Another magic number.
The Four Temperaments are determinate in driving much of the characteristics of human behavior. They are: Choleric / Melancholic, Sanguine / Phlegmatic. (Some images of these characteristics and qualities can be found in Rudolf Steiner’s work.) These characteristics shape the personality. I suspect they are embedded in the neural matrix of the brain inherited from the past.
“The two streams in the human being combine to produce what is commonly known as a person’s temperament. Our inner self and our inherited traits co-mingle in it. Temperament is an intermediary between what connects us to an ancestral line and what we bring with us…. Temperament strikes a balance between the eternal and the ephemeral.”
–Rudolf Steiner
In order to explore and discover the overall characterization of the Global species we would need to gather a male and a female in an assembly of four archetypes. Then, I would choose eight languages and eight different cultures to arrive at a semblance of a representative universal group, composed of 64 individualities.
The next choice would have to do with levels of development, setting up a criteria such as the ‘model’ archetypes of each culture, including the best and worst of each archetype. It might include an arbitrary ideal and otherwise.
I would call for a “CQ” quotient which would include multidimensional awareness and “IQ” to determine levels of awareness in the well “educated” and the “un-educated”; keeping in mind there are many intelligent uneducated and aware people, levels of skill, function and employment, and a measure of both the uneducated and ignorant in both circumstance and capacity. Other factors must find their place, in particular the intensity of religious devotion and belief vs rational thinking and open minded objectivity. Cultural archetypes such as heroes and villains, and the factor of cruelty so often found in leadership.
In essence, it is a measure of the ideal world vs the real world. To set a boundary of acceptance of their existence and their place or ‘rank’ in the populations of their societies hierarchy. This would lead to the protective control of breeding of healthy children and functional adults.
Knowing and dialoguing about this last evaluation is incredibly contentious and difficult. I will set it aside until the character of the experiment is better informed so that decisions of what to measure and how to manage these more difficult things can be better understood, more informed, and decisions based on knowledge, motive, and objectives relevant to our survival can be determined.
We have to set aside ‘individuality’ as an ego focus of desire for now. We would have to return to this aspect, character, and dimension in its influence when we know more and are more settled in our task.
We have already acknowledged the factor of their ages. Tangential ideas emerge as they should, and be investigated further or held back, with further revelation and understanding. Things such as, “What happens in the functional consciousness of a seven year old who has been subjected to the brainwash process of belief?” This is just one of thousands of questions needed to be formulated. Another is “What is going on in their senses, their ‘reality’, in the arrival of sexual stimuli and maturity? How does this relate to breeding vs sexual awareness, management and development? Can neural chemistry be managed?”
We would assemble relevant questions into a matrix of behaviors relative to each archetype and its relational consciousness. We could then build a more relevant vision based on knowledge, insight, and process that would better provide for rational adult behavior. It would also point to deficits and pathologies, their prevention and containment. Training leaders to be conscious about the survival of our species, for example.
I’m unable to own what I have been prying open in this imagination in discovery, synthesis and consciousness. It feels overwhelming and frankly, dangerous. It’s kind of like providing a sociopath with a gun. The ‘Gun” being to reveal basic functions and vulnerabilities that could be exploited by those clever ones who could use it to harm, rather than construct, a positive directive for collective living. Tyrants, zealots and pathological monsters have always exploited vulnerabilities for their exclusive pathological agendas.
It seems like one of the first goals should be to understand and manage choleric and sanguine pathological narcissism that seems to accompany the archetype labeled “leader”. This is one of the least understood social manifestations throughout human existence. It may be more of a problem of acceptance and trust.
I feel like I have fallen into a dark endless sea and cannot see any boundaries. I seem to get hints of an island, which would be a comprehensive view of these imaginations. All I can do is to continue swimming and seeking as best I can, discovering the path bit-by-bit.
I feel overwhelmed and doubtful about commitment to this, but in order to hold on to integrity of this discovery process, I have to persist.
It is clear that the boundaries are far-and-away limitless, but this is the only way I know to explore the unknown. I may never reach the shore. All I can do is continue swimming regardless of outcome and/or the limits of my will.
We currently have thought and idea discoveries, provocative questions seeking answers, of a survival mechanism in which dreaming is carried out to cope with what is so obvious about the jeopardy of life in our time; visible in the rational measure of doubt in humanity’s capacity and will to survive very much longer.
One of the down sides of successful provision and comfort is the burial in self importance and the departure from Nature’s relevance.
The perspective of both time and space is lost in self indulgence.