Air—Conscious State

Conscious State is our leading psychological state. Therefore, in Mandala of Characters, the names of the character types come from the places where individual types have their Conscious States.

Therefore, in Conscious State of Air type is at the point where it is—Air.

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 the Mandala of Characters, we can see that Air’s Conscious State is closest to the reference point, which is on the top. This reference point concerns basic psychological function, which is:
— INTUITION.

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

AIR
( spring—source & purpose )
compromise, INTUITION, balance   
( anger / attack )

The Conscious State of Air-type is also located between two reference points, which we can find:
— on the upper left corner, and
— on the upper right corner.

These reference points concern two adaptive-defensive mechanisms, which are:
— EXTRAVERSION, and
— JUDGING, Empathy.

On Mandala of Characters to describe these two places, I also used a set of concepts, phrases, and symbols.

On the upper left corner this set is as follows:

hot
attention, attitude, trust, belief, focus, persuasion
( EXTRAVERSION —
—to have—object, case—experiment—risk & opportunity )

Two last lines of the above set contain a brief definition of EXTRAVERSION. About this how I create this definition, I write among others in the work—“The Mandala of Characters—Construction”

In turn, in the upper right corner, we can find this set of concepts, phrases, and symbols.

moist–wet
perfection, sum, time & space, art   
( JUDGING, Empathy—
—to care—process, act—synthesis—plan & organize )

Like in the previous set, two last lines contain my brief definition of “JUDGING, Empathy”.

Two above adaptive-defensive mechanisms have less impact on the Consciousness of Air-type than mentioned above basic psychological function: INTUITION. It is simply because Air-type is located in the place, where is the function— INTUITION .

Besides, about the type “Air” says a lot its name, that is:
— Air.

Being “Air” in a symbolic sense shows the way of being, attitude towards other people and their reception by this type of character.

The above concepts, phrases, and symbols located near Air’s Conscious 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 Air. 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.

Jacek BŁACH