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Last week we were looking at how neutral lenses can help us see ourselves without getting trapped in isms and dogma. We’ve been working with neutral lenses for many years, with the help of psychologists and creativity experts. Here’s what we’ve learned about how lenses work in concert with each other.
One lens, like a simple values assessment, gives information that penetrates ego and enhances authentic self-understanding. (Most blustering egos don’t know what their values are, so they project false or compensatory values.)
Two lenses, like a values assessment plus a personality inventory, create an exponential effect in self-understanding because we match, sort and integrate relevance from both lenses, choosing what speaks most accurately to our individuality. That is the beginning of a powerful, and highly individual process of creating, or collaging, a new sense of identity that more accurately represents our core of uniqueness.
Add in more and more lenses and the self-identification process penetrates more and more deeply into the subjective realm, because the logical or intellectual mind cannot hold the complexity involved in sorting, matching and integrating them all. Tomorrow, we’ll explore even deeper into the subjective aspects of intelligence, and play with DNA.
