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The Seba library treats Height in 9 passages, across 7 authors (including Watson, Burton, Aurobindo, Sri, Edinger, Edward F.).
When the mind is without care or joy, this is the height of Virtue. When it is unified and unchanging, this is the height of stillness. When it grates against nothing, this is the height of emptiness.
Zhuangzi posits ‘height’ as the superlative qualitative apex of inner cultivation, equating it with the culmination of Virtue, stillness, emptiness, and limpidity as states of perfected consciousness.
, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, 2013thesis
from the greater height and wideness gained, an action of change and new integration of the whole nature
Aurobindo articulates ‘height’ as the pivotal achievement of evolutionary ascent, from which a reversal of consciousness becomes possible and a comprehensive integration of the whole nature is effected.
, The Life Divine, 1939thesis
I see a stupendously high tower. It is a broadcasting tower for a radio net
Edinger’s dream imagery of a towering height functions as a classical sublimatio symbol, representing the psyche’s archetypal movement toward the contemplation of transcendent, immortal realms.
, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, 1985supporting
Finding that the foot measured a sixth part of a man’s height, they applied this to the column by laying off its lowest diameter six times along the length of the column
Rank traces the architectural canon of proportion to the human body, establishing height as the foundational measure through which male and female bodily ideals are transposed into architectural form.
, Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development, 1932supporting
depth and size come to things in virtue of their being situated in relation to a level of distances and sizes, which defines the far and the near, the great and the small, before any object arises
Merleau-Ponty argues that height and size are phenomenologically constituted through the body’s lived spatial level rather than derived from objective measurement or inter-object comparison.
, Phenomenology of Perception, 1962supporting
the height of the galvanic curve is to be expected and can be explained by the gradual fading out of the affect
Jung’s experimental work treats ‘height’ as a quantitative indicator of affective intensity in the galvanic curve, correlating the magnitude of the psychophysiological response with the strength of the underlying complex.
, Experimental Researches, 1904supporting
Part Il (the falling weight) caused strong reactions in the Height 21.1 mm. Latency 2.2 sec. Time to top 6.6 sec.
Comparative galvanic height measurements across normal and pathological subjects demonstrate that reduced affective reactivity in dementia is registered as diminished curve height, linking psychic vitality to measurable amplitude.
, Experimental Researches, 1904supporting
God wants to be born in the flame of man’s consciousness, leaping ever higher.
Edinger’s citation of Jung connects the image of ascending flame with the ego’s aspiration toward divine consciousness, implicitly casting height as the directional axis of individuation.
, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, 1985aside
I look out from every mountain for fatherlands and motherlands. But nowhere have I found a home; I am unsettled in every city and I depart from every gate.
Nietzsche employs mountain height as an image of Zarathustra’s existential homelessness and visionary longing, where elevation becomes the symbol of alienation from the present and orientation toward an unborn future.
, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1883aside