Quadrant Model of Reality Book 7 Introduction

The Quadrant Model of Transpersonal Transrational Reality

The title of my second book is the Quadrant Model of Trans-rational reality

It’s April 27 2014. About 6 years ago, in the beginning of my sophomore year of college, I came up with the theory of everything. I call the theory the Quadrant Model of Transrational Reality- or the Quadrant Model of Reality. This is what sparked my revelation toward this theory. About 6 years ago my Grandpa told me that there is four types of people. He told me that according to a popular and respected scientific model in psychology there is four types of people. There is thinkers and emoters and doers and dreamers.

QUADRANT thinker emoter doer dreamer

thinker	doer
emoter	dreamer

Thinkers is the top left square. That is square 1. Emoters is the bottom left square. That is square 2. Emoters, which are emotional people is the top right square. That is square 3. Dreamers is the bottom right square. That is square 4. My Grandpa was a psychologist and a Christian minister and a philosopher. He told me that he heard about this model from Ken Wilber’s book The Theory of Everything. My Grandpa told me that he thought that I was a dreamer.

I didn’t like this model because I didn’t understand, what does it mean to be a dreamer? I could understand what it means to be a thinker or an emotional person or a doer. I thought I was a doer. I played college basketball. I actually just quit the team but I played basketball. I rapped. I freestyled. I made music. I felt I was a doer. I also thought a lot. I was a thinker. I was also emotional I had emotions. I could understand what it meant to be a thinker a doer or an emoter. I didn’t think that dreaming belonged with the other three types. I thought there should be only three types of people. I didn’t think that dreaming belonged in the model. I didn’t like the model.

But I thought about it. I thought about the model. I thought about thinking and emotion. Thinking is the first square. Emotion is the second square. I impressed about how thinking and emotion are often seen as opposites. They are often seen as polar opposites to each other. But I thought they are not really opposites. They are intricately connected. They are intricately linked. I considered about how our thoughts affect our emotions. Our emotions affect our thoughts. We think about things and this gives us certain emotions. We have emotions and this affects our thoughts. I thought these two squares are a duality. They are seen as opposites- thinking and emotion are seen as opposites but really they are different aspects of the same thing. They are a duality. Then I thought about doing. Doing is the third square. I reasoned about how doing isn’t so separate from thinking and emotion either. I reflected about how our thoughts affect our emotions and our emotions affect our thoughts. But also we have emotions and these emotions cause us to DO things. We have thoughts and these thoughts bring us to do things. A root word in Emotion is motor. Emotion means, to bring to move. So emotions bring about action. Emotions cause people to do things. So I introspected that thinking, emotion, and doing are seen as separate things, but are not so separate. In this model they are depicted in separate categories. But I realized they are intricately interconnected. They are combined and united, although distinguished. Thoughts bring about emotions. Emotions bring people to do things. Sometimes people do things and then they think about it afterwards. People do things and this affects peoples’ emotions. So I perceived that these three categories are seen as separate but they are a triad, and an intertwined and interwoven triad. They are different aspects of the same thing. They are different versions of the same thing. One does not exist without the other.

Then I reflected about dreaming. Earlier that week I had gone to a psychology class where the teacher talked about dreaming. I often didn’t go to my psychology classes. I often just read the book. But this day I decided to go. And the teacher talked about dreaming. She said that when people dream they are paralyzed. When people sleep their spines are paralyzed so that they don’t act out their dreams. She indicated that people do things in their dreams. People have thoughts and people have emotions. But she pronounced that people are disconnected from their bodies during their dreams so that the person does not physically act out these dreams. So I recognized dreaming is separate from the previous three, but it encompasses them and contains them. Dreaming is different from thinking and emotion and doing, but it engulfs them.

This was the realization. This was the Eureka moment. This was the revelation that brought me to the theory of everything. I recognized the nature of the quadrant model. The first three squares are very connected, and the fourth square is different and transcendent.

The next day I drew below this thinking, emotion, doing, and dreaming quadrant a new quadrant. In the first square I put contemplation. In the second square I put passion. In the third square I put flowing. In the fourth square I put knowing. contemplation corresponds to the thinking quadrant, passion corresponds to the emotion quadrant, flowing corresponds to the doing quadrant, and knowing corresponds to the dreaming quadrant.

Contemplation passion flowing knowing

contemplation	flowing
passion	knowing

Now before I continue let’s talk about how the pattern that I realized through the quadrant model of tranrational reality is theory of everything. My thesis was that the physical nature of reality is a reflection of an eternal reality. Somehow I knew that this was true before I came up with the quadrant model of transrational reality. I felt that that physical nature of reality was a metaphor of a True reality. I felt that reality was metaphorical. Reality is a metaphor.

Now this concept is not a new concept. Plato had a similar intuition. Plato said that the physical world is a shadow, or a reflection of a True World. He called the True World the World of Forms, or the World of ideas. Plato said that there was one Form, the Form of the Good, out of which everything manifests. Nobody knew what this Form was. I feel that I discovered what it is. I surmise this form is the form of the quadrant. Interestingly the form of the quadrant is the same form as the cross. That is why I conjecture the symbol of Jesus is such a powerful symbol. The cross represents the Form of Being, the Form of Existence.

Here are examples of how the quadrant model represents the Form of Existence. Out of the cross, or the quadrant, a pattern emerges from which existence derives its nature. Recall in the quadrant of thinking, emotion, doing, and dreaming, thinking and emotion is a duality. Then there is a third square doing that is different from the first two squares. Doing is more physical than thinking and emotion. Doing has to do with physical actions. So there is the duality and then the triad with the third that is more physical. Then there

is the fourth, and the quadrant is complete. But the fourth is different from the previous three. The fourth is different from the previous three, yet it encompasses them. Here is a few examples of how this pattern relates to the nature of reality.

One example is the Forces of nature in physics. The first square is the strong nuclear force. The second square is the weak nuclear force. That is the duality. The third force is electromagnetism. That is the triad. Then there is gravity. Gravity is different from the previous three forces, yet it encompasses them. The strong force, the weak force, and electromagnetism could all be pretty easily combined with quantum mechanics. But the fourth force, gravity, could only be explained through general relativity. Einstein described that gravity exists due to the bending of space and time. And Einstein described that space and time bent due to matter. Space and time bends due to mass bending it. Mass is brought about through the interactions of the strong force, the weak force, and electromagnetism. So gravity does not exist without these first three forces. So gravity is separate from these forces, yet it encompasses them. Gravity does not seem to belong like dreaming did not seem to belong with thinking, emotion, and doing. But gravity does not exist without the other three like dreaming does not exist without thinking and emotion and doing. So gravity is separate from the first three forces, yet it encompasses them.

strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, electromagnetism, gravity

Square 1: Strong nuclear force

Square 2: Weak nuclear force

Square 3: Electromagnetism

Square 4: Gravity

strong nuclear force	electromagnetism
weak nuclear force	gravity

Another example is the four blood types of humans. The bible says that man is made in the image of G-. It is true that all aspects of the human being reflect the quadrant model pattern. So for instance there are the four blood types of the human being. They are type A, which is square one, type B which is square 2, type AB which is square 3 and type O which is square 4. Type A and B is the duality. Type AB is the third; the triad. Blood type O is the fourth. Recall the fourth is separate from the previous three yet it encompasses them. Type O is called the universal donor. Type O blood can go into somebody with type A blood, type B blood, or Type AB blood. The fourth is always different from the previous three. Also, this model is holisitc. Each square builds upon the previous squares but contains new elements as well.

Type A, Type B, Type AB, Type O

Square 1: Type A

Square 2: Type B

Square 3: Type AB

Square 4: Type O

Type A	Type AB
Type B	Type O

Another example of how this pattern works is the orbitals in chemistry. There is the s orbital. The s orbital is a sphere. In chemistry there are probability densities where electrons can be found. Those are the orbital shells. The first orbital shell is the s orbital. The second orbital is the p orbital. The p orbital looks essentially like two spheres. So the s and p are the duality. The third orbital is the d orbital. Think of the quadrant model as a holistic model. Each orbital builds upon the last orbital. Each square builds upon the previous square. Each square has all of the elements of the last square, but also has new elements. Then there is the f orbital. The f orbital is the fourth square. The f orbital builds upon the previous orbitals, but it is a lot different. The fourth is always a lot different from the previous three. The fourth always does not seem to belong with the other three. This can be seen if you look at the periodic table. In the periodic table of elements seen in every chemistry classroom the s and p and d orbital sections are together. But the f section is off to the side. It is by itself.

S orbital, P orbital, D orbital, F orbital

square 1: S orbital

square 2: P orbital

square 3: D orbital

square 4: F orbital

S orbital	D orbital
P orbital	F orbital

One last example of how this pattern works is the domains of life. The first two domains are archaea and bacteria. Archaea and bacteria are the duality. Often they are called archaebacteria. They are kind of clumped together. But biologists point out the difference between them is greater than the difference between a cow and a blade of grass. The differences between the domains of life have to do with differences in cell structure. Archaea and bacteria, however, are both prokaryotes, meaning they both have no cell nucleus, or any other membrane- bound organelles. Archaea and bacteria are the duality. I’m going to explain more the reason why I put archaea as the first square and the bacteria as the second square more later. But the first square is always weird. Archaea are weird. They live in extreme environments like thermal vents in the oceans. Archaea is the first square. Archaea corresponds to thought, the thinking square of the personality model. Bacteria is the second square. The second square I call homeostasis. the second square is about maintaining order. the second square maintains order and structure and protection. The second square makes sure things are clean and organized. Bacteria breaks down trash. It breaks down left over food. Bacteria is in humans guts. It breaks down food. I see bacteria as homeostasis. Bacteria corresponds to the emotion square in the personality model. Eukaryotes is the third square. Eukaryotes are not prokaryotes like the first two domains of life. Eukaryotes have cell nuclei and membrane bound organelles. So So recall this is a holistic model. Eukaryotes are different from the previous two domains of life, yet they encompass elements of them. Eukaryotes are the doers. Eukaryotes are things like plants and fungi and animals and protists. Eukaryotes are the doers. Eukaryotes relates to the doing square in the personality model.

Then there is the fourth square, the virus. The fourth is always different, yet it encompasses the previous three squares. Many biologists say that the virus is not a domain of life because they say that viruses are not living. I watched a show on biology where the biologists described that viruses are both living and dead. He said that if anybody asks if a virus is alive or dead, the answer is yes. A virus is both alive and dead. The reason why the virus is seen as dead is because it needs a host cell to survive. It cannot live without a host cell. Host cells would include Eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea. So the virus is separate yet encompasses the previous three. This is the pattern. There is the duality, then the third which is the doer, and the fourth which is a lot different from the previous three, yet encompasses them. The fourth never seems to belong.

archaea bacteria eukaryotes virus

square 1: archaea

square 2: bacteria

square 3: eukaryotes

square 4: virus

archaea	eukaryotes
bacteria	virus

Ok, let’s go back to the personality model. We talked about thinking, emotion doing, and dreaming. And then I described I drew a quadrant under this quadrant and put contemplation, passion, flowing, and knowing. Contemplation corresponds to the thinking square, passion to the emotion square, flowing to doing, and knowing to dreaming. Before we define contemplation, passion, flowing, and knowing, lets define thinking, emotion, doing, and dreaming.

Thinking: Thoughts are shaped by the ego. My identity; my ego shapes my thoughts. For instance if I consider myself an African American, then my thoughts about a subject may be different if I consider myself a European American. If I am a member of the upper class then my thoughts about a subject may be different than if I am a member of the lower class. If I am a man my thoughts may be different about a certain subject than if I am a woman. If I consider myself to be a homosexual, then my thoughts may be different about a certain subject than if I consider myself a heterosexual. If I am an senior citizen, then my thoughts about a certain subject may be different than if I am a young adult. An example of this may be, let’s say that I’m a member of the upper class. My thoughts about taxes will be affected by that and shaped by that. I might think that rich people should not be taxed as much as they are. These thoughts may be different if I was a member of the lower class. If I am an African American, my thoughts about the OJ Simpson incident may affect a lot by the fact that I am an African American. I may be more likely to think that the jury did a good job. These thoughts may be affected differently if I am a European American. I may be more likely to think that OJ Simpson was guilty and he got off just because he is an African American. So thoughts are shaped a lot by ones ego, ones identity.

Emotion: Emotions are shaped by ones ego; emotions are shaped by ones identity. Again let’s say that I’m an African American. And let’s say that somebody tells me that African American’s are stupid. If my identity is that I am an African American then I may be very upset by this. I may be mad; I may be sad. I may cry and I may shout. My identity is that I’m an African American. This is my ego. And my ego was just hurt; therefore I am mad and sad. This may be different if my identity is that I am a European American. My identity as a European American may affect my emotions in regards to somebody saying that African

American people are stupid. I may be more likely to be happy at this statement. Also emotions are used to manipulate people. If I am angry this may be an attempt for me to manipulate somebody to stop doing something. If I am sad this may encourage somebody to make me feel better. If I am crying because my ego is hurt then somebody may be more likely to come up to me and try to make me feel better. Or it may cause people to give me space. But the point is, emotions affect others and are often used to manipulate others.

