The shadow of the inner child that kills us

Keywords: personality, psyche, psychotherapy, wounded child, inner child, lucidity, higher self, ego

The inner battlefield of dominant and repressed (sub)-personality programs made lucid and quantifiable.

By Luc Sala

2012-08-24

sala@dealerinfo.nl

http://www.lucsala.nl/psyche.htm see also: www.lucsala.nl/lucidity.htm

 

Synopsis:

Using divination to gauge the parameters of the psyche using the inner child-mask(s) model is very useful in detecting (potential) conflicts between layers and (sub)-personalities of the psyche. These often lead to somatic or psychical problems or unwanted behavioural patterns.  In this essay the psychological model of ego/mask(s) and(wounded child is outlined and  developed and numerical data concerning their relationship are used to illustrate this model. These data are obtained by radionics/dowsing methods and therefore have a subjective aspect, but does  give reproducible results. The outcome of this diagnostic procedure (Lucidity method) yields effective result in understanding the working of the psyche.  This method has been used and validated in hundreds of cases and is here also applied to historical people. The data on the different mind-states/programmes/subpersonalities have shown that although our body and mind have the same hardware, the different programmes (subpersonalities/masks) use this hardware different, people can have a different IQ, sexual orientation etc. in different (sub)-personalities.  Additionally the Lucidity method can indicate the potential of various therapies to help recognize and integrate the wounded child, identify the masks and the inner conflicts and free/release the inner child. This model is explained, illustrated by case history data, analysis of historical figures, comparison of data concerning spiritual teachers/gurus,  and compared with philosophical, therapeutical, religious and magic worldviews. Analysis of the numerical data for normally  intangible and vague qualities like spiritual resonance, emotional IQ, sexual orientation, happiness, beauty and much more also gives insight into how the psyche develops and how ego and personality in growing up and experiencing the outside realities diverge from the original soul/higher self scenario and how the resulting differences yield valuable insights in one’s mental and physical health and happiness. The approach also sheds light on how psychotherapy works and could work.

 

 

The main thesis of this essay is:

Most illnesses and problems in our life stem from the repressed inner child (inner self) that wants to be heard and is suppressed by the mask(s) or personalities we have developed as a defence-mechanism. Understanding, measuring and analyzing the parameters of this ego-system and the underlying inner child yields valuable insights for therapy and healing.

 

 

The methodology used (lucidity method) is based on the assumption, that we can (by divination) measure even intangible parameters, differentiate them for the personalities or masks and so indicate potential inner conflicts. Feedback is essential for actual cases and has validated the method in many cases, but the method itself can also be used to analyse deceased ones.

 

The Ancient Greek aphorism "Know thyself" (Greek: γνώθι σεαυτόν or gnothi seauton) was inscribed in golden letters at the lintel of the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. It sounds like great advice, but to what extend can we know ourselves, how deeply do we have to search into the depth of our souls or the dark recesses of our sub- and unconscious mind to arrive at some useful knowledge. Did the Greeks mean self as in ego, as in mask, the obvious personality we display to the world or did they hint at knowing our deeper core, the inner child hidden in our shadow, the true or higher self.

And can we know ourselves by ourselves, or do we need the help of others. The Delphi oracle obviously was one way to self-discovery, as was astrology, divination, visiting a shaman or clairvoyant or partaking in the Eleusinian mysteries. And we have seen many ways of self discovery as mankind developed, the great religions of the world are basically all ways for coming to grips with whom we really are. Jesus, according to the gospels, taught us that we have to become like the children if we are to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, and according to Tomas, that Kingdom is the now. Buddha, in his teachings about liberating us from the fetters of the senses, used different words but the same message. In Zen Buddhism the discovery of the self is the major task, in Hinduism and the Upanishads there is the acceptance of Brahma as our inner core (Atman), and do you think the ultimate goal of the Cathar Parfaits (the perfect ones) was anything else than to be true to the self? And what was the purpose of the “Spiritual Exercises” of  Ignacio de Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits? Different paths, different techniques, an emphasis on different chakra’s, but the same goal.

In modern times we have seen psychotherapy, psychology and a host of related disciplines evolve into tools for self-knowledge. Psychological tests, personality type matrices like the Enneagram, Myers-Briggs indices, self-help programs, psychedelics, inner child and wounded child programs, one can spend a lifetime discovering oneself.

The sobering truth is, however, that very few people reach the level of self-knowledge and awareness that results in overcoming the basic programming we so easily refer to as the ego or believe to be the personality, the mask we present to the world (and believe to be ourselves). Many professional psychologists now acknowledge, that even the most advanced and extensive psychological tests give little insight in the way a person acts and will act in real-life situations. Even as psychological testing is still very popular in the corporate world, the results are indicative at best, the top performers emerge in the reality of human interaction, the problem-makers are rarely weeded out by such tests. The “human touch” in selecting personnel and HRM functions is essential.

 

Something is missing in our perception of the human condition, in how we perceive our psyche. Psychology, with Wundt, Pavlov, James, Freud, Jung, Adler, Perls, Maslow, Rogers, Piaget, Skinner, Grof and so many others has discovered a lot, but has modern science really uncovered more than what the Zen-masters, the Vedic Rishi’s or Plato understood? Were philosophers like Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty on a really new track with their exploration of phenomena (what presents itself to us in conscious experience), is there really a schism between the idealists and the realists if we would truly understand the Veda’s and Upanishads. Weren’t Kant and Hume not both trying to understand what is beyond empiricism and rationalism, trying to define or isolate the deep reality from the perception we know is subjective at best and both touching on that vast realm of magic and transcendental knowing we cannot perceive with our senses or rationalize with our mind, but sense exists. For me the history of philosophy and science is an exciting story, but also a cycle of discovery and rediscovery, the Uruburos chewing its tail, finding the truth and the love underlying all realities anew all the time. Therefore, what follows is not new, it’s just my truth, my path, my perspective on something which is beyond our ‘normal’ awareness.

In this essay I will try to give my personal view on how the mind-body-soul-spirit complex that we all are, functions. This is a partial and personal view, based on life’s lessons and inspiration from many sides, but as a working hypothesis it kind of worked for me and many people around me. It doesn’t delve into the depths of the philosophical and theological discussion, but is a practical approach to human development, to developing the potential we all have, to uncovering what is usually hidden.

 

One of the aspects I will not touch is karma, either personal karma or what in very broad terms could be called family or clan related karma. Beyond the notion that there is immediate action-reaction for whatever we do karma is often perceived as energy we bring into this life from previous lifetimes. Family karma is different, there are energies associated with families and groups, clans, villages and even corporations or institutions that we carry with us, sometimes protective and beneficial but in many cases this energy is “tilted” or negative. In some cultures this is described as curse, it does have considerable influence on our well being, health and development, but is quite different from the model developed here.

Red Rhythmic Serpent

Ride 'em cowgirl/guy! You get to get on board that great unruly beast
that is your subconscious underworld dwelling primal instinctual
passions, and hold on tight, until you have um, 'tamed' or at least
begun some kind of civil negotiations with your primal self. Serpent
shows us our passions, in all their naked, dancing glory, unfiltered
by moral gauze or television ratings. Get to know this deeper self and
build at least a hand signal communication game so the two of you
don't embarrass each other. Flare up you will, so begin the process of
balancing and organizing this passionate side of you. Good luck and
NEVER EVER allow yourself to make yourself feel guilty for giggling or
expressing your true nature, especially if it involves dancing,
parasols, and eating grapes handed to you by someone else.

