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Maslow emphasized the “heights”, but to get to the heights you must have the Dark Night of the soul, and make your trip to the Chapel Perilous. Katabasis means a going-down, a descent. It’s used to describe journeys to the underworld. Anabasis is its opposite, a going-up. You can only reach the spiritual heights if you have also known the spiritual depths.
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― Homo Roboticus: The Inner Human Robot Revealed By Sleepwalking and Hypnosis
― Homo Roboticus: The Inner Human Robot Revealed By Sleepwalking and Hypnosis
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Fortunately graduate school had prepared her for this, the constant managing of despair. Everything was always falling apart; nothing in lab went right; you couldn't afford groceries, your cottage had a rat problem, all your instructors hated you, and you were always one step away from flushing all your life's work down the toilet.
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