Doing: Doing is just physical activity. What one does is very much shaped by his ego; his identity. If my identity is that I’m a doctor then I will do things that doctors do. I will operate. I will prescribe medication. What one does is very much shaped by his physical. If I am a seven-foot tall person, I may be more likely to play basketball and to post up a player

Dreaming: We already talked about dreaming. We talked about how when one dreams he is disconnected from his body. He is disconnected from his physical. When one dreams his body is paralyzed. He does things. He thinks and he has emotions. But he is paralyzed so he does not act out what he does in his bed. Otherwise he would be kicking in his bed and getting up and running around. Dreams are also very much shaped by the ego. I described that when you dream you are disconnected from your physical body. Your physical body is paralyzed. But in your dream you are still a body. The body is not real; it is a product of your imagination. Your mind is creating your body, but you are still a body. You are still an ego. In your dream you are trying to protect your ego. You are trying to protect your body. You may have a monster chase you in a dream. You will run away from the monster. You may try to fight the monster to try to protect your self. You are not real. Your body is not real it is a figment of your imagination. But nonetheless you still try to protect it. You may do other things in your dreams that are very ego based like have sex, or kill people. You may have a dream that you are naked. You may try to hide because you are embarrassed. You do not want other people to see you naked; they may laugh at you. You are still trying to protect your ego. Sigmund Freud was a famous psychologist. He described that everything in dreams has to do with sex. Freud believed that people subconsciously want to have sex with their Moms and kill their Dads. So Freud said that everything in dreams is metaphorical of one having sex. So for instance, if I am shooting a basketball in a dream, then Freud would say that that is metaphorical of me having sex with my Mother. The basketball would be the penis. The rim would be the vagina. But my point is Freud thought that dreams were very shaped by the ego. People fight to protect and preserve the ego and enhance the ego. One way one protects and promotes his ego is through sex. In dreams people try to protect their bodies. They fight off monsters; they run away from enemies and fight enemies. People also try to protect and promote their egos. They try to protect their identities; they try to protect their bodies. The interesting thing about dreams though is that the body isn’t real; you aren’t real. You are constructing your dreams in your mind. You are a person in your dreams and you are trying to protect that person. You are trying to protect your self but your self is imaginary. So dreams are paradoxical. You can recognize, or become aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming. This is called lucid dreaming. People that do this describe that they can do things like fly, or walk through walls. They can do things that are seen in the physical reality as impossible. People can recognize that they are dreaming while they are still dreaming. They realize that they are in a dream and the dream world is made up. Therefore they don’t have to obey the same laws that govern the real world and they can do things like fly voluntarily. So there is a paradoxical aspect of dreams. When one dreams he is still an ego, he is still a body. The body is not real, but he is still protecting it. At the same time he is kind of transcending the ego, he is kind of transcending the body. He is literally paralyzed when he dreams. His physical body is paralyzed while he dreams, so he does not act out his dreams. And his dream body is not real. It is imaginary. The person tries to protect his body and his identity/ his ego during his dreams. But he can also do things that are impossible in normal reality like fly and walk through walls. He can even do this voluntarily if he recognizes he is dreaming while he is dreaming. And that is called lucid dreaming. So in dreams you are still a body you are still an ego, but at the same time you are transcending the body; you are transcending the ego.

Now let’s go to contemplation, passion and flowing and knowing. Let’s define contemplation.

Contemplation: When you contemplate you focus on eternal equalities. You focus on Truth, Beauty, and God. You focus on qualities that are beyond rational resolution. When you contemplate you focus on the oneness of things. You think about how things are connected. You seek patterns and connections. You see the unity of things. When you contemplate about something you try to understand it completely. In order to see the oneness of things you in a sense have to die to your self. You have to die to your individual ego. When you contemplate something you see it from all perspectives. When you see the unity of things you in a sense have to die, because you recognize that you are a part of that unity. When you see how things are connected, your separate self dies. So dreaming encompasses the previous three squares before it. Dreaming encompasses doing and thinking and emotion. But also dreaming points to what comes after it. The nature of dreaming indicates what comes after it. Dreaming points to contemplation. Recall when you dream you are separating from the ego; you are separating from the physical body. You are still an ego; you are still a body, but you are transcending it. So dreaming is leading us to contemplation. Dreaming encompasses everything before it, and it reveals the nature of what comes after it. Dreaming points to contemplation. When you contemplate you are transcending the ego. You are trying to understand things that are beyond rational comprehension, and see the oneness of things. You transcend the rational. Now let’s define passion.

Passion: Passion is the byproduct of being a part of something larger than you. When you are passionate about something, you put everything into it; you lose yourself in it. You are often willing to die for it. It is interesting that passion means suffering. The term compassion means to suffer with. When Jesus is crucified; when he is put on the cross, this is called the passion event. So the duality is contemplation and passion. The ego; the self is transcended.

Flowing; Flowing is also known as the zone. When you are in the zone you are not aware of his body. Everything you is pure. It is perfect. What you do is effortless; it is automatic. You are not aware of what you are doing. When I was younger I was almost always in the zone. I have some videos of when I played basketball when I was younger. I was constantly moving even when I was standing in one place. I would constantly skip. Everything is pure, and you are not aware of what you are doing, but it is perfect. It is better than if you planned it. When you are in the zone you do not know what you are going to do next. Things aren’t planned. You are more nervous because you don’t have the steps planned out. But what you do is better than if you planned it out. Unanticipated but welcomed surprises occur. For instance I remember playing basketball and all of the sudden I did a move and the guy guarding me went flying. I had no idea what I did. But I did it again and the guy went flying. I had not planned it out. There would be no way I could have planned it out. But it was perfect. When you are flowing you are in the now. You are in the moment. Michael Jordan talked about the zone. He described how when he was in the zone he experienced a different experience of time and space.

knowing: The fourth square is knowing. I’m going to get to knowing more later. But the only thing that you can really know is the quadrant model pattern. Existence is the manifestation of the quadrant model pattern. The Form of existence is the cross. Everything is one; everything is an illusion. Everything is just manifested to reveal this form. This is the only thing that can be known. The quadrant model pattern is all that is. The quadrant is the Form of Being. In order to know then one must die to himself. Because in order to understand this, you must recognize that you are also a manifestation of this pattern. Everything is. In a sense you don’t exist. You are just an expression of the quadrant model pattern’s expression of itself in existence. That is why the symbol of Jesus on the cross is so powerful. In order to realize the nature of reality, which is represented by the cross; you must die to your self. That is why the image of the man on the cross is such a powerful symbol. The Cross is the Form of Reality. So there is contemplation, passion, flowing and knowing. Contemplation and passion are connected. People who are passionate contemplate. People who contemplate are passionate. Passion leads to flowing. When you are a part of something larger than your self you are passionate. When you are passionate you lose your self and you flow. After contemplation and passion and flowing you can know. So knowing is separate yet encompasses the previous three.

thinking emotion doing dreaming contemplation passion flowing knowing

The day that I came up with the contemplation, passion, flowing, and knowing quadrant I drew another quadrant. I put this quadrant on the left side of the thinking, emotion, doing, dreaming quadrant. The squares of this quadrant are sensation, perception, response, and awareness. I labeled this quadrant the instinctual quadrant. I labeled the thinking, emotion, doing, dreaming quadrant the rational, interpersonal, egoistic, individualistic quadrant. I labeled the contemplation, passion, flowing, and knowing quadrant the transrational, transpersonal quadrant. I got these labels from Ken Wilbers stages of consciousness. Ken Wilber is a famous philosopher. Wilber described that there is four stages of consciousness.

sensation, perception, response, awareness

Wilber’s first stage of consciousness is the instinctual, primitive stage of consciousness. Wilber’s second stage of consciousness is the magical, religious, groupish stage of consciousness. Wilber’s third stage of consciousness is the rational, interpersonal, individualistic, egoistic stage of consciousness. Wilber’s fourth stage of consciousness is the transrational, transpersonal stage of consciousness. The quadrant of sensation, perception, response and awareness represents the instinctual, primitive stage of consciousness.

instinctual primitive, magical religious groupish, rational interpersonal egoistic individualistic, transrational transpersonal

Square 1: Instinctual primitive spiritual

Square 2: Magical religious groupish

Square 3: Rational interpersonal egoistic individualistic creative

Square 4 transcendent transrational transpersonal abstract contemplative

instinctual primitive spiritual consciousness	rational interpersonal egoisitic individualistic creative consciousness
magical religious groupish consciousness	transcendent transrational transpersonal abstract contemplative consciousness

Let’s define sensation, perception, response, and awareness.

Sensation: Sensation is done with the five sense faculties. Those faculties are seeing, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. Sensation is the gathering of electrical and chemical data from the environment through these sense faculties.

Perception: Perception is the interpretation of electrical and chemical sense stimuli from the environment. Information from the environment is interpreted by the mind and this is perception. So for instance, if a needle pokes me, perception of that poke might be pain. People have different perceptions of pain when they are shot in war versus if they are shot at the grocery shop. When people are shot at war the pain is not as bad because of the context of the situation. When shot at war the person thinks that this may make him a hero, and he may get to go back home and get a ribbon. So the pain is not as intense. When shot at the grocery shop the subjective perception is often of worst pain because there is no real reward that the person is going to get out of being shot. Perception also is tied to culture. Some people claim that Eskimos can perceive different

types of snow that a person from California cannot. You cannot trust your perceptions. This is illustrated by the phenomena of illusions. Sometimes things may appear a certain way, but in reality they are a different way. For instance, here is two lines. One line has an arrow pointing outwards; the other line has an arrow pointing inwards. The one with the arrow pointing outwards is perceived as longer than the line with the arrow pointing inwards. The way things are perceived is very often different from the way things are. Another example of how perception does not necessarily correspond to reality is that humans only perceive visible light. There are other wavelengths of light, including infrared and ultraviolet, which humans do not see. It does not mean that these wavelengths of light do not exist. It just means that humans do not perceive them. So perception cannot be trusted completely. However it should be trusted. You should trust your perceptions. Perceptions are necessary for you to survive. Don’t distrust your perceptions completely. If you perceive a car coming at your direction then it is probably safe for you to trust your perception and react accordingly.

Response: Response is the third square. Response corresponds to the doing and flowing squares of the other quadrants. Responses are reactions to stimuli. So sensation and perception is the duality. After a perception of stimuli there is often a response. Responses are shaped and driven by the stimuli from the environment that produced them, and usually facilitate survival. For instance, if somebody moves his hand quickly toward your face you blink. You blink to protect your eye from being poked out. This response is automatic and it cannot really be controlled. This response is a hardwired impulse. Another hardwired impulse is that of a gerbil. If you touch a female gerbil’s back the gerbil arches its back. The reason the gerbil does this is it is preparing itself for penetration by the male. The touch stimulus to the back signals to the female that it is being mounted for penetration, so it arches its back to prepare for this.

Awareness: Awareness is separate from the previous three, yet it encompasses them. People awareness is of their sensations, perceptions, and responses. But also awareness is different from the previous three. Awareness affects sensations, perceptions, and responses. For instance, there is the base vase illusion. It is a popular illusion. Here is a vase. It is drawn below. I tell you it is a vase. You look at it and you perceive the vase. I ask you if you perceive anything else. You say no. Then I tell you it is also two faces. Then you perceive in the picture two faces. Your awareness was changed. You became aware that the picture was not just a vase but it could be perceived differently. As a result you then perceive it as two faces. People say that you can only see what you are looking for. There is that popular illustration of this where people say that the Amerindians could not perceive the ships of the European Christians coming to the America because they had no awareness of what a ship was. Another example of this is with the Egyptian pyramids. There were x ray pictures done of the pyramids demonstrating internal cavities. Nobody paid any attention to these pictures though. They didn’t see any significance in them. But an architect was trying to figure out how the pyramids were built. He saw the pictures and he realized that they were built with internal channels. Because he was an architect and was aware of architectural principals and how this could be done, he perceived the cavities as channels that were used to build the pyramids. You can only see what you are looking for... sort of. That’s not entirely true, but there is truth to it. Awareness does affect perception. But also perceptions affect awareness.

About a week later I drew a new quadrant. I drew this quadrant under the sensation, perception, response, and awareness quadrant, to the left of the contemplation, passion, flowing, and knowing quadrant, and diagonal and to the let of the thinking, emotion, doing, and dreaming quadrant. This quadrant corresponds to Wilbers magical, religious, superstitious, groupish second level of conscious, Sensation, perception, response, and awareness is the instinctual, primitive, spiritual, first level of consciousness. Thinking, emotion, doing, and dreaming is the rational, interpersonal, egoistic, individualistic, selfish third level of consciousness. Contemplation, passion, flowing, and knowing is the transrational, transpersonal, abstract level fourth level of consciousness.

In this new quadrant I put belief, faith, behavior, and belonging. Belief and faith is the duality. Behavior is the third square that is the action square. The third square is always the most solid. It is the physical square. In the fourth square I put belonging. Let’s define these terms.

Belief, faith, behavior, belonging

Belief: belief glues together communities. When people say they believe something, there is usually an emotional valence to it. Beliefs are often associated with strong feelings and people often believe something based on feeling. There is therefore an association with beliefs being irrational and often wrong. Belief has the word lie in it. Beliefs are often lies. People often believe things because they want them to be true. But there is a mental aspect of belief. Beliefs are often cemented by empirical evidence and rationalized. Beliefs can also be strengthened by authority figures supporting them, or the group that you belong to supporting them. Beliefs serve the function of gluing together communities and creating order and structure for you and your group, and often are shaped to promote the survival of your genes. Beliefs often aren’t true, but they serve a function to help your genes to survive. For instance, most people believe that it is very unlikely they will get cancer. Their belief is optimistic in relationship to the actual likelihood that they will get cancer. But optimistic beliefs have survival benefits behind them. If people were too pessimistic, then this could make people depressed and hurt their survival. False beliefs can be beneficial. Beliefs often give people comfort and solace. I described how the fourth square always encompasses the previous three squares, and it points to, or indicates what comes after it. The fourth always reveals the fifth. And the fifth becomes the first square of a new quadrant. Awareness points to belief. There is tons of things that people are aware of. This can become overwhelming. Ones awareness is solidified in beliefs. There is an overwhelming amount of awareness and it makes the world easier, it makes life easier to simplify this awareness and consolidate it in beliefs.

Faith: Now let’s define faith. Faith is the second square. It corresponds to the perception square of instinctual consciousness, and the emotion square of rational consciousness, and the passion square of transrational consciousness. Faith is a willingness to submit to orders or a higher authority. Faith also glues together groups and creates order and harmony. Faith is associated with a feeling and is often seen as irrational. An interesting phenomenon is the placebo affect. An example of this is if a doctor gives a patient a sugar pill, and tells the patient it is medicine that will help the patient’s headache, or whatever is making the patient not feel good, the patient often describes that he feels better, and he does feel better. This is known as the placebo affect. If the patient has faith that the medicine will help him, the medicine will help him, even if there is nothing in the medicine that should help him. So the patients’ beliefs and faith in the doctor and in the medicine will influence if he gets better or not.

Behavior: Behavior is a consequence of faith like flowing is a consequence of passion. Behavior is action in accordance to orders. Behavior is action in accordance with a higher authority. Whereas flowing is unplanned, behavior is scripted and in compliance with orders given. Behavior is determined by instructions given.

