The human mind always makes progress, but it is progress in spirals.
-- Madame de Staël
Thinking more about the brain lately, I can't help but notice how descriptive this observation feels right now — personally at the mental, but also physical, emotional and psychological levels and collectively at social, political, and spiritual levels.
Given the whole theory of Spiral Dynamics, I can't help but wonder if this isn't also true meta-physically.
