3 feelings are connected with each role (emotions, moods, state of mind). In the end, 7 roles are related to each other with 21 feelings, which constitute thebasic set of feelings. From this set, all the vicissitudes of relationships and experiences are composed, just as words and sentences from the letters. There is a scheme of the relations between roles and role record of feelings which are actively used in the role theory of feelings and relations.
Any relationships are always the role relationships. Psychic roles are within each of us. 7 roles are the 7 beginnings of each person, those are his 7 primordial forces, those are the 7 poles of his soul, those are 7 back streets, 7 snugs of the soul. The 7 roles of the team are only the manifestation of the seven I, living within each person.
CHARACTER FORMATION AND QUALITY OF THE SOUL
But getting back to the team
To become a part of the team, a person needs to enter the team for some role. The only question is, for which particular role? Usually, in the team, there are occupied roles, and there are also unoccupied (vacant) roles. And then it turns out that anyhow a role for a person does not fit. Not all roles are equally acceptable for him. There are roles that he likes, and there are those that he does not like. What does it depend on? From the character formation.
People are different. Each person has his own character composition, his own set of spiritual qualities, his own peculiarities of character. Qualities of the soul, traits of character, peculiarities of character, the tendency of nature all this same, is role preferences of the person. Each person attempts to occupy the most preferred role for them in the team or at least one of the acceptable roles to him. Another thing is that not always such roles are offered to him. It happens that those roles are already occupied by someone.
The most preferred role is the dominant of the character. It defines the type of character, therefore it is called as well the essence of the character, the essence of the soul or simply the essence of a person. Questions: What is his character? What is his type of character? What is the essence of his soul? What is the essence of this person are always a question about what role dominates in the character of this person.
The feelings connected with the role dominating in character generate the leading traits of character of the person. For example, the feelings connected with a role of the Idol pride, joy and complacency; generate the corresponding qualities of the soul: arrogance (superiority), idleness (hospitality) and laziness (self-complacency, self-content). If the role of an Idol dominates in character of the person, then those traits of character will be the leading traits of his character.
Of course, the character of a person is not reduced to the dominant of the character (to the most preferable role). Every person is familiar with all the roles, in every person, there is his 7I. However, in the characters of different people there is a different ratio of those seven I. Some I in the character are in a surplus, and others I is lacking. For example, there are people in the character of whose there is a surplus of selfishness and cunning, and heroism and self-sacrificingness is lacking. And others are different: arrogance, idolatry is excessive, and hardness and perseverance is lacking.
To find out the character formation of the person it is necessary:
At first, it is necessary to reveal the prevailing roles, it is necessary to find out what qualities of roles (what Is) in the character are in a surplus and what in a shortcoming;
Then it is necessary to distribute the roles according to the degree of their preference for this person. The most preferred role is the dominant of the character (the basic I of a person), the less preferred role is his second I, an even less preferred role is his third I, etc.
As a result, it is possible to make a mental portrait of the person, i.e. a portrait of his soul.
7 heads of Rugevit
In the picture shows the ancient Slavic god Rugevit. 7 heads of Rugevit under the hat this is the 7 of his I. The upper head of Rugevit is his basic I (the dominant of his character). Two heads below are two other roles that prevail in his character (the other two Is of Rugevit).
It should be noted that not only the Western Slavs worshiped to a seven-faced idol. The Nenets also worshiped their seven-faced idol Vesako on the island of Vaigach.
The idea of the seven I am clearly expressed in the petroglyph from Khakassia: a seven-headed creature is depicted on the stone and 7 people are next to it.
The petroglyph from Khakassia
7 ROLES 7 TYPES OF THE CHARACTER
7 roles generate 7 types of character (7 psycho types). It happens like this. Having received a role in the team, a person gradually gets used to it and the role becomes familiar to him. Staying on the role does not pass without a trace. Together with the role, a person receives and a set of feelings connected with it, which begin to manifest in the tone of speech, in gestures, facial expressions and poses. Gradually they are getting fixed in manners and habits, and, in the end, become the features of his character. So the role becomes the dominant of the character of a person. The proverb: Sow an act reap a habit, sow a habit reap a character, describes the process of transforming of the taken role into the dominant of the character.
Example.
It happens that the person has got the role of an Idol in the team. It means that all treat him with a honour, respect, awe. If the role of an Idol is acceptable to this person, then, being on this role, he does not feel emotional discomfort. Over time, having got used to the role, the one, as it is peculiar to an Idol, begins to look down at others, with a sense of superiority. The role of an Idol is fixed in features of the character. A person becomes arrogant, haughty, assumptive. He develops aristocratic manners. And he behaves like an Idol not only in the team where he was assigned the role of an Idol, but also among other people. He already can not and does not want to behave in another way. It means that the role of an Idol became a dominant of his character, became his basic I, became the essence of his soul. Such person will try to occupy a role of an Idol in any team. What if the role of an Idol is occupied by someone else? If there is already the Idol with all his dignity? They begin the fight for the role of an Idol in the team. They cant stand each other. They have role conflicts and showdown. Everything will end when one of them will either leave the team, or will stop to apply for a role of an Idol will break off his hubris.
There is a connection between the character formation of the person and the features of his body. For example, a good-natured joker is always describing fat, a cunning person with a long nose, and a smart guy with glasses. Speaking about the strong man, it is necessary to emphasize his simplicity, they will say: Brains are not needed when you have power. But the clearest connection of character with the features of the body is reflected in the word grabber and derivatives of it: selfishness, selfish habits, self-interests. The word grabber although it is connected with fell (skin), but speaks about quite certain features of the character.