Belonging: Psychologists point out belonging is elemental to being. Belonging encompasses the previous three. If you have the correct beliefs, if you have the right faith, and if you have the correct behavior, then you belong. But belonging is also different. Belonging has a lot to do with your physical. For instance, if I have genes that make me look Mexican, then I will be more likely to belong to a Mexican gang. Even if I had the correct beliefs, proper faith, and right behavior, in accordance with the principals of the Mexican gang, if I do not look Mexican then I may not belong. So belonging has a lot to do with your genes. Your genes produce your physical appearance. Your genes also produce other traits like personality and intelligence, that are also ingredients in whether and to what group one belongs. If you have a high intelligence you are more likely to become rich. If you are a millionaire then you are more likely to belong to the millionaire club. But being a millionaire is often influenced by ones intelligence, and that is genetically based, as well as slightly culturally influenced.

So we talked about how awareness encompasses sensation, perception, and response. But it also points to what comes after it; it indicates what comes after it. Awareness is consolidated into beliefs. But also awareness has a dual connotation. Awareness leads to self-awareness. Some animals like dolphins have self-awareness. This is a mental awareness that you are a separate individual entity. Some apes have self-awareness. You can tell this by if you put a dot on an apes head and show it itself in the mirror it tries to take the dot off. Humans have self- awareness. But the self only exists within a social setting. The self does not exist without a social setting to distinguish your self as separate and unique. So self-awareness entails cultural awareness. The self only exists within the context of culture. Culture is the belief faith, behavior, and belonging quadrant. Once you realize that you are a self, you want to belong. Self-awareness points to cultural awareness. Self-awareness points to belief, which becomes the first square of a new quadrant. So the first quadrant, leads to the second quadrant.

Belonging encompasses belief, faith, and behavior. But it also indicates what comes after it. I think of it like this. After you belong then you long to be. There is kind of a dual connotation to belonging. You long to be an individual. You might want to break out of the group and break out of the cultural norms. The quadrant sensation, perception, response and awareness is the instinctual, spiritual level of consciousness. The quadrant of Belief, faith, behavior and belonging is the group oriented magical, religious level of consciousness. After you belong then you long to be. The group you belong to shapes your beliefs, faith, and behavior; it also influences your thoughts, which influences your emotions, which influences what you do, and your dreams. So belonging encompasses everything before it, and it indicates what comes after it.

We talked about the dual nature of dreaming. When you dream, you are a body; you are an ego; you are an individual. But at the same time you are transcending the ego. You are breaking away from the ego. Your body is paralyzed. You are a physical body still, but at the same time you are breaking away from the body. Great revelations have occurred while people dreamed. For instance Mendelev discovered the nature of the periodic table of elements in a dream. I also described how in dreams your body is an illusion; it is not real. You can do things like fly, and walk through walls. Also if you recognize you are dreaming while you dream, which is called lucid dreaming, people say that you can do things that are normally seen as impossible on demand. So there is a dual nature to dreaming. When you dream you are still a body. You still think, and have emotions, and do things in your dreams. But at the same time you are transcending your physical body, and the regular plane of existence. So dreaming encompasses the squares before it, and it points to what comes after it, which is contemplation.

I discussed that the only thing that you can truly know is the quadrant model pattern. Everything is merely a representation of this pattern in reality. The quadrant model pattern is the Form of Existence. I described how when you know you die. In order to know you must recognize that everything is an illusion. Everything is a manifestation of a pattern. You yourself are just an expression of this pattern. Your existence is merely as an aspect of the manifestation of this pattern. So in a sense, when you know you die. I think of knowing as having a dual connotation. It is knowing, and no thing. In order to know you must recognize that there is no thing. Everything is one. Everything is a representation of one Form. There is no thing.

Knowing encompasses contemplation, passion, and flowing. After you contemplate, and are passionate, and flow, then you can know. But also knowing points to what comes after it. This is the fifth quadrant. This is the 17th square. It is Being. Being is God. Being itself is God. Once you know, then you die to your self and become one with Being. Being is manifested through the quadrant model pattern. Reality is a representation of the pattern that emerges from the cross. This is the nature of Being. Once you die to yourself; once you die to the body then you can be.

After Being is non Being. This is the duality. That is the 18th square. There is no thing. There isn’t even one thing. There really is no thing. The 19th square is ephemerality (becoming). This is the coming in and out of existence of Being. This is the process of going in and out of Being. This is the nature of existence. Existence is ephemeral. Things are constantly going in and out of existence. Particles are constantly going in and out of existence. They are constantly in flux. Physicists even say that the Universe itself goes in and out of existence. They say there is big bangs and then big crunches and things disappear and big bangs again. This is the nature of Reality. Reality is ephemeral.

Nietzsche even talked about the eternal recurrence. He described that you live your life the same way over and over again forever. I think the quadrant model pattern corroborates with this theory. Because there can only be one thing. That is that which manifests the pattern that derives from the cross, or the Form of Existence. There cannot be no thing. And there can only be one thing. That is that which manifests from the Form of Existence. Nothing else can exist. I exist. I am a part of the Form of Existence. There can be no other existence. And nothing can not exist. So this must be eternal. There cannot be no thing. So I must exist eternally. I have to repeat this existence eternally, over and over again. I think that this is where the logic of the quadrant model leads you.

being non being ephemerality

and the whole quadrant model

These are the squares. These are the quadrants. There is five quadrants. There is nineteen squares. This is a heuristic I use. The first quadrant is the light. The second quadrant is the word. The third quadrant is the flesh. the third quadrant is the most physical. It is the most solid. It is the doing quadrant. The fourth quadrant is the true word. The fifth quadrant is the true light. The squares within each quadrant take the same pattern. The first square of the first quadrant is the light of the light. The second square of the first quadrant is the word of the light. So on so fourth. This is a heuristic that helps you to understand the nature of each quadrant. The physical nature of reality is organized based on this pattern. I described how the fourth points to the fifth. The fourth is the true word. The fifth is the true light. The fourth always indicates the nature of the fifth. Let’s go to some of the examples that I demonstrated earlier.

light, word, flesh, true word, true light

Square 1: Light

Square 2: Word

Square 3: Flesh

Square 4: True Word

Square 5: True Light

light	flesh
word	true word

true light

There are the four forces of nature. But physicists say that there MAY be a fifth force. The fifth always seems questionable. Recall that the fourth always seems like it does not belong with the other three. The fourth is always transcendent. But the fourth points to the fifth. The fourth indicates what comes after it. The fifth is extremely transcendent. The fourth is transcendent. The fifth is God. And the fifth always seems questionable. So there is the four forces of nature. There is the duality. That is the strong force and the weak force. Then there is electromagnetism, which is the third square. The third is always the most physical. The fourth is gravity. Gravity doesn’t seem to belong with the other three. The first three can be explained with quantum mechanics. But gravity could only be explained with general relativity. Physicists say that all of these forces were once one force. So they were all connected. And they are all connected. It’s like how thinking, emotion, doing, and dreaming are separate. They are all different, but they are all interconnected and linked. But gravity, the fourth, seems a lot different from the previous three. The first three are always the most connected. Gravity, the fourth, points to the fifth. The fourth always indicates the fifth. The fourth is the true word. The fifth is the true light. The fifth POSSIBLE force is dark energy. It is called the quintesscent force. The word quintessent means fifth. Dark energy is very strange. But some physicists question if there is even a fifth force. The fifth is always questionable. Many physicists say that Dark energy is just an aspect of gravity. They say that gravity is just not completely understood, and dark energy is just a component of gravity. So the fourth, gravity, points to the fifth, dark energy.

strong force, weak force, electromagnetism, gravity, dark energy

strong force	electromagnetism
weak force	gravity

dark energy

Another example of this is the orbitals in chemistry. There is the duality. That is the s and p orbitals. There is the d orbital. The d orbital builds upon the s and the p orbitals. This is a holistic model. Each square builds upon the previous squares. Each square encompasses the qualities of the previous squares, but adds upon them. The fourth orbital is the f orbital. Recall that the f orbital is a lot different from the previous three orbitals. The f orbital is very strange. The fourth is always different. The fourth always seems to not belong with the previous three. The fifth orbital is the g orbital. The fifth is always questionable. The g orbital exists in principal. Chemists say that it definitely exists. The mathematics of chemists and physicists describes that there has to be a g orbital. But a g orbital has never been produced, and chemists say if a g orbital is to be produced then it would have to be in a laboratory under unnatural conditions. The fifth is always questionable. It exists, but it is questionable. It’s qualities are a lot like the f orbitals qualities. The fourth always points to the fifth

s, p, d, f, g

Square 1: s

Square 2: p

Square 3: d

Square 4: f

Square 5: g

s	d
p	f

g

Let me describe how this heuristic works with the humans primary senses. Let me describe how the quadrant model pattern works with the human sense faculties. The heuristic is the pattern is the light, the word, the flesh, the true word, and the true light. Recall there is five primary senses. The first square is seeing. Seeing is the light square. You see the reflection of light photons onto your retina and process this information as images in the mind. The second square is hearing. The second square is the word square in the heuristic. Ear cells vibrate due to oscillating airwaves that come from objects in the environment. These vibrations are interpreted by the mind as sounds. The third square is touch. The third square is the flesh square. Touch is related to the body. The third square is always the most physical. It is the doing square. Mechanoreceptors in the body send electrical signals to the mind, which interpret the feeling of objects in the environment. The fourth sense is the sense of taste. This is the true word. The fourth recall is always different from the previous three. The first three sense faculties are called mechanoreceptors. These sense faculties interpret mechanical information from the environment, such as vibrations. Taste though is different. Taste is a chemical perception. So the fourth is different from the previous three. The fourth is the true word. Taste is related to the true word for me because tasting is done with the mouth. And the mouth speaks. The mouth speaks words. Taste is the true word. Hearing is the word. Hearing interprets words. There is always an opposition between the second square and the fourth square. The second square is the word, and the fourth square is the true word. But these squares are connected. You cannot hear words, which is the second square, if there are no words spoken, which is the fourth square. We will see that the second square is always order and homeostasis. Hearing is important for order and maintaining relationships and social interaction. The second square is related to that. The first square is mental. The eyes are associated with the mind.

light word flesh true word true light

seeing, hearing, touch, taste, smell

Square 1: seeing

Square 2: hearing

Square 3: touch

Square 4: taste

Square 5: smell

seeing	touch
hearing	taste

smell

We see this opposition demonstrated in the quadrant model of transrational reality. The second square of the second quadrant is faith. People tend to have faith in authority. Authority claims knowledge. The fourth square of the fourth quadrant, which is the dynamic opposite of the second square of the second quadrant, is knowledge. Knowledge is the authority that people have faith in. So they are opposites but they are connected. We also see this dynamic opposition in the nature of the placebo effect. If somebody who is sick has faith that a medicine will work it will often heal him, even if the medicine is a placebo, and has no properties that are related to healing the disease. However, knowledge can counteract the placebo effect. If somebody has knowledge that the medicine given is a placebo medicine, then it won’t heal him. There is always a kind of polarity. There is a dynamic opposition between the second square and the fourth square. But the second square and the fourth square are also connected in that the fourth informs the second. There is also a dynamic opposition between the first and the third squares; the light and the flesh.

The fifth primary sense is the sense of smell. This is the fifth square. This is the true light square. Remember the fourth always points to the fifth. The fourth sense, the sense of taste, and the fifth sense, the sense of smell, are both chemical perceptions. The first three perceptions are mechanical perceptions. The fifth sense, the sense of smell, is a chemical perception. The fourth indicates the nature of the fifth. Smell and taste are very connected. The nose is right on top of the mouth. The nose and the mouth are right near each other. The nose and the mouth are physically connected. The smell of things affects the taste of things. The smell of things can tell you something about the taste of things. The fourth is always very connected to the fifth. The fifth square is the extremely transcendent square. The fourth square is different from the first three squares. The nature of the fourth square points to the nature of the fifth square. The nature of the fourth square reveals the nature of the fifth square. The fifth square then can become a new quadrant.

What is important is that what is important is not the number of things. The validity of the quadrant model has nothing to do with the number of things that are represented by a phenomenon. What matters is the pattern. What matters is the pattern out of which things emerge, and the relationships within the pattern. Just an example of this is Piaget is a famous psychologist. He described four stages of child development. What doesn’t matter is that there are four stages. What matters is that the order of these stages fits the quadrant model pattern. The first stage possesses qualities of the first square, the second stage qualities of the second square, the third stage qualities of the third square, and the fourth stage reflects qualities of the fourth square. If there was seven stages in a model it would not make a difference, so long as the fifth stage would reflect the qualities of a fifth square, the sixth stage the sixth, and the seventh stage the seventh. If there were seven stages, the first four stages would represent the first quadrant. These would be squares one, two, three, and four. The next three stages would represent the second quadrant. These would be squares five, six, and seven.

Now, let’s describe the natures of each square. Let’s describe the natures of each quadrant. I described that square one is the light, square 2 is the word, square 3 is the flesh, square 4 is the true word, and square 5 is the true light. Ken Wilber has a model that he calls the quadrant model. In it he labels the four the stages of consciousness. We already discussed this. The first stage is the instinctual spiritual, the second stage is the magical, religious, the third stage is the rational, interpersonal selfish, and the fourth stage is the transrational, transpersonal. Wilber puts each of these stages in a square in a quadrant. This is the same order that I put the squares. He labels the first square the MIND. The second square he labels CULTURE. The third square he labels BODY. Remember the third square is always the most physical. It is the most solid. It is the flesh. He labels the fourth square the SOCIAL.

