The Good Being Map of Respect - The Ripples of Respect Our Soul's Mandala:
- duncan31781
- Apr 15
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Updated: 3 days ago
A soulful, real-world compass for honouring Self, others, the planet, and the mystery that holds it all.
In Brief: Blending poetic depth with grounded truth, this evolved version of the 'Good Being Map of Respect' invites us to explore six concentric rings of interrelational reverence – from our inner Hearth to our Cosmic Source.
Contracting Success - My Passion for the Constitution of What Good Looks Like:
My life falls into two pretty even halves: the 32 shadow years of the first chapter - learning about being, testing my hypothetical wings, knocking the life-apparatus over in my giant laboratory of mistake-making – also known as growing-up - and struggling to achieve palpable progress – at least, so I thought at 'that' time, and navigating my True North; coupled with the 29-year post-epiphany, when I eventually zeroed in on the bearing-point of my true calling and got to leverage every single error of judgement I ever made in the first half of my life to my advantage. Marry my two hemispheres of life before and after epiphany together, and that's quite a pool of insight to draw upon, even if I do say so myself.
For whatever reason, my principal curiosity is human performance. In my first chapter, as a sports coach, fitness instructor, swimming teacher, and retail and leisure amenity manager, my number one preoccupation was the efficiency of effort and performance improvement. From honing my technique as a county-level sportsman in rugby, athletics, golf, and basketball to achieving competitive times in the swimming pool, I fixated on building proficiency.
As a born coach, I have evolved through various iterations of refining what really counts. Growing through my retraining as a career guidance practitioner, melding my sports psychology training with guidance theory and coaching techniques, I eventually moved into leadership development and executive coaching. I am truly blessed because I recognise that my collaborations as thinking-partner, confidante, mentor, and potential-maximiser are always an extraordinary privilege. The common strand in each coaching sphere that I tune into is: What does success look like? What are we aiming this process at achieving? And why?
Consequently, The Good Being Map of Respect – The Path to What Matters is the essence of what I have discovered to be the most influential factor in success coaching – respect. Respect underpins every avenue of human performance. However, the keystone is complete comprehension and responsibility for why self-respect is the heart, sun, and soul of any proficiency-cultivating framework worth its salt. As with various strategies in my performance improvement toolkit, like my 'Anatomy of a Smile' framework, goal attainment is a sequentially dependent process. Certain ingredients must be evident for progress to be achieved, i.e., love for Self and others is contingent on respect.
The Good Being Map of Respect: A Way Back to What Matters:
There is a reverence that lives beneath language. A frequency beneath form. A stillness beneath speech. A purpose behind breath. An unnameable space between constructs, between attitudes, between perspectives, between conditions. We might call it respect – but only if we are willing to restore that word to its original potency. For this is not the kind of respect that tugs its forelock, folds its hands, dims its eyes and obeys. Not the politeness that masks passivity. Not the posturing of social hierarchies or roles. This is something more profound, older, more resonant.
Cultured from instinctive dignity, this respect is a frequency of bearing, a vibration of coherence, a lived alignment between Self, soul, and Source, embodied understanding, empathy, and compassion.
It is what happens when the Self no longer acts from fear or performance but from presence. When the soul is no longer hidden beneath ego but allowed to radiate, free from the jail of its own judgement. Whilst, rumour is not a care it would – nor could - debase itself in. When the world is no longer divided into object and subject, it is seen as a field of sacred contribution to the collective good. Authenticity. Hence, I define this whole field as 'Good Being. '
This is the cartography I propose: a pulsating mandala of concentric rings, each a radiant emanation of vibrational integrity. At the centre: the Backbone of Soul Alignment. From that axis ripple, six rings of interrelational reverence: toward Self, other, the collective, the wild, the grandeur and mystique of the unknowable Cosmos – and far beyond. Yet inextricably present in each ring deep within.
This is the Good Being Map of Respect. Not a concept. A cosmology. A code of coherence. Possessing the inherent reliability of the tide table, an eternal cyclicality of that which has neither beginning nor end. That level of consistency warrants acceptance. Yet, without the committed application of an open mind, it may be hard to ever truly know or comprehend.
