I've often viewed my spiritual journey to be an ascending spiral, repeating the same mistakes until I learned whatever lesson it was I needed to learn, taking a step up to the next level, and circling around again until the next lesson was learned.

I have to be careful though when I speak about ascension. I wish not to convey a relationship between inferior and superior, that would be an indication of egocentricity and lends itself to concepts of a hierarchical spiritual order, which, in my view, creates an atmosphere of competition that soon devolves into a battleground.

For me, I didn't ‘plan' a spiritual journey. It only seemed like the solution to the problem. There isn't a concentric diagram that fits the history of my path. Its design would like more like bouncing from one point to the next, sometimes making wild arching swings, then swinging back again.