When Deep is Up: Smack Dab in the Imagination by Dia Calhoun

Rereading The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our Worldview by Richard Tarnas, I was struck by his observation about the great shift in the cultural imagination that came from Copernicus' heliocentric model. In the geocentric system, the earth was the dead center of the universe. In circling spheres ever more distant--moon, sun, planets, fixed stars, Primum Mobile, and finally the divine in the Empyrean. Only hell, inside the earth, was further from the divine. Copernicus, by tossing the earth up into the sky, elevated the earth to a "heavenly body." 

Sometimes going deeper is going the opposite direction you might think. Try that when you write.