This map is your guide to a mode of effective being.
The Backbone of Soul Alignment:
All authentic respect begins within, not within the mind, manners, proclivities, education, or any of the heuristics of social conditioning, but within the Self's alignment with the soul. This is not a metaphor. It's physiological, psychological, spiritual, and metaphysical all at once.
William Bloom calls it vibrational integrity – a state where our inner field matches our most authentic essence. Our spirit/soul/essence shifts when we're aligned like this; as if clicking into its default position, we don't have to perform. We don't have to win people over. People trust us – not because we're flawless, but because we're real. Bloom expands upon maintaining the integrity of psychic protection and setting boundaries in his book, 'Psychic Protection: Creating Positive Energies for People and Places, ' in which he directly addresses the need to maintain healthy, energetic boundaries.
Such elemental safeguarding of Self is closely linked to the idea of maintaining one's 'vibrational integrity' by preventing unwanted energetic intrusions. In The Power of Modern Spirituality, Bloom further explores the boundaries of respect with 'spiritual integrity' in discussing personal integrity in a broader spiritual context, which inherently involves the consistency and purity of one's inner energetic state or "vibration." Who among us doesn't always detect a place, person, or situation's 'vibe'?
When we're not in alignment, everything feels out of kilter. We say yes when we mean no. We get loud when we're scared. We disappear when we want to scream. It's exhausting. Consequently, this 'backbone' isn't about being perfect. Like a bricklayer's plumb-bob, it's about being true. It's about resonance. A coherence between who we are and how we show up. That's where absolute respect begins.
To live in this alignment is not to be flawless. It is to be faithful. Faithful to the soul's deeper knowing, faithful to vibrate with coherence, tuning in to that faint voice that whispers through our body, our curiosities, our dreams, our ache, faithful enough to stop playing and start paying heed.
Being aligned with the soul supplies a tuning fork – not just for its own instincts to be heard – but for the field it inhabits. Cultivation of faith in the unknowable not needing to be known – for us to forge faith in it. Hence, the aligned person becomes trustworthy – not because they never falter but because they vibrate with coherence. They are not torn inside. They are not riddled with self-doubt. Forever questioning. They express conviction. They emanate belief. They embody intrinsic coherence and trust in what will be is being.
Such ripples of coherence, conviction, and confidence are the Backbone of Soul Alignment – forming the central axis about which the entire mandala rotates. From this sacred root – indisputably the essence of the Higher Power that resides within each of us – all other forms of respect ripple outward. To honour the self-soul alignment is to create conditions for every other relationship to become meaning-full. It is this rudimentary current of inner truth that fuels respect not as a behaviour but as a state of being. It is where inner regard becomes outer reverence. This is the heart of our origin – the essence of our centredness.
Our truth.
The Good Being Mandala: A Visual Map of Resonant Vocational Reverence:
My mandala is aimed at conveying the concentric, radiating design of the concentric nature of respect. Anchored at its core, the Backbone of Soul Alignment, from which six distinct but interwoven rings ripple outward.
At the centre, a glowing Vergina Sun symbolises the radiant Backbone of Soul Alignment. A luminous spine, upright and unwavering, representing vibrational integrity and coherence of self and soul.
Surrounding this are six concentric rings, each rendered in soft, sacred hues, representing the progressive expansion of respect:
Ring One: The Inner Sanctuary – Respect for Self (warm golds and amber)
Ring Two: The Interpersonal Hearth – Respect for Others (deep rose and ember)
Ring Three: The Co-Created Field – Respect in Relations (earthy greens and soft taupe)
Ring Four: The Civic Spiral – Respect in Society (civic blue and silver)
Ring Five: The Wild Mandala – Respect for the More-than-Human (verdant greens, browns, and aquamarine)
Ring Six: The Cosmic Source of Origin – The Silence Beyond All Names (indigo, violet, and star-white flecks, hinting at the ineffable)
Each ring contains symbolic cues that subtly gesture toward its theme - flame for the hearth, tree for the wild, spiral for society, eye for inner knowing, etc.
