A comprehensive structure for interpreting human development, morality, culture, media, education, parenting, and societal health.
Core Interpretive Lenses
- Frame of Reference (individual perception shaped by experience, belief, knowledge, and bias)
- Transitional Characters (individuals who break destructive generational patterns and forge new legacies)
- 6 Blind Men and the Elephant (rotating perspective and partial truths)
- 6 Thinking Hats – Edward de Bono (diverse cognitive strategies for complete understanding)
- Unconscious Distortion (Bertrand Russell: “Truth shrinks to fit the listener’s understanding”)
Forms of Intelligence
From “The True Purpose of Education: Teach the Various Forms of Intelligences”:
- Cognitive Intelligence (IQ)
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
- Moral Intelligence (MQ)
- Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)
- Religious Intelligence
- Social Intelligence
- Practical Intelligence (Common Sense)
- Creative Intelligence
- Physical/Kinesthetic Intelligence
- Ecological/Environmental Intelligence
- Financial Intelligence
- Cultural Intelligence
Media Literacy, Perception & Programming
- Media Literacy (discernment in media consumption and narrative influence)
- Most Children Grow Up to Just Be People (identity distortion from shallow media)
- We Are What We Consume (neural pair bonding, indoctrination, and propaganda)
- Selling Out America’s Children (profits over values, passive programming through education and media)
- The Hijacking of the Subconscious & the Shadow (creating obedience through psychological manipulation)
- Until You Make the Unconscious Conscious (Carl Jung: unconscious patterns direct behavior)
Moral, Psychological & Societal Filters
- Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development (stages 1–6: legalism vs. conscience)
- C.S. Lewis – The Abolition of Man (objective values vs. moral relativism)
- Viktor Frankl – Will to Meaning (meaning over pleasure or power)
- Carl Jung – Shadow Work and Individuation (integrating the unconscious and reclaiming wholeness)
- Mindset Theory (Fixed vs. Growth vs. Faith-Filled Mindset)
- Feeding the Good Wolf vs. Bad Wolf (character is shaped by attention and repetition)
Governance, Indoctrination & Propaganda
- Tytler’s Cycle of Civilizations
- Overton Window (shifting moral and political boundaries)
- A Society that Teaches Conformity Produces Citizens Who Fear Freedom – John Dewey
- If People Are Good Only out of Fear… – Albert Einstein
- How The National Security Apparatus Brainwashes Americans (deep state, military-industrial control)
Storytelling & the Moral Imagination
- How Fantasy in Movies and Books Helps Us Appreciate the Past & the Present (symbolism awakens moral clarity and spiritual longing)
- Jesus’ Use of Parables (hiding truth in story for the ready heart)
- The Hero’s Journey *(narrative arc as moral, spiritual transformation)
