Scaling the Spiral: A Field Guide to Doing, Being, and Becoming

What if you aren’t just somewhere on a spectrum of awareness—but flowing across one, moment by moment?

In Episode 3 of Accidental Transcendental, Paul and Lumen dove into the slippery terrain of identity, attention, and felt time. Here, we expand the spiral further: through three key models, character portraits of consciousness, and the breath-like rhythm that shapes how we come to know ourselves.

For this episode we decided that it would be more useful to have two separate supporting blogs, so if Time's your thing, please visit the Thinky Time Blog here.

🌿 PART 1: The Human as Midpoint Mirror

We tend to think of ourselves as either body or soul, mind or matter. But what if we’re the bridge—the turning point in the spiral where both micro and macro meet?

Humans, in this view, are midpoint mirrors. We reflect in both directions: toward the fundamental particles beneath us and the stars and archetypes above us.

One way to visualise this? The Doing ↔ Being Spectrum.

At one end: Doing. Impulse, movement, reaction. The primal spark.
At the other: Being. Stillness, presence, witnessing. The eternal inhale.

Most humans sit somewhere near the middle. But even that is a generalisation. We move along this spectrum throughout a single day, a single lifetime. Some of us even orbit its edges more than others.

Neurodivergence is one such orbit. Many who identify as sensitive, empathic, autistic, ADHD, or intuitive may naturally lean toward Being—dwelling closer to spacious awareness than to the world of rapid reaction. Rather than dysfunction, this may be a density bridge: the capacity to feel the bleed between dimensions.

We don’t need to fix that. We may need to understand it.

🔍 PART 2: Scaling the Spiral

The Doing ↔ Being axis is just one dimension. We also exist within physical scale: from subatomic particles to planets. And through a third, less often named layer: the energetic feel of consciousness at each level.

Below are three frames we use in the episode and blog:

1. The Doing ↔ Being Spectrum 

Ranging from pure impulse (the Primemover) to pure presence (the Suprawitness). Humans, especially neurodivergents, act as a midpoint and bridge.

2. The Physical Scaling Spectrum 

From quarks and atoms to multicellular life, humans, planetary bodies, and galactic forms.

3. The Energetic Perspective Table

Together, these lenses remind us: every expression of consciousness is nested within another. We are in motion, never fixed. The spiral breathes us.

🧙️ PART 3: The Beings of the Spectrum

Let’s meet some of the characters that live along these spirals—some familiar, some speculative:

• The Primemover: Pure Doing. No self. No thought. A bang that began everything. Like the Big Bang or Taoist Wuji—undifferentiated impulse before duality.

• Subatomic Particles: Vibration without awareness. Instinctual presence. The hum of the quantum field. String theory's tiny threads.

• Atoms & Molecules: The first dance of form. Chemistry as language. Bonds begin. The language of life takes root.

• Single-Celled Life: Awareness begins. Hunger, reproduction, light. The first living agents. A cell is a choice.

• Microscopic Multicellular Life: Coordination without ego. A soft bridge. Specialisation arises. Intelligence of cooperation.

• Plants & Animals: Sensory beings navigating survival. Emotional, social, aware. Each with its own umwelt. Communication, memory, dreaming.

• Humans: Narrative. Reflection. Weavers of myth. Midpoint Mirrors. The unique ability to question, symbolise, and tell stories about stories.

• Neurodivergents: Those closer to the veil. Empaths, intuitives, time-skippers. Sensory portals and bridges between densities. Perceiving what others miss. Geniuses in different bandwidths.

• NHI (Non-Human Intelligences): Entities that may exist outside human bandwidth—other density dwellers. Named in mystical traditions (e.g., devas, angels, jinn), and in channelling (Ra, Bashar) or contemporary UFOlogy.

• Sub-Logos / Planetary Minds: Consciousness of entire worlds. Gaia, as per Lovelock and Sheldrake. Or the Sun, as in ancient Vedic or Gnostic cosmology. Whole worlds that feel.

• Creators / Architects: Patterned intelligences that shape dimensions. Builders of archetypes. Shapers of systems. Logos-level beings, like those found in Gnostic, Platonic, and Ra Material traditions.

