Blackfoot Physics by David Peat

Author:David Peat
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781609255862
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser Conari

Number and Balance

An insight into the sacred nature of number and its transformations can be gained by further considering the number four and its representation as the spokes of a medicine wheel, or in the sacred hoop. In many of the world's cultures four is both the symbol of balance and harmony and of process and movement. Early medicine in the West spoke of the four temperaments and four humors, and science pictured matter as an equilibrium of four elements.

The psychologist Carl Jung made a study of symbols whose power transcended the particularities of individual cultures. Again and again he returned to the number four as the intersection of vertical and horizontal, the four-fold division of the sacred hoop.

Jung believed that the human psyche was a dynamic process involving four forces, or psychological functions. One of these was called the thinking function and Jung pictured this as occupying one side of a duality in opposition to the feeling function. Likewise the sensate function of the psyche was seen as being at the opposite end of the spectrum from that of intuition.

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