Description:

You see life as a concert or a spectacle.

If you see life as a concert you believe that individuals are able to alter the fabric of reality; if you see life as a spectacle you believe that individuals can only observe and experience reality. Having the belief that individuals can alter the fabric of reality is often held by those that strive to innovate; having the belief that individuals can only observe and experience reality is often held by those that desire peace above all else.   

Likely to represent the Prometheus archetype and be inventive, innovative, revolutionary, giving, and intelligent. Likely to represent the Hectate archetype and be magical, otherworldly, and prophetic.

In ancient times, deities — or humans acting as deities — competed for mental and physical territory in order to become the central authority.

In a Network, there is no central authority: local authorities rule. Local authorities take the place of deities and take turns passing the microphone of authority to each other based either on a timed schedule or based on the situation at hand.  

Traits:

Insightful, Open-Minded, Empathic, Individualistic, Spontaneous, Creative, Compassionate

Variations:

Authority is the Collective of Deities:

• Deities are cyclically worshipped based on a timed schedule. 

Authority is an Individual Deity: 

• Deities are activated based on the situation.

Authority is What Encompasses Both the Individual and the Collective

• Both what is encompassed and what is all-encompassing is worshipped.

Conscience:

Likely has a pluralistic conscience instead of a singular conscience. Instead of one concept or ideal governing their imagination, they are influenced by a number of concepts or ideals. Those that have elected a Network for their mental government are likely to disagree with moral absolutism and instead favor moral subjectivism.

If they don’t identify as having a pluralistic conscience, they often instead believe that their conscience is both singular and plural or holistic.

They will likely point to the sentient cosmos and the sentient parts that compose it as a reflection of their conscience.

Susceptibility:

Network state(s) of consciousness may discount collective opinions in search for truth and must be wary of preventing themselves from bypassing strenuous stages of development. Will most likely rationalize to themselves that their strenuous effort is rewarding in and of itself and that they will in some way benefit from it in the long run.  

Can potentially degenerate into chaos if local authorities do not clearly differentiate their responsibilities. If those that elect a Network don’t take their strengths, and more importantly their weaknesses, into consideration, they will be manipulated by those that do not share their collaborative and peaceful sentiments. Those that have a Network for their mental government often refuse to believe that they can be easily manipulated, making them even easier to manipulate. Once they realize they can be manipulated, they are likely to detest those that they deem manipulative — typically characters in the fourth quadrant, those that elect an Aristocracy. That is because the Aristocrat serves as the jungian shadow of those that have elected a Network. To those that have elected a Network, anything aristocratic represents a part of themselves that they have tried to repress and disown. Failing to embrace the darkness within spawns inauthenticity, preventing those who have elected a Network mental government from shining without bothering or hurting others eyes. 

Networks may create a culture that is so individualistic, collective action becomes nearly impossible to occur. In a Network, those that would have been active participants in a group are often stripped of their ability to make a change, causing them to identify themselves as passive observers instead of active participants. If those that have a Network for their mental government only emphasize the abstract and fail to focus on the material, industry may decline, making them susceptible to economic espionage. 

Implications: 

• Idea of consciousness: Some may believe that consciousness is always shared and that personal consciousness is just an illusion. Most likely has an ahistorical consciousness and believes in free will. 

• Sensorium elicitation process: Likely favors upwards causality over downwards causality. Their mind is similar to a web; when stimuli come in contact with their web, a specific pattern arises from the web. The pattern that arises from the web determines what they perceive and sense from the stimuli. 

• Thought structuring process: Prefers to focus on timeless topics as opposed to temporal topics. Often makes the mistake of expecting others to understand what they are implicating. An associative thinker, likely to see connections where others don’t. Their ideas and memories are often bound together by a web of associations. They are excellent experiential learners, however, they are poor at rote memorization. In order to learn, they need to understand what they are doing — once they do, they excel. Often has epiphanies that are the result of taking things out of context. Likely to think non-linearly, and jump from thought to thought, rather than think chronologically. Likely to prefer a bottom-up organizational approach. Tends to have a monumental perspective of history which means that they view history as a series of discoveries, innovations, and achievements accomplished by talented people that they emulate. 

• Emotion formulation process: Naturally excels at using their emotional mind’s symbolic modality. They are likely skilled at lucid dreaming, dream sharing, subliminal messaging, using allegory, metaphor, simile, song, or poetry. 

• Reputation: Others are likely to view them as either spaced out and weird, or interesting and insightful — depending on how open-minded the character judging them is. 

• Post-Life Hypothesis: Most likely believes in reincarnation. Likely believes that upon death our personal consciousness is absorbed into the shared consciousness, wiped, and recycled so we can experience life for the first time again each lifetime. Most believers in reincarnation believe that their moral behavior or karma determines the entity their personal consciousness will inhabit in their next life, however there are many that believe in different forms of reincarnation. Many believe that upon death, our personal consciousness ascends or descends into another dimension of existence. What if, after our death, our personal consciousness survives, but we are barred from the human experience until we complete the Interdimensional Circuit? (The Interdimensional Circuit is a sequence of entities that your consciousness inhabits, lives, and dies as.) Those that believe in the Interdimensional Circuit theory of reincarnation claim that before we can be reincarnated as humans, we must first be reincarnated to experience existence as everything, ranging from animals and insects to bacterium, atoms, electrons, thermal energy, electromagnetic radiation, stars, etc.

Top careers: 

Artists, Musicians, Writers, Shamans, Monks, Yogis, Drug-Dealers, Poets, Philosophers, Farmers, Anyone working with animals, Librarians, Psychiatrists, Counselors

Famous people: 

Frederick Douglass, John Lennon, Terrence Mckenna, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich August Hayek, Adam Smith, Joni Mitchell, Jane Goodall, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, Nina Simone, Alan Moore, Jimi Hendrix, Rupert Sheldrake, Alejandro Jodorowsky