Square 1: Mind

Square 2: Culture

Square 3: Body

Square 4: Social

Square1: The Mind. The first square is mental. Sensation, perception, response, and awareness is the first quadrant. These are all mental. The first quadrant is Wilber’s instinctual spiritual stage of consciousness. Sensation is the mental of the mental. Sensations are purely mental. Sensations are purely constructions of the mind. I always think of the first square as gullible. Recall that you can’t trust your sensations and perceptions. There are many illusions that can trick your perceptions. Sensations and perceptions do not always correspond with the true nature of reality, and they often don’t. Think of the connotation of sensing too, or perceiving. When you sense something you do not quite understand it completely. You can’t quite put your finger on it. You just sense it. It is not solid. Same thing when somebody says they perceive something. They just perceive it. They perceive it to be so. I perceive that it is this way. There is not much certainty behind. Again you can’t quite put your finger on it completely. You just perceive it. And it’s the same thing with being aware of something. I am aware of this. I am aware of that. There is a connotation that you don’t understand it completely. You can’t quite put your finger on it completely. You are just aware of it. Also the first square is conservative and caring. Think of the connotation of the words sensitive, and perceptive, and responsible, and aware. When you are sensitive you can feel what others are feeling and react accordingly. There is an idea that sensitive people are fragile. They are easily moved. If you are perceptive you are also caring. If you are perceptive there is an idea that you can feel what others are feeling and know how to react accordingly. Response is the third square. There is the notion of being responsible. Responsible people react according to what is most appropriate for them to do. If you are responsible people can count on you. Responsible people are conservative.

Sensitive and perceptive people are conservative. Aware has the root word wary in it. The word wary means cautious. People who are aware keep their nose on what’s going on around them. They are cautious. They are conservative. There is diabetes awareness. There is cancer awareness. There is global warming awareness. Aware people tend to be concerned about what’s going on. Aware people are concerned about the environment. Also there is a spiritual connotation to being sensitive, and perceptive and aware. Spiritual people often describe that they sense things, or perceive things. They may describe sensing auras around people or perceiving other dimensions of reality that many claim not to perceive. So there is a spiritual element to the first square. The first square is always weird. That characterizes the first square. It is weird.

Square 2: Culture. The second square is homeostasis. The second quadrant is belief, faith, behavior, and belonging. This corresponds to Wilber’s second stage of consciousness, which is magical, religious consciousness. The second square is order. The nature of the second square is it is about structure and maintenance. It is protection. We described how belief glues together communities, and faith glues together communities. Group behaviors glue together communities. For instance religious groups have ritualistic behaviors that members do and this strengthens relationships in the group often. The second square is belonging. Belonging a lot has to do with your physical, or your ethnic group. Physical traits are genetic, and ethnic tribes are based off of genetic ties. What group you belong to a lot has to do with your intelligence. This is also highly genetic. Also what group belongs to often has a lot to do with possessions you own, or belongings. Also the group you belong to will often determine the possessions you own, or belongings. For instance, you may be more likely to be accepted in the country club if you are rich and have a nice car. If you are rich and have a nice car depends a lot on your genes. More attractive people tend to make more money. Also more intelligent people tend to make more money. And again, these traits are genetic. Some argue that traits like attraction and intelligence are in part cultural constructions, and they are. But these traits are not entirely cultural constructions. The second square is conservative. The second square listens to authority.

Recollect that I described that people tend to believe things, and have faith in things that authority supports. Also the second square is group-oriented. If others in your group believe and have faith in something, then you are more likely to believe it and have faith in it. Belief is the first square of the second quadrant. Since it is the first square it is mental. Belief has a connotation of being more mental. Belief is based off of feeling often. But belief is more mental than faith. Beliefs are supported more by empirical evidence. The dictionary definition of belief is a trust in something guided strongly b empirical evidence. Remember that awareness points to belief. Our awareness is of our sensations and perceptions. That is empirical data. This sense data supports beliefs. There is the saying; I have to see it to believe it. Perceptions and awareness enforce beliefs. So again the fourth square of the first quadrant, which is awareness, yields what comes after it, which is belief.

Faith is the second square of the second quadrant. The second square recall is the most about structure. It is the most about order and homeostasis. The second square is the most associated with feeling. The dictionary definition of faith is that it is trust that is guided highly by feeling and desire. Faith is more gut based, while belief is more mental. Faith glues communities together. Faith has a relational connotation. People are faithful to their wives, or their bosses, or their employees. This means that they will stick with them and they are loyal to them.

means that they will stick with them and they are loyal to them.

Perception is the second square of the first quadrant. Remember that the second square is culture. Perceptions, or the way that one interprets sense data, are very highly shaped by context and culture. For instance, there is a tribe that has boys put their hands in fire ants nests and have the ants bite their hands as a coming of age ritual. This is important for the boy because it signifies him becoming a man. He would probably perceive the sensations of the ants biting him different than a boy not in the tribe who put his hand in a fire ant nest. It probably is less painful for the boy who is doing this as a ritual, because there is honor involved in it. For the boy that put his hand in the fire ants nest mistakenly, this would just be embarrassing, and no reward would come from it, except maybe people would feel sorry for him. So perception is very cultural.

The second square also is moral. The second square is very concerned with morality. Morality is the foundation of order. Moral codes create order and structure in cultures. Moral systems are systems that define what is right and wrong. They define what is good and bad; what is proper and improper. Behavior is the third square. Good behavior is behavior that is in accordance with the morality system of the culture. Bad behavior is behavior that deviates from this moral system of conduct. So the second square is very white and black oriented. It is good or bad oriented; insider outsider oriented. The second square is therefore dualistic; right wrong, black white, good bad, proper improper. The second square is very concerned with order, and making sure that things aren’t shaken up. The second square is conservative. It is about sticking with the script. The second square is very concerned with plans and scripts, and sticking to them; not deviating. This is the nature of the second square. The second square is concerned with the surface reality. It is not extremely deep. The second square is normal.

Emotion is the second square of the third quadrant. Emotions recall is used to manipulate people. Emotions signal to people what you are feeling. Emotion is cultural. If I am an ultra orthodox jew then I may be sad if a fellow Jews marries outside of his tribe. If I am a reformist liberal Jew in America, then I may be happy, and even celebrate a Jew marrying a non-Jew. Emotions are signaled to others to affect them. For instance, if I am sad, by crying I may express that I do not approve what happened. By smiling I am expressing that I do approve what happened. Emotions are used to manipulate people, but many times people do not have complete control over their emotions. Again, emotions are very tied to one's ego/ identity. But the point is, emotions regulate your environment. Emotions manipulate people in your environment to act in certain ways.

Square 3: The third square is the doing square. The third quadrant is thinking, emotion, doing, dreaming. This corresponds to Wilber’s third stage of consciousness, which is rational, interpersonal, individualistic, and egoistic. Consciousness. The third square of the third quadrant is doing. The third is always the most physical. The third is doing. Doing is pure action, and it is purely physical .The third square is action. The third square is the most solid. The third square is destructive. The first two squares are more conservative. The first two squares are more about maintaining order. The third square can be seen as bad. The third square can be seen as destructive. The third square is breaking out of orders. The third square is an individual. The third square is more individualistic. The third square is about doing your own thing.

Remember that the quadrant model is a holistic model. Each square builds upon the last square. Each square adds new elements, yet it contains all of the elements of the squares that preceded it. Response is the third square of the first quadrant. Recall that response is a reaction to stimuli. Responses are often predetermined, because certain stimuli evoke certain responses automatically. You often don’t have control over your responses. Your responses are often impulsive. Responses are often predetermined and you do not really have a choice about them. For instance, a doctor taps your knee with a hammer when you sit. Your leg responds by kicking up. This is an automatic response that is ingrained in you and you have no control over it. Behavior is action in accordance with orders.

Behavior encompasses responses. Responses are behaviors. But behavior connotes awareness that there is a higher order, or authority, and a submission to it. Behaviors are responses. If my boss tells me to do something, and I do it, I am responding. But I am also behaving. Also behavior has the connotation of being ritualistic. Behaviors are often observed in groups. Behaviors have the connotation of being actions that are commonly practiced. For instance, religions have ritualistic behaviors that glue the group together and are done to align the group with God, or gods, or a higher Order.

Doing encompasses responses, and behaviors. When you respond you are doing something. When you behave you are doing something. But doing is more individualistic. People do things often achieve goals. You can do something because you want to make a name for yourself. For instance, you can practice basketball a lot because you want to be an NBA player, and you want to be famous. The dream is to play in the NBA. You act accordingly. You do things to achieve this. You practice every day. You jump a lot. You do a lot of push-ups. You eat a particular diet, and so on and so forth. These actions do not necessarily have to be associated with orders given to you. In order to do these things you are not necessarily following orders. You are doing your own thing. There is not necessarily a script, or instructions that you are following. You are not necessarily acting in a planned way. When you behave, everything that you do is planned. What you do is shaped by instructions given to you. When you do you can deviate from these instructions. Doing can deviate from behavior. Doing encompasses behavior and response. Like I said, when I behave and respond, I am doing. But this is a holistic model. Doing encompasses these. But it also has elements that are different from these. The nature of the quadrant model is that it is holistic.

The third square is destructive. The third square is spontaneous. Recall the second square is very planned. The second square is reactions in accordance with orders. The first square is conservative like the second square is conservative. Responses are often determined by stimuli and survival mechanisms already in place within the individual that is responding. The third square can be seen as more spontaneous. The third square is about breaking the rules. The first and second squares are about following rules and regulations. The third square can be seen as bad. It can be seen as sinful. The third square breaks away from the rules and regulations. An example may be getting a tattoo in the orthodox Jewish religion. That is something that somebody would do, and not a behavior. If an orthodox Jew got a tattoo then he is not behaving. The torah has prohibitions against getting tattoos according to orthodox rabbis. So getting a tattoo would be breaking away from the commandments of God according to orthodox rabbis.

The third square less in control. It is more spontaneous. Think about thinking. Thoughts are constantly going on and they are difficult to control. An example of this is I tell you- don’t think of a pink elephant. Even though I told you not to think of a pink elephant, you think of one anyways. That is because it is difficult to control your thoughts. It is also somewhat difficult to control your emotions. Thought is the first square of the third quadrant. Emotion is the second square of the third quadrant.

Dreaming is the fourth square of the third quadrant. Dreams tend to be very out of control. I described that when you dream you think, and have emotions, and do things. But the quality of your thoughts is different when you dream. When you dream a part of your frontal lobe that is responsible for questioning things is turned off. Therefore you do not question things as much in your dreams. Therefore, when you dream and see something that is bizarre, like a giant monster, you do not question if it is real or not. Otherwise you might realize you are dreaming and wake up. So when you are dream you act more impulsively and don’t question things as much. Another part of your frontal lobe is turned off when you dream. This part is associated with your inhibitions. Therefore, in dreams you are more likely to do things that you wouldn’t normally do in real life. This relates to what I was saying about the third square. Dreaming is in the third quadrant. And dreaming is pretty wild. Bizarre things happen in dreams and they are not questioned very much. Also, you do things that you wouldn’t normally do. One example of this is related to Freud’s idea about the Oedipal complex.

Freud believed that men have a subconscious desire to have sex with their Mom’s and kill their Dads. He called this the Oedipal complex. He named it after a Greek myth about a boy who killed his Dad and had sex with his Mom. Freud said that all humans subconsciously want to do this. He said that this Oedipal theme could be seen in mythologies throughout the world. Freud believed that mythologies were shaped by the subconscious, and this is why he thought that this Oedipal theme permeates mythologies in cultures throughout the world. Many people do have at least one dream of having sex with their Moms in their life. In regular life you may be unlikely to do this. But when dreaming you are more likely to do this, because your inhibitions are decreased. This is the nature of the third square. The third square is characterized by fewer inhibitions. Recall square three is destructive. Square three is the top right square. Behavior is in the second quadrant. Behavior is very inhibited. Behavior is shaped by orders, or instructions. Behavior is planned. The third square is more spontaneous. The third square is less planned. The third square is more of an individual. The third square is more destructive.

The third square is also the most physical. It is the most solid. Thinking is the first square of the third quadrant. Thinking is the first square. So thinking is not completely physical. Scientists question if thinking is purely physical. But scientists do think that thinking is physical. Scientists think that thinking occurs in the brain and is due to physical processes within the brain. Scientists think that thoughts occur due to the firing of action potentials in the brain. These firings are electrical and chemical. They are electrical so there is an ethereal quality to them. But they are physical phenomena. When people think, action potentials in the brain fire. When people learn, new connections in the brain are produced between neurons. Thinking is neuronal. Action potentials are fired within neurons in the brain. Neurons are fundamental functional units within the brain. The point I’m making is that thinking is very physical. And after you think you learn. When something is learned, like I said, connections are made between neurons in the brain. These connections are physical connections. The brain changes as you learn. For instance, more synapses may be produced in the brain as you learn. Synapses are empty spaces between neurons. Thoughts can change the nature of synapses. When an action potential fires neurotransmitters, which are chemicals, are released into the synapses. These neurotransmitters signal a new neuron to fire. As you can see, physical processes are in charge of neuronal firings. Neuronal firings correlate with thoughts.

Emotion is the second square of the third quadrant. Because it is in the third quadrant, it is the most physical of the second squares. Emotion has a quality that is more physical than perception, faith, and passion.

Because emotion is the second square, emotion is cultural. Emotions are designed to signal to others what you are feeling. Emotions correspond with physical expressions. For instance, if you are sad, then you cry. This signals to other people that you are vulnerable. It signals to them that your ego has been hurt. For instance, if you consider yourself a good basketball player, and you did not play well and people said that you were not good, you may cry. If you played good, however, you may be happy. If you are happy then you smile. Also you may stand differently. You may be more open and your posture may be better. There is a very physical component to emotions. If you are happy, this may signal people to approach you. So, again, there is a cultural component to emotion. Emotions affect people around you and encourage reactions. If you are angry you may turn red. You may clench your fists. You may get in a posture that makes you look like you want to fight. You might punch things, or clap your hands together, or hit your own body. These are all physical expressions that signal emotions. And these expressions evoke reactions by others. If you are scared, then you may shrink and contort your body. You are doing this to protect your body. Again, emotions are shaped by the ego. If I am angry it is because something hurt or threatened my body or ego. If I think that I can fend off this attack by being angry then I may become angry. Or I may become sad. I will most likely be sad if I don’t think I can scare off the threat to my body/ego.

Emotion is also very physical in the same sense that thinking is very physical. Thinking scientists hypothesize is caused by the firing of action potentials in the brain by neurons. Thoughts correspond to the firings of action potentials. Emotions, scientists say, are also caused by physical phenomenon in the body. Emotions are influenced by thoughts. If you think happy thoughts, then this influences your emotions. Happy thoughts would be thoughts that boost your ego. If you think happy thoughts then the neurotransmitter dopamine might be released more in your brain. This neurotransmitter makes you feel happy. So these happy thoughts will make you happy emotionally. Scientists say that neurotransmitters in the brain that promote happiness make you happy. Scientists believe that all emotions are tied with the release of specific neurotransmitters in the brain. So, emotion is very physical.

