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– Heartwood Path Waypoint 1.55 –

Coherence Chart


Understand The Map Of One's Integrity

Later in the Heartwood Path we will describe the layers necessary to add depth to your character.  Here, we are going to let you know how to grow without becoming lob-sided.  

​To make sure you have balanced growth, we will employ the Heartwood Path Four Leaf Model of Integrity, based on the collected works of philosopher and author Ken Wilber (specifically his Four Quadrants) (Wilber, 1995, pp. 121-126). This map is vital to your successful spiritual maturity because it reminds you that there are four quadrant in which you need to grow if you are to be balanced in your development.

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Figure 1. The Heartwood Path Four Leaf Model of Integrity

The upper left leaf represents Beauty, expressed in reality often in language with the first person pronoun… “I.”

The lower left leaf stands for Goodness, which in reality is expressed after discussion with or about two or more people who tend to use the second-person pronoun… “We.”

The upper right leaf represents Truth, expressed in reality in its singular aspect with the word… “It.” 

​Lastly, the lower right leaf represents Truth again in its plural social or environmental systems aspect (group behavior) and expressed with the word… “Its.”


People grow, develop, and evolve in each of these four arenas simultaneous, but not necessarily uniformly. Trying to organize any personal growth program that does not reflect each of these four areas of development is doomed to failure. That is because it will not be in line with the way the universe works.  

Again, the map in the form of a four-leaf clover will be useful to explain the terrain—the universe. The two leafs on the left are for discussing the inner world. The two on the right are for discussing the outer world. The two on the top are for discussing individual aspects of the universe—inner world individual aspects on the upper left (intensions) and outer world individual aspects on the upper right (individual behaviors). The lower two leafs are for discussing collective aspects of the universe—the lower left is for discussing the inner world of collective aspects (group ethics) and the lower right is for discussing outer world of collective aspects (group behavior).  These “leaves”—these arenas of development—simply represent the “inside” and “outside” of the individual and collective aspects of the universe. Using this system, the upper left leaf is about intentions and lower left is about ethics. The upper right is about the “outside” of individuals, with individual behaviors being a dominant pertinent topic; and the lower right is about the “outside” of collectives, with nested physical systems and group behaviors being the dominant pertinent topics. 

This symbolic model, with its four leafs, is a chart of one’s Greater Self. It is also a map of integrity (both in terms of wholeness and in terms of moral soundness). Once one understands both its design and its symbols, it will be the single most helpful tool for those charting their way down the Heartwood Path. Use it repeatedly to make sure you are developing the poise that comes with developmental counterbalance. 

The main point here is for you to be comprehensive in your efforts to be balanced and to grow in depth in all ways possible.  An eartHeart’s most comprehensive way to look at reality is to take into account all four arenas of development—intentions, ethics, things, and behaviors. In reality, these aspects of the universe occur only collectively—together, or not at all.

As an example of the usefulness of the Four Leaf Model of Integrity, I can think of no better application than how the model can foster better relationships. As you do the following activity, note where intentions, ethics, things and behaviors come into play.  If you are confounded by this Model or seek special assistance I encourage you to reach a more comprehensive understanding by securing Guidance.


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To A Systematic Improvement Of Bonds...
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​HumaNatureConnect Activity
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If this is not a day when you prefer to spend time in nature without an agenda, do the following activity:
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Start-up Protocol
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  • Read The Text — Use your literary sense, your mind sense, and your reason sense to move towards happiness and sustainability by reading the Heartwood Path text but also go outdoors to the backyard or to the backwoods, where the higher levels of negative ions in the air will improve your mood and well-being.
  • Attention Restoration — With a pen and journal in hand, go to a natural area that is attractive, has a variety of plants and animals, and is tranquil enough to leave room for reflection.
  • Source — Spend time wandering without an agenda in nature or, if you don’t have time to receive nature’s magic in this way, follow the instructions in the text at each learning station.
  • Attractive Natural Being — Once you are in a natural area (the wilder, the better), look to find a natural being that is attractive to you and remain near that being until the end of the activity.
  • Appreciation And Gratitude — While communing with your chosen natural being, appreciate it as you inhale and show it gratitude as you exhale.
  • Consent — Once you find an aspect of nature that is attractive to you continuously for at least ten seconds, think of your continued attraction as your consent to have a connection experience that will help you function optimally; receive information, guidance, and healing; and establish in your mind a more helpful egalitarian relationship with the natural being.
  • The Natural Senses — Beyond seeing, hearing, and the three other commonly recognized senses, use as many of the fifty-four Natural Senses as you see fit and prepare to document the ones that you use in your journal.
  • Great Trustable Truth — Experience what is happening at the present moment in nature, paying particular attention to the role of both beauty and balance; remember that the impressions you form about attractive natural beings and natural areas, coming from your experiencing of them in the Now, are trustable; and recognize that the natural processes and features witnessed are a source of special, substantial, and irreplaceable truthfulness about both nature and yourself.
  • Recall — Place the great trustable truth and any other insights that you discover in a mental lock-box so you can later record them in your journal.​

Applying The Model Of Integrity To Improving Relationships
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For this activity, write down in your journal how you will:
  1. identify or, if need be, develop at least three friends you can count on, 
  2. make time to be with someone you care about, 
  3. make at least five positive comments and engage in at least five positive actions for every one negative comment or action, 
  4. take delight in the good fortune of someone you care about, 
  5. disclose something about yourself to someone you feel close to, and
  6. be supportive and loyal in your relationships and hug them often.    

