“Its all about you but you are not what it’s all about” - Gerard Seow, Head of College
You are wired in a certain way according to the seven archetypes given in creation. This circuitry is a default behavior that follows a pattern ingrained and unique to your elemental person. This course takes the student on a journey of self-discovery to self-mastery, uncovering those qualities that make them special and unique, that they are likely to be oblivious to. It seeks to answer questions such as why were they chosen to lead in that capacity, what about them made them imminently qualified to fill that role, how will they make an impact over the course of a lifetime, and how will they find rest for their soul?
At the end of this course, students should be able to identify their own modal excellence (the elemental you from the "hats" you wear), and also be able to create a periodic table of human behavior.
By the end of the course, the student of modalities will be able to:
- Use mind mapping of the pattern of sevens comprehensively observed in the Bible characters and events based upon a thorough investigation into modalities from Moses in the OT to Jesus in the NT. Show your working digitally using the Miro app or equivalent. Hand-drawn mind maps submitted will not receive credit.
- Transliterate, pronounce, and translate the seven Greek words in Romans 12:6-8 that reflect the ecclesial archetypes of modal excellence as the Father has designed it to be from your mother’s womb. How might you account for the differences in human behavior? Can a person have more than one archetype? If yes, explain your answer.
- Research the war on saints in the first century A.D. in answer to the question, "What happened to the seven churches of Revelation and where are the battle lines drawn today?" List the blind spots for each of the modal excellences observed.
- How do the seven pieces of movable furniture in the Tabernacle foreshadow the pattern of seven in 1 Cor 14:26, and how does this contribute to your understanding of the ecclesia in this present time? How does this pattern of NT worship differ, if it does, from the practice in your own assembly or congregation?
- What do the seven natural endowments listed in Peter 1:5-7 tell you about the original state of man before the Fall? Why is the essential goodness of man in creation important in any study of human formation and archetype? Is it important to believe in the innate goodness when a child is born? If so, what are your reasons to support your belief?
- Develop your own theory of human formation from Bible characters, both male and female, and defend your position by analyzing their elemental modality expressed in the biblical narrative. What is the difference between gift and calling, between the elemental you and the consequential “hats” you wear?
- Construct a periodic table of human formation based on a biblical model of personhood and mark where you think you and your spouse (if married) might be located, giving reasons and illustrating your answers with evidence from your earliest memories.
- Find 15-20 friends to reply to a text message: “How have I made an impact in your life?” and collate your answers before your face-to-face appointment for Discovery Diagnostics.
- Write out your autobiography from your earliest memories until around 13 years, detailing in a self-authored analysis - what went right? What went wrong? What lessons did you learn? And who made the most impact in your growing up days?
End of term final open book: Be prepared to put all your learning on the pattern of seven into a single chart that consolidates the modalities observed in both old and new testament as you derive your own theory of the formation of the human soul.
Introduction to Modalities: "I help gifted individuals discover genius by modalities" -
Understanding of the "elemental you" does away with the need of MCQ type of testing eg, Meyers-Briggs, DISC or other questionnaires that have inherent diagnostic biases. Both the study of medicine and mathematics believes that there are answers at the back of the book. Modern psychology doesn't. It premise is that every person is a blank page. See my article, "Is Tabula really Rasa?' in the Pastoral and Theological StudyGroup Community.
PRO-PHE-TI-EA - the uncanny ability to discover the hidden and latent behind the obvious and ordinary. Your perception is not always God’s reality. In a single breath, Jesus explodes the myth of self-sufficiency: Take no thought on the morrow for the the morrow will take thought of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof (ἀρκετὸν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἡ κακία αὐτῆς, Matt 6:34).
PRO (CV).pdf
DEA-CO-NI-EA - the master craftsman at work shaping the future with artisanal skill and adding hours of painstaking detail to a plan that is not in front of you but buried deep within the spirit. Our light and momentary afflictions are working for us an eternal weight of glory that is beautiful beyond description (καθ’ ὑπερβολὴν εἰς ὑπερβολὴν, 2 Cor 4:17).