Also emotions are hormonal. Emotions are very physical in that they are correlated with the release of hormones in the body. When you are happy, then hormones are released in your body associated with happiness. Drugs that doctors prescribe influence the release of hormones and neurotransmitters in your body to make you feel certain ways. Food is a kind of drug. Food is just interplays of chemicals. These chemicals affect the release of hormones in the body and neurotransmitters in the brain, causing you to feel emotions. If there is a physical threat to your ego/body, then you may become scared. The emotion of fear corresponds with a release of a hormone called adrenaline. This hormone creates a fight or flight response. When you are scared you are prepared to either run or fight off the threat.

Also emotions are very physical in that physical things you do affect emotions. Scientists have shown that if you force yourself to smile, even if you are not happy, this corresponds with releases of hormones and neurotransmitters related to happiness, and actually do make you feel happy. Doing physical things like exercising can promote happiness.

If you do something though that causes you pain, and you don’t like it, then this may make you angry. For instance, a kid may be angry when he has to do his homework. The act of doing his homework may make him angry if he does not like the assignment. Maybe the assignment is not allowing him to play basketball, and he wants to play in the NBA. His ego, his identity would be better suited and will make more gains playing basketball. Also basketball the kid might think is more fun, and he thinks this particular assignment is tedious.

The third square of the third quadrant is doing. Because it is the third square of the third quadrant, doing is the most physical of all of the squares. The third square is solid. The third square is action. I discussed how doing encompasses behavior and response, but it also expands on these. You can do things that are not behaviors or responses. For instance, you may decide to jump right now on a table. Nobody told you to jump. So it was not necessarily a behavior. You did not do that in accordance with an order. Also you did not do it because any stimuli caused you to do it. So it was not necessarily a response. Maybe you did it because you want to be stronger. You want to be able to jump higher. You decided to jump and see how high you can jump and work out your legs. Every behavior, and every response is something you do. But not everything you do is necessarily a behavior or a response. This is a holistic model. Each square builds on the previous squares. Each square has elements of its own, yet it builds on the squares before it.

People do things for a purpose. People do things to accomplish goals. If you want to play in the NBA, then you might shoot 500 shots a day. You do this in order to get better. Playing in the NBA is the dream. You do things in order to accomplish this dream.

What you do is highly shaped by your ego. Again, emotions cause people to do things. If an enemy of yours does something that hurts your ego/body, then you will do something to protect your ego/body. You may get mad and hurt that person. You may be scared and run away from that person. If I know that I can make a million dollars making music, then I may be more inclined to want to make music.

What you do is extremely shaped by your physical. Physical qualities affect what you do. For instance, if I am seven feet tall, then I may be more inclined to dunk a basketball and play a lot of basketball. Some scientists say that Einstein had a brain that allowed him to perform spatial tasks better. They say that the part of his brain that was associated with spatial thinking was bigger. Therefore, he did more mathematics. He had a brain that gave him an advantage in performing mathematics. So he performed more mathematics. Also, by performing mathematics, this probably also influenced his brain. By performing a lot of mathematics, he may have encouraged the part of his brain associated with spatial thinking to grow even more. So there is a sort of feedback loop. If somebody has a body that makes him predisposed to be a good weight lifter, then he may do a lot of weight lifting. The more that he weight lifts, the stronger he will become, and the better at weightlifting he will become. By doing things you affect your body. But your body also affects what you do. So doing is extremely physical.

I talked about how each square encompasses the previous squares before it, but also builds on them. Thinking and doing are very related. Jesus in the gospels says that if you think about adultery it is like you did it in your heart. Jesus is saying that thinking and doing are very connected. Scientists study visualization. They say that just by thinking about doing something, it is like you actually do it, literally. They say that thinking about doing something is almost the equivalent of doing it, physically. For instance, if you think about lifting weights for an hour they say, it is the equivalent of lifting weights for 30 minutes. Scientists point out that when you think about doing something, the muscles in your body responsible for doing it, are activated, even if you are not physically acting it out. So you can get stronger just by thinking about lifting weights. Also you can get better at a sport just by thinking about doing it.

The way that you think affects what you can do. When I played basketball when I was younger I often thought of myself as being Black. The stereotype is that Black people are good at basketball. So I would think of myself as Black, and I felt like I played better when I did this.

Emotions affect what you can do. Charles Barkley described that before games for a while he would make himself very angry sometimes so that he would play more intensely. I have a friend who says that he prays before he works out. He says that this puts him in a peaceful mood so he can work out better. Before I would take tests in high school sometimes I would tell myself that I was a genius. This would make me feel happy and confident and prepared to take the test. Sometimes before I played basketball I would tell myself that a player on the other team said something bad about my Mom. This would make me pumped up and want to play hard. Thoughts affect emotions, and emotions affect what you do.

I am proving the point that the third square is very physical. The third square is the most physical. This is also represented in the idea that physicists propose that thoughts manifest reality and influence the physical world. An example of this is an experiment done with water. A scientist had a person think thoughts that made him happy. The person did this in the presence of water molecules. When the water molecules were studied, the water molecules expressed patterns that were harmonious. The water molecules were distorted by the man’s thoughts. The man was told to think thoughts that made him angry. The water molecules then expressed patterns that were chaotic. So the man’s thoughts affected his physical environment.

Some scientists go so far as to say thoughts create the physical environment. This is a notion in quantum mechanics. This ties back to sensation and perception. There is an experiment where if you shoot an electron into a slit, the way that the electron deflects is affected by if somebody is observing the electron or not. This is an example of why people’s sensations and perceptions cannot be trusted completely. A persons thinking will affect the electron. The presence of the observer affects the electron. Some physicists go so far as to say that without an observer, there is no electron. This quantum mechanical idea suggests that the individual/the ego/the body creates reality. This quantum mechanical principal causes physicists to question if reality exists apart from the observer.

People say that they have a dream to accomplish something usually. Dreams are things that people shoot for, or goals that people aspire to. These dreams affect what you do. Often dreams are about things that are beyond your reach. Often dreams are associate with accomplishing things that are very difficult to achieve, or even seem impossible to achieve. For instance, I may say that I dream to play on the Olympic team for basketball. That is my dream. People may say that it is impossible, but I may still dream to do it. This dream will affect my thoughts about things and what I do. The dream affects all of the quadrants before it. The dream affects my beliefs, my faith, my perceptions about things, and everything. There is a saying “our reach should exceed our grasp, or what’s a heaven for”. When people dream they reach for something that is beyond reach often. For instance, some people dream to go to the moon. People often dream about the impossible. Some people dream about world peace. Some people dream about having sex with a very beautiful woman. These are all very common dreams.

My last example was people have dreams about having sex with a very beautiful woman. Dreams are often very selfish. Again, thoughts, emotions, doing, and dreaming are very shaped by the ego. The ego wants to be inflated and perpetuated. A way that the ego can do this is by having sex with a beautiful woman. Many people dream about making a lot of money. This also inflates and perpetuates the ego. Many people dream about killing their enemies, or getting revenge on their girlfriend. Dreams aren’t always positive. In fact, dreams are very selfish.

I took a class in college on the psychology of sleep. Now I’m talking about literal dreams. The professor described that most dream content is negative. Most dreams are about things that are perceived as negative. Mostly people are in danger in dreams. Mostly things are going on in dreams that people would not want to happen in real life. The vast majority of dreams are negative. Again, dreams are in the third quadrant, and the third quadrant is negative. The third square is always bad. The third square is always destructive. It is the doer. It is action. But the third square has a quality of being bad. That is because the third square is not as conservative as the first two squares. The first two squares are conservative.

I discussed how quantum physicists propose that thoughts shape and even manifest reality. I described that the third square is physical. Well scientists think that the third quadrant, thoughts, emotions, doing, and dreaming really influence the physical nature of reality. Of course this is true about doing. What you do changes the physical nature of reality. People build pyramids, people throw food into the garbage or on the street, and people go to war. All of these things that people do alters the physical nature of reality. But there is ideas that dreams have a big affect the physical nature of reality. This makes sense, because dreams are in the third quadrant, and the third quadrant is the most physical.

The idea that dreams can affect on physical reality is seen in the bible, and it is seen in cultures throughout the world. Dreams are seen as messages from God in the Bible. Dreams in the Bible are messages from God that can foretell the future, and influence the future. The dreams foretell the future. Therefore, the dreams tell the dreamer what the physical nature of reality will be in the future. The dreams also influence the future in that they inspire or influence the dreamer to fulfill them. Sometimes the dreamer fulfills them consciously. Sometimes the dreamer fulfills them unconsciously. But either way, the fact that the dreamer had the dream has an effect in the playing out of what the dreamer does in waking life to fulfill it.

An example of this is in the book of Genesis in the bible. Joseph has a dream in which 11 grains of wheat bow to him, as well as the moon and the sun. He interprets the dream metaphorically. It is interesting that the dream is interpreted metaphorically. It is not seen as literal. This reminds me of Freud. Recall that Freud said that dreams have manifest content that is really metaphorical of sex. Sex is often seen as kind of bad. Freud believed that dreams were all about sex and death. The third quadrant is bad, so it makes sense if dreams are allegorical of sex.

But Joseph interprets the dream in this way. He thinks that the 11 heads of grain represent his 11 brothers. He and the 11 brothers represent the patriarchs of Israel. These are the 11 brothers whose progeny according to the stories are the 12 tribes of Israel. Each brother is the patriarch of one of the tribes. The Jews seen as Jews today are the descendants of the brothers Judah, Benjamin, and Levi. The other brothers are the patriarchs of the lost tribes of Israel.

Joseph says that the grains of wheat represent his 11 brothers bowing down to him. Joseph interprets the sun and the moon as his Mom and Dad bowing down to him as well. Joseph says that this dream is FORETELLING THE FUTURE. He thinks that it is saying that one day his family is going to bow down to him and worship him. Joseph wore a Technicolor coat because he was his Dad’s favorite son. The brothers hear this dream and they are jealous. They want to kill Joseph. But Judah says that Joseph should not be killed but instead they should sell him to the Egyptians. They sell Joseph to the Egyptians, and Joseph ends up being a servant to a man named Potiphar in Egypt. The brothers took Joseph's coat and dipped it in blood and gave it to their Dad. Their Dad was Jacob. Jacob is the head patriarch of the Israelites, because his progeny is the 12 tribes of Israel. They told the Dad that an animal killed Joseph. The Dad was devastated because his favorite son was dead.

Potiphar’s wife tried to have sex with Joseph, but Joseph was a good man. He did not want to have sex with another man’s wife. This is against the ways of the God of Israel. Potiphar’s wife, however, is offended. She wants to punish Joseph. So she tells her husband that Joseph tried to rape her. She tried to make an advance on Joseph, and Joseph ran away. As he was running she took his cloak. She showed this to her husband as evidence that Joseph had tried to make an advance on her.

Joseph is then sent to jail. It is likely, according to rabbis, that Potiphar did not believe his wife, otherwise he would have had Joseph killed. Also Potiphar probably liked Joseph a lot, because he was a good man. In prison Joseph meets a baker and a wine maker. The baker has a dream.

The wine maker says in his dream there were three vines. Joseph again interprets the dream metaphorically. Remember, these dreams are seen as messages from God. And they are thought to be able to tell the future. Therefore, these dreams affect physical reality, and physical reality affects these dreams. It is a feedback loop. The dream can alter the nature of events. If Joseph never had the dream, then he wouldn’t had been sold by his brothers to Egypt, because it was his telling the dream to his brothers that caused them to sell him to Egypt. Joseph tells the winemaker that the three vines represent three days. He tells the winemaker that in three days his position will be restored to the Pharaoh.

The bread maker says that he had a dream in which there was three pieces of bread. Notice how we are seeing bread and wine imagery. Bread and wine imagery is very common in the bible. Jesus gives his 12 disciples bread and wine during the last supper. Joseph again says the three pieces of bread are three days. The bread maker says that birds ate the pieces of bread. Joseph tells the bread maker that in three days he will be executed. I just want to say that I think this is significant. We find that Egypt is going to have a famine. I don’t this is a coincidence. I don’t think it is a coincidence that the bread maker is killed and the winemaker is allowed to live. Without bread there will be a famine. And wine can contribute to decadence and immorality that can help to spawn conditions where a famine can be devastating.

The dream does foretell the future in the story. The wine maker is given back his position in three days. The bread maker is executed in three days. Joseph tells the wine maker to remember him.

Later the Pharaoh has a dream. The pharaoh says in his dream seven famished cows ate seven fat cows. He also sees in his dream small grains of wheat devour seven large grains of wheat. He needs somebody to interpret what the dream means. Again, Pharaoh sees the dream as a divine message. Cultures throughout the world have seen dreams as messages from divine, transcendent, spiritual realms. Dreaming is the fourth square of the third quadrant. The fourth square is always seen as transcendent. The fourth square does have a quality of being extraordinary. Anything that is associated with the divine is extraordinary.

Nobody can interpret the dream. The wine maker, however, remembers that Joseph can interpret dreams. The wine maker tells the Pharaoh about Joseph. The Pharaoh summons Joseph to interpret his dream. Again, Joseph interprets the dream metaphorically. He sees the dream as foretelling the future. Joseph says that the seven cows, and the seven grains, represent seven years. Joseph says that in seven years there will be a famine for seven years. So Joseph tells Pharaoh that for seven years he should gather a surplus of grain. Then for the seven years of famine Egypt can survive. The Pharaoh is amazed and he makes Joseph into his second and command. As a result, Joseph is seen as a God to the Egyptians. Pharaoh was seen as divine, and because Joseph became his second and command, the Egyptians saw Joseph as divine.

Seven years later there is a famine. So Joseph was correct in his interpretation. Joseph did tell the future. During the Famine Josephs 11 brothers come to Egypt for help because they are starving. At first they do not notice that Joseph is their brother. This is a lot like the story of Jesus. In the story of Jesus, Jesus dies and resurrects. When Jesus comes back to life and is walking with his disciples, the disciples do not recognize him. Remember that for all the brothers knew, Jesus was dead. They had sold him to Egypt. Judah sold him. Similarly Jesus was sold to the Roman army in Israel. Judas sold him. These parallels are not coincidental. This is not a coincidence. These stories are supposed to be analogous.