Two outer totems flank the mandala:
The Henge, depicted as a grounding circle of standing stones, anchors the mandala’s heart-centredness - symbolising truth, structure, and soul sovereignty.
The Hearth, represented as a central glowing fire or altar within the mandala, signifies care, warmth, offering, and the sacred act of tending.
This graphic is both a map and a mirror - designed to help viewers trace their own resonance through the rings and return to the sacred coherence of what it means to be a good being, among many.
The Impact of Respect:
What Respect Does – Its Sacred Utility:
Forges Belonging – respect invites people into communion
Restores Dignity – especially after harm or silencing
Enables Dialogue – lowering defences to allow co-creation
Builds Trust – the currency of meaningful interaction
Facilitates Forgiveness – enabling reconciliation
Uplifts Collective Energy – shared environments become regenerative
Fuels Transcendence – respect as precondition for love, creativity, and spiritual evolution
Inspires Purpose – people rise to the level of respect they receive
The Absence of Respect - When Respect is Withdrawn – The Devastation of Disregard:
Devaluation and Shame – silencing the soul of the disrespected
Loss of Trust – the collapse of emotional safety
Disengagement or Retaliation – fight, flight, or freeze reactions
Conflict Escalation – from lack of acknowledgment to violent power-assertion
Social Polarisation – echo chambers and us-versus-them
Erosion of Community – mutual alienation and breakdown of cohesion
Mental and Physical Deterioration – respect-starved environments breed illness
Spiritual Disintegration – the soul withers where regard is absent
The Lexicon of Respect - A Living Vocabulary of Reverent Humanism
Regard – the quiet upholding of another’s worth
Dignity – the innate, non-negotiable worth of every being
Reverence – deep sacred awe, often silent
Humility – the willingness to yield without losing self
Deference – honouring without hierarchy
Recognition – the act of truly seeing another
Courtesy – the ritual manners that signal care
Grace – unearned benevolence, flowing from inner fullness
Honour – to elevate another through authentic esteem
Listening – the bedrock act of respect
Respect Restored - How to Rebuild What’s Been Lost
Apology and Reparation – acknowledgement paired with change
Listening Without Defence – to receive before responding
Sacred Space Holding – environments safe for voice and emotion
Witnessing Without Invasion – presence without presumption
Ceremony and Ritual – gestures of reintegration
Re-attunement Practices – body-led and heart-led reconnection
Modelling Respect Publicly – leadership through example
Commitment to Ongoing Dialogue – respect as a practice, not a transaction
Ring One: Respect for Self – The Inner Sanctuary:
All outward decency begins with unconditional positive regard directed inwardly. It is a universal code. To respect the Self is not to inflate the ego. Nor is it to indulge or insulate the Self from truth. It is to honour the Self as sacred ground.
This ring holds:
Clarity and Congruence – when thought, word, and action sing in harmony.
Dignity – the intrinsic worth of a soul before performance
Integrity – we all get to cultivate 'points-of-view' in ourselves and, especially, in others. Integrity is symbiotically aligned with respect. And respect is the weather system that dictates how much love and harmony will shine today. As with so much of this construct, it comes down to:
a) self-awareness
b) authenticity
c) alignment
d) compassion
Soul Path – the courage to follow one's inner calling, our heading on our True North.
Self-compassion – the grace to meet oneself in failure and learning
Boundary Honouring – the capacity to say "no" as an act of love
Energetic hygiene – the awareness of what we absorb, emit, and allow is our choice
Here, we stop betraying ourselves in the name of belonging. Here, we stop abandoning our rhythm to meet the external pace. Here we say: I will be a sanctuary to myself – fostering respect for who I am authentically within and, in so doing, becoming a safe harbour for others.
William Bloom reminds us that holistic self-respect is a multi-dimensional commitment – to care for body, emotion, thought, energy, and spirit. Each dimension of the Self requires reverent tending. We do not just become more effective – we become more true.
