07-20-2010, 09:52 PM
Type 6 "The Skeptic" or "The Loyalist"
Type Six energy is all about loyalty: be approved by others because of embracing them through teamwork.
The person living by Type Six wants to know that there will be a loyal team to support him or her through life. That's important for everyone!
The Type Six strategy, very sensibly, is to give loyalty to a group in order to get back loyalty from a group. Some things that come easy to Type Six: Punctuality, dedicated hard work, putting up with the problems of the system to gain its rewards, trusting in authority.
The problem is that this not a sensible strategy if the group is not worthy of this loyalty. Type Six can get into a problem of giving more and more loyalty to people who simply take more and more advantage, or who simply discard and disrespect the offer more and more.
Afraid of being abandoned or taken advantage of, the Type Six person can go into a fearful spiral of distrust. If the "bad guys" can be identified before one trusts them, or before one naively trusts them any more, then trust won't be misplaced. This is true, but aggressively looking for "bad guys" can break the trust and loyalty that would make it possible for the individual to successfully connect with the "good guys."
Beyond a certain level of awareness, skeptical cynicism does not provide any further awareness, only dissociation; and rooting for the underdog or the "little guy" can turn into enabling other people whose own destructive tendencies kicked them out of society.
Ironically, the Type Six person can then try to find the most authoritative source of information about skepticism; and be tremendously loyal to what that authority says about who should not be trusted! You can see this with "skeptic" or "cynic" type publications in any field. For example, there can't possibly be any spiritual or extraterrestrial messages that inspire us to think for ourselves; the finest minds in the Standard Paradigm say so!
Unconsciously this energy can be connected to Daddy and afraid of abandonment. There can be unquestioned feelings that security comes from dependence and is obtained through likability, dependability, being a good soldier. Being too original could be dangerous. After all, the nail that sticks is hammered down, and the tall poppy gets lopped off, right?
Growth involves finding one's own authority within, and a kinship with all people, not just the local "tribe."
Mikey, type 6 extraordinaire, worked with me on Bill's art team. He and I had worked together in another art team before. That previous team had superb personal rapport and loving friendship. It also had a unique combination of incredible originality, with some severely dysfunctional people. The dysfunctions got so bad that after carpooling over, Mikey and I would literally wait for hours for the team members who were not yet ready... for the weekly gathering IN THEIR OWN HOME!! It was this frustration that drove Mike and me to try to find another outlet for our creativity. After all, Mikey had a government logistics career, where things were sorted and distributed promptly on a daily basis... at the same agency where his Dad had worked for many years. Why put up with anything less than that in personal life, or in art?
Team #1 was the nice but ineffective group.
Team #2 was Bill's thing.
After things fell apart with Bill, Mike and I started another team... our third together! I soon had to move across the country for work, but as far as I know Mikey's new team #3 is still going strong years later. As for the creative people who couldn't get their act together, last I heard, the friendships continued but any attempt at doing projects together had totally fallen apart. Although the friends had tried to do their projects together for years before I came along, after I left, the lack of my capacity to stand in the center and integrate the different elements was sorely missed and not enough was left to pick up the pieces. A major investment was made by some members of team #1 to create a documentary of all we had done, and the completely unedited footage is still piled up in someone's closet as far as I know.
Just checked the Team #3 website. One guy left six years ago, "after helping to found the team and nurturing it into a viable project... although he remains involved, helping their journey as a consultant and supporter." His current projects are referenced. What a world of difference in loyalty between constructive Type 6 energy and destructive Type 3 energy!
Sorry if the history gets confusing here. It's clear in my mind but I don't know if it came out in a tangle of timelines.
There's a personally painful part of all this for me. A highly welcomed visitor to the first team, where Mikey and I met, was my sweetheart I thought I would marry. I only moved out of town after completely going broke to try to stay in town and make the relationship work out. As I finally moved away in economic desparation, my sweetheart screamed at me about how awful I was.
As soon as I was gone, my sweetheart and another member of the team (perhaps Mikey's oldest and closest friend) got together IMMEDIATELY, and the whole world (of the little clique in the old town) learned all the dirty laundry about my many sins... including hurtful things I'm sure I never did, destructive bad intentions I'm sure I never had, carelessly reckless selfish thought I can't remember thinking.
Well, I knew I wasn't lying; therefore, why was I crazy? So crazy that I couldn't even be trusted to know whether or not I had tried to give up everything for love? I didn't even understand the question, and nobody could give me any answers. This was before I'd really figured out the nature and effects of the cult abuse, and before I'd found anything as compelling and powerful spiritually as the Law of One.
And it's what drove the years of research and introspection, to try to find out the answer to those uncomfortable questions about how my best could not even be acknowledged as a sincere attempt to love.
But this much was obvious: I'd become very difficult and negative, for some incomprehensible reason, rather than celebrating the newly shared life of the people who'd finally found each other's perfect life companions... once I was out of the picture!
As there was no way to express loyalty to everyone, I got increasingly separated from Mikey's world. I had many years of excellent friendship with him, and enjoyed very successful collaboration on projects where our talents fit together perfectly. I don't particularly miss Bill, but I sure do miss Mike. But I don't know if there will ever be any opportunity for him to understand what I feel happened in my own life in those last years we had shared. For him to have that understanding would threaten his even more longstanding loyalties.
Famous Type 6 people include Malcolm X, Princess Diana, Tom Hanks, Phil Donahue, Andy Rooney, Tom Clancy... all people dedicated to whatever it takes to make The Greatest Team (as they see it) a success.
