favorite paragraph:

It's the very nature of life itself, really: the breath, the cycles of birth and death, the circulatory system, the great expansion and contraction of the universe, over and over again. The wheel of karma. The spinning of the chakras. The endless cycles of reincarnation. Ouroboros. Orbiting planets. God is an infinite loop, a grand inhale and exhale, far more complex, wild and starry-eyed than our meager philosophies can possibly contain. I mean, obviously.

Very vividly and picturesquely stated, and certainly something to meditate on. Spirals and other sacred geometry from the most miniscule to the most vast. Science and the mystical not so separate after all. As above, so below.

Simply amazing what we are a part of, isn't it?

[madokie]

3. Yes it is