What is Octagram? | Season 34, Ep. 1 | CS Joseph

I gave you all alone [Music] welcome to the Cs Joseph podcast I'm your host for this season Chris Taylor also known as Rocca this is going to be season 34. um and this is going to be a deep dive into everything octogram so first and foremost what is octogram octogram is the neutral impact or the neutral effect on a person's type through the four sides of the mind with temple influence involved so it is a deeper understanding of Shadow development or subconscious development Shadow Focus or subconscious Focus those of you that were waiting for season 33 for so as long as you guys have been um this is why welcome to the season that is the reason why that has been delayed for as long as it has back when we started to do season 33 we were just getting into our understanding of what temples were as a whole and as we kind of uncovered more and more we realized that you really can't have a great season 33 cognitive growth tracking um without understanding the temple influence side of things and understanding better the nurture that comes with integrating the four sides of the Mind as far as the temples are concerned now to give everybody a refresher course that may be seeing this for the first time or maybe you aren't fully caught up on all the information and journeyman what is what are the temples so before we had the temples we still had four sides of the Mind developed we still had a concept of you could be subconscious developed or Shadow developed and at the time what we understood that as was being more in tune with that side of the Mind from a pure function standpoint and while that isn't less true today now that we have the temples it's a far greater understanding so what are they well we started to take a look at okay we have these four types that always share the four the same four sides of the Mind we have four sets of those if they're all sharing the same four sides of the mind like ENFP istj estp infj then there has to be commonalities that all of these share a Creed or a general philosophy that these types tend to follow more so than the other types just by virtue of having the same shared four sides of the mind and from there the temples were kind of birthed um after a lot of studying after a lot of looking into the types that we understood to be their types we started to see a pattern emerge between each of these what we later called temples these temples were called that because they are General philosophies of what each of these types kind of almost worship from a standpoint of a philosophy so for example the aforementioned types um the ENFP istj estp and infj all showed a really high focus on character on almost a spiritual who somebody is at the end of the day and that's where we ended up with the soul Temple um and we can get into kind of the components of like how each origin which we'll get into here shortly um goes into that overarching theme of the Temple but in a short Suite to put a bow on it the temples are a thematic understanding of these four types sharing one space at the same time these temples are all four core components of what it is to have The Human Experience you have a soul a sense of identity who people are who you are you have a mind an ability to learn and understand and wield knowledge you have a heart you have passion the fire of desire to improve and you have a focus on Legacy what you leave behind for the next who in your life um Will Remember You for some types these different core components become more important at different phases of life um and that's another kind of pattern of understanding when it comes to humans depending on which Temple you're you are depending on whether you're focused or developed into another one of these temples that are influencing your temple is going to determine to a degree which one of these four core tenets of The Human Experience is most relevant to you at what point in time um now from these temples we realize that okay well in each Temple there are two quadras right soul Temple for example is uh uh Templars and um philosophers right and so is my temple so when you end up with temple meeting Quadra you end up with these dyads in other words a diet is just an ENFP and an istj subconscious variants of each other so all of these subconscious pairings are what we're referring to as dyads and so they exist within the same Temple but they also share the same functions because of this they end up having the same Origins now these Origins are at the end of the day this root thing that this craving so to speak a need in the side of the mind that when we were first looking at it we saw as superseding type what we realized is that these Origins are coming through via the hero function and as we get more information out there you guys will get more and more chances to have a deeper understanding of how these Origins actually attach to every single function um because there is an origin function stack but at the end of the day you have enfps istjs both of those Origins are looking at justification as an example how is this all relevant to octogram so at the center here you have your origin right now going back to what we were talking about about how every human being encompasses an aspect of each Temple what we realized is that while somebody can't exit their Temple fully obviously you are still within the four sides of your mind no matter how you try to transition you still have that same structure in place so you're never leaving the temple but we know for a fact that humans are incorporating these other aspects