...I may be lagging behind.  I read the articles on Eradigms and Transrevolution, but I see others are posting about zombies...

Hmmm...  Well, I'll blunder ahead with my thoughts on the reading I did anyway.

In the article on eradigms, and specific to the eradigm of "Earthrise," Craig listed a number of attributes, including two that really grabbed me.

As I mentioned in my introduction, I have been interested in typology for quite some time, and immediately I connected these two attributes with an aspect of that work.  Let me explain:

All too often psychological types are viewed as static, rather than dynamic.... which often petrify into horrible stereotypes.  I have been battling this trend for a long time (and worry that I'm losing the fight).  I was gratified that one of the bullet points stated: "Process over fixed structures (e.g., the personality as a self-structuralizing flow, not an object)."  After cheering a few times, I realized that this bullet point supports me in not giving up hope.

A second attribute on the list likewise relates to my work with type, and that is "Quality not quantity."

All too often psychological types are reduced to the results of an assessment -- usually the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) -- and people assume type can be "measured." It is commonly thought that the only way type can even be identified is through employing an assessment of some kind.  Conflating this problem further, type is commonly viewed as a "psychology of the dominant function." 

I have been a long-time disciple of Jungian analyst John Beebe, who has long promoted the idea that the types are qualitative rather than quantitative.  Everyone uses all eight of the cognitive functions Jung identified in his book "Psychological Types," but the *quality* of the function is different depending on where it is positioned inside someone's pattern hierarchy.

In summary, it was gratifying to recognize two attributes on Craig's list that I could relate to so quickly with respect to my work with psychological types.

-Vicky Jo :-)