Four Precepts of the Tetroidian World View

We Believe In:

1. the Four-fold Nature of Human-kind;
2. we are born into Community & Community shapes us as People;
3. the Family is the single-most fundamental Unit in Society; and
4. through Family, Study, Work, & Introspection we grow and develop as worthwhile Individuals and contributors to our Communities.

Four-fold Nature

As a human being we are created into this Universe by Intent of our Parents, and shaped as Individuals by the Intent of ourselves and Community. These are the two parallels of our, "Way" that guide us, and they are like two sides of a coin: yin & yang, light and dark, sun and moon; not exactly opposites but then, not exactly the same either.

Thus we are made up of:

1. an aspect of our mother, 
2. an aspect of our father, 
3. an aspect of our community in which we grow and develop, and 
4. an aspect that is, what we call, "Me" - our individual self, spirit, life spark...

From Conception, when our fundamental Spark is brought into being and is attracted to the Intent of our parents to have a child, in response to their experience of the Community/Family in which they live, our spark in concert with these other aspects is shaped and formed, guided and nourished. This is what makes up our Four-fold Nature.

Community, & Family

The first and most fundamental Community we exist in is, Family. Before there was any other community there was man, woman, and child. Man and woman came together, by whatever mechanism, and formed a Unit, now recognised as the most basic Family Unit, and into this unit came the Child, enhancing and propagating the Family to become the smallest and most important Unit in the building of a Community.

As more Families joined together Communities grew and within this the complexities that shape our thoughts, feelings, actions and decisions. Interaction within Community, whilst an imperfect and sometimes fallible mirror, informs and shows us the things we need to learn as an Individual functioning within the Community. Whether the Community is nothing more than a Family Unit or one that might be regarded as a city or nation, the same fundamentals exist.

Family, Study, Work & Introspection

We are born into the Family. That Family is, or is part of, a Community. First we learn and grow through nurture, next through interaction and play with Family members, then though play with other family's members. We then begin to Study, to learn what is needed to function within the Community and to learn the rules of interaction within that Community. Once successful in this, we begin to Work within the Community and through Work, meet others and to socialise within and perhaps pair off. 

When we have learned, integrated and achieved the minimum level of success as a functional Individual within our Community we become autonomous, self-standing, inter-dependent, inter-active beings who bear on our shoulders the Intent of our Community, for us to exercise responsibility, judicious thought, be trust-worthy, and fiercely protective of our Community, and of those that form it. It is through Introspection, reflecting on our thoughts interactions, emotions and desires that guide our growth and sense of self-worth.