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The problem with towers is that they’re already high up. And then there’s this other problem called gravity, accompanied by its heavyweight siblings grave (as an adjective or as a noun) and gravitas—in short, all things down and that bring us down. So it’s the “high-up” element that sets the stage. Simultaneously, in psychological terms, high-up implies conditions like ambition and egoic inflation, and even (in milder contexts) comfort and security. These abstract psychological correlates are good to keep in mind while this inquiry attempts to attend more to the vehicles of the metaphors—that is, to the images per…
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From A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
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Joseph Campbell explores the Symbology of the Root Chakra or 1st Chakra.
For more on kundalini yoga and the symbolism of the chakras, see Mythos II: The Shaping of the Eastern Tradition as well as The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Mythology As Metaphor and As Religion.
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Craig Deininger contributes this week's MythBlast, "Towers: Managing One’s Falls and Renewals".
"The problem with towers is that they’re already high up. And then there’s this other problem called gravity, accompanied by its heavyweight siblings grave (as an adjective or as a noun) and gravitas—in short, all things down and that bring us down."
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From Pathways to Bliss.
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