Area New York

Quarter III, 1977­78

THE CONTEXT AND SPIN

The chart on the preceding page is an attempt to capture the reflections and broodings of a number of colleagues on the Exemplar as a spirit tool for a time of doing, and specifically as a solitary exercise and/or corporate conversation.

The outside categories in each column can be read as a statement about the specific role being considered. For example for the Poet: "Being the Vision who reveals the Wonder" or, "as the one called to reveal the wonder the Poet becomes the vision." The second line "Humility, Wisdom," etc. are the Sun Tzu qualities of a General spread across the Exemplar faces. The fifth line, "Meditation, Poverty," etc. are from the New Religious Mode Chart and deal with the needed stance and discipline required for the role. The fourth line is from a talk on the five dimensions of guarding the spirit revolution in our time and speak of the major task of the particular "Face".

A talking through of each face can be done for a spin releasing the brooding and imagination or the group. For example:

The Poet as the Anointed, is the one who reveals the wonder of the mundanity of life by being the Vision. Standing present to the need for revitalized global symbols, the Poet stands present in meditation to all the symbols that have marked the journey of humankind up to this point and in humility dares to create the poetry for a human future. In so doing he dares to stand as a solitary giant illuminating the other world and awakening awe.

THE SOLITARY REFLECTION

The working chart is a means of taking the abstraction of these faces and grounding them in both historic and current significance. Its purpose is to lead to a reflection of my own vocation and election. It can be an exercise in itself, or can be done before a corporate conversation.