In Lak'ech!
monoKozmikoAzul

 

 

This essay starts with a kind of thesis, which is that we have a number of programs (personalities or subpersonalities) each with its own mode of operation, intelligence, bodily functions, quite separated from each other. Nearly all people have developed a mask personality or program, that kind of hides the original design in us. The mask or adapted personality is our conscious self, perceived as I and myself, but in fact it is a mode of being, a mode of operation and stimulus-response automatisms that dominates our thinking and behaviour, but is not the real “Self”. It works, has adapted to what parents, school and the world expect from us, is effective and usually quite “normal”, but it is fake, constructed, and we are unconscious of its operation. The real self is also not the Shadow or the wounded child mode of being, as that “repressed program” is what became of the “Higher Self”or inner child after a lifetime of domination by the mask personality. Our shadow is full of dark adaptations, patterns and complexes, but when in that repressed program (accidentally, under stress or via therapy, illness, drugs or otherwise exceptional circumstances) we can at least consciously touch on those complexes and trauma’s. In the shadow mode we have at least a chance of working through those complexes and trauma’s, accept them and potentially integrate them, clearing our selves, uncovering the inner, hidden child. The state we then, sometimes with much effort, sometimes instantaneously and effortless, arrive at has been described as mystical union, lucid awareness, enlightenment, Satori, Samadhi, so many words for what cannot be described by words.

Postulates:

I will state the most important lessons first as a number of postulates.

·        Most people have two (sometimes more) “programs” (sub-personalities)

·        The dominant program (the mask P1) is what we normally think we are

·        The dominant, everyday program is usually well adapted, social, well behaved and of good will.

·        The repressed program (the design, inner child, shadow P2) is what we originally were, but got distorted because it is repressed and not given space

·        The word inner child refers to the original and its talents and innocent sense of wonder, the shadow is the inner child as it developed in the dark, so to speak, dominated and pushed away by the other program, that adheres to the norm.

·        The dominant program usually develops in early childhood as a result of real or perceived trauma’s and experiences, sometimes peri- or prenatal. This not only happens in dysfunctional families or due to physical trauma’s, accidents, illnesses, but is a normal development in everybody’s life. It overshadows the inner child, original program.

·        Each program is based on a specific and consistent breath-regime/mode

·        Each program has a distinct intelligence, social interaction pattern, creative talents, libido, sexual orientation and other specific characteristics.

·        The sometimes great differences in intelligence, talents, sexual orientation, willpower, etc. between the two (or more) programs give rise to inner conflicts, insecurities and depressions.

·        Our trauma’s, experiences and memories are stored in our mind (brain), in our body and in our emotional responses. They are accessed unconsciously from P1, unconsciously an sometimes more consciously from P2

·        Under pressure, stress, illness, pain we will switch programs, but also when very happy, in love, travelling, under the influence of substances, sounds, other people.

·        The repressed program is usually active less than 10% of the time

·        The repressed program wants to claim its place under the sun, and makes that clear via signals like depressions, illnesses, malfunctioning organs. If ignored, those signals will become stronger and eventually kill us.

·        Illnesses, especially the ones related to deeper unbalances,  are primarily caused by the repressed program, but the effects carry over in the dominant mode

·        The dominant program (the mask) will have less effect on our exterior and the impression we make on others, as it is usually quite “normal” and adapted.

·        The repressed program shapes, especially as we grow older, our face and body language, the deficiencies and illnesses become a strong non-verbal message.

·        Other people perceive us, at least initially, as the repressed program (personality)

·        The split between what we think we are (the dominant) and how we are perceived by others (the repressed) is what I call the Human Condition, and the cause of much suffering.

·        We all have some idea about what our repressed program entails, as we know how we act when mad, stressed etc., but usually we don’t acknowledge that as a separate program and refer to it as “our bad mood”, not realising that it is that bad mood that shapes our persona,  the impression we make on others.

·        It follows that other people are better capable of recognising and pinpointing the characteristics of the repressed personality.

·        Becoming aware and accepting the repressed program, discovering and “owning” its problematic aspects, its programmed reactions or “buttons” but also the hidden talents and gifts is a first step to liberation.

·        Once the repressed program is liberated or freed, it stops the negative signals and becomes a peer-level partner of the then less dominant program.

·        Healing the inner child or liberating the shadow program, allowing the original design to emerge is therefore essential in most situations.

·        This healing, cleaning or clearing is a multidimensional operation. It involves giving more time to the inner child, developing its spiritual resonance and the clearing away of the complexes that gave rise to the formation of the mask or dominant personality in the first place.

·        A happy inner child, given space to express itself, is the best guarantee for a long an healthy life, and the possibility of self-realization. Spiritual and creative leaders usually have a fairly liberated inner child.

·        The characteristics of these processes, programs and states of being can be represented by numerical scales. Even esoteric notions as enlightenment, level of awareness, happiness and in fact all dimensions of our human “being” can be represented by numerical values. Those values are subjective, but repeatable and give a deeper insight in how our psyche-body-mind works.

 

Now the above postulates are quite strong and somewhat revolutionary, especially the ones where I attribute separately an IQ, social capabilities etc. to the different programs/subpersonalities/modes. In case of extreme multiple personality syndrome this is generally accepted, but that this goes for nearly everybody is quite a statement. Also that IQ, personality traits etc are directly resulting and caused by the breath pattern differs from “western” understanding, but of course those well versed in yoga and understanding what Chi does will see the resonance with “eastern” wisdom. Incidentally, this means that changing one’s personality can be achieved by a strict breath regime, as achieved in monastic situations, by chanting, mantra’s, but also happens when certain muscles are afflicted by an accident or by wearing a tight corset.

Two or more personalities

The word “personalities” or even subpersonalities  is a bit strong and makes one think of the multipersonality disorder, but will be used here to indicate those programs, modes or subpersonalities we often see described as the conscious personality, versus the shadow, wounded or inner personality.

When I develop or extend the idea of multiple subpersonalities or programs, usually two, indicated as the mask (the normative, dominant adapted personality) (P1) and the shadow (inner child, repressed mode) P2. The P2 mode can be very dark, when there is a lot of trauma, complexes and reflexes, we then speak of the shadow or wounded child, when it is cleared and less frustrated it becomes the inner child. I see these programs as rather independent modes of being. Each mode has its own breath pattern, intelligence, social qualities, sexual orientation, sexual preferences, talent pool etc., sometimes quite different. Each mode draws upon and accesses the “bag”of experiences, trauma’s and reflexes built up in our lifetime and stored in the body and the mind, only in de P1 mode most of these are unconscious, automatic and cannot be accessed. Especially the reflexes happen very fast, unnoticed, and are hard to catch or pinpoint. Only in the P2 mode can we consciously address this bag of experiences.

The P1 and the P2 are usually (nearly always) the conscious and the subconscious modes, although we do switch between them and later in life the shadow sometimes gets more liberated and the original, the inner child that we once were, is showing more. The P1/P2 relation is crucial in the development towards the Brahman, the higher Self or the inner divinity, but it takes a lot of work, sometimes illnesses and suffering to liberate the inner child, develop it along the spiritual awareness axis and discover that it has the deep connection to that higher self and the divine oneness that underlies it all.

Our trauma’s, stress, frustrations and “buttons’ are stored both in the body and in the mind (memory) and can and will be triggered and/or accessed from the mask (P1) unconsciously and from the P2 consciously. Healing the mind (and body) therefore is more easy from and in the P2 mode. We usually are in P2 in stress, illness, when outside our normal situation, when in love, in sex and with certain substances, in certain body positions, meditation etc.

 

The shadow (P2)

The shadow is a psychological term, used by Jung and others, to indicate a space or operational mode with its own response patterns, judgements and reflexes in our psyche we do not experience or “own” in our normal ego/personality mode. It is mostly unconscious, only under stress, in adverse conditions, as a result of certain drugs, addictions, in love and when under attack we notice this shadow. And if we don’t, others around us usually do and call this “bad mood”, or not being yourself etc. There is also a more positive aspect to the shadow, as there is a golden potential hidden, that does show itself at times as a feeling of happiness or even mystical union. The shadow in that sense can be seen as the inner child, which is wounded because of experiences, trauma’s and defence mechanism but still contains the roots of original inner child, sometimes called the higher self. The shadow is more authentic than the mask, but is still fairly self-centered and is usually  perceived as the “bad” guy inside, the one that makes us do nasty things. It is however essential that we recognize, accept and honour even those “bad” traits inside of us, only then can we become aware of how they, often sneakily, influence our lives and learn to deal with them. Denial of the shadow doesn’t work, we have to become conscious of what is there and what it does, and paradoxically they then dissolve and disappear, and the true inner child emerges. This can be seen as a cleaning or clearing of the shadow, as giving space (time/attention) to the inner child, or ultimately as enlightenment, satori etc.

