Spiralling towards a new understanding of ‘reality’, consciousness and our role in the universe

Spirality — the condition of being spiral — and ’reality’ are almost interchangeable terms. I made this remark at the beginning of the first chapter of my book, Spirals: The Pattern of Existence (Green Magic, 2006, 2nd edition 2013), my placing of the word ‘reality’ in parenthesis admitting both to the ‘reality’ perceived through our restricted everyday consciousness and to another, deeper reality usually invisible to us.

While spirality manifests itself in the physical world, in nature, in myriad forms, I regard it also as the unseen creative and ordering principle underlying the universe.

Consciousness would seem to be intimately related to torsion energy which, it is proposed, spirals through space-time — a universal ‘implicate order’ (to use the late quantum physicist David Bohm’s term) which underpins our everyday reality but which is also responsible for paranormal phenomena and ‘non-local’ effects observed in quantum physics, such as ‘entanglement’.

If you imagine a sub-atomic particle with zero spin decaying into two other particles which are then separated by great distance, so far apart even that there is no longer any physical force between them, quantum science says that they still retain information about one another…