Roy:
Thanks for your observations about Human Dynamics, a group whose name may
have crossed my desk but with whom I have no familiarity. One idea of
theirs which you mentioned certainly made me smile:
"Human Dynamics has concluded that there are three dimensions to all of
us, which are the mental , emotional, and physical."
My smile comes from your particular choice of the verb "has concluded".
Their conclusion, as you assuredly know, may be a couple of thousand years
old at least. The great spiritual paths for humanity have identified
these 3 centers translated almost precisely that way, although I prefer
emotional, intellectual and physical--same thing.
"Deep capacity" is the renaming of long-existing concepts about the
balance of these 3 "centers". Those who suggest this mental model believe
that in our lives we are in a state of imbalance, that bringing the 3
"centers" (a non-linear concept, no? one entity with 3 centers!) into
harmony or balance is a goal on the Path or a result of conscious work.
The couple who administered the MBTI to my group stated that statistics
tend to demonstrate that as one grows older, the MBTI raw scores move
"toward the center" of the scoring sheet we received with our profiles.
Hmmm.
Maybe when we grow old, approach physical death, and near the threshold of
light so uncannily described in Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich, we have a
greater chance to be centered. And maybe this is an irony of this
physical life; that approaching physical death, we sense what Ben Okri
called "the highest things...beyond words", "...Like a smile, which
someone described as the shortest distance between two people". Words
fail the test of describing the balance of the 3 centers, because words
are really the children of only one aspect of our tri-partite
manifestation.
Rumi wrote this about us:
In complete control, pretending control,
with dignified authority, we are charlatans.
Or maybe just a goat's hair brush in a painter's hand.
We have no idea what we are.
Best regards,
-- Barry Mallis bmallis@markem.comLearning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>