Cyclical Destruction/Rebirth

The world is like a giant Ferris wheel that never stops turning. Instead of having a beginning and an end, the world finishes one story and then immediately starts a new one, over and over again. It is like how winter always turns into spring, or how you go to sleep at night and wake up to a brand new day. This teaches us that even when something ends, it is just getting ready for a fresh start. We never really go away; we just change into something new and exciting.

Nothing ends. It turns. Winter becomes spring. Night becomes day. The last breath becomes the first. The wheel never stops.

Cyclical Destruction/Rebirth (Kalpa in Hinduism, the Phoenix) mirrors Conformal Cyclic Cosmology in physics. Time is not linear but a series of expansions and contractions. Death is merely a phase of transformation within the conservation of energy. The wheel turns. It has always turned.

SOUND: Waves crashing on the shore and then pulling back.

SMELL: A garden after it has been cleared for new planting.

TASTE: A palate cleanser like lemon sorbet: reset.

TOUCH: Old skin peeling after a sunburn to reveal new skin underneath.

SIGHT: A sunset that slowly turns into a sunrise.

BODY: Exhaling all your air and then taking a new breath: the cycle you live every second.

Music: Un-break My Heart by Toni Braxton

Hindu Cycles of Time (Yugas)Conformal Cyclic CosmologyThe Phoenix Myth

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Cyclical Destruction/Rebirth

The Ferris Wheel That Never Stops Turning

The world is like a giant Ferris wheel that never stops turning. Instead of having a beginning and an end, the world finishes one story and then immediately starts a new one, over and over again. It is like how winter always turns into spring, or how you go to sleep at night and wake up to a brand new day. This teaches us that even when something ends, it is just getting ready for a fresh start. We never really go away; we just change into something new and exciting.