On naming...

Some obsessions spill out of the body and into the everyday, rearranging the world itself. And so, in an effort to maintain some semblance of sanity (though what is that, really?), you build a framework — a container. Though you know the walls are really for you, so you can grasp something, steady yourself as you witness the uncontainable.

You hope that others might see it too: this thing that has always been there, but never quite like this. After all, seeing and naming are acts of creation. Not so?

SpiraLogics

noun

A way of understanding, organizing, and living that takes the spiral as its primary logic rather than the line or the closed loop. It holds that growth, knowledge, identity, and systems unfold through return-with-difference: revisiting what has been, but at a new depth, scale, or level of integration.

SpiraLogics brings together insights from nature, cosmology, culture, psychology, embodied practice, and lived experience to articulate how resilience, transformation, and coherence emerge not through domination or linear progress, but through cyclical movement, tension, and expansion. It treats the spiral not as metaphor or symbol, but as a recurring structural principle governing how energy, meaning, and life organize themselves across scales.

SpiraLogics Lab

noun

A research-and-practice space dedicated to exploring how spiral-based principles can be observed, tested, embodied, and applied in real contexts: creative work, learning, community formation, and ways of living.

Rather than producing fixed theories, the Lab functions as a living inquiry. It hosts experiments, workshops, writings, and collaborations that translate spiral intelligence into usable forms — methods, practices, narratives, and tools. The Lab values process over product, iteration over conclusion, and collective intelligence over hierarchy, treating knowledge as something generated through movement, dialogue, and return.

Spiralogue

noun

  1. A practitioner of SpiraLogics. One who studies, embodies, and applies spiral-based ways of knowing.

  2. A spiral-form inquiry or expression produced through such practice.

Spiralog

noun

A record of spiral thinking in motion. It is a journal, log, or archive that tracks insights, patterns, shifts, and recurrences over time, with attention to how understanding deepens through revisitation.

Unlike a linear log that documents progress step by step, a spirolog preserves cycles, detours, and returns. It may include reflections, drawings, fragments, observations, or questions, and it treats these not as noise but as data — evidence of growth, resistance, and integration as they actually occur in lived experience.

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