This flower always seems to me as an archetypal symbol of the cosmos or of cosmic consciousness. The image of the white blooms orbiting around a central red star-like core – something emerging as in an expanding space – the cooperative evolution of something beautiful and spiritual – an outward sign of an interiority….all of that! My hand is trying to hold it steady in the windy May weather as I take a stroll through our garden here at the Anchorhold.

Here is another example: this time it is the flower of a climbing Hydrangea:

Here is a quote from my friend Matt Segall:

“Evolution is the process whereby, whether we call it nature or spirit (and I freely use the latter term), reality potentiates itself and becomes more complexly incarnate in living forms. We might speak, suggestively, of four emergent levels: Light, Life, Looking, and Language. Light concerns quantum transactions; Life, cellular autopoiesis; Looking, perceptual agency; and Language, symbolic reflexivity. At each level, distinctions become relevant as minded nature moves deeper into relationship with itself, differentiating into ever richer unities. Yet there are no ontological breaks—no moment when mind magically “emerges” from new arrangements of matter. Mythically speaking, matter is fallen light, and light was, is, and will always be on its way toward Logos.”

see https://footnotes2plato.com/2025/04/26/an-anthropocosmic-approach-to-the-nature-of-consciousness-my-talk-at-the-utok-conference-on-consciousness/