[UA] American Chakra

[Steve Dustin]

>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
>

Let's see, what doesn't fit.  First off, Los Angeles doesn't fit Root 
chakra.  If any place embraces change its Los Angeles--they don't have any 
of their original buildings, its way to the left on the political spectrum.  
Plus, I don't think will-to-survive explains why its sitting on an 
earthquake zone.  Sounds like suicidal to me.  I'd have to go for a 
much-more conservative location, that embraces its history, somewhere South 
and maybe in Texas.  Houston, Dallas?  I don't know.

As far as the sex chakra goes, I don't see Las Vegas either.  Vegas isn't a 
very seductive locale.  I've never been there, but something tells me New 
Orleans.  Maybe because its called 'The Big Easy'.

As for Solar Plexus...I see New York as the confrontational one.  Or maybe 
somewhere in New Jersey.  Mainly, because of the people I've met from there. 
  Everybody's fighting and they don't even know it.  (I can't wait for the 
first list member from NYC or NJ who says, "what the hell do you mean we're 
confrontational?!")  Of course, being NYC does seem like America's voice box 
too.  But my initial reaction is how in-your-face they are.

As for heart I've got no quick answers.

The Big Mouth of America could easily be LA also.  In fact, I think more so, 
but I live in the West.

The other few seem spot on.  Of course, I've trounced your chakra path all 
to bits...but...

>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...
>

I would think that you could justify any geographical route to fit your 
chakra/cities. The players don't know that you made it all up on the 
fly--*And you find out all these chakra points go in a 
zig-zag/loopity-loop/radiate from the heart/make a K!*

Or else, maybe each region of America has its own Chakra points.  This is 
why when you step into another part of the country its like being a 
foreigner.  There's a Pacific Northwest group, a Western group, a 
Southwestern group, a Southern group, a Mid-West, Northeastern group or...

The chakras move about from location to location.  The point is that all the 
chakras are out of alignment.  That's what's wrong with the US.  You have 
groups via to get the chakras in order and others who are trying to keep it 
the other way around.  Once the chakras get in order, crime, suicide, other 
nasties are either abolished or go way down.  America enters a true *Golden 
Age* of inspiration and leadership.

But of course, its getting them in order that's the hard part... (what do 
you mean Universal Studios, Random House, and FOX News Corp are moving to 
Cleveland, OH?  Why the hell do they what to do that?)

Steve Dustin
yetiseti at hotmail.com

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