Cross Balance

Beginning

I researched and wrote these notes for many reasons.

• One
  an interest in personalities,
  and a wish to understand people’s behaviour
  and their relationships with each other.

• Another
  a growing awareness that our lives need balance and moderation in all things,
  physical and spiritual,
  if we are to be contented.

• A third
  a wish to pass on some of the things I have discovered
  in this world of colourful and many coloured peoples.

• Fourth
  a conviction that there is a common thread
  to all the theories about people and personalities.

• And fifth
  that spiritual truth binds them all together.

I also wanted to have a go at some advanced word processing and graphics work!

In these notes I have summarised a wide range of ideas
that I have read about or discussed with friends.
There is little that is original.
But what I have found fascinating and worthy of recording
is that all these ideas do seem to have a common basis.
And if one delves deeper -
further than most psychologists seem to be willing or want to go,
one can begin to see how the divine underpins all these ideas.

I am a forester, not a psychologist nor a theologian,
and have not researched these ideas in any great depth.
However,
I hope that what I have noted is worthwhile, and more or less correct.
I may have got some things wrong,
but I hope there are some original ways of presenting the truth that are right.
Whatever the outcome, let me know what you think!
It is a study that will continue, since – like colours –
God’s world is infinitely diverse.

Marcus Robbins

Chatham 1998