 

The mask  (P1)

As we grow up, we develop a personality mode (program) to cope with the outside world, its demands, logic, irrationalities, adverse conditions etc. This becomes our mask, the personality we experience as ourselves, as the I, the ego, the operational mode we identify with and show to the world. It is the outermost layer of our psyche.  It develops from very early childhood, basic personality traits can be detected before the child is one years old and by age 3 or 4 it has kind of formed itself. This mask personality is not unchangeable, in fact it develops and grows and can be changed later in life. Many therapies like NLP and behavioural approaches are effective in changing some aspects of the mask, in better adapting to what the external world expects or requires. However, these adaptations are superficial, they change the mask, thereby the self perception and can be effective in coping better with day-to-day situations, they do NOT really change the person inside, the inner child and the higher self. In fact, by dealing with some symptoms that might be indications of deeper and more fundamental problems is the whole of the psyche, they sometimes keep the person away from becoming aware of those deeper problems.

The mask or ego is what we think we are, but it is a mask, a fake personality to deal with the world and the problems and opportunity it presents. It keeps us away from our real and deeper self (lower/shadow and higher/inner child) as it provides us with meaning and direction, including ideals, intention, ambition and will. It has its own self-image, its own body mode (breath, posture, digestion), its own mental mode (intelligence, memory, will), blaming strategy,  its own libido, emotional and intuitive mode (reflexes). These are different and fairly independent from the characteristics of the other personality modes (programs), in most people the shadow/inner child, but sometimes more mask-like personalities have developed.

The mask characteristics are, in my opinion, not a given (nature), but a result of nurture (education, conditions of growing up) with at most a limited genetic (DNA) influence. This also means that I believe the characteristics of this mask personality are not fixed, but can be changed or developed.

In most people, this mask or (faslse) ego is a good feedback mechanism that helps us cope with the world. It works fairly well, it keeps them relatively well adapted, somewhat happy, in general (superficial) healthy and most important, it effectively keeps us away from experiencing the deeper personality mode(s), the real self or inner self. And rightfully so, without the mask we, as a child, would probably not have survived or would have been damaged even more. The mask strives for outward perfection, structure, evasion of negative emotions, even the search for (some kind of subjective) truth, but is also a very good shield, indeed a mask, used to show an identity that is not our true self. Anxiety, fear and anger are major drives and typologies like the enneagram show how these are the basis of different (mask) personalities.

 

The true self, the perfect child in us that protected itself by building this mask, but got wounded and damaged in the process, is still there. It is however hidden behind or in this shadow, the negative patterns and reflexes that developed in conjunction with the mask. Abuse, pressure, bad conditions, lack of love, lack of touch, all human beings did pick some from the tree of abundant trauma. One could state that they did so coming from the perfect understanding and by free will, their souls made the choice for this life and these parents, they created the ingredients for the mask. In this respect, one could see the development of the mask and the lifelong struggle to come back to the higher self as the human condition, the storyline of one’s destiny. And if we see, that even in the same family and with the same bouquet of potential trauma and abuse different kids pick different masks, this leads to the assumption that the soul, the ultimate driver of our body-mind-spirit, is in charge of all this.

Our higher self, the original inner child, is the connection with the divine spark in us, is in essence a part of the divine. It connects, unites, does not separate, does not discriminate. It has those divine virtues, love, humbleness, patience, compassion, courage, wisdom, is creative and essential. It goes with the flow, intention becomes effortless, we feel one with all.

 

Fundamental questions

In a very general way, looking at a model distinguishing between inner child/higher self/design on the one hand and personality/ego on the other hand, I have a feeling that this also has to do with the very fundamental separation between determinism versus free will or causality-logic versus Kant’s “Vernunft” of Plato’s ideals. This distinction comes up in so may forms, science versus religion, mechanical causality versus agent causality, logic versus intuition, ratio versus synchronicity, the meat computer versus divine grace etc. I think the major factor here is time. Causality has to do with time, the chain of events, the predictability, the Laplace notion that everything has a cause and is predictable, the positivist notion that all can be explained and God is just an excuse for not knowing how things work. I am clearly at the side of the idealist, acknowledging that there are two worlds and that the ratio (Verstand) of the one is quite separate of the reasonability (Venrnunft) of the other, Kant really understood the difference and his morality and ethics were bases on “Praktisches Vernunft”. I believe time, which to many mystics is an illusion anyway, is what separates the two worlds. And in man, the two worlds or paradigms exists side by side and, going a step further, that reality is made up of those two, one in time and rational, the other outside time and irrational, synchronistic, non-causal. I also think that we cocreate in both modes, we can follow the causality trail and be subject to causality and determinism, and we also have free will, to act outside of time. This cocreation of reality in two modes could be the explanation of many ESP and synchronicity phenomena. Hard to decide what and when what is what. When are we just victims of time, karmic past and the future tail of our actions (for the influence of time works both ways) and when we do make a difference, diminish or create karma, live and act in the now, outside time, causality? Those usually fleeting moments of connectedness. Physicists now agree that the observer  (and thus consciousness) is part of reality, at least of perceived reality and that there is some kind of yet not understood connectedness that is instantaneous, spanning all the universe. Not a new notion, gravity as being such an instantaneous connection has been and still is one of the great riddles of our material world.

Now, could it be, that the self in us, the design we are born with (or manifest in our mothers womb) is the part connected to that other dimension, that out-of-time reality, that divine connection and the mask or personality we develop in early childhood (and I believe that starts very early and most patterns are present although not fully crystallised before we are 1 year old) is the time-bound mode, the logical, deterministic pattern. This distinction between the two modes, worlds, patterns or whatever we call them, if related to the inner child/personality model, could explain many so-called anomalies, but also the “human condition”.

 

Personal

As this is an essay, dealing with general ideas in a personal context, it is maybe appropriate to explain how I came to the above postulates and the theoretical model underlying it. Trained as a physicist and business administration, I had a career first in corporate world, then as an independent journalist and publisher and for the last 20 years as a businessman with diverse interest, mostly in media and computers. After some mystical experiences I got interested in the “alternative” around 1989, was involved in the magazine Mondo2000 and the crowd surrounding that maverick publication like Leary, J.P. Barlow, R.U. Sirius, McKenna and Naranjo and got a quick exposure to the “new age”world. Since then I had like a double career, apart from ICT and publishing I started a company Egosoft dealing in consciousness technology like brainmachines, biofeedback, hypnotic induction and mindware. From 1995 tot 2001 I owned and operated an alternative television station in Amsterdam, called Kleurnet and in that context I have interviewed many, many luminaries and celebrities from the alternative and spiritual world. I still have thousand of hours of edited interviews with the likes of Leary, Hofmann, R.A. Wilson, Shulgin, Ph. Glass, Sogyal, Pilot baba and whoever passed through Amsterdam in those days. I picked up a lot from these people and gradually began to develop my own understanding of the otherdimensional realm. I have written many books, about Magic Mushrooms, Carpal tunnel syndrome, Virtual Reality and Rituals. In 2003 I became seriously ill, with a vague illness called sarcoidosis for which there is no cure, just symptomatic treatment with prednison. I believe it is caused by a gut problem and an allergy for certain food, in my case socalled trans- or hard fats. To fight this I had to learn to dowse (with a pendulum) what food was acceptable. It turned out I had a knack for dowsing and gradually developed it as a diagnostic tool, going way beyond the traditional practice, venturing into radionics and developing theroretical models about health and other subjects, like a matrix of psychedelic substances and their effects (psimatrix). I developed a knack for quantitative data, not merely yes or no dowsing, but specific numbers, even for qualities not usually given numeric values, like spiritual resonance, the quality of fire (like the Bovis scale for water) and psychological effects. I began, not as a professional but with friends, to use my gift to diagnose illnesses and soon began to see, that simple diagnostics were not effective, there was a whole realm missing in the traditional approaches like kinestetics and radionics. I, maybe perchance, maybe guided by otherdimensional forces, came across some real multipersonality cases, that made me see how the different personalities were really different people and I kind of realized, also by looking a my own psyche and behaviour, that these patterns were present in everybody. I therefore began to develop a model using multiple personality programs, which I like to call programs as that is a more acceptable term for most people, they don’t like to have multiple personalities, but accept multiple programs of behavioural modes. As my gift also allows me to indicate at what times in someone’s life certain traumatic incidents happened and as I can see, how certain factors developed over time and even during sessions By using and refining the model, using and discussing it with hundreds of clients/friends, I have now come to the above postulates. A working model, but developed enough to share it and seek feedback by tentative publication on the internet. I have far more data available that given here, interested parties can have those for reference. They are about to individual characteristics, but also attempts to link ennegram types to certain behaviour data and many more attempts to cross-reference all these models and theories about personality and the body-mind-spirit connection.

