Free write 4

 December 4th, 2022

In class, we talked about the Axis Mundi. The Axis Mundi is the gateway from the spiritual underworld through the earth into the spiritual heavens. The Axis Mundi connects the ideas of spirituality to real-life events. We talked about how trees could be used as an example of an Axis Mundi as the roots of the tree reach underground going towards the spiritual underworld and how the trunk and branches reach towards the sky towards the spiritual heavens. The Axis Mundi in the way I interpreted it as every living organism has a center and could be reached from either the spiritual underworld or the spiritual heavens and you choose your path into what you want to get reached by.

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