on hierarchy

If you take a ladder and bend it into a circle, you can see that the steps are not hierarchical, with gradations of “up” and “down,” but are identified spaces or places within an infinite circle of being. We are not evolving into something. We are revolving as something. This revolution is not going around in circles in the sense that one comes to the same old place again. It is a spiraling, a spiraling encompassing all direction, and thus no direction. As soon as there is direction, one is on a ladder again.