Joseph’s brothers don’t recognize Joseph. To make a long story short Joseph ends up revealing his identity to his brothers. He then brings them and his Dad and Mom into Egypt. Because Joseph is the second and command to the Pharaoh Joseph is able to do this. Jacob, Joseph’s Dad says, my son was dead but now he is alive. To Jacob it is like his son died and resurrected. This is very similar to the Jesus story where Jesus, the favorite son of God, dies and resurrects, and comes back to his disciples to spread the gospel and save Israel; more on that later hopefully.

But the point is that the story of Joseph is permeated with dreams. These dreams are seen as from a transcendent source. They are seen as from God. These dreams are capable of foretelling the future. They even create the future. If it weren’t for Joseph having the dream that his family bowed to him and worshiped him, then his family would have never bowed to him and worshipped him. Because it was by him telling this dream to his brothers, that his brothers sold Joseph to Egypt, which eventually ironically lead to the outcome of Joseph's dream coming true, and his brothers and parents bowed down to him.

Many people claim that dreams can tell the future. Many people say that they have had dreams that predicted a future event. It is undoubtedly so that dreams influence the future, because dreams that you have will effect what you do.

One theory of dreams is that dreams are practice for waking life. After sleeping people are better at doing activities that they did before going to sleep than if they did not sleep. The theory is that during dreams people do things that they do in waking life, so when they are awake they are better at doing the activities. In other words, dreams are a kind of practice and preparation for waking life.

I described that Freud believed that dreams are the workings of the subconscious mind. He believed that content in dreams matched content in mythologies. He thought that mythologies of the world grew out of dreams. He thought that dreams are allegorical. He thought that dreams are allegories of sex. Freud believed that human males subconsciously want to have sex with their Moms and kill their Dads. He named this complex the Oedipal complex. The complex is named after a Greek mythological figure named Oedipus.

In the story of Oedipus, Oedipus’s Mom and Dad are told by an oracle that Oedipus will kill his Dad and have sex with him Mom. It is interesting that the oracle is in a sort of trance, or dream like state when she receives these revelations. Again, these revelations are seen as from a divine source. Dream states/ trance like states are seen as gateways to divine levels of reality. The oracle gets in this dream like states and can see the future. Not only can she see the future, but also she influences the future. So once again, in these mythologies the dreams have an affect on the physical nature of reality. They both predict the future and produce the future.

Oedipus’s parents then throw Oedipus to the elements to die. They do not want the prophecy to come true, so they decide that he should be killed. But the baby Oedipus is found by a man and raised by that man. It is interesting that Joseph was thrown cast away by his family and so was Oedipus, in order to ensure that the prophecy doesn’t come true. But by casting him away, they make the prophecy come true. It is very ironic.

So this man raises Oedipus, and later in his life he runs into his Dad on a road. There is an altercation and Oedipus kills his Dad. Oedipus marries a woman who is a widow, and he has sex with her. He later realizes that this was his Mom. He also realizes that he killed his Dad. So Oedipus gouges his eyes out. The moral of the story is you cannot escape fate. The events were predetermined. Ironically, in trying to escape the prophecy, the prophecy ended up being fulfilled. The same moral can be seen in the story of Joseph.

But Freud used this myth as the foundation for his idea that the Oedipal complex is the structure of the subconscious of the human psyche. He noticed that cultures throughout the world had myths that involved the killing of Dad’s and having sex with the Mom. Freud believed that this theme permeates dreams. Freud thought that the content of dreams was metaphorical of this complex. For instance, if a man was playing soccer, and he scored a goal, Freud would see this as metaphorical of him having sex with him Mom. The penis is the ball. The goal is his Mom’s vagina. The goalie may be the Dad.

Carl Jung was a protégé of Freud. Jung was a student of Freud. Jung moved away from Freud, stating that there are deeper meanings to dreams. Jung thought that people could gain better understandings of themselves from dreams, and that the content of dreams is not just metaphorical of sex, but metaphorical of archetypal psychological conflicts. Jung thought that dreams could lead people to deeper understanding of the life and the subconscious, and reality itself. Jung proposed that the subconscious mind, which he said operated in dream states, actually manifests physical reality. Many scientists say that dreams borrow from reality. It is proposed that people dream about things that they experience in reality, although dreams create varieties of these experiences. But Jung went so far as to say that the subconscious mind of dreams produces reality.

For instance, Jung described how people have many experiences with UFOs. Jung believed that UFOs might be real. There really may be real literal extraterrestrial vehicles flying in the sky that people sometimes observe. But he also believed that they might be projections of the subconscious mind being transposed into reality. Jung thought that people’s psychological conflicts might not just be seen in dreams, but they manifest themselves in the physical world, as projections of their subconscious struggles. Just as dreams are manifestations of subconscious struggles, Jung thought reality might be a manifestation of subconscious struggles. Many people may say that this idea is utterly bizarre. But then physicists study quantum mechanics and they point out that the observer does manifest reality. They go so far as to say without an observer, there is no reality. Maybe then, Jung’s notion is not so far fetched after all. But again, this ties into what I was saying. The third quadrant is the most physical. Dreams seem to transcend the physical in a way. They are the fourth square of the third quadrant, so dreams do in a way transcend the physical, but Jung is saying that dreams in a way are essential in the production of the physical world. The subconscious mind produces dreams according to Jung, and the subconscious mind also produces reality.

Evolutionary psychologists would say that reality produces the subconscious mind. Evolutionary psychologists might say that if it is true that there are archetypes in dreams, and dreams of people throughout the world shape mythologies, and these mythologies therefore have a common structure, then this subconscious mind that is revealed in dreams was a product of evolutionary forces. They would perhaps say that all humans have a common ancestry, and all humans had similar environmental conditions that they had to struggle to survive in, so therefore all humans’ subconscious minds are similar, because they evolved in a similar manner. But again, quantum physicists may not disagree with this biological interpretation, but it is more complicated than that. Because apparently, humans create the physical world as they observe it. Which came first, would be the question, reality, or the subconscious mind? Or are they simultaneous?

There are other scientists who say that dreams are just random and they don’t have any meanings. They say that humans are just meaning making creatures, and they search for meaning where there is none.

But the interesting thing is dreaming is the fourth square of the third square. I discussed how when people dream, their physical bodies are paralyzed. They are in a sense disconnected from their physical bodies. They are separated in a way from their physical bodies. Yet in their dream they are still an ego. They are still a body. But that body is imaginary. The person is producing that body in his imagination. The person is also producing his environment. There is no real environment around him. He may perceive trees, he may perceive rocks, he may perceive his Mom, but none of those things are real. He is making them up in his mind. Nothing is really real. It is all an illusion. Well, physicists are starting to say that this may not just be the nature of dream reality.

This may be the nature of reality itself. Everything is sort of like a dream. Dreaming encompasses everything before it. It encompasses sensation, and perception. It encompasses belief, and behavior. It encompasses thought and doing. All of these things affect dreams. And dreams affect all of these things. But also life is kind of like a dream. People have bodies. Well, people seem to have bodies. I seem to have a body. My perceptions are indicating to me that I have a body. Physicists say that the observer manifests physical reality. That goes for the observer’s body as well. The body may not be real. It is real, in that you can perceive it. You can feel your body. Your bodies’ hormones seem to give you emotions. You have behaviors. You think. When you think your brain is activated it seems. Again quantum physicists are starting to say that reality is very bizarre. The participant produces reality when he observes it. Reality produces the participant. Which comes first. Most of reality is empty space. It appears there is a lot of matter, but really it is empty space. So in a sense, like in a dream, the body, and the environment, thoughts, perceptions, beliefs, doings, this all might be a grand illusion. In fact it is. Reality is very much like a dream. In a dream you have a body, and you protect that body, and there is an environment. But the body and the environment are illusory. They are not real. If the body is stabbed in the dream, you wake up and there is no stab on your real physical body, hopefully. Reality and dreams seem to be pretty similar. Apparently your physical body is illusory as well, and so is the environment that you find yourself in. At least, that is what reality is telling physicists. Or, if you are that deep of a thinker, physicists are telling reality. Or even I am telling reality, because I don't even know if the physicists are real that are telling me this about reality. Maybe they are just projections of my subconscious mind. So life is kind of like a dream.

I described that thinking, emotion, doing, and dreaming are very associated with learning. That is because these are the squares of the third quadrant, and the third quadrant is the rational, interpersonal quadrant. The third quadrant is associated with learning. The first two quadrants are more conservative. I discussed that the first quadrant is conservative. The first quadrant is sensation, perception, response, and awareness. People who are sensitive, perceptive, responsible, and aware are conservative. People who are perceptive care about others and their environment. They care a lot about harmony. Same thing with people who are sensitive and responsible. People who are aware are often concerned with things that affect them and others. There is cancer awareness, and climate awareness. Also the second quadrant is very conservative.

The first quadrant points to the second quadrant. You have a lot of awareness. This is consolidated into beliefs. There is the saying that you have to see it to believe it. Your awareness is of your sensations and perceptions. This awareness is consolidated into beliefs. The second quadrant is about belonging. Faith has a relational quality. If you are faithful you are loyal. People behave as groups. Also behavior is a kind of patterned doing. Behavior is predictable and it is planned. Belonging encompasses everything before it. If you have the right belief and faith and behavior then you belong. But also it indicates what comes after it. Belonging has a lot to do with your physical. If you want to belong to an African American gang, then if you are not African American, even if you have the correct beliefs, faith, and behavior, you don’t belong. I discussed that belonging indicates what comes after it. Thinking is the square that comes after belonging. Thought is very much affected by your ego. Your ego is determined by your physical. If you are a man and have a heterosexual man with a penis, then this can give you different thoughts than a heterosexual woman with a vagina. Studies show that sexuality is determined by physical factors. A persons sex is if he is male or female, and this is determined by if you have a penis or a vagina. Whether you have a penis or a vagina is determined by your genes. Sexuality, or sexual preference, is determined by physical factors as well. Studies show that homosexuals have a different structure to their brains than heterosexuals.

Belonging also points to thought in that people think with language. Studies show that thought is in part subvocalized speech. When people think they think with words. Studies have shown that when people think in their heads their vocal chords are activated. This suggests that thinking in a way is talking to yourself. The group that you belong to then will affect your thinking. People in different groups speak differently. African Americans tend to have a different style of speak than European Americans. Chinese people have a different language than German people. Studies show that language affects the way that you think. Studies also show that languages divide along genetic ethnic lines. When groups separate then they develop different languages, and they also become more genetically dissimilar. The language that you speak affects the way that you think. For instance, people who speak gendered languages, it has been suggested, think about things differently than people who speak non gendered languages. So belonging indicates what comes after it, thinking. The group you belong to is going to affect how you think.

The second quadrant is conservative like the first quadrant. Belief and faith and behavior glue together communities. But thinking is causes people to question their beliefs. When you think you alter your beliefs. The third quadrant is more destructive. The second quadrant is comfort. Belief, faith, behavior, and belonging is comfort. Thinking breaks you out of comfort.

Also I discussed that the third quadrant is very physical. Studies show that thinking is a very physical phenomena. Studies show that people think through gestures. For instance, when people perform math, they do things like count with their fingers. Also people think by writing. Studies show that when people perform math they do a lot of pointing, and cognitive scientists say that these gestures are a part of the thinking process.

Quadrant 4: SOCIAL. The fourth quadrant is contemplation, passion, flowing, and knowing. The fourth quadrant is Ken Wilber’s transrational, transpersonal, abstract stage of consciousness. I discussed contemplation. When you contemplate you think deeply about something. When you contemplate you search for connections and patterns. Also when you contemplate you think about what can be. Contemplation is abstract. Dreaming points to, or indicates what comes after it. Dreaming points to contemplation. When you dream while you are sleeping your mind generates abstract realities that are different from the normal world. But dreams are not completely separate from normal reality. Dreams borrow from normal reality. When you dream you still experience people who you experience in waking life and things that you experience in waking life. But also things that are out of the ordinary occur in dreams.

There is another connotation of dreaming. People have dreams and these are goals that are out of the ordinary. Dreams move people to be something. Dreams move people toward goals that are not yet achieved, and are often outside of one's grasp. A dream is often extraordinary. For instance, I may dream to go to mars. This is a farfetched goal and it is kind of abstract. I have no notion of what it is like to be on mars. Similarly when you contemplate you think of possibilities. You think of what can be. Contemplation is abstract thinking.

I discussed passion. Passion is the byproduct of being a part of something larger than yourself. When you are passionate you are a part of something greater than yourself and you transcend your ego. When you contemplate you transcend your ego. When you contemplate you think of what can be. When you contemplate you focus on things that are beyond rational comprehension. When you contemplate you see the oneness of things, and to do this you must in a sense die to yourself. When you die to yourself, and are a part of something larger than yourself, you are passionate.

I discussed flowing. When you flow what you do is pure. When you flow what you do is perfect. You are not aware of your body when you flow. Again, the fourth quadrant is transcending the ego. The third quadrant is very ego oriented. The fourth quadrant is transcendence of the ego. When you flow you are a part of a higher harmony. When you flow you are not planning things out, or doing things necessarily to accomplish a certain goal, but you are just completely letting things happen. I had this experience when I played basketball when I was younger. I was not aware of my body. I was not aware of what I was doing. I was constantly moving. I was constantly skipping. What I did was pure. It was better than what could have been if I planned out what I was doing. I did not plan what I would do next but let things happen. As a result what I did was perfect. I had the same experience when I wrote raps when I was younger. If you plan out what you are going to say and try to say what you want to say then what you say isn’t that good. But if you let go and allow the sound to guide you and a higher harmony guide you, then what emerges is a lot better than if you tried to manipulate the rap the way you want it to be.

The flow is synonymous with the zone. Michael Jordan discussed the zone. Michael Jordan is one of the few NBA players that I have studied that flowed like I did when I was younger. You can tell by the way somebody moves if they are flowing. Michael Jordan discussed that when he was in the zone he had a different subjective experience of time and space. He discussed that he was completely in the moment. He was in the now. He discussed that time seemed to be slower. He described the hoop seemed to be bigger. Everything he did was effortless.

