“We are composed of agonies not polarities.” ~ James Hillman The Inverted tree (arbor inversa), rooted in the heavens and flourishing earthward, is an archetypal meta-symbol for contrarianism, sacred inversion, and reverse-engineering. With its lower structure fixed above, planted in thunder, and its summit here below, casting lightning, the inverted tree is the antithetical agency of mystics, shamans, and sacred clowns the world over. As Jung quotes from the Bhagavad-Gita… “There is a fig tree In ancient story. The giant Savitha, The everlasting, Rooted in heaven, Its branches earthward; Each of its leaves Is a song of the Vedas. And
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