SHAPE Journal

ABSTRACT:

This paper adds a new nuance to the previous contributions, by bringing ideas based upon the Buddha’s Circle of Life. The repeating cycle of recurring situations, which can be discerned in all developmental processes, and particularly in the more complex areas such a living things. But such a Circle (or Cycle) is, of course, non progressive, and the Buddha’s objective for human beings locked into it permanently (even beyond their temporary deaths) was to strive for escape by seeking and finding(?) Nirvana.

Revolutionaries like Lenin re-cast this feature into a new form, which also included development, by changing the circle, into a helix. This retained the clearly evident recurrence of situations, but at the same time making each and every return different, due to constant change.

Now, for researchers struggling to illustrate the very real developmental processes in all sorts of circumstances, the question had to be how and with what revelations these ides could be included in their diagrams, and, of course, their ideas of what was going on and why?

The merging of the helical form with Darwin’s sketch of the tree-like evolution of Species resulted in a final diagram, but as to where this could take us, nothing was, as yet, suggested..