Spiraling
Here is shared a continuing journey of learning to “live loved” -- see my Bio. Since July, 2025, I have been more fully focused on working with the Enneagram and later, in September, The Tarot was added. My experience is a “spiraling” -- a term I had been introduced to back in 2018. It was/is an experience of spiraling into my unconscious to more deeply open a time of willingly co-operating with the compassionate work of Spirit to “see”, with compassion and without judgment, the ever present patterns and habits I truly unconsciously live in. These unacknowledged “thieves” keep me from experiencing life and relationships to the fullest – it can be shadow work or unknown/unallowed potentialities/gifts.
There is also the spiraling out of the unconscious, and, I trust, is becoming a way of living in both the conscious, unconscious, and Christ Consciousness simultaneously – may it be so! I am ever encouraged by the Beloved mandala to continue pilgriming because, as I recently read: “Assent and service going hand in hand in Silence, we enter that which is wholly unknown with a creative purity that is startling, precisely because we are accompanied by the presence of the Third, or the companion-presence: Love.” (1) Yes, ever accompanied by and in Love.
These “spiraling” mandalas that have emerged during this time are offered so that they may bring whatever light or encouragement or in any way contribute to our journeys of becoming full alive human beings.
Like the full collection of Wisdom's Manda Whishpers, these images are part of the Meditation Chapel and are also available
1. Silence, The Mystery of Wholeness, Robert Sardello, Goldenstone Press, 2006, 2008, Introduction, Page XVIII
The Bible & The Tarot, A Personal Pilgrimage of Discovery Gil Stafford, Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2024
The Complete Enneagram, 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge Beatrice Chestnut, She Writes Press, 2013
The Enneagram of the Soul, A 40 Day Spiritual Companion for the 9 Types Nhien Vuong, Hampton Roads, 2025