Crown chakra understood as an axial turbofan -- an attention breathing jet engine?

Global Insight from Crown Chakra Dynamics in 3D? (Part #9)

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The structure of the crown chakra with 20 rings of 50 "petals" each is reminiscent of the design of an axial turbofan -- as widely used in aircraft propulsion (Turbofan engines, ScienceDirect, 2016). A turbofan can be thought of as a turbojet being used to drive a ducted fan, with both of these contributing to the thrust. Whereas propeller-based engines (like the helicopter) are most efficient for low speeds, turbojet engines for high speeds -- with turbofan engines between the two. Does the crown chakra share principles with gas turbine design?

The question to be explored, suggested by the following illustrations (and their descriptions in Wikipedia), is what principles and constraints are associated with the design and operation of such engines -- with respect to the rotation of the petal-endowed rings of the crown chakra. Further insights with respect to the chakra rings are associated with descriptions of axial fan design. Is the processing of attention to be usefully compared with the operation of an axial compressor (below right), namely a gas compressor that can continuously pressurize gases?

Insights into crown chakra operation from jet engine design?
Turbofan animation (2-spool, high-bypass turbofan)	Schematic diagram illustrating the operation of a 2-spool, high-bypass turbofan engine (LP spool in green and HP spool in purple)	Axial compressor animated simulation (note alternation of static and rotating blades)
Zephyris at English Wikipedia / CC BY-SA	Rotation of Wikimedia image by K. Aainsqatsi / CC BY-SA	NASA - source - public domain

There are many accessible images of turbo fan engines, some taking the form of 3D models in the GrabCAD model liberary. The number of blades may vary as indicated by the images left and right below.

Suggestive correspondence between turbofan and chakra models
Turbofan engine Aviadvigatel PS-90 powering the Ilyushin Il-96, Tupolev Tu-204, Ilyushin Il-76	Crown chakra model	Turbofan animation
Reproduced from Wikipedia	(as above)	Adapted from GrabCAD model liberary

Framed in this way, are the "petals" of the "1,000-petalled lotus" to be compared with the skillfully curved turbine blades in jet engines? It would indeed appear that the number of blades in each stage may be of the same order as the number of "petals" in a chakra ring (Amin Almasi, Axial compressor considerations: how flows, design and operation differ from other compressor types, Flow Control, 3 October 2016)

It is those blades which are responsible for extracting energy from the high temperature, high pressure gas produced by the combustion process. As extensively discussed by Wikipedia, the turbine blades are often the limiting component of gas turbines. To survive in this difficult environment, the blades often use exotic materials like superalloys and many different methods of cooling that can be categorized as internal and external cooling, and thermal barrier coatings. Blade fatigue is a major source of failure in steam turbines and gas turbines. It is caused by the stress induced by vibration and resonance within the operating range of machinery.

Whereas the central image above has been rotated to suggest the processing of "attention" from understandings of reality of a lower order, it could be reversed to suggest the transfer of energy -- insight -- from understandings of reality of a higher order. The turbojet engine metaphor could be taken further in relation to the six other other chakras, given that these are understood in terms of stages in the processing of energy. Is there a sense in which effective operation of global governance in processing collective attention can be compared to the kundalini process?

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