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Anxiety and humor, freedom and fear are incompatible. That is why theologians can’t laugh at themselves or let other people laugh.
Because there are so many people who need the illusion of security, we venture to predict that traditionalism and fundamentalism will grow. This will happen especially if we don’t help people to see their “SIX pitfall” and overcome their anxiety and name it as fear instead of calling it faith or loyalty.
the church has seen to it that people are afraid of God, instead of falling in love with God.
Some like to view the phobic SIX as a hare in full flight, doubling back and forth, or as a fearful gray mouse or a shy deer. Hares are true to their post. The proverbial fear of “frightened rabbits” is actually a highly developed watchfulness that enables the animal to react immediately to every change or danger in its environment. Threatened by many natural enemies, hares have developed the protective measures important to survival: the camouflage color of their brown fur, the lightning-fast, back-and-forth flight in danger. Symbols of the contraphobic SIX are the wolf, which needs the
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necrophilia
The biblical representative of phobic SIXes is Paul’s disciple Timothy, the perfect follower, whom Paul must reassure. The patron of the contraphobic SIXes is the Apostle Peter.
Peter is a contraphobic SIX.
Among the life tasks of SIXes is learning to break free from external direction by authorities and taking over responsibility for their lives and their feelings.
The gay SEVENs don’t seem “cerebral” at first glance. Relaxed, full of good humor, imaginative, sunny, playful, with a disarming kind of charm—until one day they notice that all this also serves to protect them from anxiety and pain.
In the course of their development many SEVENs have had traumatic experiences which they did not feel equal to. In order to avoid the repetition of this pain in the future, they have evolved a double strategy: First they repressed or whitewashed their negative and painful experiences.
Secondly, they’ve gone into their heads and begun to plan their lives so that every day will promise as much “fun” and as little pain as possible.
permanent smile.
The SEVEN is the Mary Poppins type: everything’s wonderful. Life is a Disneyland full of miracles and terrific surprises. SEVENs would love to live and die at Disneyland.
SEVEN is the “eternal child.” Peter Pan could be the...
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two neighboring “theaters of war.” And the two wing-energies can—regardless of the main energy’s degree of development—be effective in immature, “normal,” or mature form.
Unreformed FOURs are depressed, confused, and alienated, and they doubt themselves. When FOURs are at the end of their rope, then they try to reestablish contact with reality by giving up their own independence, making themselves indispensable to others (“I’m helping!”) or clinging to them.
they try in their way to obtain their own identity through the love and attention of others.
want only sympathy and support.
flight to the sidelines or substitute actions (compulsive acts, addictions, fear of purpose).