The method

The basis of my work is dowsing or divination, using a pendulum and a numerical chart, but also this model of the psyche with a first (P1) and second (P2) personality. Sometimes there are more, but for practical reasons the two are usually enough. I use the traditional methods and lists used in homeopathic, kinestetic and radionic practice, checking out the bodily functions, organs, chakra’s, psychological, karmic disturbances, etc. but I do this for the two programs P1 and P2. I found out, that usually (but not always) illnesses are more prominent in P2, but that certain things, like the amount of gallstones, are the same in P1 and P2. That makes sense, these are hard facts, but other factors are distinctly different. I also started to look into factors and talents that are less common, like spiritual resonance, libido, clairvoyance, healing talent, social talent, sexual orientation, sexual inhibition, SM tendencies and could  kind of determine, how these factors developed over time and under the influence of certain factors, like food, company of certain people, different kinds of therapy, also in a predictive way. With of course many mistakes and errors, dowsing always has some projection errors, luckily without major mishaps for other people (I myself had some major relapses of the sarcoidosis) I developed my model and build a kind of methodology to use it as a diagnostic tool, indicating appropriate therapies and strategies to many people with sometimes amazing results.

 

The ranges of numbers that I gradually developed for many, many characteristics of a sometimes esoteric nature, have been consistent over time and the same numbers are found over and over again, which is handy as I tend to forget the outcome of my work, I want to see people as people and not as cases. In some cases, like the spiritual resonance, I have found them to have a relationship to the spinal cord or chakra sequence. It starts at the root chakra and kind of reflects the development of a human being from our animal ancestors. A spiritual resonance of 4 or 8 is related to the nr 1 chakra, 16 to chakra nr 2  and usually indicating a sexual hangup, which is very common, 18 a parental dominance issue, 20 about becoming an adult, free of parental issues, 28 and 43 belong to the hara and related to hierarchy and power issues, 34 is a painful group rejection issues, 60 is the heart chakra and the higher numbers are for the higher chakra’s. I think the very high numbers are related to chakra’s or energies even above the nr 7. A few peculiarities have to be mentioned, like that people with a spiritual resonance under 60 have a a hard time “seeing” or acknowledging those with spiritual resonances above 60. This kind of explain how people who are “growing in awareness” sometimes feel cut off from their former friends and circles, but at the same time find new friends with spiritual resonances in their new and higher bracket.

Another factor is that the release or liberation of the second program, the P2 or inner child, is very beneficial for both body and soul development. I have checked the number for many, many people in this respect and found that liberation of P2 is a good indication of the “human” qualities, of being a “Mensch”. P2 can be liberated in resonance or frequency, thus having a higher number, or it can be given more space (time in that mode) at a lower resonance, with similar effects. I noted, that many so called teachers and guru’s did liberate their inner child, but didn’t really moved it beyond the 16 level and therefore are maybe great teachers, but have this usually hidden sexual inclination that kind of spoils the image.

Case histories

Now this whole theory didn’t arrive out of nothing. In fact I became more aware of the whole P1 and P2 dichotomy when I found out, that my Homeopathic/Radionics practitioner consistently would get higher number for my health, organ functions etc. when using the Vega test method than I found myself using a pendulum. The ratings were very much in the same direction, but mine were consistently much lower. The explanation was that she came up with P2 figures and I could only dowse P1 figures. Another eye-opener was a very obvious multiple personality case, that made me aware of the distinction and the specifics of each personality in that person.

Anyway, my work in talking with many, many people, dowsing their numbers/ratings and talking with them, getting feedback, correcting my errors, in fact developing a body of understanding, resulted in the above postulates about subpersonalities/programs. This “theory” has thus a numerical basis, the readings/numbers are repeatable, are usually in agreement with the results from practitioners using similar methods, but I have extended the scope of the analysis more towards the intangibles.

 

To give some idea I will give here some data in matrix form of a number of (anonymous) people, I have helped and diagnosed. They are not very standard people, so the data are in most case already extreme, as I do tend to get people who are kind of advanced in some respect and especially have reached a fairly high level of Spiritual Resonance. The various columns kind of speak for themselves, they give a broad image of these people.. There are many more columns, especially about the physical data, the functioning of  organs, the whole health picture, but they are less relevant here as this essay is primarily about the psychological dimensions.

 

Programs/subpersonality values

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P1 = normal, mask, developed personality program

 

 

 

P2= inner child, shadow program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time

 

health

Spiritual 

Intelligence

Social 

Creative

ESP

Healing

Lucidity

Libido

Sexual

Sex orient.

SadoMas

Father/Mother

unbalanced

 

in program

0=ok

resonance

Quotient

Flexibility

 talent

talent

talent

 

 

 

 

inhibition

 het/homo

tendency

imprint

Integrity

chakras

person

P1

P2

P3

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

 

average

90

10

 

5

12

22

10

100

92

75

100

20

40

4

10

3

8

0

0

65

85

35

60

87

72

10

20

60M

60F

35

14

 

H

78

22

 

0

0

150

16

129

108

110

60

30

110

60

160

105

160

10

20

30

100

20

90

90

50

30M

90M

90F

60M92

92

40

2,5 & 7

J

92

8

 

10

35

110

12

140

120

150

120

130

95

40

10

40

120

50

120

20

80

20

60

90

60

20M

5

75F

95M

90

50

3 & 6

S

65

35

 

0

8

150

210

128

134

120

165

50

120

10

60

80

240

5

5

100

100

20

80

70

45

40S

90S

90F

70M

92

30

2 & 6

J

70

30

 

6

20

105

70

121

139

120

240

12

40

5

10

10

205

0

0

60

100

0

40

90

60

40M

90M

90F

80M

90

10

3 & 6

R

85

15

 

0

1

120

16

123

120

120

220

20

40

90

260

120

300

5

8

20

95

3

80

90

55

40M

90M

85M

60F

70

20

2 & 7

M

65

35

 

0

5

150

90

126

125

130

310

20

110

120

420

90

300

0

0

40

95

20

90

95

70

35M

70M

70M

65F

94

52

2, 3 & 6

D

90

10

 

2

11

95

16

128

101

30

120

65

150

50

30

10

15

60

140

10

90

60

80

90

80

6

10

90M

90F

40

93

2 & 6

More detailed analysis

Of course there are much more detailed data about each person, like an extensive check on health and other issues, as exemplified by:

General analysis

 

 

 

There are P1 and P2 ratings for each person

 

 

 

 

Person A P1

Person A P2

P1/P2/P3 time %

 

 

93

7

negative ranking, 0=healthy

 

 

 

Health General

 

 

2

40

health chakra 1

 

 

0

0

health chakra 2

 

 

3

*  40

health chakra 3

 

 

20

70

health chakra 4

 

 

0

0

health chakra 5

 

 

10

*   35

health chakra 6

 

 

2

8

health chakra 7

 

 

4

10

heart

 

 

0

0

lungs

 

 

0

3

liver

 

 

10

20

kidneys

 

 

30

45

gall

 

 

5

10

gallstones

 

 

25

25

pancreas

 

 

3

7

stomach

 

 

3

8

colon

 

 

20

50

teeth

 

 

0

0

endocrine glands

 

 

10

35

sex organs

 

 

8

*   30

psyche

 

 

5

20

Libido 100=optim

 

 

40

55

sex orientat Het/Ho)

 

 

100

70

sex inhibition

 

 

10

60

acidity

 

 

30

40

allergy/food incompatib

 

90

*   0 fats

positive ranking 0=nil

 

