Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Not that there’s anything wrong with using every letter of our world-famous alphabet to suggest a word that will, in turn, form the basis of an insight into our little personality theory. That being said, sometimes, you know…. you just need to kick back and not be so sensible.
But, first, lets deal with the word of the day, ‘Manifest’.
In the context of the Doctrine, manifest is a verb. Example: “I love watching a parade, how do parades manifest in your worldview?” (said no clark…ever!) We all know that, in the three worldviews, the world is different.
- scotts wake up to a jungle (metaphorical perhaps, but still not a reality that you can get through the day without paying attention), where there are other predators and a whole world full of prey, and every moment is a moment of action and life, all the while, tending to needs of your pack.
- rogers: they clearest example of the nature ‘manifest(ing)’… that parade we mentioned? in the reality of the Herd Member a parade is not just a bunch of orderly, yet noisy people walking in rows down the street! hell no! in the everyday life of the Herd Member, a parade is a celebration of the essentially divine nature of man… the potential to rise above the common everyday meandering through the prairie looking for food and hiding from predators. It, (the parade), is a combination of: heavenly choir and boudoir murmurs for the roger it is the soul of Man on display ….with trumpets and tubas!
- clarks you know, you’d think…hell! shit must be manifesting every which way for these guys! what with being on the outside-looking-in, surely clarks are in the best position to appreciate how reality can be different for different people. Well, yes and no. (lol…. and that, new Readers is the quintessential humor and ultimate tragedy inherent in the personal worldview of clarks!)
The real ‘purpose’ of this word, this ‘to Manifest’, really is to remind us that whatever thing we may be confronting or otherwise dealing with at any given moment in our lives very well be a totally different and (possibly) fiendishly complicated thing to the other person… if you really want to understand the other person, the people in your life, your children, your spouse, yourself…. remember that, the very thing, idea, rationalization, action without thought, impulse or desire that you’re convinced that the other person needs to accept/understand/agree-with-you-on/laugh at/fight against might actually exist as something totally different for them. The Wakefield Doctrine’s primary use and value lies in helping us to know the other person’s worldview and, by doing that, you stand a very good chance of seeing the world as the other person is experiencing it.
I thought we had time for some silly fun… but, no, we do not!
tell you what! if I think of something fun and/or silly I’ll come back later and edit this here Post here.
Frist. And I hate parades. Too many people, I hate crowds like that. And they are mostly boring, except for the big balloons in the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade. Who actually cares about this chapter of that organization strutting their stuff. I suspect I need to go to New Orleans though, and experience Mardi Gras parades. That sounds exciting to me.
…woohoo!! beads!!
lol yeah, I guess there are parades and there are parades!!
I like the marching bands. That’s about it. Doesn’t mean we haven’t gone to many Indy 500 parades. Little kids especially love a parade, so we go. Although, I do like the Indy one, because we have a group of policeman who ride motorcycles and do some pretty cool tricks with them.
Oh, but this post was about an m word…
I got nothing about the manifestation bit. ;)
I’ve been thinking about what you said, back in the beginning of this little exercise, something about more fun being funny and in being advice-giver (or words and thoughts to that effect)… and while I had envisioned this 24 (or is that 26? don’t tell me!!) Post effort as somehow turning into an instant Doctrine book, and I am fairly satisfied with the insight into the Doctrine is is unfolding, I need to find something more fun to write… or, as you are no doubt thinking, ‘not the content necessarily, the mood of the writer, definitely!’
Yep, I love a parade. I remember watching Veteran Day parades as a kid, and being so impressed with the 2 very old guys who were Spanish American War veterans! The bagpipes were always my favorite, though.
…rogers are the reason we have parades (Phyllis will put the TV on whatever channel that is showing a parade everything Thanksgiving… doesn’t particularly watch it, but it’s on in the living, just in case a re-assertion of the solidity of history and tradition becomes necessary.
I hate parades. I hate the crowds. I hate the people who are pushing past to get the candy that is thrown. I hate when float riders wave to me.
who else would they wave at?