Review how each of the activities listed above are influenced by your intentions, ethics, physical things, and behaviors.  Examine an action, compare any two outer world aspects of the Model of Integrity (behaviors and physical things) with any two of the Model’s inner world aspects (ethics or intentions)  and notice that deep meanings emerge in the juxtaposition (as when you compare an aspect of reality represented in one leaf with an aspect of reality in another). Here’s an example of the kinds of juxtapositions you may want to do for yourself:

I have the intention to work to support myself and my family.  That is an inner world goal that is reprinted by the upper left leaf on the Model of Integrity.  My ethics, from the realm signified by the lower left leaf is to work in service to the disadvantaged. My behaviors, signified by the Upper right leaf, include driving to and from work, helping client become more independent.  The lower right leaf signifies the physical systems used in the action; which for me include regulating agency, the easily washable clothes I wear, the plastic gloves, the computers, and the homes of the clients.

​The point here is to make sure, when assessing how well you are doing, is to not just make adjustments in one or two realms, but in all of the realms. That’s what is necessary for enduring, most-helpful compassion. Try such an assessment on something significant you are doing. Plan to make any adjustment, as needed.


​​​​Follow-up Protocol
Natural Systems Reflection Process
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     For best results, write down your impressions of this activity in your journal using as many of the following components as you see fit, afterwards, share your interpretations with others.
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Journal Components
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  • Date — Write down the date of your outdoor nature-communing experience.
  • Activity — Write down the waypoint title and number each time each you do an activity.
  • Location — Write down the location of your outdoor nature-communing experience.
  • Natural Being Indicator — Draw a picture or write down in your journal a nameless way to remember your chosen attractive Natural Being; for example, call it your “____  ____ Connection Experience.”
  • The Natural Senses Used — Write down all of the Natural Senses you used for this activity.
  • General Description — Write a general description of how you did the activity and what happened.
  • Freeform — Write, in freeform, what you found attractive about your natural being.
  • Three Qualities — Write down three qualities you found attractive about your natural being.
  • Three Learnings — Write down three things you learned from this activity.
  • Self-esteem & Trust — Write down how, if at all, this activity changed your self-esteem or trustfulness of NNIAAL (Namelessness, Now, Intelligence, Alive, Attraction, and Love).
  • Changes To Self — Write down what aspects of your Self, if any, were changed by this activity.
  • Honor Yourself — Praise yourself and your commitment to making another stop along the Heartwood Path good for yourself and the world.
  • I’m A Person Who. . . — Write down three different so-called “G/G Statements” using the following format: “This connection experience tells me that I am a person who__________.”
  • Feelings If Activity Taken — Write down a sentence about how you would feel if you lost your ability to experience this connection.
  • Nature Compared To Self — Create a sentence that reads: “I love this (insert words that identify the attractive natural being) because it is (insert words that refer to the qualities you like about the natural being); then, create a parallel sentence that reads: “I love (insert the word “myself”) because I am (insert the same qualities as before).”​
  • Integral Immersion — Improve your journal writing by addressing what is, what could be, and what ought to be.
  • Love Letter — Write a letter of gratitude to and from a natural being.
  • Two-word Summary — Write down two words that summarize your response to this activity.​
The Heartwood Path Exchange:
Swap Your Ideas, Impressions, Photos, And News With Others
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  • Comment — Post your impressions and photos in the Comments section of this waypoint—the place for on-going discussion regarding this waypoint.
  • Join — Engage with others in a Heartwood Path course or salon.
  • Create — Start your own Heartwood Path salon that meets regularly online, by phone, or in person.
  • Talk — Share your impressions with trusted family members and friends.
  • Network — Post your impressions and photos on our EartHeart Networking Forum.
  • Post — To see what conversations you can ignite, upload on social media your photos and impressions about anything pertaining to your journey down the Heartwood Path.
  • Connect — Follow our account on Instagram, Like our Page on Facebook, Subscribe to our Channel on YouTube, and use hashtags such as “#heartwoodpath”, “#eartHeart”, and “#waypoint(insert course)(insert waypoint number) i.e.“#waypointkosmos5”).​
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Your input is vital. Enjoy sharing!

