Colossians

Part 5

Paul’s Transformation Model

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John 14:6 (KJV)

⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Acts 9:2 (KJV)

² And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

Acts 18:25–26 (KJV)

²⁵ This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.

²⁶ And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.

Acts 19:9 (KJV)

⁹ But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

Acts 19:23 (KJV)

²³ And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.

Acts 22:4 (KJV)

⁴ And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

Acts 24:14 (KJV)

¹⁴ But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

Acts 24:22 (KJV)

²² And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.

“I AM THE WAY”

Matthew 22:35–40 (KJV)

³⁵ Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

³⁶ Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

³⁷ Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

³⁸ This is the first and great commandment.

³⁹ And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

1 Corinthians 13:1 (KJV)

¹ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Colossians 3:14 (KJV)

¹⁴ And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Romans 13:8–10 (KJV)

⁸ Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

⁹ For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

¹⁰ Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

1 Timothy 1:5–6 (KJV)

⁵ Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

⁶ From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

1 Peter 4:8 (KJV)

⁸ And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

1 Corinthians 13:13 (KJV)

¹³ And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

“Above all…”

Colossians 1:9 (KJV)

⁹ For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Colossians 1:28 (KJV)

²⁸ Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

Colossians 2:8 (KJV)

⁸ Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Colossians 2:21–23 (KJV)

²¹ (Touch not; taste not; handle not;

²² Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

²³ Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

Versus

The lower consciousness mind cannot perceive or discern the difference between genuine wisdom and fake wisdom.

There is no subjective qualia by which the differences can be ascertained.

Thus, each point of growth is a potential point of a meaningless side quest or disorientation.

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Genuine and fake wisdom both involve diminishing the limbic urges and impulses of the human hardware frame.

Wisdom Fake Wisdom

Masochistic Piety

Proverbs 8:12–20 (KJV)

¹² I wisdom dwell with prudence, And find out knowledge of witty inventions.

¹³ The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the froward mouth, do I hate.

¹⁴ Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

¹⁵ By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.

¹⁶ By me princes rule, And nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

¹⁷ I love them that love me; And those that seek me early shall find me.

¹⁸ Riches and honour are with me; Yea, durable riches and righteousness.

¹⁹ My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.

²⁰ I lead in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of judgment:

Life 🡪 Death 🡪 Resurrection

Order 🡪 disorder 🡪 reorder

Effort 🡪 failure 🡪 success

Live 🡪 death 🡪 life

Upward movement 🡪 humiliation 🡪 exaltation

Structure 🡪 chaos 🡪 restructure

Harmony 🡪 turbulence 🡪 harmonize

Organization 🡪 disarray 🡪 reorganize

System 🡪 anarchy 🡪 resystemize

Arrangement 🡪 confusion 🡪 rearrange

Method 🡪 disruption 🡪 Retool

Cohesion 🡪 disintegration 🡪 recollect

Design 🡪 entropy 🡪 redesign

Symmetry 🡪 turmoil 🡪 resymmetrize

Pattern 🡪 mayhem 🡪 repattern

1 Corinthians 1:22–31 (KJV)

²² For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

²³ But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

²⁴ But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

²⁵ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

²⁶ For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

²⁷ But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

²⁸ And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

²⁹ That no flesh should glory in his presence.

³⁰ But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

³¹ That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 4:6–18 (KJV)

⁶ For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

⁸ We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

⁹ Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

¹⁰ Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

¹¹ For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

¹² So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

¹³ We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;

¹⁴ Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

¹⁵ For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

¹⁶ For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

¹⁷ For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

¹⁸ While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

• While this may seem counterintuitive, a person becoming their future self is often less looking ahead, and more of the future version of you pulling you to become them.
• Both emergence and emanations symbiotically share roles in becoming.
• Emergence = bottom up
• Emanations = top down
• “The future self is an inexhaustible resource of identity construction.” – Zach Stein

On HOPE

Love

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The Affordance of Choice.

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That which enables Choice.

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“Love is that which enables choice. Love is always stronger than fear. Always choose on the basis of love.”

