Audacious Goal

 My high school classmate Josh Spodek and I reconnected shortly after the 2020 lockdowns started, and we had a series of conversations on Zoom over the next few months. In one of the early sessions he told me that he had come to realize that if he wanted there to be a "Nelson Mandela for the global sustainability movement" it was going to have to be him, i.e., because he had looked around and had found no one who was leading in the manner he believed was necessary.

I think of him as I state in public that I believe I am called to follow in the footsteps of the founders of the MBTI and of Socionics. The MBTI was created in the U.S. during World War II and still holds enormous sway here. The work leading up to the publishing of "The Dual Nature of Man" happened behind the Iron Curtain in the 60s and 70s. The time has come for a new system, one that has a global audience in view from the outset, and one that has as its aim a "truly harmonious, peaceful and creative society" (see my marquee quote from Aushra's article).

What is the unfilled need? The MBTI aimed to harness Jung's insights about type to help individuals figure out where they fit in the workplace, and that hasn't changed, after all these decades. I got an email today from my child's school counselors letting us know that the career fair is coming up and the children will be getting an MBTI assessment. "Learn your type so you can know where you fit in the world of work."

Look here to see what the Socionists are up to. They see themselves as scientists with 13 "main activities", and the top three are to "develop techniques". The fourth is "Development of new advertising and marketing principles and methods." I am not criticizing; I respect and admire them, and I am sure that an awful lot of good has come from their efforts over the last three decades, and will continue to come.

But my system will have peace as the only stated aim: peace within each person, and peace collectively, accomplished as the same time, synergistically. The method for determining type will itself teach how to achieve balance and harmony. It will be geared first and foremost toward those whose calling is to coach, counsel and heal. It will geared toward all global cultures, and with connections into all spiritual traditions and practices.

I'm out of time for tonight's post. This is the beginning. I still have a lot of work to do but I have to leap right into collaboration with those who wield influence on a large scale. I need to find an already published co-author, I need to find researchers who can start to demonstrate the reliability of the typing methodology, I need to find leaders of coaches and therapists. I need to find people who control the purse-strings for the behavioral health sector.

Tomorrow I will resume my work at the source that fed the first two systems, chapter 10 of Jung's book on types. I will need allies within the MBTI world to get wide adoption, and I will be standing on the shoulders of the Socionists, for my theory.

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