AN OVERVIEW OF

FOUR CENTRES AND THEIR FUNCTIONS

 

 

MOVING CENTRE

 

INTELLECTUAL PART OF MOVING CENTRE

An important and interesting tool.

Well-done physical work needs many inventions.

Belongs here: imitating by will the voice, intonation, and gestures of other people, such as actors do.

In better degrees, it is mixed with the work of the intellectual part of the emotional centre.

 

EMOTIONAL PART OF MOVING CENTRE

Connected chiefly with the pleasure of movement.

Love of sports and games should belong here, but when identifications and emotions mix with it, it is rarely there, and in most cases the love of sports is in the mechanical part of either intellectual or emotional centre.

 

MECHANICAL PART OF MOVING CENTRE

Belong here: imitation and the capacity for imitation which plays such a big part in life.

Belong to it: all automatic movements which in ordinary language are called “instinctive” (such as catching a falling object without thinking).

 

SUMMARY OF MOVING CENTRE

The moving function includes in itself all external movements, such as walking, writing, speaking, eating, and the memories of them.

None of the moving functions are inherent, and one has to learn them all, as a child learns to walk, or as one learns to write or draw.

Moving centre includes also some moving functions not intended by nature and representing useless work of the human machine, which uses up a great quantity of time and energy (imagination, formation of dreams, daydreaming, unnecessary talking).

 

 

INSTINCTIVE CENTRE

 

INTELLECTUAL PART OF INSTINCTIVE CENTRE

The intellectual part serves a very big and very important function. In the state of self-consciousness (or approaching it) one can come into contact with the intellectual part of instinctive centre, and learn a great deal from it concerning the functioning of the machine and its possibilities.

It is the mind behind all the work of the organism, a mind quite different from the intellectual mind.

 

EMOTIONAL PART OF INSTINCTIVE CENTRE

We can observe the sensory and emotional part only.

All physical emotions, that is, all physical sensations which are either pleasant or unpleasant (all kinds of pain or unpleasant smell, and all kinds of physical pleasure, such as pleasant smell, taste).

The five senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) and all other senses, such as sense of weight, of temperature, of dryness or moisture, and so on. Indifferent sensations, which are neither pleasant nor unpleasant.

 

MECHANICAL PART OF INSTINCTIVE CENTRE

The mechanical part includes in itself habitual sensations, which very often we do not notice at all, but which serve as a background to other sensations.

Instinctive movements, that is, all physiology, all the inner work of the organism (digestion and assimilation of food, breathing, circulation of blood, all the work of inner organs, like the building of new cells, the elimination of waste materials, the work of endocrine glands, and so on).

 

SUMMARY OF INSTINCTIVE CENTRE

The instinctive function includes all inner work of the organism.

All instinctive functions, without exception, are inherent (inborn). No learning is required.

The instinctive centre is divided into pleasure and pain.

The negative half of the instinctive centre is a “watchman” warning us of danger.

 

 

EMOTIONAL CENTRE

 

INTELLECTUAL PART OF EMOTIONAL CENTRE

Power of artistic creation. When intellectual parts of other centres are not developed and educated, artistic creation may manifest itself in dreams.

Chief seat of the magnetic centre. When it is fully developed, and works with its full power, it is a way to higher centres.

 

EMOTIONAL PART OF EMOTIONAL CENTRE

Religious, aesthetic, and moral emotions, which may lead to an awakening of conscience. But with identification it may be ironical, sarcastic, derisive, cruel, obstinate, wicked, and jealous, only in a less primitive way than the mechanical part of emotional centre.

Includes the sense of humour and comical.

 

MECHANICAL PART OF EMOTIONAL CENTRE

The cheapest kind of ready-made humour and a rough sense of the comical.

Love of being in a crowd, being part of a crowd, attraction to crowd emotions of all kinds.

Complete disappearance in lower, half-animal emotions, such as cruelty, jealousy, selfishness, envy, cowardice, and so on.

 

SUMMARY OF EMOTIONAL CENTRE

Intellectual part: chief set of the magnetic centre.

Emotional part: religious, aesthetic, and moral emotions.

Mechanical part: lowest emotions.

 

 

 

 

 

INTELLECTUAL CENTRE

 

INTELLECTUAL PART OF INTELLECTUAL CENTRE

It cannot work without attention, and the attention must be controlled (directed) and kept by will and effort.

Capacity for creation, invention, and discovery.

 

EMOTIONAL PART OF INTELLECTUAL CENTRE

Consists chiefly of intellectual emotions, that is, desire to know and understand.

Satisfaction of knowing, dissatisfaction of not knowing.

Pleasure of discovery.

Requires full attention, but no effort. Attention is attraction and held by the object itself, very often through identification called “interest”, “enthusiasm”, “passion”, or “devotion”.

 

MECHANICAL PART OF INTELLECTUAL CENTRE

It is also called formatory apparatus.

It only counts to two, dividing things into two groups.

Majority of mankind (man number one) lives their entire existence in this apparatus.

All popular theories are formatory.

Registers impressions, memories, and associations.

Works almost automatically, does not require any attention.

It cannot think: continues to work in the same way also when circumstances have completely changed.

 

SUMMARY OF INTELLECTUAL CENTRE

Intellectual part: attention controlled and held on the object by will.

Emotional part: attention held by the object, and so without the individual’s effort.

Mechanical part: mechanical, without attention, or with attention wandering.

 

 

QUICK REFERENCE TO CENTRES AND THEIR PARTS

USING THE DECK OF CARDS

 

MOVING CENTRE = SPADES ♠

INSTINCTIVE CENTRE = CLUBS ♣

EMOTIONAL CENTRE = HEARTS ♥

INTELLECTUAL CENTRE = DIAMONDS ♦

 

INTELLECTUAL PARTS = KINGS

EMOTIONAL PARTS = QUEENS

MECHANICAL PARTS = JACKS

ANY CENTRE REGARDED AS A WHOLE = ACE

 

Examples: Intellectual part of moving centre = King of Spades, Emotional part of instinctive centre = Queen of Clubs, Mechanical part of intellectual centre (formatory apparatus) = Jack of Diamonds.