At this point I am going to draw attention to our physical bodies and emphasize how important it is to integrate some form of movement, preferably circular, as opposed to angular, into a daily practice. In my own experience, sports have been important to me for a long time. Significantly though, I had not really understood how physical movement is tied intrinsically to the idea or the concept of a timeless body - a body that regenerates itself, and instead of getting older, literally gets newer and better. This was the kind of image that I was accustomed to seeing in parts of Asia and in many cultures where folks just don't age as fast. It was in observing the youthful cultures - Africa, Southeast Asia, the Bengals of India - and, especially, in watching the circular movements of the Sufis, that I began to correlate the nature of physical movements to the way in which the mind works and the body responds.
   It is in the actual practice of certain kinds of physical movements that you begin to stimulate both hemispheres of your brain. These physical movements and the resulting evolvement of integrative mental energy correspond to many of the circular patterns that we see in sacred geometry. For instance, if you examine Egyptian cosmology, which is basically a heliocentric system, the sun is the central focus and everything spirals around it in an orbital fashion. Orbital, spiraling energy is the mainspring of the merkaba, as well. And if you look at the whole concept of the pyramids, you discover that these structures were built to transmit and receive spiral, circular information. In thinking deeply on the Egyptians and their work, I have found the pyramid technology to be so unbelievably otherworld-like. The technology is just incredible in its beauty - the spiral and how that pyramidal structure encapsulates that type of energy. It doesn't contain it, because it's not like the square, but it focuses it very, very powerfully.
   The true and deep significance of the circular path in the Egyptian view becomes clearer when you understand more of the fundamental beliefs that underlie their practice. The Egyptians viewed the human being as  housed in one form (the human body).