eutropy and bad posture
elaborating a little bit
Spirit has many characteristic behaviours, but the most important to alchemical practice (I will explain what this means later) is eutropy: transformation towards a mental equilibrium which is manifestly good. This is not the only behaviour of spirit, and is certainly not always reflected in the behaviour of self. Other behaviours, voluntary and involuntary, transform us away from mental equilibrium. But when these other behaviours settle down, and the mind is in its resting state — a neutral posture — eutropy typically unfolds without disruption. The posture of spirit is aligned with the axis of mental equilibrium: in this posture, we arc towards it asymptotically. But just because we can all enjoy the fruits of eutropy does not mean they are distributed evenly. It is possible to have bad posture: the worse your posture, the greater the distance between your neutral, resting state and the axis of equilibrium. Moreover, it is possible to have disordered posture: other spiritual behaviours — strange loops, spirals of illusion, tiger pits of obsession — may also have become postural, and so prevent eutropy from unfolding.