 

 

 

spiritual resonance

 

 

40

8

social flexibility

 

 

50

110

intelligence IQ

 

 

130

120

lucidity

 

 

5

15

integrity/morality

 

 

40

90

creative talent

 

 

30

70

esp talent

 

 

0

0

musical talent

 

 

70

120

healing talent

 

 

5

20

caring talent

 

 

50

110

practical talent

 

 

60

100

green talent

 

 

5

30

teaching talent

 

 

110

250

science talent

 

 

30

60

 

Data like these are the basis of more discussion and fact finding with the person involved and usually lead to strategies or therapies (sometimes straightforward referral to the medical system of course) in order to become more aware of the P2 presence, uncovering the shadow, then accepting the dimensions and characteristics of the shadow, seeing the talent side of the shadow and liberating the hidden inner child, and finally integration of the two or at least an easy co-existence of the two sub-programs. The inner child shows itself, usually has many talents and a new person, the true self, the design, the core being, by whatever name, the rose inside is just that. There are many approaches to do this, from classic psychotherapy to complex methods involving regression, visualisation etc. In individual cases I try to find the best approaches, the most suitable therapy, sometimes very basic and allopathic (modern medicine), often involving a change of diet or physical regime, sometimes alternative and less orthodox methods. The bookstores of the New Age are full with concepts, and some work for this, others for that person, some are easily available, others are hard to find and of course there is some compromise as to budget, time, etc.

Can we change?

Schopenhauer asserted that a person’s character is unalterable, but his views have been surpassed by the work of those many psychologist that believe that one can and does change. And if a person stays the same all his life, why have churches, meditation practices, traditions anyway. So I believe a person changes and I can actually indicate a persons development through his lifetime. It usually is a slow process, again rising the awareness (or unblocking the flow) through the chakra’s. Most people never get above a number of 25 or 30, so just above the sex chakra. But with meditation, body work, (za)zen, martial arts, tantra and many other disciplines and often without any of those (just the grace of God as one says) some people reach a higher level. How high, and how close to enlightenment is a matter of interpretation and definition, I tend to see a continuing growth in awareness as one reaches more clarity and deeper levels of the inner child. Ultimately one reaches the emptiness and divine union, but what most people claim to be enlightenment is just an intermediate step.

 

The higher (subtle) bodies

In most of this essay I use the physical “health” but also the “spiritual resonance”as an indication of a person’s development. This is of course a simplification, there is a whole range of bodies of a higher and more subtle (less material) nature, like the astral, etheric, mental etc. Some, like A. Bailey and the Theosophists have meticulously outlines these structures and came up with 7 layers and subdivision, and there is a general idea about how to name them and what they mean, but different tradition use different concepts and structures. In most Eastern traditions, there is but a single subtle body. In Hinduism, Kosas or Koshas are five cases or sheaths which cover the Atman, being the Annamaya kosha, the food-body, Pranamaya kosha, the breath (prana), Manomaya kosha, or “mind-sheath” (Manas), Vijnanamaya kosha, that which discriminates, determines or wills (Vijnana) and Anandamaya kosha, or bliss (Ananda). However, the “Western” notion is that there are 7 subtle bodies.

I have used the notion of  “spiritual; resonance” in the remainder of this essay  to get some kind of  quick yardstick, but to illustrate that a more complete numerical analysis based on a multibody concept is possible, I will also give an example, using C.G. Jung, with data for the Physical body level of development, Etheric/aura/vital body , Astral or emotional Body, Mental Body and Spiritual Body (in which I kind of include atmic, buddhic and monadic). I have taken these readings from a period about 5 years before their death, as in the last period of one’s life these ratings usually go up, but are then no longer relevant in relation to the public image we have of a person. Note that the P1/P2 difference indicates how much of the “wounded child” or shadow has been worked through.

The subtle body ratings

 

 

 

 

 

 

C.G. Jung P1

C.G. Jung P2

Osho P1

Osho P2

average P1

avg person P2

Physical

75

75

50

50

70

70

Etheric/aura

160

210

190

300

20

40

Emotional/astral

80

250

90

90

20

30

Mental

140

200

110

150

50

65

Spiritual

120

140

280

16

22

10

 

C.G. Jung

To illustrate the development of the mask (P1) and the shadow (P2) I give some figures about C.G. Jung. According to my dowsing and thus not based on any bibliographical study, the following numbers indicate his development, where the P2 percentage indicates what part of the time he was in his “child/shadow”mode. The P2 clearing indicates how much of the shadow has been lifted from the pure inner child or higher self, while mastership is a quality that very few achieve and seems related to the empatic and love qualities of a person.

 

Development path spiritual resonance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

age 0

age 2

age 3

age 5

age 7

age 12

age 18

age 25

age 35

age 50

55

age 65

just before +

C.G. Jung P1

0

3

16

16

16

16

18

19

23

50

70

120

140

C.G. Jung P2

0

2

5

6

11

16

16

18

19

21

43

64

120

C.G. Jung P2 %

100

40

20

10

6

4

4

3

5

10

18

32

35

C.G. Jung clearing P2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

10

15

20

23

C.G. Jung mastership

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

4

30

50

 

Results

The results of my approach, working with friends and clients to unravel the matrix of their mind-body complex and suggesting and sometimes execute therapies that have a good chance of succeeding as indicated by the dowsing results, are sometimes very good, but there are cases were I am incapable of finding an appropriate therapy. Luckily I am not the only ‘sensitive’ around and I can refer these people to them. And of course there are my personal limits, boundaries, complexes and projections that hinder me, my ego needs deflating a lot!!

 

I will give you an example of how a client kind of evolves, and how the numbers change, if their inner child becomes free and unfettered. One could say, what are the results of the diagnostic process, the feedback and confrontation and the outcome of therapies suggested in an individual case, and of course I take an example that I deemed rather successful. The person involved went through some major transformation and we can see, that the shadow, before the therapy sessions, clearly had some physical and some physical problems. The ex post situation, when most of the barriers were lifted, shows more of the inner child, revealing that the negative shadow aspects have been lost. Of course they might come back at times, given the situation, but the progress was remarkable.

 

General analysis, talents and therapie results

There are P1 and P2 ratings for each person

 

 

P2 ante = before therapy, post = after therapie

 

name:

date:

La P1 ante

La P2ante

La P2post

P1/P2/P3 time %

 

93

7

22

negative ranking, 0=healthy

 

 

 

Health General

 

0

0

0

health chakra 1

 

0

0

0

health chakra 2

 

20

50

10

health chakra 3

 

0

0

0

health chakra 4

 

0

5

0

health chakra 5

 

10

40

10

health chakra 6

 

20

60

10

health chakra 7

 

0

0

0

heart

 

0

10

0

blood pressure

 

norm

norm

norm

lungs

 

0

0

0

liver

 

0

0

0

kidneys

 

0

10

2

gall/bile

 

20

40

10

gallstones

 

10

10

10

pancreas

 

0

0

0

sugar level

 

0

0

0

stomach

 

5

20

5

colon

 

0

0

0

skin

 

0

0

0

teeth

 

0

0

0

endocrine glands

 

5

15

5

sex organs

 

20

30

5

hormonal

 

2

6

0

auto-immune defic.

