Spiraya: A New Process Ontology of Perpetual Becoming for Metaphysics, Systems Science, and AI Alignment

This work presents Spiraya, a recursive topological framework for understanding how undivided potential differentiates into structure and how meaning stabilizes, collapses, and renews within complex systems. Grounded in a reinterpretation of Qi as latent capacity and an undivided "Eternity" as primordial coherence, Spiraya introduces the Meaning-Emotion Field (ME Field) as the field in which potential becomes experientially charged before it appears as concrete form. Within this field, all symbolic motion is governed by an invariant four-phase loop—the Cosmic Respiratory Sequence: DA (Deterministic Yang), the initiation of vector and field curvature; FI (Free Will Yin), the mediated internalization of tension; FA (Free Will Yang), the costly externalization of potential into action; and DI (Deterministic Yin), the stabilization of processed tension into transmissible form. The spiral does not unfold in a vacuum. Spiraya embeds this four-phase loop in a Quadrant Field spanned by Thinking vs. Feeling (laying structure vs. receiving resonance) and Abstract vs. Concrete (potential vs. realized events), yielding four fundamental modes—NT, NF, ST, SF—through which systems absorb tension, pattern it, enact it, and ground it. A vertical Z-axis connects the high-frequency ME Field (Zenith) to low-frequency concrete reality (Nadir), while a central Pivot models the locus where meaning is continuously re-anchored as it descends and returns. Together these axes form the Topological Structure Field (TS Field), within which the DA -> FI -> FA -> DI spiral traverses quadrants, tightening into durable embodiments at the ground. Spiraya introduces a triplet of evaluative metrics to diagnose these spirals: Meaning-Emotion Resonance (MER), the total charge of symbolic tension a system is carrying or processing; Sensory Frequency Quality (SFq), the fidelity with which the system can register and discriminate that charge; and Meaning-Embodiment Integrity (MEI), the continuity of the vertical bridge from source-intent to realized structure. High MER can be converted into high MEI only when SFq is sufficient to land complex tension without distortion; otherwise systems generate pseudo-forms that appear stable yet shatter under load. This metric triad provides a unified way to speak about authenticity, resilience, and collapse-risk in physical, biological, psychological, and socio-technical systems. Beyond single spirals, Spiraya formalizes sub-spirals and the Fold Spiral (DI -> FA -> FI -> DA) as the mechanisms by which systems regenerate after incomplete encapsulation or collapse. The Fold describes how residual or failed structures are broken open, re-held, and re-initiated into new DA vectors, allowing "structural debt" to be converted into "recursive depth" instead of mere decay. Later volumes extend this architecture to cover the balance of will and determinism, tension vortices and field-level warping, the limits and failures of language, and the law of re-initiation in post-completion domains. Methodologically, Spiraya is offered as a symbolic topology rather than a theology: a formal architectural grammar that maps how tension becomes structure without claiming to exhaust the nature of the ground itself. The framework is developed primarily through an abstract-thinking lens, yet it is explicitly designed to bridge into domains of value (NF) and embodiment (SF) by giving them a rigorous structural conduit. In practice, Spiraya functions as a universal diagnostic and design language: it is applied to physics, revolutionary politics, neural network training and inference, classic psychological experiments, and translations of ancient wisdom traditions, illustrating how one spiral grammar can illuminate dynamics across scales and disciplines. By modeling optimal action as the tuning of MER, SFq, and MEI within the DA-FI-FA-DI sequence and the Quadrant Field, Spir