Preview Promulgation Options

★ The ways to promulgate a doctrine described in the previous topic can be plotted against pressure for social acceptance (X-axis) and the requirement for committed advocacy (Y-axis), which characterize the psychosocial field.

★ The 7 ways fall into four quadrants with ways in diametrically opposite quadrants showing a degree of antagonism:

  • Upper right quadrant ways are public and political,
    while lower left quadrant ways are private and confidential
  • Upper left quadrant ways are formal or official
    while the lower right quadrant way is personal or individual

★ The inner circle containing the initial 4 ways develop the School for those interested, while the outer circle contains ways to perpetuate the philosophy in society. The two circles fuse in fundamentals which can have both qualities.

★ The arrows reveal preferences for mobilizing others to accept the doctrine:

  • mentors appeal to the necessity of transmission
  • disseminators appeal to accepted revisions
  • the membership appeals to the value of applications
  • fundamentals that emerge from personal illumination are strengthened when they accord with cultural assumptions.

 


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Originally posted: 20-Jun-2025.