These reference videos were created during the Covid months from March 2020 onwards, during which time the church switched from in-person training to micro-learning. They are the core anchor-points upon which the College and Seminary rely. For details on the nomenclature used, please refer to the write-up on biblical archetypes elsewhere: PATTERN OF SEVENS.

PREFACE

I saw more of America in one month on a family road trip from Des Moines (Iowa) to Disneyland in Los Angeles than I did in eight years in D.C. and Tulsa combined.

From a child's daily perspective, what you see mostly is your school, teachers, and the suburbs. So when you live in a big city for several years, you never get around to visiting the sites where tourists go.

Two thoughts:

• This oddity is commonplace for residents, and sometimes it's a wonder to discover nooks and crannies right in your own neighbourhood that you never knew existed.
• The second thing is that travel itself is a kind of education, but the things you learn may not be found in any textbook or on an internet search.

What do you think?

The modalities of human formation follow this trend. The soul, as defined in the Bible, is like a vast unexplored continent. Many have ventured to the "center of the earth," including mystics, philosophers, and psychologists. This research has produced maps of the terrain, a crude and often inaccurate geography of what might be described as the "final frontier" of self-knowledge and self-mastery in Christ.

The word is not the thing; likewise, the map is not the land. Often, explorers suffered terribly from using old maps drawn in ancient times, which cost them their lives. Modalities training is something like that. We use the current methods and algorithms of the human psyche, but we don't allow our methods or algorithms to get in the way. We are beneficiaries of pioneers like Freud and Jung, but their findings, like ours, must be tentative at the very least, lest we mislead the follower-ship.

We are pioneers in the 7 archetypes of excellence, but we also acknowledge that the soul is far more expansive than we once thought. When Columbus discovered the Americas, he was looking for India.

1. https://youtu.be/ZwSyx03Pr_I

(26/5/2020) Metadidomi by Gerard Seow. Set Free Sunday. [1:49:45]

1. https://youtu.be/zPXbcX1v4hE

(6/1/2021) 7 Modalities (Session 1 of 3) Rev Gerard Seow; Royal College of Pastors [1:45:29]

1. https://youtu.be/CE_hD_jjz3s

(18/1/2021) Modalities (Part 3) by Gerard Seow; Royal College of Pastors.

[2:16:36]

1. https://youtu.be/B6Ki1GPZ9j8