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Designs are the seeds from which all things originate, both animate and inanimate. Human life
Animal life
Inanimate objects
The benefits of understanding designs.
Designs have been known throughout history.
There are many designs. Human life contains an infinite number of possibilities, but those possibilities are based on a finite number of designs such as teacher, parent, birth, or employee. Despite the limited number of designs, human life is varied because we each express the designs in our own way. The designs are impersonal and autonomous but when we create our lives, we flesh out these pre-existing designs in accordance with various factors:
Techniques for developing our ability to recognize designs. We can look for the underlying design in every object and action in our life, and in the world around us.
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The theory of designs is a conceptual model by which we understand and
categorize the distinguishable aspects of life. Designs can be compared to a
blueprint that presents predetermined plans for the structure, function and
development of each aspect of the universe, both animate and inanimate. Designs
form the reality of our life. Some designs are fixed and remain constant while
others are in a state of constant change. This section explores how to use this
understanding for personal well-being. By developing a command of these
principals you will be able to maximize the enjoyment and results in your
business and personal life.
They are the common foundations from which we develop our
lives. That is why people in different cultures tend to have similar emotions, behaviors,
social and religious rituals, symbols, social organizations, and ways of
perceiving and thinking. Each of those phenomena is based upon a design that
exists in everyone.
We can also attribute animals' universal instinctive behaviors
to designs.
We can attribute the behaviors of inanimate objects to
designs. Those behaviors would include the chemical and electrical activities of
rocks, water, stars, galaxies, and the universe itself.
The universe is made up of designs that we relate to on a conscious and
subconscious level. These designs are aspects of energy. Energy is a
homogeneous substance, but it has various distinct characteristics when it takes
material form. When we perceive these characteristics we attribute them to a
design. The environment through its physical embodiment can act as a tree.
Therefore, we can say that there is a tree design within the substance of
energy.
spiritual essence. If we do not perceive
that "spirit", we can surely recognize the design expressions of it such as our
similar emotions. With this commonality in human society, we understand one
another's feelings and behaviors, because people are responding to the same
designs that we know. Without these collective, common designs, humans would not
be able to communicate at all from their separate, individual worlds.
We clarify and simplify the tasks of human life and of personal growth
by recognizing underlying designs in each situation. We simplify in the sense
that we are not bewildered by the infinite variations of life but instead we can
methodically deal with the finite number of designs from which those variations
arise. This clarification and simplification assist us in both our human life
and our personal explorations.
Carl Jung developed his
concept of designs or "archetypes", when he noticed the recurring symbols and
themes in his patients' dreams, and as he realized that those same symbols and
themes have appeared in both ancient and modern art, mythology (particularly in
the assortment of Greek gods and goddesses), fairy tales, legends, and religion.
Designs have been described by Plato as ideal forms, and by Europe's
rationalistic philosophers as our innate tendency to perceive and understand in
a particular manner.
Empirical evidence.
We know, by simple definition, that a human mother
is expressing the mother design.
If we are looking for the death design, we can
logically expect to find it in words such as fatal or funeral, or in the
presence of a hearse in traffic, or in a memory of a deceased relative, or in
the sadness that we feel when we see a dead animal next to the road, or in a
movie or novel featuring a murder mystery, or in the perception of death in a
remotely related subject such as autumn leaves. The death design can be
present even in something that seems to be completely unconnected to the
subject. It could be evoked by a photograph of Star Trek's Mr. Spock because
we saw a Star Trek movie on the day when our sister died.