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- Forrest Landry

Things that seem loving, but can result in the narrowing of choice.

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• Compassion
• Empathy
• Desire
• Affection
• Attachment

Things that seem loving, but can result in the narrowing of choice.

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• Compassion
• Empathy
• Desire
• Affection
• Attachment

Oedipus Complex

& failure to launch

DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT/TIME

Participation

Hope’

Faith

Prerequisite for….

Cultivation

Of

Wisdom

Start Here

Truth is dynamically situating the self for optimal participation with the flow of reality.

Hope

Hope brings something from the eternal/transcendent into the temporal/immanent

Love is Action – 1 John 3:18

Faith is Action – Hebrews 11:7

Love is Relational – John 13:34-35; 1 John 3-4; 1 Cor. 13:4-7; Rom. 13:8-10; 2 Th. 1:3-4

Faith is Relational – 1 Cor. 4:1; James 2:14-17; Philemon 1:5-6; Rom. 12:3-5; 1 Tim. 5:8

Initial phase of LOVE: DESIRE to enable/afford choice.

Mature phase of LOVE: CAPACITY to enable/afford choice.

(sagacity and learned ignorance)

DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT/TIME

Participation

Hope’

Faith

Prerequisite for….

Cultivation

Of

Wisdom

Hope

Hope brings something from the eternal/transcendent into the temporal/immanent

We are going to simply turn this diagram on its side and use it as a map of maturation.

We are going to simply turn this diagram on its side and use it as a map of maturation.

1 Corinthians

Audience:

We want the wisdom!

Paul:

No. Your factionalism shows that you don’t even have the relationality and actions (faith/fidelity and love) that are required as necessary pre-conditions of wisdom cultivation.

Paul’s Prescription:

Pave the way toward CHARITY

(1 Cor. 13)

Shaping Operation to Later Cultivate

Wisdom

The Colossians are already at this “Love as Capacity” waypoint. The Corinthians are not there yet.

Romans 13:8–11 (KJV)

⁸ Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

⁹ For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

¹⁰ Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

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¹¹ And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Ephesians 1:4 (KJV)

⁴ According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Ephesians 2:10 (KJV)

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 3:16–19 (KJV)

¹⁶ That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

¹⁷ That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

¹⁸ May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

¹⁹ And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Ephesians 4:1–2 (KJV)

¹ I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

² With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Ephesians 4:15–16 (KJV)

¹⁵ But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

¹⁶ From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Ephesians 5:2 (KJV)

² And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Ephesians 5:14 (KJV)

¹⁴ Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

Colossians 1:9–12 (KJV)

⁹ For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

¹⁰ That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

¹¹ Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

¹² Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

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The Ephesians seem to be at a similar place as the Colossians between love and wisdom.

Eph. 1:15

Ephesians 3:14–4:1 (KJV)

¹⁴ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁵ Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

¹⁶ That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

¹⁷ That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

¹⁸ May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

¹⁹ And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

²⁰ Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

²¹ Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

¹ I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Faith (w/ love as intention)

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Tribulations

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Patience

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Experience

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Hope

↓

Love as Capacity

↓

Awaken

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Wisdom Cultivation

Faith = embodiment of fidelity, trust, reliability. Has love as a motivation and intention built into it.

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Faith as fact-affirmation is having mode.

Genuinely embodied faith is being mode.

Wake Up

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Grow Up

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Clean Up

↓

Show Up

Faith (w/ love as intention)

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Envision, Relate, Act, Choose

Faith (w/ love as intention)

↓

Tribulations

↓

Patience

↓

Experience

↓

Hope

↓

Love as Capacity

↓

Awaken

↓

Wisdom Cultivation

Wake Up

↓

Grow Up

↓

Clean Up

↓

Show Up

Faith (w/ love as intention)

↓

…

Envision, Relate, Act, Choose

Level of Development

Corinthians

Colossians

Ephesians

Romans

Integral Theory

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• Wake Up

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• 🡪 Grow UP

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• 🡪 🡪 Clean Up

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🡪 🡪 🡪 🡪 Show Up

Awareness

Perspective taking, emotional capacity, moral understanding, love, compassion, empathy

