[UA] American Chakra

[Kevin Mowery]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Paul Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>
To: <UA at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: [UA] American Chakra

> So... what I'm asking y'all is this.  If Chicago is the heart chakra, what
> cities in the U.S. correspond to the others?  The other chakras, along
with
> some of their traits, are...
>
> Muladhara, the Root chakra.  Associated with the will to survive.
> Unbalance produces reckless aggression and fear of change.

    Tombstone, the town to tough to die?

> Swadhisthana, the Navel chakra.  Known as "the sex chakra."  Unbalance
> means inadequacy, possessiveness, envy & self-regret.

    Los Angeles, no doubt.

> Manipuraladhara, the Solar Plexus chakra.  (Sometimes just "Manipura.")
> Governs confrontation, in the sense of dealing with your problems I guess.
> Unbalance yields materialism, egoism, but also lethargy, distrust.

    Washington, D.C.

> Anahata, the Heart chakra.  Upside is love unconditional.  Imbalance =
> low-self esteem, fear, jealousy, "martyr" syndrome.

    Somehow when I think of Chicago and "love unconditional," I think of the
old Saturday Night Live "Superfans" sketches: "Bears Bus in the Indy 500.
Winner?"  "Is Ditka driving?" "Sure." "Bears."

> Vishudda, the Throat chakra.  Governs intuition, communication &
> expression.  Imbalance = criticism, gluttony, consumerism, emotional
excess.

    New York City.

> Anja, the Third Eye chakra.  This stands for insight, unification.
> Imbalance = see only the obvious, forgetfulness, sadism, ignorance.

    Atlanta, home of CNN.

> Sahasrara the Crown chakra.  This one means wisdom, ability to receive,
and
> connection to the divine.  Imbalance = misunderstanding, sorrow, gloom,
mob
> mentality, schadenfreude, envy.

    Hm . . . you've got me.  The connection to the divine thing just throws
me when it comes to American cities.  Perhaps Salt Lake City?

> So what I'm currently thinking is...
>
> Muladhara = Los Angeles.
> Swadhisthana = Las Vegas.
> Manipuraladhara = ???  Maybe White Sands?
> Anahata = Sweet home Chicago.
> Vishudda = New York City?
> Anja = Washington, DC
> Sahasrara = Philadelphia
>
> Those fit fairly well symbolically (more or less, I suppose) but the last
> three aren't in geographical order.  Ideally the whole thing would have a
> smooth progression from west to east, with the easternmost city being the
> connection between the US and the divine unity.  If we could find some
> major media outlet west of DC but east of Chicago, that would be about
> perfect.  But NYC seems so much to be the big mouth of America...
>
> Questions?  Comments?  Suggestions?

    Oo, trying to put them in geographical order might be an impossible
task.  The problem is, as noted elsewhere, most of our really huge cities
tend to be coastal and clustered.

> -G.
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