#grounding

• Antaeus — The proper name of a mythological giant in Greek mythology (Antaeus), son of Poseidon and Gaia, famous for drawing his invincible structural strength from direct contact with the earth (his mother). In a figurative and literary sense, the term serves as a metaphor for the human or artistic condition that finds its vital resources for regeneration by returning to origins, nature, or the fundamental values of the native soil.
• Self-grounding — The act or process by which a conceptual system, a philosophical doctrine, a science, or one's own consciousness establishes its own foundations, first principles, or legitimacy, without resorting to external justifications or pre-established postulates. In transcendental idealism and modern metaphysics, the term describes the absolute autonomy of thought or of the Subject which is its own cause and its own ground of formal validity.