The genuine “you” is present in the word with agency and effectiveness

Ephesians 5:14 (KJV)

¹⁴ Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

Ephesians 4:15 (KJV)

¹⁵ But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

2 Corinthians 7:1 (KJV)

¹ Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Colossians 1:10 (KJV)

¹⁰ That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; (Eph. 4:1;m 1 Thess. 2:12)

Integrating the Shadow, discarding ideological & Identity trappings

AFTER LIFE

Typical View of Western Christians

Set your mind on things above…

Set your mind on things above…

Set your mind on things above…

Revised ‘Fractal’ Mindset

TRANSFORMED

SELF

TRANSFORMED

SELF

Romans 12:1–2 (KJV)

¹ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

² And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Ephesians 1:16–23 (KJV)

¹⁶ Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

¹⁷ That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

¹⁸ The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

¹⁹ And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

²⁰ Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

²¹ Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

²² And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

²³ Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Colossians 1:9–13 (KJV)

⁹ For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

¹⁰ That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

¹¹ Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

¹² Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

¹³ Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Colossians 1:9–16 (KJV)

⁹ For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

¹⁰ That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

¹¹ Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

¹² Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

¹³ Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

¹⁴ In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

¹⁵ Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

¹⁶ For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Ephesians 3:14–21 (KJV)

¹⁴ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁵ Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

¹⁶ That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

¹⁷ That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

¹⁸ May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

¹⁹ And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

²⁰ Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

²¹ Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Colossians 2:1–4 (KJV)

¹ For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

² That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

³ In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

⁴ And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

Triad of Growth and Transformation

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• Consciousness
• Capacity
• Fluency

Triad of Growth and Transformation

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• Consciousness (wake up – Eph. 5:14; Rom. 13:11-12)
• Grow up
• Clean up
• Capacity (Show up – prove…will of God)
• Fluency – Understand Trajectory and scaffolding of Growth

Problem Solving:

System or Surface

Symptom or Root Cause(s)

Understanding:

Science

Intuition

Reason

Imagination

4 Kinds of Knowing

• Propositional
• Procedural
• Perspectival
• Participatory

4-E Cognition

• Embodied
• Embedded
• Extended
• Enacted
• Emotional
• Exapted
• Ecological

Ego-Attachments

Big 5 Personality:

Openness

Conscientiousness

Extroversion

Agreeableness

Neuroticism

Openness

Conscientiousness

Extroversion

Agreeableness

Neuroticism

Salience Landscaping

Relevance Realization

“Attending”

Predictive Processing

Parasitic Processing

Meaning

• Purpose
• Coherence
• Significance
• Mattering

Moral Foundations

1. Care Harm
2. Liberty-Oppression
3. Fairness-Cheating
4. Loyalty-Betrayal
5. Authority-Subversion
6. Sanctity-Degradation

Bonded Triads

Vision

Strategy

Culture

Multiple Intelligences

- Cognitive

- Emotional/Affective

- Moral

- Ethical

- Aesthetic

- Spiritual

- Social

- Bodily

- Kinesthetic

- Spatial

- Musical

- Logical-mathematical

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These are relatively independent in how they grow and develop. Any one of these intelligences can independently wind up at a different stage.

Hemisphere

- Left

- Right

Timing

Sagacity

Kaleidoscopic consciousness

Rivalry

Antagonism

In-group

Out-group

Integral Theory

Spiral Dynamics

Locus of Authority

Ideological Filters,

Narrowness

(no evolution, KJVO)

Certainty�Uncertainty

Acceptance of How Things Are

Cynicism

Naivete

Trauma:

Engagement

Protection

Orientation Toward Base Reality (not ideology) and appropriate interactions.

Modality:

• Having
• Being

Orientation

• Sacred
• Profane

Profane. Bringing one arena inappropriately into another.

Epistemology

Narratives

IDM:

Immanent

Omniscient

Transcendent

Categorical vs. Charitable

CAPACITY

CONSCIOUSNESS

FLUENCY

Superordinate

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Imposters

None

None

None

None

None

None

None

None

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