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Bashar's spiral exercise — the gazing tool behind “transformative shifting” — is a visualization for moving your attention inward, spiraling down through the dimensions to the core of your being, then back outward into manifestation. He calls it a “neurological spiral,” and its squared form defines a cube. Here's what it means and how to gaze.
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Bashar’s spiral is a map of a movement. He describes it as a way to spiral downward through the dimensions into the core of your being, and then spiral outward from that core into manifestation. Inward to pure being; outward into created experience — and back again. He calls it a “neurological spiral,” because tracing it is also a way of retraining where your attention goes.
There’s a twist Bashar likes to point out: a squared spiral, once you let it take on a little dimensionality, actually defines a cube— even if you can’t see all its lines and sides at once. That’s why the same practice shows up both as a flat spiral to trace and as a cube-like figure to gaze at: they are two views of one structure.
Keep it simple. Relax, and picture — or gaze at — a flat spiral line. It can spiral from the center outward or from the outside in; it can have two turns or four. The exact form doesn’t matter. Let your attention travel the line: inward, down to your core; then outward, up into expression. Let the movement itself become the meditation.
Use the video above as your gazing tool, and simply follow the figure with soft attention.
“…a representation and an understanding of how to spiral downward through different dimensions into the core of your being, and then spiral outward from that core upward through different dimensions into manifestation.”
“…spiral outward from that core upward through different dimensions into manifestation. In some senses, this could be called a neurological spiral.”
“When you begin to realize that the squared spiral actually looks like it's defining a cube — even though you may not see all lines and all sides of the cube…”
“…picture, if you will, a flat spiral line, either going from the center spiraling out or from the outside spiraling in. It doesn't matter. It can have three turns, two turns, four turns…”
The spiral is a companion to Bashar’s other visual practice, the Holotope meditation — both use a gaze to move you into a chosen state of being. And the “outward into manifestation” half of the spiral is the same movement described in beliefs create reality.
It's a gazing / visualization exercise (also known as 'transformative shifting'). You follow a spiral figure with your attention — spiraling inward, down through the dimensions to the core of your being, then outward from that core into manifestation. Bashar calls the movement a 'neurological spiral.'
It's the name given to the practice of using the spiral gazing tool to shift your state. By tracing the spiral inward to your center and back outward, you rehearse the movement from pure being into created experience — training attention to shift deliberately rather than by default.
Bashar points out that a squared spiral, seen with a bit of dimensionality, actually defines a cube — even if you don't see all its lines and sides. So the flat spiral and the cube figure are two views of the same structure, which is why the exercise is sometimes done with a cube-like gazing image.
Relax and picture (or gaze at) a flat spiral line — it can spiral from the center outward or from the outside in, with a few turns; the exact form doesn't matter. Let your attention travel along it: inward to your core, then outward into expression. Use the video below as the gazing tool.
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