I'll continue with type 9 tomorrow, then look at the triangle linking types 3, 6, and 9.
Type Six energy is all about loyalty: be approved by others because of embracing them through teamwork.
The person living by Type Six wants to know that there will be a loyal team to support him or her through life. That's important for everyone!
The Type Six strategy, very sensibly, is to give loyalty to a group in order to get back loyalty from a group. Some things that come easy to Type Six: Punctuality, dedicated hard work, putting up with the problems of the system to gain its rewards, trusting in authority.
The problem is that this not a sensible strategy if the group is not worthy of this loyalty. Type Six can get into a problem of giving more and more loyalty to people who simply take more and more advantage, or who simply discard and disrespect the offer more and more.
Afraid of being abandoned or taken advantage of, the Type Six person can go into a fearful spiral of distrust. If the "bad guys" can be identified before one trusts them, or before one naively trusts them any more, then trust won't be misplaced. This is true, but aggressively looking for "bad guys" can break the trust and loyalty that would make it possible for the individual to successfully connect with the "good guys."
Beyond a certain level of awareness, skeptical cynicism does not provide any further awareness, only dissociation; and rooting for the underdog or the "little guy" can turn into enabling other people whose own destructive tendencies kicked them out of society.
Ironically, the Type Six person can then try to find the most authoritative source of information about skepticism; and be tremendously loyal to what that authority says about who should not be trusted! You can see this with "skeptic" or "cynic" type publications in any field. For example, there can't possibly be any spiritual or extraterrestrial messages that inspire us to think for ourselves; the finest minds in the Standard Paradigm say so!
Unconsciously this energy can be connected to Daddy and afraid of abandonment. There can be unquestioned feelings that security comes from dependence and is obtained through likability, dependability, being a good soldier. Being too original could be dangerous. After all, the nail that sticks is hammered down, and the tall poppy gets lopped off, right?
Growth involves finding one's own authority within, and a kinship with all people, not just the local "tribe."
Mikey, type 6 extraordinaire, worked with me on Bill's art team. He and I had worked together in another art team before. That previous team had superb personal rapport and loving friendship. It also had a unique combination of incredible originality, with some severely dysfunctional people. The dysfunctions got so bad that after carpooling over, Mikey and I would literally wait for hours for the team members who were not yet ready... for the weekly gathering IN THEIR OWN HOME!! It was this frustration that drove Mike and me to try to find another outlet for our creativity. After all, Mikey had a government logistics career, where things were sorted and distributed promptly on a daily basis... at the same agency where his Dad had worked for many years. Why put up with anything less than that in personal life, or in art?
Team #1 was the nice but ineffective group.
Team #2 was Bill's thing.
After things fell apart with Bill, Mike and I started another team... our third together! I soon had to move across the country for work, but as far as I know Mikey's new team #3 is still going strong years later. As for the creative people who couldn't get their act together, last I heard, the friendships continued but any attempt at doing projects together had totally fallen apart. Although the friends had tried to do their projects together for years before I came along, after I left, the lack of my capacity to stand in the center and integrate the different elements was sorely missed and not enough was left to pick up the pieces. A major investment was made by some members of team #1 to create a documentary of all we had done, and the completely unedited footage is still piled up in someone's closet as far as I know.
Just checked the Team #3 website. One guy left six years ago, "after helping to found the team and nurturing it into a viable project... although he remains involved, helping their journey as a consultant and supporter." His current projects are referenced. What a world of difference in loyalty between constructive Type 6 energy and destructive Type 3 energy!
Sorry if the history gets confusing here. It's clear in my mind but I don't know if it came out in a tangle of timelines.
There's a personally painful part of all this for me. A highly welcomed visitor to the first team, where Mikey and I met, was my sweetheart I thought I would marry. I only moved out of town after completely going broke to try to stay in town and make the relationship work out. As I finally moved away in economic desparation, my sweetheart screamed at me about how awful I was.
As soon as I was gone, my sweetheart and another member of the team (perhaps Mikey's oldest and closest friend) got together IMMEDIATELY, and the whole world (of the little clique in the old town) learned all the dirty laundry about my many sins... including hurtful things I'm sure I never did, destructive bad intentions I'm sure I never had, carelessly reckless selfish thought I can't remember thinking.
Well, I knew I wasn't lying; therefore, why was I crazy? So crazy that I couldn't even be trusted to know whether or not I had tried to give up everything for love? I didn't even understand the question, and nobody could give me any answers. This was before I'd really figured out the nature and effects of the cult abuse, and before I'd found anything as compelling and powerful spiritually as the Law of One.
And it's what drove the years of research and introspection, to try to find out the answer to those uncomfortable questions about how my best could not even be acknowledged as a sincere attempt to love.
But this much was obvious: I'd become very difficult and negative, for some incomprehensible reason, rather than celebrating the newly shared life of the people who'd finally found each other's perfect life companions... once I was out of the picture!
As there was no way to express loyalty to everyone, I got increasingly separated from Mikey's world. I had many years of excellent friendship with him, and enjoyed very successful collaboration on projects where our talents fit together perfectly. I don't particularly miss Bill, but I sure do miss Mike. But I don't know if there will ever be any opportunity for him to understand what I feel happened in my own life in those last years we had shared. For him to have that understanding would threaten his even more longstanding loyalties.
Famous Type 6 people include Malcolm X, Princess Diana, Tom Hanks, Phil Donahue, Andy Rooney, Tom Clancy... all people dedicated to whatever it takes to make The Greatest Team (as they see it) a success.
I'll continue with type 9 tomorrow, then look at the triangle linking types 3, 6, and 9.