Ring Two: Respect for Others – The Interpersonal Hearth:
To respect another is not to agree, flatter, or avoid friction. It is to recognise the flame in them as sovereign. Not ours to mould or shape. Not ours to manipulate. But ours to witness, to receive, and, when welcomed, to accompany.
Presence becomes a sacrament. Listening, a liturgy. Consent is an ethic of sacred regard. Feedback becomes not a correction but a gentle tuning – a way of supporting one another in our unfolding boundaries.
This is the firelight of community – the Hearth at which we warm not only our hands but our hearts. Our sense of connection. We speak directly of sacred relationship being forged in:
Presence – the fullness of attention without distraction
Listening – the art of receiving without interruption
Consent – the ethic of mutuality in action, speech, and space
Feedback – truth offered with care, not control
Mutual regard – holding the other as whole, even in their becoming
Materiality – that status is not a symbol, and entitlement is not the same thing as respect
Wholesomeness – that the quality of being healthy can also suggest a simple, healthy, and virtuous lifestyle
Peacekeeping – choosing repair over rupture
As Findhorn teaches: "I talk to people rather than about them." This is not just common courtesy and social etiquette. It is energetic hygiene in relationship. It is choosing coherence over calculated positioning. It is disagreement without dehumanisation. We honour timing, rhythm, and vulnerability. Truth over gossip. Reverence over reaction.
As Findhorn's Common Ground insists, respect is a discipline - a practice of direct communication, a refusal to malign or dismiss - the protection of psychological safety and the nurturing of shared dignity. Here, William Bloom's vibrational ethics and Findhorn's soulful governance converge. Respect is no longer about deference - it becomes a way of seeing, a way of being with.
This is the fire around which civil life is warmed.
Ring Three: The Co-Created Field – Respect in Relationships:
Now, we move from the Self and the other into the between – the subtle field we co-create.
Here, respect becomes not just an action but a third shared frequency. It shows up in how we:
Hold space – not mine, not yours, but ours. This is the co-creation field. The relational cauldron where we stir – making room for others without controlling their unfolding
Navigate conflict – seeing tension as compost and substrata required to cultivate growth and cooperation.
Form shared agreements – choosing clarity over assumption
Make transparent decisions – honouring the impact of power.
Engage in sacred conflict navigation – trusting emergence over control, levelling the ground, the contracting of expectations.
Practise subtle activism – using intention and energy to inspire the space.
William Bloom teaches that our thoughts, intentions, and unspoken presences become participatory agents in this shared energetic field that resides between us. (So, why conceal them?) That thought, attitude, intuition, and emotional status alter the resonance of shared space not by absence but by presence. We resist controlling the narrative. We trust the emergence of truth via authenticity by being honest.
Simultaneously, this field is fragile and yet infinitely resilient – when tended with care. Respect becomes the weaving of invisible threads. Field literacy – empathy towards the space – lives in the time we allow for the pauses. The non-verbal attunement. The willingness to slow down enough to feel. To be patient. To maintain faith. To be steadfast. To yield. To allow all to be present.
Findhorn's principles of reflection, nonviolence, and cooperation are spiritual technologies for this field. William Bloom calls us to notice how even our silent judgements shift the atmosphere. We carry the weather into the room. This is where respect becomes relational stewardship – with unresolved power, where we build collective states that pulse with mutuality, not control.
That consensus is coherence and transcendence is what it is to converge.
Ring Four: Respect in Society – The Civic Spiral:
As if stepping-stones across the ripples of the mandala, this ring is the designation of group coherence. True respect ripples outward into systems, into institutions, into the architectures that define collective life. Here, the question sharpens our focus.
This ring asks: Do our civic structures reflect the sanctity of the collective soul? Are our public policies, economies, cultural amenities, public thoroughfares, and schools designed to uplift the human spirit in the interests of the common good? Do our workplaces nourish coherence – or calcify distortion and promote separate Ness? Do our demarcations, delineations, and divisions conquer the collective?
