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Spirals: the Pattern of Existence

Spirals: the Pattern of Existence

A study of the prevalence of the spiral form and pattern in nature and human culture.

2013

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Spiralling into the minds of our Stone Age ancestors

When the Stoney Littleton long barrow was constructed about 5,500 years ago, its builders used a stone with a splendid spiral ammonite…

Mar 23, 2024

Spiralling into the minds of our Stone Age ancestors

Mar 23, 2024

Why you should take a chance on chance

‘Meaningful coincidences can provide clues to how reality works including existential questions like why we are here and what happens after…

May 21

Why you should take a chance on chance

May 21

Pointing to life in a dotty world

How the once-humble dot — see the end of this sentence — underwent a revolution with the advent of the worldwide web more than three…

Apr 19

Pointing to life in a dotty world

Apr 19

When Seamus Heaney’s poetic compass swung North

‘The redressing effect of poetry comes from its being a glimpsed alternative, a revelation of potential that is denied or constantly…

Mar 30

When Seamus Heaney’s poetic compass swung North

Mar 30

So we do have free will after all

Are our choices and actions free or causally determined? And if the latter, doesn’t that have serious implications for our personal, social…

Mar 11

So we do have free will after all

Mar 11

Staying in harmony with the ‘earth spirits’

The ancient practice of geomancy led people to maintaining a beneficial existence in harmony with nature on a universal scale through a…

Feb 25

Staying in harmony with the ‘earth spirits’

Feb 25

Solving the riddle of Ireland’s historic round towers

Latest research overturns the popular theories concerning the function of Ireland’s mysterious round towers, built a thousand years ago…

Feb 15

Solving the riddle of Ireland’s historic round towers

Feb 15

On the quantum quest for a new reality

‘The revelations that are emerging from quantum physics are a genuine treasure –ultimately, dare I say, spiritual in nature — that offer…

Feb 5

On the quantum quest for a new reality

Feb 5

Caring for the soul on the mystical path

‘There’s a lot more Psyche (and its environments) around than most of us think.’ Douglas M Gillette

Jan 6

Caring for the soul on the mystical path

Jan 6

No time like the present — is that so?

How do we define the word, the concept, ‘now’, or ‘the present’? Are they the same thing? It depends on context: ‘now’ in the sense of the…

Dec 26, 2024

No time like the present — is that so?

Dec 26, 2024

Geoff Ward

Geoff Ward

Book Author

Writer, journalist, book editor, poet, musician and tutor in literature and creative writing (MA and BA Hons degrees in English literature).

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