Nigel if you asked Franz Tesla about his affinity to the number 3 you might not understand him but rest assured that his love of the universe was the reason he was passionate about the way he sees it. If you ask me about the spirals in the universe in the time dimension my answer would be long and passionate because I too love the universe even if it doesn't love me back. Some people are more or less at war with the universe. Does psilocybin 20 years ago have anything to do with my universe perceptions? Probably. It leaves the door open to perception

Ask a rhetorical question and you might get an answer.

Everything is a spiral from quarks in a proton to the Sun traveling around the Milky Way to the blueprints of life through time. When you were a fertlized egg you spiraled and spun down the fallopian tube with the help of swimming sperm that were the late arrivals.
Linear thinking is a common mistake we can make unless you are an accountant.