Planet — Saturn
Metal — Lead
Colors — Purple and yellow
Life Process — Breathing
Counterlife process — Consuming
The student is inducted into the college, takes his/her first impression and experiences a sense of belonging.
The first of these steps or gateways is the life process known as breathing. This is not so much an activity of the lungs as the relationship the individual has with the world. We breathe through our senses; we create a relationship with the outer world, with each other. This is one of give and take that is social as well as creative. The student enters into a relationship with others, feels that he belongs. Thus, this first step on the journey is a sense of belonging. Each life process has a negative or shadow side, which could be described as an antilife process or a counter life process. Thus, he
shadow side of breathing is consuming. This is a state of neediness and insecurity which seeks to fill a kind of emotional void by sucking in or gobbling up the other. Nowadays human beings have been defined as consumers, passive vacuum cleaners that suck in the objects of the world. No creative input is expected: I shop therefore I am. This is an entirely negative view of humanity, which denies that essentially human element of give and take, of reciprocity.
Metal — Lead
Colors — Purple and yellow
Life Process — Breathing
Counterlife process — Consuming
The student is inducted into the college, takes his/her first impression and experiences a sense of belonging.
The first of these steps or gateways is the life process known as breathing. This is not so much an activity of the lungs as the relationship the individual has with the world. We breathe through our senses; we create a relationship with the outer world, with each other. This is one of give and take that is social as well as creative. The student enters into a relationship with others, feels that he belongs. Thus, this first step on the journey is a sense of belonging. Each life process has a negative or shadow side, which could be described as an antilife process or a counter life process. Thus, he
shadow side of breathing is consuming. This is a state of neediness and insecurity which seeks to fill a kind of emotional void by sucking in or gobbling up the other. Nowadays human beings have been defined as consumers, passive vacuum cleaners that suck in the objects of the world. No creative input is expected: I shop therefore I am. This is an entirely negative view of humanity, which denies that essentially human element of give and take, of reciprocity.
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