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Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Sorry, had to delete the first three sentae. We’re only human.Yet, still we get ed sullivan’d* when we write with undisciplined emotion. Anyway, we were indulging in ‘poor us, look at those rogers and their blogs, they always get viewers and readers and comments’ (oh my!).

Forgive our petty insecurity. We are not merely grateful for you being here. We owe… wait! the expression that tried to Lady Gaga up out of my monitor was the tried and true Whitman’s pervasive, ‘A debt of gratitude’.

No.

(Full Disclosure: Sure, gratitude is the normal psycho-emotional response. but the framing it as a debt…  guess what?  come, you predominant clarks out there, you know this one! Of the three personal realities  of the Outsider, the Predator or the Herd Member only one would conceive it is in these term.}

Hokey! Smoke!!

We do believe we’ve stumbled across an artifact!!

(New Readers? The Wakefield Doctrine is incredibly useful for understanding the day-to-day life of the three personality types/predominant worldviews. It also happens to manifest as a tool by which, if we stay alert and focus (without staring), we can find details in ‘the other two’ realities*** that would otherwise be invisible to the normal eye. We call this discovering an artifact and, as you’ve no doubt gathered, it’s huge.)

No time today. Hold on…

(lol…we actually did just type the start of a draft post for tomorrow)

Join us tomorrow as we explore and examin’ em, the newest artifact.

On a personal note, we are very grateful for this occurrence. We will want to spend more time writing posts that will be useful, entertaining and helpful to any and all Readers.

 

* ed sullivan’d: an ancient cultural reference. a variety show from the early to mid-60s on every Sunday evening at 8 pm. the ed sullivan effect is, in today’s parlance** situational projectile empathy.**

** being the beginning of a new Year, please allow us this: ‘the clarks will understand this expression without further explanation’

*** ok, there’s your reality, aka predominant worldview. ‘the other two’ refers to your secondary and tertiary worldviews. Example: We’re a clark with a secondary scottian and a tertiary rogerian aspect. ‘the other two’ for us are the personal reality of a scott and a roger.

cool?

 

 

who said, Where’s the ear worm for the New Year?

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

While we don’t not subscribe to the notion that the beginning of a new year is the best place (or time) to devise a list of resolutions, under-the-supposed assumptions that the change in year allows a suspension of the (life-long) momentum of any number (and character) of habits (both good and bad) or indulgences (growing from childhood’s garden or adult random-roadside field) that magically produces a condition of blank-slate innocence and open-mindedness.

(If we did, then maybe we’d note that (parentheticals) are so first year blog writer and the Doctrine itself provides us with the simplest of tools to enhance and improve our stay on this plane).

… if we were inclined to indulge in a List of New(ish) Year Resolutions, it would have to include the usefulness of the Wakefield Doctrine in self-improving oneself. So, in a sense, you could be forgiven for thinking of this here Doctrine here, as an eternally-renewing resolution. But then again, consider what we most often cite as the goal of the Wakefield Doctrine:

...to allow us to better understand the world as the other person is experiencing it.

The keyword: translation.

The theme: accepting the ‘the relationship with the world around us and the people who make it up’ of ‘the other two’*

damn! still don’t got a RePrint and it’s quarter-of-real-world o’clock.

Here try this:

CRYSTAL

He sat down, a tripod of hands and butt, rejected his surroundings and turned an almost-deaf ear to the voice in his head.

‘Don’t worry,’ the voice said, every straight-A student at the bustop, to the boy with an armload of unread textbooks, “This is either a dream or that woman you called a post-menopausal-charlatan-who-didn’t-know-her-astral-body-from-a-hole-in-the-ground, cast a spell on you.”

Ignoring the voice, he looked around and regretted it immediately; all he saw was an inward-curving sky, as featureless as a newborn’s conscience. It hurt to look look around at something that insisted it was right there, just a second ago, yet he was more afraid to close his eyes.

There was second voice, ‘Hope is a crystal ball, you can believe in it, just don’t count on seeing where it starts or where it ends.”

Something changed, the world around him flattened into an array of solid walls forming a candle-lit room and he was now facing a woman across a round pool of green felt, “That’ll be five dollars,” she smiled, “And you’re welcome.”

 

Due us a solid and tell someone in your life to come and spend some time at this blog.

Tell ’em there’s this strange place where what they talk about is, like, on the edge of interesting most of the time and ‘hear-your-name’ at a social function compelling a certain part of the time. Serially.

* we are, all of us, possessed of one of the three predominant worldview (aka personality types). One designates our personal reality, the other two comprise a potential to relate to the world differently. You remember: ‘we all develop and live in one of the three personal realities but have the potential for the other two’

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Voted ‘Top Grat Bloghop’ three years running in the Journal of Recursive Inquiry’s annual Meister Eckhart Award, the TToT continues to this day encouraging those of good intent to link their list of people, places and things that engender gratitude and gratitude-like emotion.

…and such.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) writing practice* specifically the Six Sentence Story bloghop and the Unicorn Challenge

5) * as opposed to the writing that has bestowed on an unsuspecting world the principles, practices and party-tricks courtesy of the Wakefield Doctrine

6) living near enough to the ocean to stop by on impulse

7) Still no snow!

8)something, something

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10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Had a most-excellent Drive-in call this weekend.

In attendance: Denise, Cynthia and (the Progenitor) roger*

Our takeaway: the inestimable value of the Wakefield Doctrine is reminding ourselfs to translate. To translate what is said by a roger if you’re a scott, to translate what is being said by a clark if you’re a roger, to trans… you get the idea, right?

Wait, lets make the following statement that, other than a famous math quiz** is one of the most significant in the Wakefield Doctrine: the goal of the Wakefield Doctrine is ‘to help us to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.’

If’n you’re still with us and, even better, smiling at this last statement, Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine, clark (or scott-with-a-significant-secondary-clarklike-aspect / roger-with-a-significant-clarklike-aspect)

The photo? Sure, it is of the three. Betcha you can tell us who is which. Not to worry. The thing about the Doctrine as a tool for self-improving-oneself, you can’t get it wrong. That’s correct, we just said, ‘You can’t get it wrong.’

As to this weekend’s call in. Stimulating conversation is all it was.

ya know?

out of time, remind us to go to more lengths on the discussion.

….and… and! memoir stuff

 

 

* New Readers: the two other people in the eponymous theory are, in fact, real people in the ‘real’ world!

** one of our favorite quick survey of personality type. actually one single question. Never fails. Question: How much is two plus two (2 + 2 = ?)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

That white edging along the far shore? The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

 

The is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Created despite resistance from both the House of Lords and a formal lettre of protest from the  Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, the TToT has survived recession, inflation, manic-depression and ennui. All, of the aforementioned eco-psycho-philosophical states, endemic to the blogosphere over the years since we arrived on the scene in June, 1909. (or thereabouts).

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the End of Winter!* this past week, now all that’s left to do is leave yourself a note to move your clocks ahead one hour (in just 77 days)

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) the (current) lack of frozen water piled up on the ground and such, not to jinx anyone

7) technology and stuff. Little did we realize, growing up, that there would be a day when we could create and save motion pictures courtesy of our telephones!

8) something, something

9) * New Readers? The thing of it is, for some of us, a big part of what makes the Summer such an excellent season is the amount of sunlight (for those of us here in upper-right Oceania). While we abhor the cold, it is the darkness that makes us wish for warmer times. And so, with the 21st (Thursday), the days are getting longer. Slowly, barely perceptibly, but each day holds a little more light than the day before.

(See?! The Doctrine isn’t as weird as some people might suggest.)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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