Levels of Health

Thank you for typing up and sharing this, vincent  


I don't think I've ever seen all of these written out like this, so there's a lot for me to dive into, here. 

Okay, some thoughts, which not sure if belong in Foundation but will do here for now.

So, still hunting up my copy as there is quite a bit 'in transition' chez moi. But I studied the levels very carefully for a month when I was broke and couldn't even afford to buy a new book let alone take a workshop, and perhaps mercifully there wasn't that much on the Net. So I just decided to work on learning and committing them to memory, and I'll write my thoughts atm using my memory of the names.

5 L8 Terrified Alien is so much better than Terrified Outsider I can't even begin to say; 7 L6 was indeed Excessive Hedonist, which is also incomparably better than Excessive Materialist but maybe I could begin to say.  

Pretty sure 7 L7 was simply Panic-Stricken Person; as you can see 'hysteric' is an archetypal Six unhealth key word and they shouldn't duplicate--except when only 'Person' was used, and when it was, that was for a reason. Archetypal 7 L9, on the 5-7 line, is the analogue of 'imploded schizoid' 5 L9 only it's a kind of exteriorized imploding (and 'explosion' doesn't quite convey it). With 5, 7 and 9, at L9, there's just really nothing left of the 'ego', so with 7 there isn't really anything to be hysterical about. Hysteria is still an ego defense, and one that's attached/compliant; it's for/about/to something/someone. 7 L9 can jump off the roof in a panic but it's like an avoidance of the 5 L9 inner nightmarescape; it's not linked to anything/anyone outside, not really. With 5, 7, 9 L9 there is 'nobody home' and I see this all as 'imploded'  psyche, van[qu]ished, liquidated ego. I have a lot more to say about this but it doesn't really belong with levels; it belongs with triads, so moving on...

Yes, it was Dishonest Opportunist for 3 L7 and I'm somewhat neutral. On the one hand, I prefer Exploitative Opportunist because with 3 L6, you already have a good dollop of dishonesty and only some exploitation, and calling L7 'Dishonest' seemed to imply L6 was not dishonest so in that sense I prefer Exploitative. The problem is that by removing 'dishonest' you then plunge headlong into 'deceiver' at L8 instead of segwaying from maintaining appearances at smack dab average L5 to promotion/pr at L6 to, past the shock point, opportunistic deceit (dishonesty), then purposeful harm-inflicting deceit, then full-fledged psycopathy. The latter is how it works; the deceit factor is like a sliding pond.

Type Six L2 almost positive was Engaged Person. "Friend" was used for Type Two L5; again, there was a reason not to duplicate--unless the word was "Person". The focus on just being an engaged 'person' in between heroism and committed work really captures something about the sublime ordinariness of Six. Six is not an image type; at healthy levels it has no need to be 'engaging'; it is subsumed to the work itself.

Also pretty sure this was not the only suffix change along the lines of -ed to -ing, and none seem to benefit. Will be interesting to test my memory. We shell sea.