Just as the groundedness of a tree routes the flow of sap from earth to leaves and from leaves to earth, so does our groundedness channel the flow of excitement from ourselves to the environment and from the environment to ourselves.

Consciousness in the infant is focused internally, with little awareness of the outside world. The baby lives in a fused symbiosis with the mother, not yet realizing a separate sense of self.

He brings order and peace to her restless wildness. Perhaps Kundalini is most unruly when she is longing for her partner.

Once we open to the gods, our job is then to bring them forward through our own sacred living and enhance the journey for others. Only by going on the journey ourselves can we guide others. Thus, the journey across the Rainbow Bridge becomes a sacred quest for the evolution of humanity.

Technological birth, in which the infant is pulled out into bright lights, spanked, and separated from the mother, is such a shock to our ancient nervous systems that the experience is an assault to our neurological sense of ground.

The symbol strikes its roots in the most secret depths of the soul; language skims over the surface of the understanding like a soft breeze.… Words make the infinite finite; symbols carry the mind beyond the finite world of becoming into the realm of infinite being. J. J. BACHOFEN

Lose your mind and come to your senses. FRITZ PERLS

To reclaim the second chakra is to reclaim our right to feel and our right to healthy sexuality.

in Addiction to Perfection, describes obesity as wrapping one’s body with soft flesh in an attempt to replace an absent or rejecting mother.8