Knowledge and worldview

Spheres that use this interpretation:Social task — purpose and profession

Interpretations are currently available in Russian only — a translation is in progress.

Arcanum

The Hierophant

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The fifth task is one of the high ones: it is about understanding how things are put together and explaining that to other people.

This takes in science in the professional sense, teaching, public education, work with worldviews, and also information technology — everything where the thought matters more than the execution. A separate line is holding a position of one's own: the five, more often than others, does not agree with what is generally accepted, and has to be able to defend that position.

The main danger of the task is that a need to have the world explained leads easily to those who offer a ready-made explanation and demand loyalty in return. They are worth checking by their deeds and by what became of their other followers.

The task is carried out when one's own point of view reaches people and they get some use out of it.

Social task — purpose and profession

Social task = DT + MT + GT

The social task is what, in this system, a person came for. Not a post and not a profession in itself, but the direction in which their effort has meaning.

What matters here is the movement itself. As long as a person is moving towards their task, they are collected and engaged; a halt is felt as the loss of a footing, even when everything looks well from the outside.

The system notes two dead ends. The first — when a person has gone so far from the task that the earlier plan has stopped working and life effectively begins again, often in an entirely different field. The second — when the goal has been reached and the person decides there is nowhere further to go; by this logic what was achieved was a step, not a summit.

DT, MT and GT are steps towards that same task, and there is no need to pass through them in order: one can concentrate on the task directly. The task is most easily carried out through a profession — but it does not reduce to one.

The system connects a person's physical well-being to this as well: it holds that movement towards one's own task sustains a person, while a long departure from it tells on their health over time.

*This is a tenet of the teaching, not a medical claim. The causes of ill health are established by a doctor, and the calculation does not suggest putting off seeing one.*

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