10 May 2009 @ 14:34, by Max Sandor
The other day I became inspired to look a bit more at the group behavior of the egos and archetypes of the Inner Pantheon and their typology.
Many people think of the Ego or Egos being easily classified by the 'Seven Deadly Sins' of the Christian tradition but there are many other such lists around, even Gandhi had his own list [link] .
Interestingly, there are some Ego types ommited, and some are of the worst kind, so I made my anti-list:
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS A LA SANDORIAN:
1. Righteousness
2. Blaming
3. Ascetics (punishing one's body, including such things as denying food or certain kinds of it)
4. Servitude
5. Hope (waiting instead of acting now)
6. Faith (in divine or worldly authorities)
7. Tolerance (of abusiveness of suppressive groups or governments)
If we look at the motivations and justifications for war, suppression, pogroms, and destructive actions, we find the latter Ego types significantly overrepresented and the traditional 'seven sins' grossly underrepresented.
The Ego types on this list share an interesting feature: they HIDE themselves behind the 'cardinal virtues' and are therefore much more difficult to detect.
From the viewpoint of reaching the state of a 'perfect mind', ANY Ego, vice or virtue, is an EGO and can turn into its opposite at any type, given the right 'input', read: justification.
Now, looking closer at the 'Inner Pantheon', we find that a person typically carries a set of Egos around which mutually support each other. Such a group behavior is called a 'culture' or 'clima'.
In short, analzying a single Ego and de-constructing it (by removing its underlying polarity) is NOT enough. We must recognize the connected Egos and change the 'culture' of Egos through group processes if we want to prevent the recreation of unwanted Egos in the future.
We see an echo of the protonormalism of societies to have its basis here in the personal realm, already present within the Inner Pantheon.
And, of course, this 'deadly sin' of societies, protonormalism, would have a firm place in any list of 'deadly sins of groups'.
Well, there is a lot more to say, but now it's time to get the Egos and masks ready for Mother's Day! Good luck to all!
Protonormalistically, not even I have a chance in the world to shun this Meme of all Memes, the Mama-Meme...
Gotta hurry!
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