Review

Primary Hierarchy is Unique

From a survey of other hierarchies, it appears that significant reversal of the oscillating duality only occurs in the 7 Primary Hierarchies. This is therefore a unique quality.

The 7 Primary Hierarchies appear to contain the irreducible elements of the taxonomy. Outside the Root Complex, all other hierarchical frameworks derive from these, either as the Structural Hierarchy and mostly via the Principal Typology. So all levels in these other frameworks refer to complicated functions/entities. Perhaps that is why reversal of oscillation is impossible.

The Root Hierarchy-RH possibly permits reversal but without generating any change in the nature of the levels. However, an RH level is more like a «realm» than an element, because each contains (or can emanate) a Primary Hierarchy.

► See the full system of 49 reversals arranged by PH.
► See more detail in Graphic Representation.

Findings

Each level in each Primary Hierarchy appears to allow the oscillating duality pole to be reversed. Given there are 7 hierarchies with 7 levels each, 49 distinct occasions of reversal were sought and identified.

Although some of the explanations and examples are weaker than others, due to uncertainties about the Primary Hierarchy level or its oscillation, a pattern seems to have emerged.

The quality of the reversal possibly differs from hierarchy to hierarchy and possibly from level to level in one hierarchy. But the process is simply an observation and not immediately clear or understood. Although no pattern or relevance was immediately evident, further investigation of the conditions or occasions of reversal was indicated and follows in the next section.

A general pattern was revealed that accorded with the original surmise in Communication-PH5:

  • Each of the 7 levels in the original PH converts to a different PH. This means that all 7 PHs are activated, and there is no duplication or omission.
  • One of the Levels in each PH converts to a different Level in the same PH.

However, there are now additional findings:

  • The new PH that results from reversal of a particular level is identical for all 7 Primary Hierarchies. As a result, PH conversion always occurs in the same hierarchical order. The order is shown in the Table below.
    Example:Closed In the original discovery, L2 within Communication-PH5 converted to a form of PH4-Experience, and it seems that the L2 element in each of the other 6 Primary Hierarchies converts to a PH4 element.
  Level in
Originating PH		 Target
Primary Hierarchy
  L7 PH5: Communication
  L6 PH3: Change
  L5 PH2: Inquiry
  L4 PH7: Willingness
  L3 PH6: Purpose
  L2 PH4: Experience
  L1 PH1: Action

Another pattern was also revealed:

  • Level conversions of any particular PH always generate the same level in the 7 new PHs i.e. if one level in an originating PH became an element that was L3 (say) in a different PH, then all other levels in the originating PH also became L3 elements.
  All Levels in the
Originating Primary H		 Level in
Target PHs
  PH7: Willingness L3
  PH6: Purpose L6
  PH5: Communication L1
  PH4: Experience L5
  PH3: Change L7
  PH2: Inquiry L4
  PH1: Action L2

Next Steps

■ The 49 unique reversals appear to involve 49 different situations, each with their own significance.

■ Understanding an oscillating duality depends on understanding the underlying THEE hierarchy. Generalizations were not evident from this study, however, some speculations are offered here.

■ Because the 7 levels in a Primary Hierarchy always convert to the same level, it seems possible, even likely, that each Primary Hierarchy might convert as a whole. In exploring this possibility, some significant findings have emerged.

Originally posted: 10-May-2013. Last amended 20-Dec-2022.