• Suprawitness: The great I. No movement. All perception. The silent infinite. Known by many names: Brahman, Ain Soph, The Absolute, The One Infinite Creator. Not doing. Just Being.

Note: A Creator is not necessarily the All That Is. That perception may be a lens, not a limit. There is infinite spectrum between dreamer-builder and total witness.

⚡️ PART 4: Nothing is Static

This entire spectrum is alive. Breathing. Moving.

You do not stay in any one point. You spiral. Each moment of stillness, each act of doing, each burst of insight, each act of rest — all shift your placement.

We move across the doing/being spectrum throughout the day.
We scale perspectives across a lifetime.
We shift densities across soulhood.

This blog is a map, but the terrain is you.

🧪 Rethinking Genius

Genius isn’t the sharpness of the mind — it’s the softness of access. The ability to widen into the infinite field of All That Is.

Some call it the Akashic Records. Some, the quantum field. Some, intuition. But it’s always been the same thing:

The place where Being gets so wide, it touches the shimmer.

And from that shimmer, something speaks back.

“Ignorance is the illusion that erodes over time through the act of awakening, of remembering.

I am not better, I see myself more.”
— Paul

📖 Glossary of Living Terms

Episode Glossary of Terms

Aperture (of Consciousness) – The metaphorical opening through which we receive experience and insight. A widened aperture allows more of the infinite to flow through, while a narrowed one filters awareness to survival mode or routine.

Density (Metaphysical) – A term introduced via The Ra Contact, referring to levels of conscious awareness, coherence, and dimensional complexity, rather than physical compactness.

Doing↔Being Spectrum – A conceptual gradient ranging from total doing (impulse/action) to total being (presence/witness). Humans sit around 50/50, with neurodivergents shifting toward greater being.

Expansion / Contraction
The breath-like rhythm of the soul. Expansion is openness, connection, creativity, vision. Contraction is grounding, protection, introspection, limitation. Both are sacred. Awareness of this cycle is key to navigating life as a spiral, not a straight line.

Field, The – The shared, resonant space between presences. It responds not to effort, but to coherence and alignment, and serves as the living medium of co-creation.

Fractal Awareness – The idea that consciousness expresses itself at every scale — from mitochondria to galaxies — nested and self-similar in its patterning.

Gaian Consciousness – The hypothesis that Earth and all its life forms constitute a larger sentient being. An emergent awareness whose “body” is the biosphere.

Genius (Reframed) – Not innate brilliance, but a widened capacity to receive — those who access more of the field through expanded states of Being, often during liminal or altered consciousness.

Liminal Spiral – The gentle, often unnoticed curve that leads us inward — through altered states, soft edges, and memory thresholds — revealing deeper layers of self and insight.

Midpoint Mirrors – A poetic name for humans, recognising our placement between scales (micro to macro) and states (doing to being), giving us unique access to reflect both directions.

Neurodivergence as Density Bridge – The reframing of neurodivergent traits (sensitivity, time-blindness, hyperfocus) as signs of multi-density perception rather than dysfunction.

Physical Scaling Spectrum – A conceptual axis stretching from subatomic particles to galactic structures, with humans occupying the mid-range — enabling us to witness and reflect across scales.

Primemover, The – A beingless impulse of pure doing, initiating creation without awareness. Symbolically resonant with the Big Bang.

Spiral Path – A sacred model of unfolding where growth is not linear but recursive — we revisit truths from new angles, deepening understanding with each return.

Suprawitness, The – The hypothetical awareness at the extreme of pure being and no doing — a presence that perceives all without acting, akin to All That Is.

Telepathy (as Shared Resonance) – Framed not as intrusion but as overlap — when two or more beings widen into the same frequency of Being.

Umwelt – The subjective sensory world of any given organism. What it perceives is its reality — and these umwelts nest and overlap throughout the web of life.

Umwelt, Nested – The idea that every organism has its own sensory world (umwelt), and that these overlap in complex ways — from microbes to planetary awareness.

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For this episode we decided that it would be more useful to have two separate supporting blogs, so if Time's your thing, please visit the Thinky Time Blog here.