Reality-centred Interaction

Basics

Prosperity is one essential element in the complex spiritual system that is social life. For some people, simply observing that system with all its wonders is enough. They seek to make a living by communicating what they see and offering positive encouragement to others: Just open your eyes—it’s very simple!

Here are the recommendations for handling interactions, given their intrinsic multi-layered complexity:

• Penetrate to the essence
• Recognize driving forces
• Make accurate predictions
• Ignore ego and be impersonal
• Pursue growth of consciousness
• View acceptance of spirituality as pragmatic
• Take a global view
• Unify disparate but related entities

This is not a common mentality. Still, try to think of people you know who might exemplify the category. In doing so, remember that it is the overall pattern that counts—not any particular item.

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Recognize the forces driving individuals and society.

• Accept the impersonality of the universe.
• Activate imagination to inter-relate past, present, and future.
• Make accurate predictions of known situations.

Identify the simplicity that underlies complexity.

• Penetrate to the essence of any matter.
• The words of the wise are few: be lucid, precise and brief.
• Unify disparate entities, ideas, and individuals.

Become highly-focused and aware of inner & outer reality.

• Focus to increase clarity; concentrate to release creativity.
• Use imagination, intuition, ideas and technology.
• Proclaim perennial truths and immutable laws of human
  nature and social life.

View growth of awareness as the foundation for progress.

• Be an influence for the good.
• Develop a pragmatic version of spirituality.
• Value practical, emotional, and intellectual functioning.
• See yourself as part of an all-inclusive, conscious spiritual entity
  serving each and all.
  

Find a grand unification.

• Recognize systems and respect system identity.
• Recognize everything is inter-connected.
• Take a universal perspective and be comprehensively inclusive.
• Seek to harness and release synergies.
  

Perceive multiple levels of interaction and multiple dimensions.

• Anything may be significant, especially if unexpected.
• Promote prompt action, effective timing, and patience.
• Blend and develop a disparate group of strong, willing individuals.
• Go with the flow.

Review

Most sensible people want to see things in terms of themselves and of their interests, or at least in terms of what they are used to and what everybody else agrees is the case.

So:

• Don't these observations seem to be irrational or even mad?
• No-one knows the future: so why listen to impossible untestable predictions?
• What's good about telling an unfeeling and disruptive truth?
• Why attack society by ignoring convention and decrying normal hypocrisy?

It would probably be far simpler if everyone cultivated their own garden, worked hard and contributed indirectly to the well-being and prosperity of all.  The challenge is how to do this in a way that suits your nature.

Get a Deeper Feel

This rather simple Typology has many useful applications. So it is well worth the effort to get to grips with it.

• For an overview, see a Matrix comparing the Approaches.
• See FAQ's covering common objections and misunderstandings.
• Work out «What Words Mean …» when interpreted from within the various mentalities.
• See some immediate, easy, and useful applications.

Originally posted: July 2009