Seeking defintions: Matrix, Potentiator, & Significator

[JustLikeYou]

In my experience, it doesn't work that way. The blueprint stage is when all conversation stops about the building that "will be." In everyday life, putting something in words or on paper is the equivalent to making the concepts concrete.

Can you imagine how slow the conversation would be otherwise?

You're right about this. I don't want to revolutionize our language to be painfully precise; only our thinking. In my days amidst the community of Ra students, I've run into the conflation of representation and object so often that I make sure reiterate this distinction wherever I find it appropriate. I don't mean to correct you as much as point out that your language is shorthand. You clearly already understand this. But you and I are not the only readers.

I am trying to provide a grounded understanding of the cards, in the hope that the readers may graduate to the greater understandings. Please forgive my sloppiness, I do it with purpose.

That's a good point. You and I are alike in this. It would seem that we just have a different take on which notions are important to grasp first. It has always been my attitude that an understanding of what the Archetypal Mind is precedes any consideration of specific consideration of archetypes. You seem to take the opposite approach. And I have no intention to suggest that my method is better. Perhaps we tend to teach in the manner we prefer to learn.

An unknown, inchoate concept is potential only. It exists only through belief in its existence.

This is a discussion worth having, but I don't think it belongs in this thread. However, I'll take a moment to respond to the following in a way that probably won't encourage much further discussion:

There is another definition of belief, a scientific sense, probably best described as doubt, and without any emotional investment. I believe China exists, even though I have never been there.

Generally speaking, this is the usage of the term "belief" that I perfer also. However, we must keep in mind that it is not the only common usage. Words are tricky little buggers. Perhaps I should warn you that I speak in shorthand, too. "Emotional investment" is probably not the best term for what I mean, but it's a compact one.