May I suggest that the very act of “clockwise” thinking and movement is the very thing that unravels our own personal, anti-clockwise vortex to the infinite, and renders us twisted and abandoned on the roadside of cosmic consciousness.
Run backwards round the track! Don’t look at the clock!
Is the Sun Backwards?
Also, it’s an interesting carry-over from the past, that we refer to “clockwise” in the reverse direction than it really is: Looking from atop the north pole, the Earth is turning so that first London and then New York get the benefit of the sun, for example – that is, the Earth is turning anti-clockwise, as viewed from the north.
From the south-pole it’s turning clockwise.
I suppose “clockwise” has its origins with sun-dials, where, for those in the northern hemisphere, the sun seems to move from east to west, making the shadow of a stick move “clockwise”.
But such is the paradox of life that our own perceptions give a distorted view of what’s really going on. Just like we still say “the sun is rising”. Thoughts of “Plato’s cave” comes to mind – where we view reality by its shardows.
But shadows can be useful: for example, I detected the Earth’s pulse frequencies from the “sonice shadows” – the interference their resonance were casting on some frequencies I was playing, creating an interference pattern.
Which way to Turn?
Meanwhile, in terms of vortexes, I would say that if we want to move in the direction of progress and be in the moment, we actually want to be spinning:
- anti-clockwise, in the same direction as the electromagnetic vortex we’re standing upon – in the Northern hemisphere
- And clockwise in the Southern hemisphere
Good news: the whirling dervishes are already spinning anti-clockwise. I particularly love the commentary in this video. He talks about whirling in the same direction as Nature,
“If you swim with the current, you will be more comfortable.
The world is whirling, and you are whirling
and all the particles are whirling“
I wonder what they do when they tour Australia?
Some sources say the dervishes follow not the spin of the Earth, but the orbit of the Earth around the sun. But as viewed from the North Pole, the Earth is spinning anti-clockwise around the Sun, anyway.
Bad news: for the “5 Tibetans“: they are spinning clockwise. I suspect, but I don’t know, that some traditions have a direct lineage into ancient history, and others are really modern constructs disguised as something older.
I have noticed, though, that twin trees seem to circle around each other in a clock-wise direction: the “left” tree goes around and behind the “right” tree – which is clock-wise, as viewed from above.
But from the plant’s perspective – looking up, if you will, from its roots up to the sky, it is rotating ANTI-clockwise.And, that, I suppose, is the direction of the energy vortex that surrounds us, too.