An occasional foray. Note: subjective descriptions, to start the conversation. I am no expert, these are cobbled together from other sources and my own imaginative leaps.
The Mentor 125 (i.e. types 125, 152, 215, 251, 512, 521)
Combines the ethics of the 1, the helpfulness of the 2 and the wisdom of the 5.
Private, idealistic and caring, sees what needs to be done and takes practical steps to be of service.
Mentor individual tritypes:
125 - The Tutor. Quiet, reserved and helpful. Enjoys learning and teaching. 1w2, SP, SO.
152 - The Academic. Introverted, intellectual, altruistic. Patient, knowledgable, enjoys being around people. 1w9, 1w2, SO, SP.
215 - The Modest Host/ess. Likes being around people, remembers details about everyone. Quiet, but correct in relating to others. 2w3, SO, SP.
251 - The Social Strategist. Projects positive image, uses intellectual and emotional strategies to help. Procedures and structures are important. 2w1, SO, SP.
512 - The Professor. Precise, disciplined, ethical. High ideals, crusade for systems or ideas they believe will help humankind. 5w6, SO.
521- The Self Help guru. Generous, involved but controlling. Likes to help through teaching self help. 5w6, SO.
Friday, 11 July 2014
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
Jung and Lovelock
"This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related." Plato.
I have long held, in the recesses of my mind, the thought of a tenuous link between James Lovelock and his conception of a living, self regulating universe, and Jung with his belief in the collective unconscious.
The question is, what rules and processes can we point to in order to prove this link? Jung claimed (against all evidence) that he was a scientist. Lovelock was/is a scientist. But how can we square the triangulation (to mix terms) between science, alchemy and imagination?
Where does the morphic resonance advanced by Sheldrake feed into this equation?
And I have not even begun to work through the personality theories of Jung and Naranjo, which again suggest a link of the one with the many, and, potentially, of one path that each individual has before him/her - if he/she does but see it and choose to follow it.
And where do the akashic records sit - are they a clue or a fantasy that lead us on the wrong track?
"The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired." Kafka
This is where the biocentrism of Robert Lanza begins to exert an influence. Lanza argues that 'there is no independent external universe outside of biological existence'. The significance of this, if we buy into its premise, is that the human biological lifeform, with its ability to theorise, hypothesise and imagine, actually creates the world, and by extension, the universe in which we dwell.
In my view, this is not to say that there are not other realities extraneous to the human lifeform, but that in our bubble, undisturbed by other realities (or by contact with other theorising, hypothesising, & imagining lifeforms) we can create our own multiverse of meaning and content.
If we are indeed about imagination, then do we have a supra imagination, or set of rules sitting above or beyond? Is this a single God, multi gods of animist persuasion, a connected universal soul, a collective set of ancient rites and archetypes still manifest and relevant, or mother nature as arbiter whether knowing or automaton like?
The universe as act of creation by humankind holds sway with me. It allows us to create links, ways of existing and ways of explaining. Jung and Lovelock are both relevant to any debate for me, but I think that, ultimately, they may be no more than story tellers in the endless narrative arc of human existence.
The question is, what rules and processes can we point to in order to prove this link? Jung claimed (against all evidence) that he was a scientist. Lovelock was/is a scientist. But how can we square the triangulation (to mix terms) between science, alchemy and imagination?
Where does the morphic resonance advanced by Sheldrake feed into this equation?
And I have not even begun to work through the personality theories of Jung and Naranjo, which again suggest a link of the one with the many, and, potentially, of one path that each individual has before him/her - if he/she does but see it and choose to follow it.
And where do the akashic records sit - are they a clue or a fantasy that lead us on the wrong track?
"The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired." Kafka
This is where the biocentrism of Robert Lanza begins to exert an influence. Lanza argues that 'there is no independent external universe outside of biological existence'. The significance of this, if we buy into its premise, is that the human biological lifeform, with its ability to theorise, hypothesise and imagine, actually creates the world, and by extension, the universe in which we dwell.
In my view, this is not to say that there are not other realities extraneous to the human lifeform, but that in our bubble, undisturbed by other realities (or by contact with other theorising, hypothesising, & imagining lifeforms) we can create our own multiverse of meaning and content.
If we are indeed about imagination, then do we have a supra imagination, or set of rules sitting above or beyond? Is this a single God, multi gods of animist persuasion, a connected universal soul, a collective set of ancient rites and archetypes still manifest and relevant, or mother nature as arbiter whether knowing or automaton like?
The universe as act of creation by humankind holds sway with me. It allows us to create links, ways of existing and ways of explaining. Jung and Lovelock are both relevant to any debate for me, but I think that, ultimately, they may be no more than story tellers in the endless narrative arc of human existence.