There is a connection between the character formation of the person and the features of his body. For example, a good-natured joker is always describing fat, a cunning person with a long nose, and a smart guy with glasses. Speaking about the strong man, it is necessary to emphasize his simplicity, they will say: Brains are not needed when you have power. But the clearest connection of character with the features of the body is reflected in the word grabber and derivatives of it: selfishness, selfish habits, self-interests. The word grabber although it is connected with fell (skin), but speaks about quite certain features of the character.
The connection between the body and the soul is not fixed. Not all idols are fat. Not all cunning people have a long nose. Not all clever people have weak eyesight. Not all athletes are simpletons. Not all grabbers have a sensitive fell (skin), etc. But all the same, the connection between the body and the soul exists.
Observed by people, and, therefore, the really existing connection of the persons character with the feature of his flesh can be explained in a different way. However, only the fact of the existence of such connection is important for the understanding of the character formation, and its nature (the physiological mechanism) does not matter.
Well, now, at last, about the seven I about 7 roles and about 7 types of character. Those are 7 colourful, well-recognized characters. Each person easily recognizes in them their relatives and friends and acquaintances, neighbours and colleagues. He recognizes himself, because 7 roles are 7 faces, 7 essences, 7 hypostases of each person.
The story of the roles is conducted according to the scheme: role feeling spiritual quality (features of the character) behaviour (actions). In other words, feeling connected with the role, generates a spiritual quality (a feature of the character), which, in turn, generates actions and behaviour.
§2. HERO
THE FIRE OF THE SOUL
There are people with ardent hearts and ardent souls. These are ardent fighters and ardent orators. They have ardent speeches and ardent ideas. Ardour is called blaze, fire, fervour of the soul, and people who have an ardent motor instead of a heart can be called heroes.
The role of the Hero is related to the energy of the body. People, in whose character the role of the Hero dominates, are people with increased energy, with a large reserve of vital forces. They are active, energetic people.
They are hot people. They do not tolerate the heat. They love the cold, the frost, the winter like Pushkins Tatiana from Eugene Onegin:
Tatiana (Russian soul,
not knowing why)
With her cold beauty
Loved Russian winter
They are drawn to coolness, to the water. They like swimming and other funs with water.
Water the most mysterious liquid of nature, performs an important role in the energy of the body. Water, as a source of strength, is given much attention in fairy tales and bylines. For example, Iliya Muromets gained heroic power after the Magi give him three buckets of water. Tzar Koschei manages to find the former strength and break the chains after he drinks three buckets of water.
The Heros role is connected with three feelings: inspiration (excitement, courage), boredom (spleen) and tenderness (pity).
INSPIRATION
Feeling of inspiration is a feeling of excitement, passion, rapture, winged sentiments, daring, courage, drive.
Inspiration is called high spirits, called a state of lightness, freshness, vivacity. The person in high spirits goes the flying gait. Inspiration spreads the wings of the soul, gives wiggle the wings of the soul. This is the state of being in love that is why they say that love inspires.
Inspiration generates such feature of the character as soar the desire and ability to go beyond the ordinary, to rise above the daily routine. The feeling of inspiration generates the desire to fly.
Inspiration is a feeling of freedom. When a person has got an inspiration, they say that a person caught spirit; they say that he has a mischievous mood. He begins to improvise. He gets spontaneity and immediacy of action. He becomes unchained and liberated.
The inspiration is a creative beginning in the person. It is a feeling of sincere, creative uplift. Often during a spiritual, creative upsurge, a person rushes with burning eyes, not knowing what to do with himself.
The feeling of inspiration is well conveyed in the famous masterpiece of Russian romanticism The Song of the Stormy Petrel.
Over the gray plains of the sea, the wind gathers clouds. Between the clouds and the sea, the Stormy Petrel flaunts proudly, like a black lightning.
Then touching with the wing the wave, then soaring like an arrow to the clouds, he screams, and the clouds hear the joy in the courageous scream of the bird.
In this scream THE THIRST OF WINDSTORM! The power of anger, the flame of passion and the certainty of victory are heard by the clouds in this scream.
The thunder roars. In the foam of an anger, the waves moan, arguing with the wind. The wind covers waves with a strong embrace and throws them with scope in a wild rage on rocks, breaking emerald bulks in dust and splashes.
Here he rushes as the demon, the proud, black demon of a storm, both laughs, and sobs
He laughs over the clouds, he sobs with joy!
This is a courageous Stormy Petrel flies proudly between lightnings over the roaring angrily sea; that screams the prophet of a victory:
LET THE STORMWIND WILL BE MORE STRONG!
The feeling of an inspiration generates to the desire to plunge into the storm, to bathe in it, to surrender to it completely, without a trace. In such state of soul of a person, having stretched hands, jumps in a grass, runs out during a thunderstorm under heavy rain streams, swallows of them, trying to embrace the raged elements. With such feeling fly, young horses jump on a steppe scope, puppies play and behave outrageously.
These people tend to live and act at the limit of their forces and capabilities. The principle of karma-yoga is suitable for them: Act on the limit and you will step over your limits.
Heroes are people who are addicted. It is extremely dangerous to go on a car if it drives a person with a heroic character. He can not go quietly, his eyes are burning. He needs spirit, drive. He will definitely arrange a dashing, risky race.
People with the heroic character achieve to the extreme, emergency situations. They always go on aggravating the situation. Only in an extremely acute, critical situation, in situations connected with danger and risk, they can throw out their energy and fall under the drive, fall under a sense of excitement and inspiration.
People with the heroic character constantly reach into fire and water, get involve in fights and wars, take part in risky escapades and adventures, in riots and revolutions. They conquer mountain peaks, soar to the skies, descend to the bottom of the seas, go with a bear spear for a bear. The main thing is that they can not and do not want to live in peace. Everything that is not related to the marginal risk is for them a deadly boredom: