I found your post because you included the hashtag cycles. A cycle that's been in the forefront of my mind constantly in the past few years is the 80 year generational cycle. Every 80 years, like clockwork,

I've found this simple demonstration to be a useful tool in understanding cyclical consciousness shifts. In it you can see aspects of changing unity, duality, trinity, and quadrality all bracketed by periods

My own quest for truth through self education started about 5 years ago after reading the book "Holy Science". I had heard of Plato's Great Year before but I didn't really give it much thought