Character, Destiny and Adaptation

I was reading a book on writing and the patterns of the basic plots they have endured throughout the recorded history of stortelling and I was thinking that a lot of them depend on the level of development of the characters. Especially in the plots of revenge like Medea and Fortunado went to extremes because they were consumed by an obsession for revenge, it was those flaws of extremes in their personalties that influenced their destinies.

But what if they had been able to adapt to the flaws in their characters? Wouldn't that have changed their destiny? By evolving to a more inclusive center of gravity that would change their reactions to circumstances they experienced and altered the course they chose to avoid those extremes of obsession that lead to the extravagant methods of revenge.

If they had done some breathing excercizes as part of a full time yoga practice then they might have found other ways to deal with the situations they were in that were better than killing her children or emtombing someone inside a brick wall.



Including state training in the plots of stories can also show how the characters adapt to the expanding of identity and tell the story from perspective of the ladder which desribes the different levels of development of consciousness, the climber which describes the stages of the personality and the worldview.

For example the plot of the story could include a character arc that show someone starting at the sensoriphysical stage of the 1st Fulcrum with mostly survival and pleasure needs of naive hedonism and go through situations that make them adapt and evolve their destiny to go the vision logic stage of the 6th Fulcrum with self-actualization needs of individual principles.



If the Emotive interactive interface was added to the telling of the story then it could adapt to the mood of the audience and through state training what they identified with could evolve as the characters met the challenges in a more inclusive way from higher developmental levels.

Also in stage training the Emotive interface could assist in the evolution of the growth through each fulcrum since it can interact with the stories and show different outcomes of the phases of each fulcrum to reflect those outcomes as different effects on the stories. A fulcrum is simply a crucial fork in the development road and the self has to deal with the choices at that fork. How it does so in each case decides its subsequent destiny. The self must step up to each rung in the basic ladder and that step is the fulcrum at that stage.

At each rung in the ladder of the self's growth and development, it has four basic choices about which way to go in its development. Too much or too little of any of these four drives and the self gets into pathological trouble and the types of pathology depend on which of the nine basic rungs the trouble occurs at.

1. self-preservation (agency)
2. self-adaptation (communion)
3. self-transcendence
4. self-dissolution

So that gives different reactions depending on the mixture of the four drives at any fulcrum to show the changes in the characters and the effects of those different mixtures have on the plot of the stories. Every fulcrum has a 1-2-3 structure. 1 is that the self evolves, developes or steps up to the new level of awareness and it identifies with that level becoming "one" with that level. 2 is that it then begins to move beyond that level, differentiate from it, dis-indentify with it or "transcend" it. And 3 is that it indentifies with the next higher level then centers itself there. The new rung is acutally resting on the previous rungs so they must be included and integrated into the overall expansion. That integration or inclusion is the third and final subphase of that particular fulcrum.

Fulcrum 1: Introduction of the physiosphere
Phase 1=self identified with the physical world or fixation causing adualism through lack of body boundary
Phase 2=Differentiates body with other objects or fails to establish a clean and clear boundary.
Phase 3=Integrates the physical self or alienates, dissociates and represses parts of the self.

Fulcrum 2: Introduction of the biosphere
Phase 1=emotions identified with those around them or is fixated in narcissism.
Phase 2=differentiates emotions from others or lacks a sense of cohesive self.
Phase 3=integrates the emotional self or alienates and represses parts of them.

Fulcrum 3: Introduction of the noosphere and linguistics
Phase 1=the self identifies with images, symbols and concepts or fusion with the labile emotional self
Phase 2= differentiates the mind and the ego from bodily feelings or dissociates impulses into nuerosis
Phase 3= integrates the body or represses strong emotions into mental structures such as the superego