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 MythPart of Creation Myths — MYTHOLOGY — Education Revelation
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