Heartwood Path Axioms:
Key Assertions From Waypoint 1.55


1.55.1.
The Heartwood Path Four Leaf Model of Integrity is vital to your successful spiritual maturity because it reminds you that there are four quadrant in which you need to grow if you are to be balanced in your development: Beauty; Goodness; Truth in its singular/individual aspect; and Truth again in its plural social or environmental systems aspect.

1.55.2.
Apply the Model of Integrity to Improving Relationships by identifying or, if need be, developing at least three friends you can count on; making time to be with someone you care about; making at least five positive comments and engage in at least five positive actions for every one negative comment or action; taking delight in the good fortune of someone you care about; disclosing something about yourself to someone you feel close to, and being supportive and loyal in your relationships. 

1.55.3.
Strike a balance between Science, Morals, and Aesthetics by attuning your mind to Nature, by situating yourself conceptually and literally in Nature, and by giving blessings for the beauty of intentions––the ways that cause a fusing within you as your Inner Witness becomes undifferentiated from that which you witness—the rest of creation.

1.55.4.
Without building a personal growth program that takes Self, culture, and Nature into account, there is no integral, comprehensive, enduring positive change.

1.55.5.
Take into account all four arenas of development—intentions, ethics, things, and behaviors—plus the depth of body, mind, and spirit which occur only collectively—together, or not at all.

Dreaming Time Activity

For best results, write down your impressions of each night’s dreams in your journal, a vital part of your EartHeart Chronicles. Make your Dream Tending elaborate (so you get the most out of it) but do not make it cumbersome (as this could prevent you from continuing). Use as many of the following components as you see fit. Afterwards, where appropriate, share your Dream Tending with others.
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Before Dreaming Protocol​​
  • Dream Prep — Prepare yourself for productive dreaming by decluttering your mind before sleeping. ​
  • Journal Ready — Prepare to record your dream impressions by placing your journal so that you can make initial recordings in it without changing your dreamtime sleeping position.
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Dreaming Protocol​
  • Remember This — Look to your dreams to tell you what you need to remember.​
  • Open To Dream — Be receptive, fluid, interactive, and grounded as you dream.
  • Wake-Back-To-Bed — Wake up after six hours of sleep, staying awake for twenty minutes, then go back to sleep.
  • Shape-shifters — Watch characters that change in your dream to see into the possibilities of your own transformation.
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Nocturnal Pilgrimage 1.55

Give yourself a chance to process today’s waypoint by sleeping and dreaming. Remember, during Dream Tending, you are not asked to figure anything out. “You are not using your rational mind at all. Rather you are open to your sense of discovery. . . You are curious about who is visiting now?”  . . . (and) . . . “what is happening here?” (Aizenstat, 2009, p. 36).

After Dreaming Protocol​
  • First Off — Recall your dream by staying in your sleeping position as you make your first attempt to remember your dream.
  • Book Of Dreams — Create an entry in your dream journal using the following linguistic tools: 1) talking in the present tense, 2) using verbs ending in “ing,” 3) removing articles such as “an” or “the,” and 4) using capital letters when naming the Dream Characters—which can be any notable people, places, or things that show up in your dream.
  • Title — Give your dream a memorable title. 
  • Date — Write down the date of your dream. 
  • Description — Write down a short, general summary of your dream.
  • Mood — Write down how the dream affected your mood upon waking.
  • Life Event Affecting Dream — Write down any events in your life that may have influenced your dream.
  • Dream Characters — List all remembered notable “actors” in your dream, whether they are people, places, or things.
  • Setting — Describe the location of your dream.
  • Statement Of Problem — Write down the complication, challenge, predicament, situation, obstacle, plight, quandary, or misadventure presented in your dream. 
  • Culmination Or Response To The Problem — Describe what you or another Dream Character did in your dream to respond to the problem presented in the dream.
  • Conclusion — Describe how your dream ended.
  • Beings Revealed — Write down how your dream seemed to be, if at all, linked in some way to your chosen attractive natural beings.
  • Freud’s Approach —  Associate the actions of your Dream Characters with latent, infantile, repressed, or sexual drives.
  • Jung’s Approach — Amplify your Dream Characters into Archetypes that are global in scale, symbolic, pervasive, positive, and helpful.
  • Hillman’s Approach — Recognize your Dream Characters as animated, living beings by honoring their presence, place, and body.
  • Right Information — Ask yourself the two main questions for Dream Tending: “Who is visiting now?” And “What is happening here?”
  • The Richest Treasures — Do not force narrow interpretations upon the natural being impressions that reappear in your dream by condensing them into limited signs when it is more fruitful to simply engage with them as living beings that reside in your dream, possibly with infinite symbolic value.
  • Privacy — Store your dream journal in a safe place and, where appropriate, share your dream with others.​​​
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Dream Council Protocol​
  • Create Dream Figures — Periodically create physical representations of select Dream Characters using natural materials, give them some form of identification, and gather them together.
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