The Sustaining Spirit

 

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
SUSTAINING ARCHETYPE

 

  • Practices partnering with family, co-workers, society, natural environment, culture, social and religious groups and, first and foremost, himself
  • Focuses on everything organic and inorganic
  • Calls for partnering relationships that have:
     

    • Shared intentions. Substitutes intentions for habit
    • Parity throughout the relationship
    • Continuous and reciprocal learning
    • Grounds in the practices of giving and receiving
  • Seeks to do his work in a multitude of relationships and interacts in such a way that we all learn to partner with each other


QUESTIONS TO DETERMINE IF, WHEN, AND WHY
THE SUSTAINING SPIRIT SPEAKS TO YOU

 

  1. Have you joined your intentions with another’s so that a partnering was developed?
  2. What were your intentions which joined you to another who shared them? How did the sharing come about? How did the intention happen?
  3. Was there parity in the relationship?
  4. Was the partnering conditioned by a mutual and reciprocal learning?
  5. Did you find that your gifts were received by others? Specify them. By whom or by what were they received?
  6. Did you find that you received the others’ gifts? Who or what was enacting its gift to you?
  7. How do you partner with yourself? Can you? How do you partner with others? With the natural environment?