Saturday, 2 November 2013
Enneagram type 5 - The Outriders
In Sandra Maitri's book, The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues, she says:
"Fives tend to be observers both of life and of themselves, looking on from a safe distance. In this sense they are scouts, surveying the territory both without and within, rather than fully traversing it."
As I read this I had a picture in my head of a group of people crossing the desert on camels. Ahead, behind and to the sides were scattered individuals observing the distance for threats, and occasionally observing the throng of the group, loud, dusty, sweaty, ebullient. Each night these outriders, or scouts, returned to the group, eating, talking, laughing, wryly observing , then ultimately withdrawing to the edge of the fire, to think, write about the day, the future possibilities, the history of the trek, or just to idly draw esoteric symbols in the sand.
"Fives tend to be observers both of life and of themselves, looking on from a safe distance. In this sense they are scouts, surveying the territory both without and within, rather than fully traversing it."
As I read this I had a picture in my head of a group of people crossing the desert on camels. Ahead, behind and to the sides were scattered individuals observing the distance for threats, and occasionally observing the throng of the group, loud, dusty, sweaty, ebullient. Each night these outriders, or scouts, returned to the group, eating, talking, laughing, wryly observing , then ultimately withdrawing to the edge of the fire, to think, write about the day, the future possibilities, the history of the trek, or just to idly draw esoteric symbols in the sand.
Monday, 28 October 2013
Quiet anarchy
I am, at base, a quiet anarchist. A peaceful, self contained rotortarian. An unnamed monk.
But this weekend I visited the real world, as manifested in:
1. The table of a clairvoyant, and
2. A group of enneagram answer seekers.
The clairvoyant:
It is become apparent that I will leave my job in the next 12 months, and that this will be viewed positively by me. I have, however, to leave once I have given something back, so that there are no hard feelings. This is not my words, but another's, but I like them. It is a nice thing to do, and in my inward looking-ness I might never have thought it.
I will begin on a journey (of course, I have always known this), and there will be hardship and despondence (it wouldn't be a proper journey if there wan't!). I will have teachers along the way, the USA will play a role, but I am not to think I must grab the first offer or opportunity that comes my way. Pick and choose, use what works.
There will be weak or unfaithful teachers, but all will pass on something. Stay open minded,
It's all part of the same journey. All disparate events, thoughts, worries all eventually merge into the one.
There is never more than the one journey.
The enneagram:
There is never more than one journey, but it manifests itself differently for each type.
However, regardless of type, the journey starts with understanding where you are, what your passion is (in my case, Avarice), and how an understanding of your virtue (in my case non attachment) can get you to your type's particular holy idea (in my case omniscience or wisdom).
How I get there is through opening to the world, so that I can give (a difficult thing for enneagram type 5s), and - even more difficult, perhaps 1000 times more difficult - so that I can receive back.
Nature ebbs and flows.
But this weekend I visited the real world, as manifested in:
1. The table of a clairvoyant, and
2. A group of enneagram answer seekers.
The clairvoyant:
It is become apparent that I will leave my job in the next 12 months, and that this will be viewed positively by me. I have, however, to leave once I have given something back, so that there are no hard feelings. This is not my words, but another's, but I like them. It is a nice thing to do, and in my inward looking-ness I might never have thought it.
I will begin on a journey (of course, I have always known this), and there will be hardship and despondence (it wouldn't be a proper journey if there wan't!). I will have teachers along the way, the USA will play a role, but I am not to think I must grab the first offer or opportunity that comes my way. Pick and choose, use what works.
There will be weak or unfaithful teachers, but all will pass on something. Stay open minded,
It's all part of the same journey. All disparate events, thoughts, worries all eventually merge into the one.
There is never more than the one journey.
The enneagram:
There is never more than one journey, but it manifests itself differently for each type.
However, regardless of type, the journey starts with understanding where you are, what your passion is (in my case, Avarice), and how an understanding of your virtue (in my case non attachment) can get you to your type's particular holy idea (in my case omniscience or wisdom).
How I get there is through opening to the world, so that I can give (a difficult thing for enneagram type 5s), and - even more difficult, perhaps 1000 times more difficult - so that I can receive back.
Nature ebbs and flows.
Sunday, 20 October 2013
The coming week
Over the course of the next 7 days I plan to consult a soothsayer and attend an enneagram course.
What I will learn from these experiences I know not.
My view of the world seldom matches reality as it manifests in real time. But these coming events are surely more spiritual than corporeal, so will they be more predictable for me than the physical world?
What I will learn from these experiences I know not.
My view of the world seldom matches reality as it manifests in real time. But these coming events are surely more spiritual than corporeal, so will they be more predictable for me than the physical world?
Beginnings
After years of unkempt reverie, it is time to reverse into the world of the subconscious.
I plan to do this by divers and varying avenues.
I plan to do this by divers and varying avenues.
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