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1ST GEAR
2ND GEAR When you're in Mental Second Gear, your heart tells your mind to get some love circulating, because a soul without love circulation is like a Porcshe on the planet of no gas stations. Love, whether giving or receiving, is the only fuel that we're built to run on long without blowing our gaskets and wrecking up the place. 3RD GEAR When you're in Mental Third Gear, your mind is on finding a comfortable sense of your personal role in causing things and having a desired effect on things. 4TH GEAR When you're in Mental Fourth Gear, your heart works the magic that balances the world you want with the world you've got. 5TH GEAR When you're in Mental Fifth Gear, your mind is on making sure you get your chance to express something and have it received, unedited, for the good that might be experienced from it.
6TH GEAR When you're in Mental Sixth Gear, your mind is in a more imaginitave mode, linking internal movie pictures together into something that could lift you from the realities of this moment to the proposed outcomes cooked up by your spirit. Pattern recognition is the ability that gives the 6th Gear its torque on real terrain. 7TH GEAR When you're in Mental Seventh Gear, your mind settles comfortably into more and more experience of the divine. The divine activity in all things around you come into clearly viewable resolution when your mind's eye is in 7th Gear. |
In the arty science of getting a life
| Books for the Assessor Experience |
| Rock Songs for the Assessor Experience |
The Assessor is the idealistic, well-organized member among the nine personality types. Students of the enneagram tradition will recognize the Assessor as the "Type 1."
I believe the Assessor is also something we all inherit as a capability built into our own being at birth. So it's not just a personality type for especially gifted people; it is a set of genetic tools to help us each survive and do good things.
I believe a story will provide you with a better glimpse of the energies at play in personality than any personality test or written profile will ever be able to convey. So to bring you into an Assessor's world long enough to get some of the flavor, I have scrounged up a list of songs. Songs are just story snapshots of the human condition, after all.
Click on the song list link below to introduce yourself to the Assessor moods of mankind, then come back to this page to check out the chart of Assessor key concepts to the right. Both the songs and the key concept chart will make more sense after you compare them back and forth.
Rock Songs for the Assessor Experience
| The Assessor's | Epic Quest | is to find The Universe's "justice valve," and open it wide to douse one's interior fires left by prior impressions of injustice. |
| The Assessor's | backup in distress | is "DUTY," which is merely the universalization of one's own grievances.
Indulgeance in the punative seizure of blessings. Unloving expectation disguised as humble diligence. |
| The Assessor's | safety blueprint | is ethics. |
| The Assessor | thinks in blocks of | standard operating procedures. |
| The Assessor's | sacred credo | is the golden rule. |
| The Assessor's | dreaded enemy | is subjectivity. |
| The Assessor's | buzz word | ...should... |
| The Assessor's | magic wand | is packaged value standards. |
| The Assessor's | desire | is to regulate chaos, deflect pain, and build a corral to keep joy in someday. |
| The Assessor's | true virtue | is honor. |
| The Assessor's | false virtue #1 | is abstinence. |
| The Assessor's | false virtue #2 | is procedural purity. |
| The Assessor's | false virtue #3 | is chastity. |
| The Assessor's | strength | is reliability, especially about intending
the best, for real. |
| The Assessor's | petty attachment | is praiseworthy correctness. |
| The Assessor's | noble connection | is honor. |
| The Assessor's | courage point | is becoming open to the good that can be rendered from undignified sources. |
| The Assessor's | Key Reward | is relief. |