of these other temples as well what we started to realize is that these other temples were having influence on the different sides of the Mind so no matter where you're transitioning if you are a soul Temple your the Mind Temple is influencing your subconscious so the difference between an istj ego and an ENFP aspiring to be an istj is that istj side is going to be far more focused on education far more focused on information knowledge power things of that nature whereas the istj if they are Shadow focused for example or if they're not subconscious focused they're going to their ego is going to be um more Soul Temple so it's an istj that is soul Temple and then their Shadow is flavored by the heart Temple so on and so forth and so when we were going through and looking at all these things together we started to realize where the placement of all of these temples were and how these other temples were which side of the mind they were influencing for example the living virtue of any origin is attached to the ego Temple itself it is what the temple itself is trying to Aspire to be it's what it claims to be and so with that you have the ego Temple influencing that pull if you have any kind of Temple or thematic Creed or anything like that there are going to be things that are the peak of what this is this idea or philosophy is trying to do and that's what the living virtue is trying to be for the justification types my types absolution oh well you can be absolved of your guilt because it's part of character development it's part of your growth it's part of who it is who you are and so as you see Soul Temple who you are is influencing that um that Temple right it's influencing itself it is involved in itself and that is attached to subconscious Focus on the other side we have the deadly sin and for my type it's wrap right and wrath is kind of the opposite in in a way to absolution it is punitive it is you are going to suffer because of X Y or Z it's going from yeah mistakes happen it's fine it's part of growth to screw you for those mistakes oftentimes because they've impacted either the NFP or isdj personally and directly and so that Absolution goes out the window and just like the ego to the superego where they're vying for control so too these focuses are vying for control and so too is the superego temple trying to supersede the ego Temple so in the soul Temple's case this is the body Temple wrath being a physical destruction of property or someone or leaving a lasting scar that the person can never forget leaving a mark on their legacy on the other side we have the development now for the for my temple the shadow development poll would be the Shadow Temple influence and for my type that ends up being um favoritism which is a change we did have discrimination there what we realized is it's closer to being favoritism we'll get into that with time but favoritism heart Temple influence right for my type essentially being closer to that heart Temple there are going to be things or people that I am more specifically passionate about that I'm showing favor to on the other side we have the sub development that is the sub-temple influence for my temple that would be uh the Mind Temple influence and that's impartiality so as you see here each one of these Origins are going to have are the ways that we're trying to fulfill the need of the Apex of our mind first and foremost it is at the end of the day the core desire so to speak of each of these dyads whether ENFP or istj the origin Remains the Same one is external with it one is internal with it and so this is what the octogram essentially unravels to be it is a study of people's nurture from a thematic standpoint of the temples um and a explanation of one of the most innate desires to us since the hero function is one of the first functions to develop in a person's psyche this is how these poles as they're called are how every aspect of humanity exists within a person from a thematic standpoint as we go on we'll talk more about what the development is what the influence or what the development and the focus are will go more in depth in in the next episodes um and then after that we are going to be going into each of the 16 types um or excuse me each of the eight dyads if you have any questions about this other than when is season 33 coming back give it time we've got to get through this stuff first there's a few things we have to do to get everybody caught up to speed because we can't have a season 33 without understanding octogram um from there we're going to be going into I'm going to be producing a video that outlines and catches everybody up all the way from cognitive functions all the way up to the temples themselves and then obviously this season um Carries On from there once we get everybody caught up to speed we can start going back into season 33 and looking at now that the dust with uh temples is starting to settle we can actually get back to cognitive growth tracking but a few seasons to go through a few things to get out of the way first if you have any questions leave them down in the comments you can always reach me on Discord um like the video subscribe get on the Discord make sure you're there there's a lot of good resources on there um you can always reach me there you can always reach me here on the comments as well anyway guys I'll catch you guys in the next episode these episodes are probably going to be a lot beefier than this 15 minute intro but I just wanted to get everybody's understanding up to Snuff um on on this have a good night [Music] [Applause] [Music]