9. - Unit 8 -
Sylphs and Salamanders
The Significance of
Temperament
for ourselves
and
the world
10. From around the change of first teeth, our
memory can begin to connect our
experiences into a storyline.
A part of our inner world awakens with
the unfolding of our
Formative Body stream.
Our experiences help shape our
personality.
11. Personality…
develops from our experiences of life -
eg birth order, parenting, gender,
significant events, social & economic
matters, etc.
Our personality of everyday memory.
12. Our Temperament…
The particular qualities of our mood,
colours our response to those
experiences.
Personality & temperament shapes
and colours our character.
13. Our temperament is a blend
of inherited and non-
inherited qualities –
Thinking
endowed upon our present
earthly life as integral to our
karmic development.
The inter-related Feeling
systems of our physical
body give expression to
the four streams of our
being.
Willing
16. Play -
♣ The Temperament Game
Object of the Game:
To describe your own, or someone
elses, particular mix of
temperaments within which the
individuality is growing. (If you
‘resist’ this sort of Game, skip
parts 1 & 2 and go straight to
part 3.)
17.
18.
19. Our Rhythmic system Our Nerve-sense
gives expression to system gives
our “I” stream – expression to our
Choleric emerges Inspirational stream –
Sanguine emerges
Our Movement
system gives
expression to our
Formative stream -
Phlegmatic emerges
Through the
composite of physical
substances and (Choleric …
secretions - Sanguine?
Melancholy emerges Difficult to discern?)
24. Energy and growth
East
Mental/ Place of
North South the
thinking
forces heart
West
Physical seeing within
A Native American
Medicine Wheel
25. Intuition is perceived ‘out
of the blue’ ‘irrationally’ as
in no judging is involved
Intuition
Thinking is to Feeling is
‘rationally’ mind something
weigh up and ‘rationally’
Thinking Feeling
link ideas, weighed up –
judge and pleasant or
understand unpleasant?
Sensation
Sensation: the experience
of our senses & ‘irrational’
as in it just happens
Carl Jung
26. enduring
“I”
intuition
judging
soul
soul
memory
past Formative body stream
Inspirational body stream
future
deep
yearning
senses
physical
body
Rudolf Steiner
