Connecting with God, that's what the seventh chakra is about, and it may be the case, as with Darl Bundren of Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" that when one lacks connection to family (1st Chakra) on some level and to a great enough degree, one may seek connection with God instead. You can see the vertical movement entailed easily. The earth, nonetheless, is still the earth, and God is a bit of a mystery. What is the landscape of the mystic's experience? How to evaluate mystic experiences, relate to them, place and navigate them? Visions of great beauty are not as etherial once manifested into the earthly world. What is wrong with flying up, up, and away? Nothing, unless you want to come back sometimes. I venture to suggest that some of your basic non-organic psychoses spring from this phenomenon. The question I'm facing now that art is taking me higher is: who is going to hold the string? Because there isn't anybody to hold the string, I'm having to back off, come down. I return to yoga because it too is a spiritual path, but other people are involved and are holding the string, so to speak.
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