[UA] American Chakra

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

As those of you with One Shots know, Chicago was mystically designated as
the heart of the US by Simon Diulio during his bid for ascension.  (If you
don't have One Shots -- hey what the hell is wrong with you?  Buy it!  ISBN
1-887801-73-1!  Available in the discount bins of finer geek boutiques!)

Chicago is the heart.  The heart is also equivalent to one of the seven
chakras (or spiritual centers of the body).  Yoga believes that to produce
enlightenment, you must awaken the Kundalini serpent (or the shakti,
depending on who you ask) in the lowest chakra.  It then ascends through
the other six chakras until it hits the Crown chakra and produces
transcendence.

So, if the U.S. has a heart, what's to stop it from developing six other
macrocosmic chakras?  And if a major charge was carried along that route --
along the route of the kundalini serpent -- what would happen?

I'd love to find out, wouldn't you?

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.  

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

-G.
"I know people who have gotten laid in real life because of Everquest." 
	-- For my money, the scariest sentence John Tynes ever wrote.

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