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- traincat
“Train on cats,” says Fool in Leonid Gaidai’s “Operation Y,” and his bumbling crew mirrors leaders who fight adversity by force or surveillance.
- mass consumerism and excessive overconsumption
Consumerism defined as an obsession with buying material goods becomes, for Brown and Vergragt, an engine of unsustainability.
- myths and constitutional types
Each of us blends endo softness, meso firmness and ecto fragility, moving toward, against and away from people.
- triune task insight courage endurance
Jung saw the work of becoming an evolved human in three parts: insight from psychology, then the moral qualities of courage and endurance.
- number three
- astrological triplicities
A plan can be sparked by a Cardinal sign, built by a Fixed sign and perfected by the critical eye of a Mutable sign.
- bowlby attachment styles
The work of John Bowlby and Ainsworth broadly led to three types of attachment: secure, insecure-ambivalent and insecure-avoidant.
- horney home bases
Karen Horney’s three home bases, moving toward, against and away from others, are our basic neurotic strategies for relating and conflict.
- complex man in hamlet
Hamlet knows too much to be simple but not enough to be whole: he sees the fourness of life with only three of its parts functioning.
- east west concepts of evil
Where the West sets a devil beside its Trinity, India sets Krishna, a happy adolescent with sixteen thousand wives.
- going to the place of the Mothers
To leave three-dimensional consciousness, go to the depths, the place of the Mothers, and place the key in the tripod.
- there are now three in the study
The poodle makes three in the study, a far more powerful combination than two, bringing the energy and paradox that redemption needs.
- three levels of masculine consciousness
The simple man comes home wondering what’s for dinner, the complex man ponders fate, and the enlightened man wonders what’s for dinner.
- three levels system in society
India’s caste system keeps the large majority in simple consciousness and has overall avoided the mass neurosis of Western societies.
- tripod and the evolution of three to four
Adding the neglected fourth to the three, the shadow to the Trinity of modern consciousness, brings a person or a culture to wholeness.
- human capacity for self-detachment
Viktor Frankl finds the uniquely human capacity for self-detachment in two places: heroism, as in the concentration camps, and humor.
- Man's Search for Meaning (1946)
Human freedom is no freedom from conditions but freedom to take a stand on whatever conditions confront us, Viktor Frankl argues.