 

0

0

0

memory

 

0

0

0

psyche

 

10

40

10

depression/borderline

 

0

0

0

libido (100=ok)

 

10

60

90

sex orientat Heter/Hom

90

70

60

sex inhibition

 

5

60

0

self image damage

 

40

70

10

acidity

 

0

0

0

reuma/artritis

 

0

0

0

allergy/food incompatib

0

0

0

virus

 

0

0

0

bacteria

 

0

0

0

parasite

 

0

0

0

Talents: positive ranking 0=nil

 

 

 

spiritual resonance

 

50

16

330

social flexibility

 

40

90

110

intelligence IQ

 

130

119

119

lucidity

 

0

0

4

integrity/morality

 

30

75

92

creative talent

 

50

70

90

esp talent

 

10

20

20

musical talent

 

50

70

70

healing talent

 

80

120

170

caring talent

 

20

30

30

practical talent

 

50

70

70

green talent

 

5

10

20

teaching talent

 

20

50

60

science talent

 

20

30

35

sensual talent

 

120

170

200

writing talent

 

90

110

140

Therapies: positive ranking 0=no effect

 

 

Allopathic medicine

 

0

 

 

Homeopathy

 

0

5

10

Acidity therapy

 

0

0

0

Fasting/cleaning

 

10

20

0

supplements/vitamins

 

0

5

0

Psychotherapy

 

10

20

0

Family Constellation

 

50

80

65

Yoga

 

5

5

5

Zazen

 

60

95

100

TaiChi

 

20

40

50

Massage passive

 

50

85

95

Massage active

 

5

30

20

Shiatsu passive

 

5

10

10

Swimming

 

30

50

60

Dancing

 

20

40

50

Boating

 

30

40

40

Body work

 

20

40

40

Visualisation upper

 

40

50

10

Visualisation lower

 

40

20

10

Visualisation body

 

60

70

70

Breath work

 

30

40

40

Hypnosis

 

50

55

10

Affirmation

 

20

20

0

Voice dialogue

 

40

50

0

Expression therapy

 

60

90

100

Rituals

 

10

15

55

Sweat lodge

 

40

60

10

Spirit quest

 

20

30

20

Angel work

 

20

20

5

Brain machine

 

5

5

0

Biofeedback

 

20

30

30

Community living

 

60

100

100

sex therapy

 

20

50

10

Dark room sex

 

90

60

0

Orgy

 

40

50

5

S/M play

 

20

50

0

Psychedelic session

 

50

100

100

Psychedel. Group Rit.

10

20

0

 

The guru phenomenon and the guru list: The Guru ranking

 

There are many spiritual teachers, guru’s, holy men and women, but also a lot of imposters and bhakti-guru’s (in for the money). I have met many and interviewed many, see www.mindlift.tv or my www.youtube.com channel mindlift. Some were impressive, most had some flaws in the realms of sex, drug or money, a very few walked their talk in real life.

As I have been studying the way our psyche works, and in the paragraphs above developed a way to quantify the various dimensions and characterists of our mind and being. By dowsing, I have made a list of the spiritual people I know and have met personally, and usually interviewed for some length of time.

 

The matrix that follows contains a lot of numbers and might come across as a fairly complex way to compare people. However, as there is not easy way to describe a person, we are complex, multifaceted beings, I think that only a multifaceted approach makes sense and that even here I am limited the scope and therefore maybe overseeing important aspects like ESP, siddhi qualities, magnetism, healing capabilities etc. Some of those are indicated in the next matrix (of historical figures)

 

The basis of my approach is dwosing (pendulum). I am not starting from a clear definition of the characterists (columns) but as the rating progresses, some kind of understanding grows what for instance gurudom is, or consciousness, or openness. The interpretation thus found or assumed, is certainly mine, as dowsing is always a subjective act, but might serve others.

 

I use the concept of multiple subpersonalities, indicated as P1 and P2 (sometimes there are more subpersonalities) as above.

P1 stands for our mask, ego, outer personality, the person we believe we are and act out in normal life, but is actually a constructed defense personality that developed over time since childhood, is not totally fixed but can grow as we become more aware and can be adapted by techniques like NLP and most psychotherapeutic approaches.

P2 stands for our hidden, inner personality, sometimes called inner child. However, in most of us, this inner child is a wounded child, traumatized and damaged by our experiences, very often it ahs developed dark sides and can therefore be called our shdow. However, the shadow or lower self is just a layer over the deeper, inner self, the inner being that we started out with and usually has exceptional, if hidden qualities that we discover on our path through life.

The P2 thus is the wounded child, hidden in our psychic background, showing her/himself only in times of stress, illness, despair, love, or in dreams and in trance. That is the time that the problems of the wounded child come to the surface, as negative thoughts but also as depressions and physical illnesses.

As as it turns out most holy men/women have liberated this inner child more than average people. They “are” in their inner child mode more than average and usually have developed the inner child to a higher degree. Not all of them, you will see some surprising low numbers for some guru’s in their P2.

The numbers are obtained by dowsing and have no specific meaning, except that I found out that each chakra has a specific number, like 4 and 8 for the root chakra, 16 for the sex chakra, 43 for the hara/power/3th chakra and 60 for the heart. I noted that people have surpassed the 60 in their spiritual mode sometimes become “invisible” to those with a lower number (invisible as in being noticed or recognised).

I give numbers for the various bodies, like auric/etheric body, emotional/astral body, mental/intelligence body, the spiritual body. What they mean is nothing more than a numercal comparision, maybe I will find out a better way to relate them to other characteristics, for the moment they are subjective numerical data.

 

List of guru's

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

qualities dowsed by L. Sala

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consci

P2%

G1

G2

M1

M2

SP1

SP2

EM1

EM2

AU1

AU2

MENT1

ME2

OP1

OP2

 

 

ousness

child/

gurudom

 

mastership

 

spirituality

 

emotional

 

aura body

 

IQ

IQ

OPen

OP

 

 

 

mask

 P1

 P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

P1

P2

ness

 P2

 

Albert Hofmann

110

45

1

0

42

56

120

160

170

210

105

120

136

134

610

550

 

Alexander Smit

30

14

7

0

0

1

95

110

70

40

120

90

131

125

60

150

 

Amma

60

26

23

4

12

17

170

230

210

270

140

100

124

116

250

500

 

Andrew Cohen

40

9

40

0

3

5

110

140

140

90

100

130

124

133

60

205

 

Barry Long

20

6

9

4

1

4

120

160

120

130

90

105

126

124

40

130

 

Byron Katie

15

10

10

3

3

21

120

210

110

160

110

130

122

133

120

170

 

Dadi Janki (Brahma Kum)

40

16

32

12

8

12

140

16

120

90

150

60

133

132

110

160

 

Dalai Lama

10

7

30

14

1

2

95

105

140

110

160

90

134

118

160

140

 

David Steindl Rast

50

1

1

8

20

40

250

22

150

120

100

180

139

134

220

420

 

Deepak Chopra

5

7

60

12

1

2

110

120

180

90

100

110

137

134

210

320

 

Gangaji

5

16

20

50

6

65

125

205

220

110

105

160

126

143

120

190

 

Isaac Shapiro

10

10

20

4

14

2

95

60

70

160

102

170

129

110

280

20

 

Le Baaba Laetoli (kali baba)

4

14

40

21

3

16

110

150

110

160

110

170

126

131

110

260

 

Marahishi Mahesh Yogi tm

110

22

40

8

50

70

300

500

160

310

250

420

144

124

320

170

 

Pannikar

130

30

2

3

60

50

600

550

240

290

115

140

140

132

105

190

 

Pilot Baba

160

13

30

70

10

30

650

400

200

250

200

550

131

149

270

120

 

Ra Uru Hu (HDS)

6

21

2

0

1

4

80

140

40

70

50

25

131

128

110

130

 

Radha Burnier (Theosof)

15

12

4

6

1

3

120

140

25

105

105

140

134

136

40

20

 

Ram Dass

10

22

1

1

38

41

170

190

230

320

105

90

138

137

450

750

 

Sogyal Rinpoche

19

37

65

30

8

14

120

16

250

450

140

90

131

118

380

130

 

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

50

33

41

8

25

40

170

250

130

160

200

210

126

133

270

190

 

Suhotra Swami

60

16

9

2

12

22

170

310

100

180

160

550

136

133

230

120

 

Tim Leary

20

4

40

2

1

3

60

16

140

190

60

110

136

134

410

600

 

Ug. Krishnamurti

30

25

0

60

10

3

120

95

150

300

105

130

141

128

140

85

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The methodology and psychological concepts I use are explained in www.lucsala.nl/psyche.htm

 

If you want to know more about these teachers and other guru’s or holy men see:

http://www.angelfire.com/realm/bodhisattva/gurulist.html

http://www.globalserve.net/~sarlo/Ratings.htm

http://spiritualteachers.org/ratings.htm

 

Some data of historical people you might know of

Now this is already a lot of information and I will try to further illustrate what I mean by giving some data about programming modes and psychological characteristics of historical and spiritually important figures, obtained by divination/dowsing, hereafter indicated by P1 for dominant mode and P2 for the repressed mode. The following matrix gives an indication of how P1 and P2 manifest in them. Here SOMe other indicators are used, like social intelligence and a number of more esoteric qualities like clairvoyance, lucidity and an indicator for how right their understanding of the universe was. Again a lot of data and a very complex image, but there is a lot to learn form this matrix.

