Generally speaking, this blockage can create a mental stagnation inducing things in our life occur likewise.

I was an excellent person, Festina, even if you thought me juvenile but the doctor believes this pruning is what I require to overcome mental stagnation.

The left-angled Swastika symbolizes the centripetal force related to the pull of gravity - the force which ties us to mental stagnation - decay and dissolution.

Although others counsel mental stagnation as the only hope for survival, one blithe bureaucrat - who because of cataracts now lives "in a world of milk-colored ghosts" - announces: "You can only creep so far, and then you must leap!

Whether this shall take the form of mental stagnation, bodily paralysis, demoniacal possession, derangement of the internal faculties, or being changed into one of the lower animals, it might be presumptuous on this person's part to stipulate, but by invoking every accessible power and confining himself to this sole petition a very definite tragedy may be expected.