What is Trichotomy? The Animal in Us / Part 9

As promised, I will now examined each segment of the trichotomy with greater details. The first 'In" of the threefold is called Intuition. In my last blog I had listed numerous traits for every segment. Today, however I will focus on the right side of the table - the physical.

Survival / Self Preservation	Survival is limited to oneself or self-interest (kin)
5 Senses	See - hear -smell - taste - feel ( neurological-network) Instinctive
Pleasure / Pain Driven	Top and bottom - no in between. Safe or unsafe. Good or bad. Fight or flight.
Fear	Short-term fear (reacting and not contemplative) Primitive emotion - not a true emotion. All animals have this type of fear. However contemplative fear is another story.
Singularity	All about "ME"
Self-Reliant	Seek no assistance. Managing on their own
Independent	Tends to lead and　rebel
Personalize	Leaves his/her signature of life on everything. Everything must be about him. Ego-centric to perfectionism
Disassociates	Recluse / Hermit - seek no socialization.
Self-Serving	Serves one cause - himself.
Animal	Primitive creature

Without the mental or the spiritual, we are reduced to a primitive creature. We must be properly balance in the trichotomy but as humans we experience pitfalls from time to time. This does not negate responsibility of our actions.

What is Trichotomy? - The Three In’s / Part 4

As mentioned on an earlier blog, Dr. Carl Jung was a prominent psychiatrist and counsidered to be the founder of analytical psychology. He is best known for his theory of the Collective Unconscious. Dr. Jung noted that the human psyche could be categorize into three segments; our ego which can be translated as being our conscious mind; our personal unconscious which refers to the unconscious mind; and our collective unconscious which refers to an obscurred source of collective knowledge. Jung postulates that collective unconsciousness has an unseen connection between one soul to another and additionally, it has a link to a higher order of intelligence.

Many other beliefs and theories have spawn from Dr. Jung’s work, and others in this field. Simply put, humans draw from their three internal sources to assess or react to an event. I classify these three inner mechanisms as Instinct, Intelligence, and Intuition. Permit me to demonstrate the inner working. I will convey three scenarios with minute differences in order to address each mechanism.

• INSTINCT:  You have purchase a house nestled in a thick forest. In the first year you witness a forest fire on the west side. Now in this scenario, you have never experienced fire. You have lived a sheltered life. So when you observe fire for the first time and being at a safe distance, the fire is non threatening to you. In fact it’s esthetically pleasing. Of course this all changes when you decide to get a closer look. The heat from the fire lights up your senses and your neuro-net, consequently you react. Your frightened and you flee for safety. There was no reasoning. It was an instinctive reaction. A matter of self-preservation;