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Fantasia of the Unconscious

CHAPTER IV
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Thence, since we live terribly and exhaustively from the upper centers, there is a tendency now towards pthisis and neurasthenia of the heart.

The great sympathetic center of the breast becomes exhausted, the lungs, burnt by the over-insistence of one way of life, become diseased, the heart, strained in one mode of dilation, retaliates.

The powerful lower centers are no longer fully active, particularly the great lumbar ganglion, which is the clue to our sensual passionate pride and independence, this ganglion is atrophied by suppression.

And it is this ganglion which holds the spine erect.

So, weak-chested, round-shouldered, we stoop hollowly forward on ourselves.


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