Review the Dynamics of Orthodoxy

Perpetuating the School

The diagram below shows Centres and Channels with provisional names.

Internal duality

Shown vertically on the left.

  • The lower part L1-L4 primarily sustains the doctrine by focusing on awareness and dissemination of the ideas—using L'5-Gestalt language.
  • The upper part L5-L7 primarily sustains the school by focusing on the essential formulations and their value—using L'6-Logical language.
  • The L4-membership institution is expected to mediate between these two concerns. It provides a social home for adherents and their repeated reaffirmation of realizations, while providing a system that channels orthodox controls, doctrinal extension and social applications.
Full pattern of centres and channels involved in perpetuating a school's orthodoxy with psychosocial pressures

Psychosocial Pressures

Tier 1 and Tier 2 psychosocial pressures are shown vertically on the far right

Within the green brackets on the right are Tier-3 pressures.

The Root Level pressures, labeled RL, suggest that the school as an active social group is grounded via a demonstrated shared reality of asserted realizations at L1, which is controlled via the certainty delivered by supervision and guidance at L2. However, the school's long term future depends on the doctrine surviving in an orthodox form, and this is grounded by the assertions of L5 guardians who, using their deep understanding, can be controlled by autonomous scholarly work at L6. The other levels orient and support group life and doctrinal vitality under pressures of acceptability, well-being, and performance. Selflessness applies in regard to generating social benefits at the top

The Spiral Stage pressures, labeled CL, provide a different perspective. Perpetuation depends on performance at the ground level (as above) but on acceptability at the highest level. Certainty and well-being apply in regard to developing the school , while selfessness, understanding and autonomy underpin sustaining the school and its doctrine.

This section is now complete.

If the observations and analyses are correct, then it should be possible to determine a structural hierarchy. Investigation showed this was indeed possible and it revealed the components for the functioning of a school.

Originally posted: 4-Dec-2022. Last updated: 20-Mar-2024.