Author’s note:
“While the foundational concepts and arguments were conceived independently, artificial intelligence was deliberately and experimentally integrated into the drafting and development process through an iterative human-led dialogue. Throughout this collaboration, the author has maintained active editorial and conceptual control. This approach serves a dual purpose: to evaluate the practical utility of AI in academic writing as an extension of original human thought, and to invite critical reflection from the reader regarding its efficacy. As an open experiment in scholarly methodology, the resulting text remains fully subject to academic scrutiny concerning how effectively AI can enhance not only contextual richness, but the intrinsic quality of essayistic work.”
THE SPIRAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS
SUMMA SPIRALIS
Quaestiones semper novae de rebus humanis
Academic project in English
The Spiral of Consciousness is a long-form philosophical and literary project exploring how awareness emerges, transforms itself and seeks meaning through history, myth, science and art. Rather than treating consciousness as either a purely scientific mechanism or a spiritual abstraction, the project approaches it as a living structure shaped by perception, embodiment, memory, symbolic forms and culture. Its guiding image is the spiral: not a closed circle, but a movement of return and renewal in which earlier forms are revisited from new levels of depth.
The project brings together phenomenology, cosmology, mythology, geometry, psychology, architecture, literature and visual art. Thinkers such as Bergson, Whitehead, Gebser and Bohm enter into dialogue with ancient symbolic traditions and artistic practices from Leonardo to modern cinema. In doing so, the series searches for connections across disciplines that are often studied separately, allowing science, imagination and lived experience to illuminate one another.
Across multiple volumes, themes include the birth of awareness, geometry and resonance, shadow and crisis, covenant, architecture, mythology, power and the role of art in human becoming. Each book can stand independently while contributing to a larger intellectual architecture.
At its centre lies a simple proposition: consciousness is not static. It develops through encounter, contradiction, crisis, form and renewed interpretation. The Spiral of Consciousness is therefore not only an inquiry into what consciousness is, but into how human beings continue to become conscious of themselves and their world.
The books presented here are the completed volumes currently prepared for publication from The Spiral of Consciousness, an ambitious series of twenty interconnected books exploring consciousness, culture, geometry, myth, history, power, science, and the changing human relationship with reality.
The wider series is already in an advanced stage of development, with most remaining volumes nearing completion. Together, the books form a continuous philosophical journey while remaining readable as individual works, each approaching the “evolution of consciousness” from a distinct perspective.
These finished volumes represent the first publication-ready part of that larger project.