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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. |
| Books for the Explorer Experience |
| Rock Songs for the Explorer Experience |
In the arty science of getting a clue
| The Explorer's | Epic Quest | is to find The Universe's "ambiguity valve," and shut it off before we drown in it. |
| The Explorer's | backup in distress | is mobility. |
| The Explorer's | safety blueprint | is unlimited adaptibility. |
| The Explorer's | thinks in blocks of | possibilities. |
| The Explorer's | sacred credo | is "See For Yourself." |
| The Explorer's | dreaded enemy | is ambiguity. |
| The Explorer's | buzz word | ..check it out.. |
| The Explorer's | magic wand | is reframing, and innovative re-use of things already present. |
| The Explorer's | desire | is to study chaos, and learn how it works, for safety, benefit, and sheer admiration for stuff that works and has beauty or grace about it. |
| The Explorer's | true virtue | is willingness. |
| The Explorer's | false virtue #1 | is optimism. |
| The Explorer's | false virtue #2 | is brilliance. |
| The Explorer's | false virtue #3 | is daring. |
| The Explorer's | strength | is inventiveness. |
| The Explorer's | petty attachment | is any impulsive substitute for
true immediacy. |
| The Explorer's | noble connection | is initiative. |
| The Explorer's | courage point | is daring to re-attach emotions, so as to slow down activity enough to clarify and prioritize thoughts.
Getting solid bearings from the unambiguous outcomes of one'sinvestment of time, persistence and faith. |
| The Explorer's | Key Reward | is memorable experience. |
The Explorer is the curious, adventurous, sensation-seeking member among the nine major personality types. Students of the enneagram tradition will recognize the Explorer as the "Type 7."
I believe the Explorer 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 discover 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 Explorer'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 Explorer moods of mankind, then come back to this page to check out the chart of Explorer 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 Explorer Experience