Review: Quests in Practice
The various factors associated with the practical pursuit of are summarized in this Matrix. Click on the to review practical issues in more detail.
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| RH'L | Primal Quest | Happiness Unhappiness |
Challenge | Means | Necessity → Temptation |
Social Aspects | Problem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Oneness, blessing v Dark night of the soul. |
The divine is concealed amidst distracting profane, dualistic perceptions. |
Intensification of experience (e.g. via prayer, ecstatic practices, effortless knowing). |
Heightened imagination → loss of touch with mundane reality. |
Depends on how manifested, and cultural values. | Handling dualities and practicalities that are part of living. | |
| 6 | Comfort in the certainty of doing right v Conflicting duties, meaninglessness. |
Subjugation of personal desires, views and preferences. |
Meticulous observance of regulations, rituals, rules, customs and personal vows. |
Abdication of self → loss of integrity and responsibility. |
Valued by organs of law & order: police, military, official religion, government bureaucracy. |
Reconciling conflicting duties. | |
| 5 | Freedom and release v Self-doubt or an inner block. |
«Rightness» including technical virtuosity. |
Becoming a vehicle for transcendental forces. |
Absorptive state or frenzy → neglect of self and family. |
Attraction to the new—or shock of the new. |
Egotism and the mundane requirements of daily life. | |
| 4 | Experience of rescuing v Helplessness &/or hopelessness in the face of suffering. |
Human imperfection, especially man's inhumanity to man. |
Relevant expertise to heal, care, cure, educate, protect and strengthen where needed. |
Rescue fantasies → grandiosity, waste of resources. |
Unqualified respect and admiration. | Appraising dangers and recognizing resource constraints. | |
| 3 | Liberation from illusions v Ignorance, blindness. |
Knowing yourself utterly. |
Reflective meditative conclusions that demand change in oneself &/or others. |
Self-belief → arrogance, superiority. |
Illumination with gratitude, or rejection with scorn. | Social resistance leads to attenuation, distortion or rejection. | |
| 2 | Making a difference v Ambivalence and confusion. |
Understanding and relating to others. |
Exploration, investigation, dialogue and finding information that persuades others. |
Narrow focus → over-involvement, bias, blinkers. |
Support and encouragement, subject to working through issues. | Finding a course of action that is feasible, beneficial and personally acceptable. | |
| 1 | Sensual gratification v Misery and boredom. |
Endurance of illness, loss, accidents, ageing and death. |
Control of a willingly conforming social environment so as to get gratified with a minimum of frustration. |
Search for new pleasures → greed, dissipation. |
Often sought in groups for mutual reinforcement and heightening of pleasure. | Need to remain within a comfort-zone to maintain control. |
can be viewed as emerging progressively via effort in accord with a dialectical unfolding duality.
Next Steps:
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Develop further understanding by comparing using the Typology Essences Table (TET)
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- See what happens when characteristics are perfected using the imagination to generate Planes of Existence.
Originally posted: 29-Jun-2012