 

The Historical Personality Matrix

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consciousness

P2 (child %)

Gurudom

Gurudom

Mastership

Mastership

SN P1

SN P2

IQ  P1

IQ P2

SOCQ P1

SOCQ

Integrity

Lucidity

Lucidity

Clairvoyance

Clairv

Right view

 

 

P1+P2+P3=100

P1

P2

P1

P2

spiritiual nr

intellig

 

social quot

P2

 

P1

P2

P1

P2

of universe

Average person

0

10

0

0

0

0

22

10

100

92

75

100

35

0

0

3

5

25

Aristotle

41

47

0

5

52

20

220

130

154

148

120

140

93

140

20

40

10

88

Aurobindu

28

40

20

5

70

90

165

340

146

97

110

250

90

25

40

240

10

92

Blavatsky

37

37 (P3 15)

12

1

55

20

270

43

149

140

180

40

70

240

140

40

120

91

Buddha (Gautama)

102

60

40

0

99

100

600

1000

130

155

300

400

100

300

500

150

200

96

Giordano Bruno

55

30

20

1

20

35

220

16

145

110

95

220

98

260

0

130

0

74

Goethe

12

40

0

0

50

16

140

110

149

121

120

210

93

110

250

50

180

50

Gurdieff

60

20

10

2

12

17

110

160

142

137

200

220

15

45

145

10

20

60

Jung Carl G

19

30

5

0

20

12

140

120

145

121

160

120

60

135

300

60

370

87

Leadbetter(TS)

14

10

12

0

20

10

110

110

138

115

160

30

35

140

30

30

140

42

Leonardo da Vinci

60

65

0

0

55

40

410

220

156

95(!!)

120

130

45

260

495

60

330

95

Mohammed

90

42 (P3 18)

30

0

80

100

500

16

136

104

270

40

100/50

160

0

235

0

100/20

Osho

70

45

50

30

90

22

280

16

142

118

140

130

55

40

120

20

190

90

Ouspensky

3

28

0

0

2

0

120

30

143

111

60

10

30

45

180

3

45

70

Pacal Votan(maya)

56

50

50

30

85

30

330

130

150

129

130

40

50

330

450

40

400

94

Plato

69

38 (P3 10)

1

0

45

25

310

150

155

152

50

40

92

310

270

145

30

81

Pythagoras

19

31

0

0

20

10

310

95

152

156

60

90

94

290

120

70

140

88

Ron Hubbard

9

36 (P3 22)

30

10

20

0

140

16

142

134

55

45

70

25

190

110

210

45

St Augustin

31

47 (P3 8)

4

2

60

100

360

4

153

110

140

220

94

15

90

70

310

87

Steiner Rudolf

9

40

0

0

40

18

240

150

132

147

45

160

50

140

200

230

200

65

Tertullianus

14

3

0

0

0

0

60

16

142

110

120

50

70

130

300

15

10

92

The Mother

39

35

40

30

50

20

270

12

142

106

40

195

65

170

400

160

400

90

 

Visual models of the psyche

 

In trying to fit my notion of a psychological model in the structures given by Freud, Jung, Adler, the Atman and Brahman notions of the Upanishads while adding in my own mystical and psychedelic experiences the following models evolved. Using the tetrahedron and the pyramid forms I first start from the trinity notion:

 

Looking at a Platonic Solids (a sphere in my view is also a kind of platonic solid) we can visualise the Tetrahedron as representing the trinity, with the fourth/bottom plane as the unknowable isness of the divine. The trinity, in my view the transcendent, the immanent en the emanation/revelation aspect (Father, Sun/Creator/Holy spirit) , this can be mapped onto the planes this model, where causality is related to the prime mover (father, Brahma) , the creation/form to the son/Shiva and the parallel awareness in the moment as Vishnu.

 

If we have three fundamental aspects of ultimate or at least deep reality, being causality (time related), parallelism (synchronicity, I Ching, not time related) and form, then there is a unifying principle that connect these, which resembles the notion of the Tao, the isness (of creation), the connecting all. But the Tao is kind of invisible and unknowable, we can only indicate what is not the Tao. Causality is very western, scientific, everything has a cause, and synchronicity is mysticism, magic, I Ching, the parallel and timeless connections. Form is what is perceived as the correlation and correspondences. Isness is Tao is meditation on the absolute, maybe Kant-like contemplation of what is.

Now we humans cannot really observe these three aspects except through our psyche, which is a kind of lens allowing us to see, but we cannot perceive the tao (the bottom plane) only construct the virtual image of what the Tao really is. Whatever we see, is filtered through the lens of the psyche, both the outer and the inner perception. This model is easily visualised and solves fundamental problems like the Jung/Buber schism about the ability to know God. Jung accepts no God outside the psychical lens, Buber looks beyond that, a somewhat similar schism as Shankara introduced in Hinduism concerning the nature of the divinity of the higher self. It also brings together the world views of the East and the West.

One could, with a slightly different perspective, through the lens of psychological perception also look at the three aspects as the sexual (Freud) creation/time, the instinctive (form, self preservation, power to survive) (Adler) and the social/correlation (Jung).

 

Magical pyramid

There are, however, more dimensions and if we go from 3 to 4 to 5, towards the multiplicity, we can use the pyramid as a visual model, if we include the truth/love aspect of the divine. I made a magic pyramid (half of the Platonic Octahaedron) to illustrate the relationship and the polarities we have in the Western and Eastern model of reality. The ribs are interesting connections between the various planes, look at the illustration.

 

Some background:

 

The Shadow, that side of which we and others regard with fear and distain, is in fact none other than our own divine inner child, suppressed and showing itself in a distorted way, like pushing itself through a very narrow opening. It is less a part of the True Self that you were forced to split off, it is the True Self in a distorted mirror.

Wikipedia: “One of Carl Gustav Jung's (1875-1961) most compelling ideas is the shadow. Jung describes the shadow as those aspects of ourselves that we're not too proud of. The shadow might be a desire or behaviour frowned on by our peers. It could be an unusual or unhealthy inclination. Because the shadow involves known and unknown aspects of the self, it relates to the ego, the unconscious and the external environment. Our conscious mind, the ego, may or may not confront the mostly unconscious shadow. Once confronted by the ego the shadow may be integrated into consciousness. But for the most part, the shadow lies beyond the threshold of everyday awareness. Jung explains the shadow with his notion of the archetypes.” “Jung stresses the importance of representing shadow material so that its inherent darkness may be brought to light. Through representation the ego integrates rather than represses unpleasant unconscious impulses. When merely repressed the shadow tends to find a way through the cracks of the psyche and express itself in a disturbing manner.” Jung accordingly says the shadow must be confronted. When merely repressed the shadow may become unruly like a dragon thrashing about in a dungeon. If not sublimated, the sheer force of rage could break free of its chains and do not only psychological but perhaps physical harm to self and others.” For Jung concepts like Shadow, Ego, Self are archetypical.

 

 

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

Terence McKenna

 

 

Inner child is a concept used in popular psychology and psychotherapy to indicate the childlike aspect of a person's psyche, especially when viewed as an independent entity. Carl Jung referred to a similar concept as the 'Divine Child.' Emmet Fox called it the 'Wonder Child.' Charles Whitfield dubbed it the 'Child Within.' Some psychotherapists call it the 'True Self.' Or the Higher Self

Frequently, the term is used to address subjective childhood experiences and the remaining effects of one's childhood. It originates from the book I'm OK, You're OK by Thomas Anthony Harris, and is based on the ideas of Eric Berne (Games People Play). The concept has become quite popular and is used in many self help books, novels and movies. John Elliot Bradshaw has popularized ideas as the "wounded inner child" and the dysfunctional family.

