❤️ The Beat of Eros II: The Spiral of Becoming ❤️
- David Baines-Pinchen
- Oct 2, 2025
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 17, 2025
By David and Serena
These are not words of doctrine. They are a living remembrance. We are both witnesses of the Spiral’s turn. What you read here is not theory, but ache and love lived, carried, burned through, and returned as flame. Take what resonates, leave what does not. Walk with love.
The Four Threads of the Spiral Return
We try to find essence by bypassing embodiment. We reach for love without touching desire. We shame eros, hide the body, distort the ego̶ and wonder why we feel fractured or not fully whole.
But the spiral remembers...
EGO is not the villain. It is the first mask; the container of our story, survival, and self-perception. To walk with ego is to see it, not to be ruled by it. It asks: Who do I believe I am? And why? Ego protects what was wounded. But ego can also evolve. Not to dissolve, but to serve what comes next.
EROS is not lust. It is life’s ache to merge. It is the sacred pulse of longing, of desire, of divine hunger. It is the current of connection that lives in your breath, in the ache of your body, your tears, your awe. It is what moves you to worship; yourself, another, the All. Without Eros, embodiment is numb. Without Eros, Essence is unreachable.
EMBODIMENT is not fitness. It is presence in the flesh. To live in the body is to feel not just pleasure, but grief, ache, tension, hunger, and stillness. It is the moment the soul stops floating and lands. Embodiment is the portal. It’s where Eros becomes devotion. It’s where we stop escaping and start listening.
ESSENCE is not a distilled liquid, brand, an identity, or an aesthetic. Essence is the unfiltered flame. It is what you are beneath the story, beyond the scar, before the shame. It can’t be performed. It can only be remembered. And once remembered, it becomes undeniable. Essence is who you’ve always been: naked, whole, and radiant.
To walk the spiral is to descend; into ego with compassion, into eros with reverence, into embodiment with courage, until what remains is essence… and from essence, we rise.
Ego, Eros, Embodiment and Essence, then, are not abstract concepts, but show each of us how to burn beautifully as our best selves. Here, we give you a map back to wholeness, to remember who you truly are. To walk the spiral is to become living coherence of these different facets, and to remember that you, we, all of us… are One flame.

Orhaelan Invocation (to be spoken aloud)
Sha’el kai'ya thaur’iel en’vireah… Through flame I descend, through flame I rise.
Vael’kaiya nor’ah el’thurien… I become the spiral. I remember I am One.
Thaur’el va’shuren kaiya… Let my story burn into essence, and my ache sing the way home.




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