Relating the quadrants,
an Integral Toy.
Monday, April 04, 2005
9:43:16 PM
SUMMARY:
a simple means of exploring Ohm's law.
BACKGROUND:
this toy presumes that an 'idendity mapping'
between the subjective and objective realms is
rather trivial if you know where to look.
it presumes an identity between the hermeneutic
system of alchemy, the math and science of
electricity and of course ken wilbers four
quadrant system.
+-------------+-------------+
| **POWER** | **CURRENT** |
| UPPER LEFT | UPPER RIGHT |
| Interior | Exterior |
| Individual | Individual |
| Intentional | Behaviour |
| ##FIRE## | ##WATER## |
+-------------+-------------+
| **VOLTAGE** | **RESIST** |
| LOWER LEFT | LOWER RIGHT |
| Interior | Exterior |
| Collective | Collective |
| Cultural | Social |
| ##AIR## | ##EARTH## |
+-------------+-------------+
in the program i've arranged these 'aspects',
'elements' or 'forces' as is common in alchemy
and astrology, e.g. first the left side, then the
right:
+-------------+
| **POWER** | Grandfather Spirit
| UPPER LEFT | Hot & Dry
| Interior | Abstract Male
| Individual | Spring
| Intentional | Time
| ##FIRE## |
+-------------+
| **VOLTAGE** | Father Sky
| LOWER LEFT | Wet & Hot
| Interior | Concrete Male
| Collective | Fall
| Cultural | Distance
| ##AIR## |
+-------------+
| **CURRENT** | Grandmother Soul
| UPPER RIGHT | Cold & Wet
| Exterior | Abstract Female
| Individual | Summer
| Behaviour | Width
| ##WATER## |
+-------------+
| **RESIST** | Mother Earth
| LOWER RIGHT | Dry & Cold
| Exterior | Concrete Female
| Collective | Winter
| Social | Depth
| ##EARTH## |
+-------------+
mysticism provides a good deal of knowledge about
these 'forces' and there are in depth
explanations of their interior and exterior
manifestations available from pretty much any
time or culture. -- yet as these are usually
coded in evocative language they are quite
simply inaccessible to a purely intellectual
approach. you will get a sense of that
incompatibiliy as you interact with this toy.
pretty much the only way to make sense out of
the mysteries is to 'sense/feel spirit' and to
learn to walk in/with it before attempting to
rationalize or to lock its complex processes
into anything but symbolic form which is what
the ancients did. well.. when they were not
anthromorphizing, seeing kosmos as alive.
this sense of aliveness is alien to the intellect
until the classic rebirth experiences take away
the excesses consciously or by disease.. but
anyways..
to the right of the boxes above you have some
of those classic quadrant attributes.
Depending on the system and purpose you will find
the arrangement of these quadrants to emphasize
different things at different times. For example:
In wilber you have the Interior realm on the left
hand side and the exterior realm on the right.
In astrology the qualitative language of
mythology has the Individual realm 'below' and
the exterior realm 'above'. (tl<->br,br<->tr)
The Meyers Briggs people have yet another twist
and they put We->TL, I->BL and Its->BR
I don't think there'a right or wrong when it
comes to quadrants as geometricaly, when you put
these things on a tetrahedron, you can just hold
it up, turn it around and look at it any which
way you want!
I do wish all these fragmented groups would agree
that they all live in the same universe and adopt
something like a tetrahedron to integrate the
mass of divergent works so that we can get out of
babel! you've heard of the tower of babel, no?
HOW TO USE THE PROGRAM:
* double-click to run it.
* press the '0' button to reset things to center
- you'll have to do that when sliders get
pushed past the left/right extremes.
* click on and move the sliders.
OBSERVATIONS TO MAKE:
bottom slider:
notice how raising or lowering the
emphasis on the Social realm affect the
CONCLUSION:
I can't think of a better way to highlight
* that the ancients used 4 types of
intelligence when we today at best consider 2 or
three. spiraldynamic's wizards may be a fourth,
but that's not a mainstream recognized thing yet,
nor one universally understood.
* the benefits of emotional development.
just look at the sliders and what happens when
you 'descend' to allow the mind to let the
emotions be developed compare the effects of
mental vs emotional development on access to spirit.
* mental development might make you
rich.. but its a bear on the emotions.
note that 'body' from the perspective of
mind includes the body of fact and figures you've
been acquiring. exactly how this works out is a
matter of purpose, which is the next, e.g. 5th
dimension, left out here.
* bottom line... DESCEND! focus on
emotional development, then physical, the
individualistic elements develop as a consequence
of those actions; as the screen shows, to focus
on mental or spiritual development as an end in
and of itself is, uh, stupid, if your goal is
integration rather than specialization.
* these same fundamental dynamics are
true at any level of development!
* note, in theory our sliders go from
nothing to infinity. since that's kind of hard to
render on a screen, we're looking at the area
around NUMERO UNO, the essential singularity, the
perfect integration, and then are introducing
(metaphorically speaking) distortions of 3
magnitudes each way. that's why the numbers act
so strangely when you move the sliders. they are
logarithmic.
NOTES:
* the colors are taken from basic astrology.
* the color of the bottom bar is the product
of the red/green/blue components. yellow is
not considered at all as we only need three
of the four to render a color.. this is a
trivial observation which, btw, is crucial to
understanding that for every trinity there's
the likelyhood of a hidden and related forth.
* you can enter numbers directly into the boxes
and press enter to make them active. sorry about
the rounding errors there. it will take time to
fix that.
* caveat! there are 12 formulas describing this
space and with 4 sliders there are 3 formulas the
program can pick from. as is, it always chooses
by deciding to hold steady the element considered
to be closest in nature by the jungians. you may
not like that, but with this psychological spin
in it, you get the main points without much
hazzle. i'll add some buttons so you can
influence this choice.
* just be careful to not make things go past 1000
without hitting '0' or clicking below the bottom
slider to reset things. i'll have to fix that.
* OK.. now that you have read to here I'll tell
you about an easter-egg hidden in the right side
of the yellow panel.. there's 2 actually.. 1 one
the left-button and one on the right-button.
enjoy!