Torus Configurations

“Distribution for 18 fingerprint pattern types + relative effect size (arrows) in the Big Five personality dimensions Neuroticism & Extraversion, plus derived tendencies for the four classic temperaments: Choleric, Melancholic, Phlegmatic & Sanguine; displayed percentages represent the lowest- and highest value observed among the 4 personality groups (N+, N-, E+ & E-).“

Agnes Denes. Studies of Time—Explorations of Time Aspects, 1970

The returning nature of Hegel’s Dialectic

Hildegard von Bingen’s 23 litterae ignotae, letters for her constructed mystical language Lingua Ignota, ca. 1200.

The proposed integrative model of existential threat experiences

Daniel Sullivan, Cultural-existential Psychology: The Role of Culture in Suffering and Threat

Bruce Lyon, Occult Cosmology

Carl Jung, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works, Volume 8)

A schematic representation of the personality system. 

‘Biological bases’ (such as genes) and ‘external influences’ (such as cultural norms) are inputs to the system. Personality traits are found in the category of ‘basic tendencies’, which are influenced by biological bases, but not external influences. Causal paths are indicated by arrows, and show that, over time, traits interact with the environment to produce ‘characteristic adaptations’ (such as attitudes), and these in turn interact with the situation to produce the output of the system, the ‘objective biography’. The ‘self-concept’ is a subset of characteristic adaptations of particular importance to self theorists. Adapted from McCrae and Costa (1996)