Spirals - Stairway to Heaven

 

When I was a very young child I used to visit my mums home town  in Cornwall each summer. We used to spend much of our holidays on the golden sand of the beaches in St Ives Bay,  when I was just a Toddler I found a beautiful shell on the the beach  the being a Conical Spiral which I have kept safe to this day. Each summer I would look forward to visiting an ornate chapel at the local convent  where my Aunt  would attend mass. It had a tall spindly spiral staircase which, If I had been well behaved I was allowed to ascend.

I forgot all about Spiral until the early 90's when I encountered Spiral Tribe.

However it was the following events almost a decade later  when I attend a rather specialist jungle/ drum and bass club run by Damian Lazarus entitled "pm scientists" , that crystallised this post. Despite having recently started a new job at Sanctuary Housing and it being "a school night" it was an essential night out.  I was particularly excited to hear a set by the legendary Rob Playford of Moving Shadow who was on the line up.

I was quite surprised by how few people were there, but it was a small wine bar rather than a club.As I sat alone drinking my pint listening to the music. My eye was drawn to the spindly spiral staircase in the corner that reminded me of my youth and how I now associated spirals with Synchronicity  , the Illuminati, 23's , Spiral Tribe, Reincarnation, The Golden Ratio,  Fractals , Nature,  Evolution. Eventually curiosity got the better of me and I asked the barman , what's through the hatch in the roof at the top of the staircase and he said you better go and look,so I did. I climbed the staircase went through the hatch and at top, into a tiny room which contained only one object, the LP  cover of Pink Floyd's "Dark side of the Moon"

Since then I've read sychromystic blogs on the rainbow bridge the No 42 so am more familiar with the meanings behind that symbolism.

In relation to "the spiral" I am reminded of Led Zepplins "Stairway to Heaven" and the Butthole Surfers "Hairway to Steven"