Cool Water—Unconscious State

Unconscious State, as its name suggests, is an oppositional or counter-state of Conscious State. And Unconscious State in Mandala of Characters is exactly on the opposite side to the Conscious State. Therefore, Unconscious State is the State that is most distant from Unconscious State. However, despite the fact that Unconscious State is the most distant from Conscious State, these states have frequent and direct contact with each other.

The diagram below shows the Mandala of Characters for Cool Water type. In this diagram, we can see where its Unconscious State is.

As we can see, Cool Water has its Unconscious State at the point marked as—Dry Earth.

Please note that the names:
— Cool Water (Cool Water’s Conscious State),
— Hot Fire (Cool Water’s Unconscious State) also reflect the contrast between Cool Water’s Conscious and Unconscious State.

So, figuratively speaking, when Cool Water moves to its Unconscious State, then this type becomes its opposite.

On the oval frames around Mandala of Characters, there are short descriptions of what functions and mechanisms we can find in particular parts of Mandala. Overall, these descriptions show eight main reference points of our psyche.

• Four of these reference points relate to four basic psychological functions, which are:
  — Intuition,
  — Sensation,
  — Thinking, and
  — Feeling.
• The other four reference points relate to the four main adaptive-defensive mechanisms, which are:
  — Extraversion,
  — Introversion,
  — Perceiving, Abstraction,
  — Judging, Empathy.

If we look at Mandala of Characters, we can see that Cool Water’s Unconscious State is closest to the reference point, which is in the upper left corner. This reference point concerns adaptive-defensive mechanism, which his:
— EXTRAVERSION.

I have briefly described this place in Mandala of Characters using the following concepts, phrases, and symbols:

hot
attention, attitude, trust, belief, focus, persuasion

On Mandala of Characters, I put my short definition of EXTRAVERSION. About the creation of this definition, I write among others in the works—“The Mandala of Characters—Construction”. As we can see in the diagram above, this condensed definition of EXTRAVERSION is as follows:

( EXTRAVERSION —
—to have—object, case—experiment—risk & opportunity )

Cool Water’s Unconscious State is also close to the reference point on the left side of the Mandala of Characters. This reference point concerns the basic psychological function, which is:
— Thinking.

I have briefly described this place using the following symbols, phrases, and concepts:

FIRE
( summer—cognition & choice )
logic, THINKING, possibility
( fear / escape )

The above concepts, phrases, and symbols located near Cool Water’s Unconscious State can already tell us a lot about the main state of this type.

Besides, I am working on broader studies of this state and other states of Cool Water. At the moment, it is difficult for me to say when I will finish them. However, I very much hope that I will successively complete one chapter after another.