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type five


profound vision
objective insight
innovative exploration

comprehensive knowledge
intense preoccupation
cynical argumentation

eccentric nihilism
phobic delirium
psychotic paralysis


Type five people care more than most about the inner workings of things. They can become trapped by a compulsion to figure things out. One of their talents is an intuitive ability to directly perceive the structure of reality

Except in rare cases, people of type five show a flavoring from one of the two adjacent wing points, so we can say they are five with a four wing (5/4) or five with a six wing (5/6).

Like all humans, fives also come in three instinctual flavors: social (5sc), sexual (5sx), or self-preserving (5sp). In addition, fives also experience nine distinct levels of mental-emotional health (briefly described by the phrases at the top of this page). Therefore, it is possible to distinguish fifty-four distinct subflavors of type five.

Fives are also influenced by the connections shown as colored lines in the diagram above.
what do fives look like?


fours sixes
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