Family Wellbeing Counseling
 

FERUS

 

A self inquiry tool for all ages … Consult your moods and find their home in you


 
 
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  • The universe wants to know itself.

    We, its reckless chosen progeny, have been shaped by the Ages to behold its vast and perfect breadth. See us rise from the mud to attend celestial heights of wisdom and grace.

    But first …. we must collect ourselves.

    The FERUS are incarnations of our fragmented internal sensorium. Here the idiosyncrasies of our perceptual lenses are laid bare for viewing.

    Witness the magic as our crass survival instincts emerge organically through us, evolve into Animal Moods, feel their way into connection with each other, and gradually waken us to a world reflective of an integrated True Self.

  • TELs are the basic currency of all moods. Their rudimentary nature is expressed in the rock, water, and flora of the landscape. Tels exist as inescapable facts of the environment. In your body, they are the habitat, the background hum, of your emotional life. Outside your body, you can hear them enacted in vocal bursts.

    Vocal bursts are unique to each body but carry recognizable signatures that are immediately accessible. They join us as life forms to one another.

    Each FERA represents a combination of multiple Tels allowing for a unique experience of homeostasis/allostasis and a unique harmonization of vocal bursts. Instead of drifting from one guttural expression to another, The FERUS embody the prosody of 3 TELs in synchrony.

  • Animal Moods are highly interactive but transitory. They allow Consciousness to emerge in a fleeting way.

    Menageries are the more lasting, personal feelings we get as certain moods gather in the service of a specific calling.

    Some callings are given to us by our ancestors as Imperatives. Other callings can be chosen as Quests and can lead us toward unique Territories within where we establish our most meaningful stories.

    Menageries afford us temporary or longstanding harbors of consciousness where we feel a certain sense of stable identity within the grand flux of life. When you arrive at a sense of identification with three Animal Moods at once, you experience this as a Persona, and a new pattern of Consciousness emerges within.

    Within every nuance of our everyday emotional tirades, consciousness announces another personal layer of arrival on this planet. We can use several Tools to deepen our understanding of these emotional patterns and to evolve with them into a more self actualized personhood.

    Listen to your Animal Moods. They have a journey in store for you.

 

Select an Animal Mood to explore its place in the Menagerie

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Animals currently under construction


Contextual References for the Mood Menagerie

The idea of states and moods existing as manifestations of an embodied physical homeostasis is borrowed from the research and writings of Dr. Antonio Damasio. His highly readable recently published work “Feeling and Knowing: Making Minds Conscious” offers substantiating neuro-scientific evidence underscoring the mechanics behind The Menagerie.

The practices of self inquiry embedded in the quest instructions are borrowed from the foundational writings of Dr. Roberto Assagioli. His integrative approach to psychology, which he termed Psychosynthesis, offers self reflective practices designed for the transmutation of self through Will from one organizational center to another, ultimately leading to the higher unconscious, peak experiences, of a transcendent Selfhood.

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