Michael Jordan also discussed that before every one of his games he was very nervous. People say that it is funny that the best basketball player of all time was nervous before he played. But the reason he was the best player of all time is because he was nervous before he played. If you have what you are going to do planned out you aren’t that nervous. But Michael Jordan did not have all of his moves planned out. In a sense every time he went out he wasn’t sure how things would play out. He was spontaneous. He let things happen. He prepared so much what he did was automatic and he could get in the zone.

Also fear can put somebody into the zone. People have experiences of the zone in very stressful situations. For instance, athletes describe the zone a lot, and athletes are pretty stressed performing in front of people. Stress can facilitate somebody to not think and to let go and flow. Hang gliders sometimes describe the zone. There is a lot of stress in hang gliding. If one mistake is made then the person may die. So the person has to be completely focused and in the moment. When you are completely in the moment you flow. When you flow other concerns evaporate and you are completely in the moment. I noticed that I could only write raps very good when I was playing on a basketball team. Because when I was playing on a team I was often stressed, and for some reason being stressed helped facilitate the flow for me. I always considered myself a mediocre practice player. But in games, especially big games, I felt I would let go and do the best. I was also known for making game winning shots. I think that is because when I was stressed I often let go and did the best. Interestingly, Socrates, a famous philosopher described the same thing about himself. Socrates was described as having his head in the clouds. But he also fought in war. And people said that Socrates was actually a very good soldier because he thrived under pressure. Other people were good in practice, and Socrates wasn’t that great in practice. But when the pressure was on and people were falling apart Socrates stepped up.

That is an important point that I want to make. Stress can facilitate the flow. I discussed how while in the zone people have a different subjective experience of time and space.

The same is true in dreams. In dreams people have different subjective experiences of time and space. People also dream the whole time when they sleep. But they wake up only remembering bits and pieces of their dreams. I had a basketball game where I had over 40 points in real life. But after the game I did not remember scoring any except one. The Coach told me I had over 40 points. I was in the zone.

But recall dreaming is the fourth square of the third quadrant. So it is transcendent and special. But it also points to the forth quadrant. The forth quadrant is transcendent and unique compared to the other three quadrants. The forth is always different from the previous three. In dreaming there is a different subjective experience of time and space. Dreaming points to contemplation. Dreaming is the fourth square of the third quadrant, so it indicates the nature of the first square of the fourth quadrant. The first square of the fourth quadrant is contemplation. Contemplation is like day dreaming. When you day dream reality around you evaporates and you enter a different space. People daze off. It is like they separate from the physical reality. I described that while in the zone people have different subjective experiences of time and space. I also discussed that mostly dream content is negative. Dream psychologists have discovered that mostly dreams are permeated by negative content. Dreams often have content in which the person is stressed. People while dreaming are often doing things like running away from threats, or are in situations where they are uncomfortable, like being naked around other people. I discussed that the flow can often be triggered by stress. When people are very stressed they can let go and flow. People in war often describe flowing. People in war have different experiences of time and space. Sometimes people come back from war and they cannot function in normal society anymore. They need to go back to war because normal reality is not enough.

The experience of the flow in war can be seen in the story of the Israelites fighting the Amorites. The Israelites are fighting the Amorites in battle. Then the sun stands still and the Israelites destroy the Amorites. It is also described that pillars from the sky fall on the Amorites and kill them. The sun standing still is metaphorical of the zone. Recall that in the zone there is a different subjective experience of time and space. The sun standing still is metaphorical of time slowing down. This could be seen as metaphorical of the Israelites getting into the zone and defeating their enemies.

When you flow then surprises happen. For instance, Hot Sauce, a famous street basketball player, described that he would dribble all day. He said that one day he was dribbling against somebody and he said that he did a move out of nowhere that sent the guy flying. He said he didn’t plan it out. It happened on accident but it sent the guy flying. He said that he did it again and the guy went flying. Hot Sauce had not planned out what he was going to do, and he did something better than anything he could have planned out.

The second quadrant and the fourth quadrants are opposites. Yet the fourth quadrant informs the second quadrant. Brilliant things often occur in the zone. For instance, a good move in sports may be tried to be duplicated by others. It is a behavior when you try to duplicate something that occurred in the zone.

Einstein was in the zone when he came up with some of his discoveries. He said that he would contemplate something for a very long time and then we did not expect it the insight would come to him. The insight that Einstein had was knowledge. After a lot of contemplation, Einstein could know. Other people believed what Einstein taught, but Einstein knew what he said.

Other people just believe in and have faith in what he tells them. So belief and faith and behavior are the opposite of contemplation passion and flowing. The second quadrant and the fourth quadrant are opposites. But the fourth quadrant informs the second quadrant. People gain knowledge and then this knowledge is believed and people have faith in it.

Knowledge is the fourth square of the fourth quadrant. Faith is the second square of the second quadrant. Therefore, knowledge and faith are complete dynamic opposites. This is true. This opposition can be seen in the phenomena of the placebo effect. If a doctor gives somebody a sugar pill and says it will heal his sickness, it is likely that it will heal the persons sickness if he and the doctor have faith that it will. But if he and the doctor have knowledge that it is a placebo pill than it will not heal the disease. So knowledge can counteract faith. But also Knowledge informs faith. Like I described, people gain knowledge, and then people have faith in this knowledge.

Knowledge: I already defined contemplation, passion, and flowing. Now it is time for knowledge. Knowledge is the fourth square of the fourth quadrant. The fourth square is always questionable. The fourth always doesn’t seem to belong. That is the nature of the fourth quadrant in general. The fourth quadrant itself does not seem to belong. The fourth quadrant is the transrational, transpersonal quadrant. Some may question if there is such thing as the flow. The fourth square is always different from the previous three. Yet the fourth square encompasses the previous three. When you flow you sense, you perceive, you do, and you have emotions, but there is a different quality to all of these things. Also practice such as behaviors performed in basketball practice, allows one to be able to flow. Knowledge is the fourth square of the fourth quadrant, so it especially seems to not belong. Many philosophers have questioned if it is even possible to know. The topic of knowledge is so important to philosophers that the study of knowledge has its own name- epistemology.

First, the consensus by philosophers on the definition of knowledge was that knowledge is a justified true belief. Knowledge is a true belief in that it is correct. So if somebody points at a rubber ducky and says what is that and I say it is a rubber ducky, then that is a true belief. But knowledge is also justified. If I just guessed rubber ducky because I had a multiple choice option sheet and rubber ducky was option d and I just happened to think that option d would be a good guess, then I do not have knowledge that what the person pointed to was a rubber ducky. That was just a guess. But if my belief is justified, then it is knowledge. If I say rubber ducky because the rubber duckies are ducks and they are made of rubber and they float on water then I would have knowledge. The consensus among philosopher was that this was the definition of knowledge.

But then a philosopher came along and said that this definition of knowledge is inadequate. He used the case of a barn. He said that somebody can look at a barn and say that it is a barn and describe why it is a barn. He could be correct in his explanation. The person could say that it carries animals, it is a shelter, and it is red. This could be an adequate explanation. But the philosopher said that maybe it is not really a barn. He said maybe reality is a matrix, and in fact it is just a computer code of a barn. Maybe the person thinks he is pointing to a barn, but it is not really a barn but a projection of a barn. In fact, nothing is really as it seems, but everything is just an illusion in this matrix. Therefore, the philosopher said, knowledge would be possible. And the philosopher pointed out that nobody can be sure if we are in a matrix or not. So therefore, it is impossible to have knowledge.

My point is that knowledge is the fourth square of the fourth quadrant. The fourth is always questionable. The fourth doesn't seem to belong with the others. This is especially so for the fourth square of the fourth quadrant, knowledge.

Other philosophers questioned knowledge even further. Hume proposed the problem of induction. Induction is a form of deriving knowledge. When people induct something, they consider it true based on the thought that if it was true before, it will continue being true. For instance, people say that they know that the sun will rise tomorrow. Their reasoning for this is that the sun rose every day before this. Their reasoning that they know that the sun will rise tomorrow is they say that because it always rose before, it will rise again, so long as nothing happens like a crazy asteroid hitting earth and knocking it out of orbit. But Hume says that this inductive logic is flawed. People say that they think that something will happen again because before it would always happen again. But then Hume asks why they think that what happened before will happen again. And their response is because that’s the way that it has always been. They say that what happened before always happened again. But then Hume says that they are using induction to explain induction. Hume says you cannot prove a concept by using the concept to prove it.

Hume would point out that there is no reason that somebody can know that the sun will rise again tomorrow. The person can say that he knows that it will rise again tomorrow because it always did this before, but then if asked why the person thinks what happened before will happen again will continue to work this way, the person will say his reasoning for believing this is that he has experienced that things that happen before happen again. But Hume says that he is using induction to explain induction. Hume points out that the person will say that the reason he knows the sun will rise again is because the laws of physics are constant. But Hume would ask how he knows the laws of physics are constant. The person would point that the laws of physics were always the same before so they should keep being the same. But then Hume would say again the person is using induction to explain induction. Hume says that there is no way that the man can know that the law of physics stay the same. Hume said that knowledge through induction is impossible.

Another philosopher came along and he said that knowledge through deduction is impossible. Knowledge through deduction is knowledge gained through Aristotelian logic. This philosopher pointed out that people cannot be sure that the laws of deductive logic are correct. So again, knowledge was further questioned.

Aristotle said that knowledge begins with sensation. It is interesting that sensation is the first square and knowledge is the last square, the sixteenth square. All that one can know is what he senses what his beliefs are, what he does, and so on and so forth. Recall that the fourth always encompasses everything that came before it. Knowledge encompasses everything before it. After you contemplate and have passion and flow you know. But also to gain knowledge you sense, respond, emote, and do. The fourth always encompasses everything before it, yet it is different from everything before it.

Also knowledge in the bible is always associated with sex and death in the bible. I have been writing another book on that topic so I do not plan to go into that now in this book.So in this book I do not plan to go into detail about the 16th square knowledge. But I do want to mention this. In the garden of Eden story rabbis say that Adam and Eve had sex. They say that biting out of the fruit of knowledge was sex. Before doing this they were immortal. After doing this God said they must die. A very interesting thing is that scientists say that the first living organism were immortal. But they describe that sex, and the ability to replicate, caused them to become mortal, because replication causes energy. So sex literally did bring death to the first organisms. So knowledge and sex are related. Sex is kind of paradoxical in that it represents a desire to break out of your ego body and merge with another being (mostly of the opposite sex who represents your opposite). But sex also is ego oriented in that it confirms your ego body and gratifies sense pleasures which are ego oriented. So in sex there is a simultaneous desire to transcend the ego body and an ego body confirmation and grounding.

I also want to point out another interesting link between death and knowledge. Shamans are spiritual leaders in many cultures. Shamans go into death like trances where they claim to die. In their death like states they claim to get knowledge from the spirit world, or the source. They claim to get knowledge from God/ Being. They come back to their people with that knowledge that they claim they received in their deaths. In other words, these shamans experience a sort of death and resurrection. Jesus has a death and resurection and comes back to his people. It is interesting that in shamanic cultures throughout the world, there are figures that go into trances and come back with what they claim to be knowledge. A lot of these shamans claim to sort of die and be dismembered. I watched a show on this, and scientists have studied this phenomena and the shamans are not making it up. they literally do go into trances. Often the shamans start out these trances by dancing or repeating a sort of motion over and over again, and they get in a sort of zone like state, and then they collapse into their trance. A lot of tribes take their shamans very seriously because they see them as bridges to the divine. One fascinating thing is that a common thing that shamans claim to see in their trances is quadrants. I don't think that is a coincidence. There is a famous cave painting of a shaman falling into a trance, and an interesting thing about the cave painting is that the shamans legs are crossed as he is falling. There is the cross. Shamans would paint what they saw in their trances on cave walls.

It is interesting also the phenomon of near death experiences. People who have near death experiences claim to leave their bodies. They claim to feel an intense bliss. they claim that dieing is very pleasurable. There is pain they describe before they die often, but they claim that when they have lost consciousness and they are pretty much dead, they experience great bliss. A common thing that they experience is that they move toward a light. They describe that they have a very strong attraction for this light and they want to move toward it. This light is like God. It is interesting that in near death experiences people experience intense bliss, and also in orgasms during sex people experience intense bliss. People also claim that they feel bliss when they have an insight and gain knowledge. Another thing that happens is people often describe that they see their life flash before their eyes. This is fascinating because this is revealing that during near death experiences there is a different subjective experience of time and space like in dreaming. Recall that dreaming points to the fourth quadrant, and the fourth quadrant is knowledge. A scientific hypothesis about dreaming is that dreams can only build upon past experiences, and make variations of these. In a near death experience, people describe reexperiencing their past experiences. The tibetan book of the dead, a buddhist book, describes that when you die you go through the light and you end up being able to reincarnate in a new body. In other words, there is a death and resurrection. Some people claim to talk to God in near death experiences. But when people come back to life, a common theme is that they want to share their experience. They have knowledge, that only they have, that they want to share with others. Also these people, after these experiences, tend to have personality changes where they are more interested in learning and knowledge. I described that people in these near death experiences claim to leave their bodies and have astral/spirit bodies. They claim that they can look back on their bodies. There have been cases in operating rooms where patients describe things that only the doctor could have known, and nobody can know, unless they really were outside of their bodies looking at what was going on. For instance, people in near death experiences can describe what the doctor was doing when he was operating.

So there is a connection between knowledge and death. One can only attain real knowledge if he dies to his ego body. Some people take drugs to die to their ego bodies and others do not have to. Even sports or intense meditation or other venues can help people to give them a discipline to die to their ego bodies. But my point is that true knowledge can only come through death of the ego body. The ego contaminates reality and distorts it. And knowledge is connected to Being, the 17th square. Being is God. The only thing that one can really know is Being. But also knowledge is different from being and even separate and detached from being. Knowledge in a sense is a separation from Being. That may be why when Adam and Eve bite out of the tree of knowledge they are cast out of the Garden. The garden represented bliss and oneness with Being but when they accumulated knowledge they were cast out of it. It is also interesting that knowledge is also associated with extraterrestrial experiences where people describe having flow states, which is related to the forth knowledge quadrant, where there is different subjective experiences of time and space. Also they often talk about sexual operations done on them and being disembodied. Recall knowledge is related to sex and death. People often claim these extraterrestrials, or as Ancient Alien hypothesizers like to say gods or superhuman BEINGS, give humans knowledge.But as I said I have been writing a book specifically about knowledge and this book is focused on the quadrant model, so I digress. Now back to the quadrant model.

