Instincts and the Outer World

This reflection is third in a series on survival instincts [recorded April 4, 2021]. It possibly has two distinct parts. Part I is about personality theories and when/why I return to them. Part II is about two of those theories: a) the Enneagram (with consideration toward instincts being a fixed treatment or a preferred treatment); and b) the Graves Model (considering the model as one for collective/social growth). I bring the two parts together by considering the ways the outer world impacts the inner world; and then in return, the ways we (through our inner world) impact the outer. I fall into two short (but noticeable) rabbit holes: 1) about justice and competing oppression; and 2) self-serving benefits of denying the invisible layers of the social world.