“If will remains protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against. Protest is half-developed will.”

Creativity is the gateway between the past and future.

Both, however, are rhythmic experiences where the conscious mind does not have to think very much. This allows us to surrender to a deeper resonance or enter a trance state. Here our individuated consciousness expands to merge with the greater consciousness and rhythm of life.

The invention of the sewing machine was crystallized by a dream where cannibals poked its inventor with spears that had holes in the points, bringing the essential key that had eluded inventors for fifty years.

CHAKRA ONE: The right to be here.

Abandonment by others also creates a tendency to abandon oneself.

outer compliance makes him reliable, steady, hardworking, anxious to please, and able to endure.

Healing those with an Oral character structure involves teaching them to stand on their own two feet and feel power and completion in their separateness and independence. It helps to encourage their aggression, which energizes the body and moves the liberating current upward to nourish the upper chakras.

Thanatos, the force of death that divides and destroys.