(THINKING [continued])[13th April 1987]

[Redbook3:182-183][19870413:1450c](THINKING [continued])[13th April 1987]

19870413.1450

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Article in The Times re Dr. David Lewis, psychologist, 'Mind Skills', who has identified four ways of thinking: intellectual, intuitive, innovative and implementative. It seems to me that these can be fitted* as diagonal aspects to the four cardinal aspects [of the Circles]: cerebral + manufactural[,] and analytical + inspirational (two polarities). These two polarities were identified partly out of / along with the attempt to fill in gaps in the statistical occupations survey result, but they are strongly in line with the four original Cardinal Qualities on the Inner Circle. The significance is that, although subjective, the four ways of thinking represent the deductions of a qualified mind which fit not only the basic patterns of the Circles but also the astrological location[s] given by the survey results, and thus provide further evidence towards the basic soundness of the whole pattern.

A sketch is given overleaf: [below, represented as a table, including] <Survey results>

				December/ January
				(ATTRACT-ION) UNITY Cerebral				<Schizo-phrenics Jan-Mar>
	<Extraverts>							<Musicians, Comedians>
<Army officers>		(ORDIN-ATION)	Intellectual HARM-ONY		Intuitive LOVE	(SIMPLIF-ICATION)	(hence 'simpleton'?)
<Doctors, Lawyers>
October/ September	(OUTER ACTION)	Analytical INNER ACTION		↑ ←☼→ ↓		Inspirational REVELAT-ION	(REVOL-UTION)	March/April
<Army officers>
		(COMPLIC-ATION)	Implement-ative EVOLUT-ION		Innovative CREAT-ION	(FRAGMEN-TATION)		<Anxious dispositions>
								<Artists, Introverts>
				Manufactory**** DIVERSITY (DISTRACT-ION)
				July/June

[The central square & diagonal cross in the ms. diagram does not have arrowheads (the diagonal arrows not being available in Blogger), and the diagonals are more centred.][Bold emphasis and underlining added at transcription.]

The Outer Circle Qualities suggest the negative aspect of these characteristics – as one would expect. The impression I have is that the diagonal characteristics or ways of thinking depend upon the interrelationship of the cardinal characteristics – as indeed the diagonal archetypes [have] developed in '[2]' from the interrelationship of the cardinal archetypes. I had already placed the 'Intellectual' approach with xA, and I think considered xS to be Intuitive (as +K had been in earlier [fiction] books)**; but 'Innovative'*** and 'Implementative' (the last being a new word to me) are wonderful gifts.

The statistical finding of two areas for Army Officers was curious. However, my [relatively] brief experience of Army Officers at close quarters suggest[s] that there are two broad types of successful Army Officer, both analytically minded, one being generally more intellectually oriented to the other's generally more implement[at]ive/action orientation. Perhaps this reflects the old tension between Staff and Line Officers? – each of whom tends to flatter and despise the other. I do not know whether the same division is found in other occupations, or even in other Arms of the Forces.

*ref. p.162 [[Redbook3:160-162][19870409:1345q](TAROT NUMBERING, AGES AND OCCUPATIONS [continued(4)])[9th April 1987]] Diagram [Final two columns].

**[i.e before xS developed out of +K & +C, both conceptually and in the fictional narrative. <20160229>]

***for 'Creation'. <891031>

****[Later, 'manufactural' <20160425>.]

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