 

The importance of the healing of the inner child is widely accepted and various methods like inner dialogue and voice dialogue are developed, but there are many approaches, like Hellinger’s Family Constellation work. They are important and useful, even as they fail to recognize the relationship between P1 and P2 as outlined above.

 

The wetstones

A wetstone is used to sharpen a knife and I will use the term to compare my theory and postulates with some other approaches, like Zen-meditation, mysticism, classical psychotherapy etc.

 

Wetstone: Upanishads

The classic Vedic and Hindu texts are full of stories and advice about how to reach the Self. The Self is identified as the deepest layer, not of the mind, but of what we really are, the eternal core of our being. This deep Self goes beyond the notion of the inner child, it is the divine spark and thus the level where we connect with the All, Brahma, with everything. The Upanishads mention self control and detachment from the material world as paths to reach this inner Self.

Wetstone Zen

Zen is all about liberating the Self. Not the self as the western notion of the ego or the I, but indeed as the shadow that keeps us from perceiving the deep and ultimate reality. Now Zen, in it’s Zazen (sitting meditation) and Sazen (koan) forms, is all about concentration, calming the mind, unjoining thought associations, emptying the mind, letting go of any judgment, in fact stop thinking. The essence of the higher self, when cleared from all debris, is empty and that realization is called satori. One could call that enlightenment, but that has become a hollow phrase, for does it mean the final release, the final union, or are there gradations, stages in enlightenment, as T.D. Suzuki stated.

In my view Zen is indeed a practical way to liberate the shadow, clear the inner child and reach the emptiness and therefore ultimate connection with the all. But it is a very mind-oriented approach, calming the mind is the way and to me this only represents one of the 7 chakra’s and thus one of the many ways to reach that higher self. Zen is the way of the brainerds, the ones focused on the intellect, the mind. So it is a legitimate path, with the theory here developed, but it’s not the only one.

 

Wetstone Theosophy

Theosophist do agree that we have an outer layer, a personality that is false and covers the deeper, essential core. As most of the theosophical notions are based on the Eastern understanding of our psyche, but  with a great deal of detail, like in the very detailed levels and rays of Alice Bailey’s work, the basic idea of seeking the true or higher self as hidden behind a false and shifting ego.  According to H.P.Blavatsky the Perrenial Wisdom shows us that:: "In a world of illusion in which the law of evolution operates, nothing could be more natural than that the ideals of Man - as a unit of the total, or mankind - should be for ever shifting. A part of the nature around him, that Protean, ever changing Nature, every particle of which is incessantly transformed while the harmonious body remains as a whole ever the same, like these particles man is continually changing physically, intellectually, morally, spiritually. At one time he is at the topmost point of the circle of development; at another at the lowest. And as he thus alternately rises and sinks, and his moral nature responsively expands or contracts, so will his moral code at one time embody the noblest altruistic and aspirational ideals, while at the other, the ruling conscience will be but the reflection of selfishness, brutality and faithlessness. But this however is so only on the external, illusionary plane. In their internal or rather essential constitution, both nature and man are at one as their essence is identical. All grows and develops and strives towards perfection on the former plains of externality, almost imperceptibly, but as surely as the Universe of stars and worlds moves towards a mysterious point known to, yet still unnamed by astronomy and called by the Occultists - the central Spiritual Sun. ( HPB Collected Wrings vol XII p.45)

 

Wetstone: Classical Psychotherapy (Freud/Adler)

Sigmund Freud (in 1917 in Vorlesungen) “The Self is by no means the master of its own house”. A person’s actions are determined not by the self the self thinks exists, but by the unconscious mind deep within. Human consciousness has, according to Freud a three layered structure consisting of, preconscious, conscious and subconscious. Nowadays consciousness in this way is sometimes called surface consciousness, unconsciousness is called subconsciousness. (superego, ego and id).

Ego and superego

The notion of ego, as in the Freudian approach, is the mask, the personality we identify ourself with. It has clear functions, as it deals with the outside world, and helps us to achive (worldly) goals, helps us to make choices, to balance our inner world emotions, and allows us to act autonomously and responsibly. It is social to some degree as we know that to be sensible and at the same time, selfish and egoistic.

The superego (Freudian) is like a nutshell around the ego, the “Thou shall (not)” authority. It is the internal voice of our parents, the power and dogmatic system inside us.

 

Wetstone: Enneagram

The Enneagram is an introspective tool, a way to look at oneself and others, it is a psychodynamic model of nine. This system of understanding personality is now widely known, but is relatively young. Gurdieff used parts of it, maybe understood more than he gave out, but it was Ichazo and his students like Naranjo who brought this model of personality to the western world. Its roots are unclear, Ichazo mentioned Chaldean imagery, Gurdieff Sufi inspirations, but it sure has reached the pop-psychology and new age community. Naranjo contributed to the personality descriptions and correlated Freudian defense mechanisms to each of the nine types, but many others have made correlations to e.g. Jung’s personality types, resulting in the Myers-Briggs typology, there are astrological correlations etc.

The basic idea of the enneagram is that "everyone was born in their essence but chose an ego fixation around age three or four". In an effort to defend against parental fixations, the child supposedly develops a neurotic habit that characterizes the Chief Feature of acquired personality. This neurotic habit obscures the child's essence, which is otherwise pure and unadulterated, evincing no conflicts of thought, emotion, or instinct. Psychotherapist Margaret Frings Keyes treats of the ennea-types as programs, or life scripts. She suggests that the Enneagram allows inference of "nine distinctly different versions of Jung's notion of the Shadow archetype".Consistent with this shadow quality, a single "passion" is posited for each ennea-type in consonance with its neurotic fixation. These passions are construed in terms of the seven deadly sins of Christianity, deceit and fear completing the picture.

 

I am trying to see whether the mask-shadow model and the enneagram kind of help each other. I see the normal enneagram type as the mask/ego personality and found out that the inner child/core self has quite a different type, but what is the relationship between the two? It's, I am sure, not the arrow model of Ichazo, nor the somewhat obscure subtype notion, but what is it? Can identifying the mask personality fixation or type help to establish the inner child or core design? Is there a systematic relationship, or in other words, is there a relationship between the trauma’s and neurotic experiences the inner child picks from a usually abundant range of experiences and the core essence, the self and our path in discovering that?

The wounded child/shadow does have a relationship to the enneagram, because it developed the dark aspects as a defense to the same events that made the enneagram type/personality.

Another issue is the relationship between breath and enneagram type, that is I believe the core of the enneagram model, I feel, but neither Ichazo, Naranjo, Riso has ever mentioned that connection or done research into the change in type due to to physical accidents, forcing a change in breath pattern. Anyone with some understanding of yoga and its notion of breath as the most important bodily function can understand this. And why have monasteries, the military, and countless esoteric schools relied on chanting, singing, exercition, and such to bring their subject into (a breath) line?

Wetstone: Human Design System

There are approaches that help understand the difference between mask and child. Astrology offers the tools, but is only for specialists. The Human Design system of Ra Uru Hu (www.jovianarchive.com ) is a better approach. It uses I Ching astrology to clearly differentiate between the design (self) and the personality in an interesting way. In fact nowhere there is this clear indication and separation of the tow. HDS claims that the inner child characteristics are related to a date 3 months before the actual birth and comes up with an interesting graph indicating 9 chakra’s and how the planets influence those chakra’s. There is the design influence and the personality influence and they relate to the inner child and mask used in the model in this essay. No other system makes this so clear and at the same time helps one to differentiate between the two. HDS clearly helps to see the inner child qualities/focus, but not the link between the inner child/self and the mask. The HDS chart here shows how astrological data are translated via the I-Ching hexagrams into chakra energies.

 

 

 

Under construction:

Wetstone: Jung’s understanding, the shadow

Wetstone: Mysticism

Wetstone: Kant’s Verstand-Vernunft: there is no bridge between Theology and Science/Philosophy

Wetstone: the transpersonal psychology

Wetstone: existential therapies

Wetstone: the great traditions, Vedic/Buddhism

Wetstone: astrology

 

I will end with a message that appeared on my email and it quite an encouragement to engage in this struggle with our shadow.

 

 

 

This is a work in progress, more to follow

Luc Sala. Amsterdam, 2007-08-26

 

sala@dealerinfo.nl

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