Cycles
A friend of mine sent me a post from a Yahoo group that discusses Joseph Campbell's mythology wherein cycles were mentioned in the context that life is a progression of spirals, as that of a road winding up a mountain, as opposed to a linear progression culminating in the end of history. Which brings to mind, either way, there is a peak, a summit, an end to which the road comes, is there not? According to the post writer one encounters in their life similar types of problems time and again but each time we overcome a problem we gain experience therefore by the time we meet it again they have attained through that previous experience a more conscious awareness and thus meet them on a higher plane. Does this suggest we handle the problem better or just differently? What prompted my friend to send me this post was he remembered from an email I had written him in the wee hours one morning I had touched on the subject of cycles in my own life. This seems to be a recurrent theme for sing...