I described the quadrant model pattern. There is 16 squares and a 17th square  (the first square of the fifth quadrant) transcendent square which is God. The first square and third square are dynamic opposites and the second square and fourth square are dynamic opposites. The first square is Mind, the second is Culture, the third square is Body, the fourth square is Social, and the fifth square is God. The second square of the second quadrant would be the culture square of the culture quadrant. The third square of the fourth quadrant would be the body square of the social quadrant. You get the picture.

The squares of the quadrant model are

Quadrant 1: Instinctual primitive spiritual

Square 1: sensation

Square 2: perception

Square 3: response

Square 4: awareness

Quadrant 2: Magical religious groupish

Square 5: belief

Square 6: faith

Square 7: behavior

Square 8: belonging

Quadrant 3: Rational Interpersonal egoistic individualistic

Square 9: thinking

Square 10: emotion

Square 11: doing

Square 12: dreaming

Quadrant 4: Transrational Transpersonal

Square 13: contemplation

Square 14: passion

Square 15: flowing

Square 16: knowing

Quadrant 5: God

Square 17: being

Square 18 non-being

Square 19 ephemerality

I described the quadrants in terms of personality types. The first four squares are the senser, the perceiver, the responder, and teh aware person. This is the first quadrant. The second four squares are the believer, the faithful person, the behaver, and the belonger. This si the second quadrant. The third four squares are the thinker, the emoter, the doer, and the dreamer. This is the thrid quadrant. The fourth four squares are the contemplator, the passionate person, the flower, and the knower.

Let me explain how these quadrants relate to the myers briggs and keirsey personality models. The myers Briggs personality model consists of four dichotomies, that yield 16 personality types. The Myers Briggs personality Model was started by Carl Jung. Carl Jung came up with the first three dichotomies. After factor analysis Myers and Briggs discovered that there was another dichotomy. Again the fourth dichotomy is different and was discovered later. The fourth is always different from the previous three. The four dichotomies are

1. extraversion-intraversion

2. sensing-intuition

3. thinking-feeling

4. judging-perceiving

These are the four squares. The first square is extraversion- intraversion. Intraverts gain energy by being alone and being in their heads, while extraverts gain energy by being around others and are more action oriented.

The second square is sensing v. intuition

The second square is sensing v. intuition. These are called the perceiving functions. They are information gathering functions. Sensors are concerned more with facts and details, and intuitive people are concerned more with the big picture and deeper meaning

The third square thinking and feeling. These are the judging functions. Thinkers care more about logic and consistencey and doing what works. Feelers are more concerned with what other people feel and maintaining harmony with others

The fourth square is judging and perceiving. The fourth square always points outside itself and involves a larger context. This deals with how people relate to the outside world. Judgers prefer to use their thinking and feeling function when relating to the outside world. Perceivers prefer to use their sensation and inution function when relating to the outside world. Judgers tend to like to get things decided and plan things out. Perceivers tend to like to leave things open.

This leads to 16 types of people. Keirsey separates these types into four temparements. The four Kerisey temparaments are

quadrant 1- the idealist. square 1 infj the senser square 2 enfj the perceiver square 3 enfp the responder square 4 infp the aware person

quadrant 2- the guardian. square 1 isfj the believer square 2 esfj the faithful person square 3 estj the behaver square 4 istj the belonger

quadrant 3- the artisan. square 1 isfp the thinker square 2 esfp the emoter square 3 estp the doer square 4 istp the dreamer

quadrant 4- the rational. square 1 intj the contemplator square 2 entj the passionate person square 3 entp the flower square 4 intp the knower

There are 2 dichotomies that yield Keirsey's four temparements.

dichotomy 1- concrete and abstract

dichotomy 2-cooperative and utilitarian

Concrete people care more about details and facts. Abstract people care more about the big picture and connections.

Cooperative people care more about maintaining social harmony and utilitarian people care more about what works.

Quadrant 1 is the idealists. Idealists are abstract and cooperative. They are weird. Recall that the first square is weird. They are smart, but they like social harmony. They want to belong. They want to fit in. But at the same time they don't fit in because they are very abstract in their consciousness and are perceived as weird. They are sensitive, perceptive, responsible and aware. They care a lot about things like the environment, and nature. They are very spiritual and like to help people. They can tell a lot about others and can help others to feel better. They put others before themselves. When asked what the meaning of life is idealists say it is to find themselves. Recall that awareness is self awareness. Idealits want to find themselves. They desparately want to belong. They kind of want to be guardians. They look up to guardains. Idealists are rare making up about 10 percent of the populaton.

Quadrant 2 is the Guardians. Guardians are concrete and cooperative. They are normal. The second square remember is homeostasis. The second square is about maintaining order. The second square thinks black and white. The second square guardians are very into right and wrong. They are very into morality. They are not extremely deep thinkers. They are concrete. They are more concerned with facts. But also they are cooperative so they are concerned with social harmony and belonging. They do fit in and belong because they are not abstract and weird like the idealists. They tend to be religious. Even if they are not religious about religion, they are religious about something. By religious I mean they believe in something and have faith in something, but they don't necessarily have a deep knowledge about it. They maintain order and structure. They are good at producing social harmony and make good friends. They will take the shirt off their backs for you. If you ask a guardian what the meaning of life is he will say that it is to put food in the fridge and to take care of your family. Guardians are very into family and friends. But they kind of envy the artisans who are spontaneous and fun. They look down on them a bit because they are so wild and destructive and seem dumb, but at the same time they kind of want to be artisans. Guardians are rare plentiful making up about 50 percent of the population

Quadrant 3 is the artisans. Artisans are concrete and utilitarian. Artisans are cool. Artisans are very into the physical. Recall that the thrid square is the most physical. Artisans are rational. They think and they are emotional. They are doers. They love to do stuff. They love to have fun. They can be very spontaneous and even destructive. The third square is destructive. The third square is often seen as bad. They like sports and art. However, they kind of envy the rational because they want to be able to think abstractly. They may turn to drugs to do this. Artisans like respect. They want respect and authority. Artisans are plentiful making up about 35 percent of the population

Quadrant 4 is the rationals. Rationals are abstract and utilitarian. Abstrct people are weird. Abstract people look for principals and patterns and connections. The fourth quadrant is knowledge. The fourth quadrant is contemplation. Rationals are very contemplative. They tend to be calm but they can also be passionate. Rationals may not show emotions too much, but when they do they are out of control. Rationals are utilitarian. They do what works and don't care as much about social harmony. That is why they can be destructive. They can be transformative. Einstein was a rational. Einstein had a hard time taking care of himself. Rationals heads can be in the clouds. They are contemplating. They are kind of transcending the normal world. But also they can be chameleons. Rationals can fit in with the other types and pretend to be them. Especially the INTP who is the fourth square of the fourth quadrant. I am an INTP. INTPs see the big picture. Rationals are philosophers. Rationals are rare, making up about 5 percent of the population. The fourth always seems to not belong with the other three. Rationals are extremely rare and they are different from the other three.

These personality types relate to the four fields of inquiry. These fields of inquiry are

square 1 science. Science is the idealist. Science is a first square field of inquiry. Science is weird. Science is abstract. But science also is very concerened with belonging. Philosophers of science like Kuhn and Popper point out that science likes to consider itself objective. But science is very much shaped by authority. People can only see what they are looking for. Science is sensation and perception. And people only perceive what they are looking for. An example of this is the case of the pyramids. There was pictures that showed that there were cavities within the pyramids, but nobody made anything of it. It took an architect to look at the picture, who was aware of the capacity to build something from the inside out, to realize those cavities were used to build the pyramids. Science is very much shaped by consensus and tradition. Idealits are very affected by consensus and tradition. Boltzmann was a scinetist who proposed that atoms were real things and people thought that he was crazy. Scientists are often afraid to shake things up. Scientists tend to hold onto old views. He ended up committing suicide. It took until after he was dead for people to realize that he was right. This is very common in science. It happens all of the time. People in science often propose something and are called crazy by their fellow scientists and then much later they are proved right. It is difficult to trust science because as I described, it is based on sensation and perception, and sensation and perception is limited and flawed. Science is not objective, but very subjective. Like I said people only see what they are looking for and their findings are shaped by their prejudices. For a long time eugenics and science that studied race was very popular. But after world war II this became taboo and people stopped studying race. Cultural norms shape science and science is very much dependent on funding. So scientists are constantly trying to appeal to people and worry about others like idealists. Science, like idealists, is very into helping people. Science tries to fight cancer, and save the environment, and is aware of problems like the climate and asteroids. Science also gets into weird stuff like aliens and even goes into studying supernatural things like astral projections. Science, like idealists, is weird. Science is spiritual like idealists. Physics is actually mostly about the study of invisible forces, so there is a spiritual quality to it. Fields liek quantum mechanics are very weird, and study how thoughts affect reality. That is the nature of the first square.

square 2 religion. Religion is the guardian. Religion is about homeostasis like the guardian is. Religion is very into the status quo and maintianing order, like the guardian is. Religions offer laws and ways of living that are supposed to create harmony. Religions are about belief, faith, behavior and belonging. Religions often separate along ethnic lines. For instance, in Europe different ethnic groups adopted different religions. Northern Germany adopted protestantism and Southern Germany adopted catholicism and it can be argued that this was due to ethnic divisions. In Asia different ethnic groups adopted different forms of Buddhism. In arab lands different ethnic groups adopted different forms of Islam. Religions offer codes of behavior. Religions are very into what is right and wrong. Religions are very into morality like the guardian, and maintaining order. This is the nature of the second square. Many people think that religion and art are completely separate. The first two squares are always the duality. But they are very interconnected. Science has always informed religion and religion has always informed science. The idea of the big bang was proposed by a priest. Mendel, who discovered punnett square genetics was a monk. Science also tries to explain religion. Ancient astronaut scientists try to explain the bible and other holy texts as the products of alien visitations to earth.

square 3 art. Art is the artisan. Art is about thinking emotion doing and dreaming. Van Goh described that he painted his dreams. Art includes painting and music and dance and literature. Artists often describe that they express their emotions through art. Music has been described as emotion in sound form. Art makes people think. Art can be destructive and cause people to question things. Art often deals with subjects such as race and religion, and causes people to question their assumptions. Art can make you uncomfortable, like the artisan. Art shows off like the artisan. Art is fun like the artisan. Art is best when it is spontaneous. Artisans are spontaneous. Art shakes things up. Art can be used to support the status quo, but it also often shakes up the status quo.

square 4 philosophy. Philosophy is the rational. The fourth square always encompasses the previous squares. There is philosophy of science and philosophy of religion and philosophy of art. Philosophy is contemplation, passion, flowing and knowing. Philosophy is the love of knowledge. Knowledge is the understanding of something beyond just sensation and perception but a very deep understanding of something. Philosophy deals with the study of knowledge and the study of being and the study of concepts that are often beyond rational comprehension. Philosophy is seen as not belonging with the other three fields of inquiry. The fourth is always different. Philosophers like rationals, are seen as having their heads in the clouds. Philosophy deals with contemplating qualities that are beyond rational resolution, like beauty and Truth and God and love.

Philosophy is the love of knowledge. Knowledge is the understanding of something beyond just sensation and perception but a very deep understanding of something. Philosophy deals with the study of knowledge and the study of being and the study of concepts that are often beyond rational comprehension. Philosophy is seen as not belonging with the other three fields of inquiry. The fourth is always different. Philosophers like rationals, are seen as having their heads in the clouds.

I described the quadrant model and the nature of each quadrant and each square. Now I plan to go through each field of inquiry and describe how each field of inquiry reveals the quadrant model pattern.

I am going to start with science. The primary fields of science are

square 1: physics. Physics is the first square. Physics is the idealist. Like the idealist physics is the most into the supernatural and the spiritual. Physics is a lot about invisible forces such as gravity and the strong and weak forces and electromagnetism. Idealists are into the law and following orders. Physics is very lawful. Idealists are very smart and are considered weird. Physics is considered weird and a very difficult subject. This corresponds to Wilbers mind quadrant.

square 2: chemistry. Chemistry is the second square. Chemistry is the guardian. Chemistry is considered not as difficult as physics, so you don't have to be as smart to do chemistry. Guardians are not as smart as physicists. Chemistry is all about relationships and reactions between things. Guardians are very into families and relationships. Chemistry is also very lawful and guardians are very into laws and order. This corresponds to Wilbers culture quadrant.

square 3: biology. Biology is the third square. Biology is the artisan. The thrid square is always the most physical. The third square is about doing. The artisan is physical and about organisms that move and act. Biology isn't considered very hard and biologists aren't considered too smart, although they are seen as sort of smart. Same thing with artisans. This corresponds to Wilbers body quadrant.

square 4: psychology. Psychology is the fourth square. Psychology does not seem to belong with the other three sciences. But psychology encompasses them. That is the nature of the fourth square. The fourth always encompasses the previous three. Psychology is the rational. The fourth square is contemplation and knowledge. Psychology is about studying the mind. Rationals are very mental, and psychology studies the mental. This corresponds to Wilbers social quadrant. Psychology is about social interaction. It is important to note that physicists think that the mind actually may manifest physical reality. This is what quantum physicists are suggesting. If that is the case, then psychology is essential to understanding the physical nature of reality. By understanding psychology, if it is true that reality and the mind are related, you can better understand reality. Psychology is infulenced by chemsitry. Doctors think that the brain is influenced by neurotransmitters which are chemicals in the brain, and hormones which are chemicals in the body. Biologists need to understand psychology because the brain and the mind control organisms.

I am also going to talk about the possible fifth field of science sociology. The fourth always encompasses the previous three, and it points to what comes after it. Psycholgy encompasses physics, chemistry, and biology, and it points to sociology. Sociology is the study of psychology in groups.