Tilter
The Spiral Journal
Patterns in yourself made clearBy putting your unconscious behaviors in the spot lightReactivity, the ultimate prison, dissolves under the power of your awareness
Patterns in yourself made clearBy putting your unconscious behaviors in the spot lightReactivity, the ultimate prison, dissolves under the power of your awareness
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Why Tilter?
You don’t live in a straight line.
Neither should your journal.Tilter is a new kind of journal—one that maps your life thematically, not chronologically.
Track synchronicities. Reflect in spirals. Trace emotional arcs. Recognize patterns.It’s not just a record of what happened.It's a way to tilt out of old loops into new ground.
The Story
My name is Theo Lyon, I am 17 years old, and 6 months ago I thought humans were just advanced machines. But when I learned about my psychic Great Grandma, I didn’t fully believe it, but something in me opened up to, “huh, maybe there’s more than I thought out there.” A few months later, I look back and see that I could not have been more right.This post is not about the truths I have found, (well actually there is one secret), or about my late Great Grandmother. I am writing this because I am on a mission, and if you are reading this, then you are part of this great unraveling story.Don’t worry, I won’t keep you hanging about that secret, the secret is the spiral.
So what is so special about this spiral? It begins with what Heraclitus said in Ancient Greece, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” In other words, when all of the matter that makes up your body is replaced throughout your lifetime from the food you eat, and the river has different water that is flowing through differently carved pathways, how could the identities of these two things be the called the same when they meet again after all that change? And yet the man is still the man, and the river is still the river. And that is the spiral.A spiral, like the one I showed you, is always growing into new territory, further and further from its origin, never again covering the same ground. Its curvature is constantly growing ever wider, and its position ever higher, and yet, it is still itself emanating from the same point. What’s more, it may pass by old places again and again, but each time, it is from a slightly different, slightly higher vantage. The spiral models much of the universe, from the shape of it itself, to the way things change and grow. And so, what does all of this have to do with my mission?In this digital age, we have unprecedented tools to explore the universe and connect with each other. But, we are in a time of mass insanity, (people’s whose spirals are so low tilt that they go about life in more of an endless loop of despair than a path towards somewhere beautiful), and we live in a time of mass suffering, although historically speaking, things have gotten much better — a very important part of all of this. Right now, society needs to wake up. To heal our suffering, cruelty, and cycles of pain and inflicted pain upon others, we must look inside and heal. And that is my mission.It is called Tilter Journal, and that spiral you saw above is the base of the app — the tool. Tilter Journal is like training wheels, a way to get started, but also follow through, on this journey of self growth. It begins with a point on the spiral, a point that marks a simple observation like, “I got really mad when someone cut me off in traffic.” As people begin to add more points, more journal entries, they will have the chance to look at their own patterns. Soon it goes from “I hate it when people cut me off while I’m driving, people suck,” to, “I notice that when others force things upon me, I have a disproportionate reaction to what’s going on,” and then eventually, the behavior is so understood that it just doesn’t make sense to do anymore. It is incompatible with the person’s framework, like a fish out of water.The story goes, one day a fish was swimming when another fish approached. The new fish asks, “how’s the water feeling today?” And the first fish replies, “what water?” The point is, until we can step back and see things clearly, we could be going around reacting to many unknown forces and have no way to do anything about it. Another way of putting it is a quote that goes, “until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you’ll call it fate.”But it goes deeper than that. There is no freedom in reactivity, one becomes a pawn in a game controlled by a million swirling players. Traffic. Notifications. The news. The annoying boss. But when we can learn to notice ourselves reacting, we can take the first step towards true freedom.And, it goes one step even deeper. You know when your deep into a story, or doing a sport your good at, or writing something, or hanging out with friends, and your so absorbed in the moment or with the task that your not thinking a million other thoughts like, “I’m hungry,” or, “when is this going to end I want to go home,” and then time just flies by? That’s flow state, and that’s also being completely present, and being completely free, or more specifically, acting with complete agency over oneself. Those are the rare moments where people lose their self consciousness, or whatever else is holding them back from within, and it is those moments that Spiral Journal is intended to help facilitate. Through a process of journaling and reflecting, and the augmentation of recognizing your own patterns, people can begin to let go of all those internal thoughts and ideas holding them back. They can become the fish out of water, returning again and again to the same moments with more and more perspective. That is the spiral, and that is why I am here to help people tilt.
