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The term "center of gravity" goes all the way back to William James!
" . . .It is assumed to reflect a person's most ego-syntonic and habitual frame of reference or preferred mode of responding to life. James, (1902) refers to this as a person's "center of gravity," a particularly felicitous metaphor."
-Susanne Cook-Greuter, Postautonomous Ego Development: A Study of Its Nature and Measurement 1999,2005 pg. 27
Incidentally:
syn·ton·ic –adjective
1. |
Electricity. adjusted to oscillations of the same or a particular frequency. |
2. |
Psychiatry. of or denoting a personality characterized by normal emotional responsiveness to the environment. |
"With whom or with what are you in communion at this moment?"
. . ."I?" he replied, almost mechanically. "Why not with anyone or anything."
"You must be a marvel . . . if you are able to continue in that state for long."
-Constantin Stanislavsky