Entertainment / Literature / Macrocosm: (Cf. Microcosm) The natural universe as a whole, including the biological realms of flora and fauna, weather, and celestial objects such as the sun, moon, and stars. See discussion under chain of being.
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Health / Tai Chi / Macrocosmic Orbit: The energy circuit through the legs to top of head and back down MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Microcosm: The human body. Renaissance thinkers believed that the human body was a 'little universe' that reflected changes in the macrocosm, or greater universe. (cf. Macrocosm) MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Correspondences: An integral part of the medieval and Renaissance model of the universe known as the 'Chain of Being.' The idea was that different links on the Chain of Being were interconnected and had a sort of symp MORE
Entertainment / Literature / The Body Politic: The monarchial government, including all its citizens, its army, and its king. Political theory in the Elizabethan period thought of each kingdom as a 'body,' with the king functioning as its head. Ev MORE