This spiral calls us to embody sacred Citizenship. To choose service over cynicism. Connection over separation. To anchor collective life in reciprocal access to transcendence, the cultivation of mass self-actualisation, and the maximisation of potential for all. Cultural reverence replaces appropriation. Collective wellbeing becomes more than an economic indicator – it becomes the sacred heartbeat of a society that remembers to connect with its own soul – and all of the souls that comprise it - in forming the bridges of community.
Bill Plotkin's laudable vision of a soul-centric culture – where each person's unique essence contributes to the wholeness of the world – is blueprinted here. This is not governance for control but for coherence. Respect in society becomes the re-sacralisation of public life.
Ring Five: Respect for the More-than-Human – The Wild Mandala:
As Bill Plotkin writes in Soulcraft: "The soul yearns to make the largest possible contribution to the world." And the world is not human-only.
Respect must spill beyond anthropocentrism – the illusion/delusion that the universe revolves around humans. The Earth is not backdrop – it is body. The rivers are not metaphor – they are kin. The soul is not a psychological construct – it is an ecological function of a higher form.
Plotkin teaches that our soul-task – its truest nature – is not discovered in abstraction, but in deep immersion: in love's lustre, the river's reflection, the wind's howl, the forest's whisper, the meadow's bloom, the stone's sheen. In the awe of it all. At one.
Here, respect expands to:
Seeing nature as kin – not a mirror of us, but the us we have forgotten we once were
Embodying what it truly is to be – connected, in tune, naked of vice
Soul remembrance – where respect for the more-than-human becomes a homing
A greeting of the elements
Letting the nervous system attune to natural presence
Living with eco-reciprocity – taking only what can be given back – sustaining not extracting
Honouring the sentience of place, presence, and reverence
To respect the wild is to remember that our soul-tasks are entwined with the Earth's. It is to move as if every breath is borrowed. Our being is inextricably woven into Nature's beat. And we forget this reality at significant risk.
In Plotkin's cosmology, this is psycho-ecological coherence. We cannot claim to respect ourselves while poisoning our Source. We cannot honour others while dismissing the aliveness of the Earth. The soul is in right relation only when it inhabits its ecological niche. Minus this dictum, no true self or social respect can sustain.
Respect does not stop at the personal. It spirals into the structural.
It asks: Do our systems reflect the sanctity of our truest, deepest, most vital soul?
In this ring, respect becomes cultural design. It is how we shape education, governance, economics, and law – not to control behaviour but to uplift dignity.
This ring includes:
Spiritual Practice – anchoring action in sacred intention
Service – acting for the whole, not just the part
Cultural Reverence – holding difference without exoticising it
Collective Wellbeing – prioritising health, equity, and beauty
Sacred Citizenship – behaving as if society is a living, pulsating, flourishing temple
Findhorn's love in action lives here. As does Bloom's invitation to make an energetic contribution to public life.
To reimagine society with respect as its core principle is not idealism. It is survival. We either build cultures that nourish soul coherence – or we descend into fragmentation and the oblivion that results beyond it.
To walk with respect in this ring is to live as if every leaf is watching, every wave is listening, every filament is feeling, and every field is part of our family. It is not reverence as performance – but reverence as posture. As pulse.
We are not separate from the field. We are the field, remembering itself.
Ring Six: The Cosmic Source of Origin – The Silence Beyond All Names:
And then, we journey outwardly to the sixth ring. Not the furthest, but the first. The final dissolution into mystery. Into Source. Into the Super-Natural.
Here, respect transforms into alchemical awe. It ceases to be action. It becomes atmosphere. Beyond the personal. Beyond the interpersonal. Beyond even the Earth. It is not an addition, but a heaven, an ether, a deep vibration. Not a layer, but a restoration. A homecoming. Our spirit's destiny in the beyond.
It is what we bow to in the silence. The unnameable Essence. The Legend of the Light. The Mystery.
Here, respect becomes a state of being. Awe replaces analysis. We stop speaking and start listening – to the state that moves through all things. This is the space that Findhorn speaks of as spirit. Where Bloom refers to divine coherence. Where Plotkin gestures to the mythopoetic source. It is the silent field from which all frequencies emanate. The breath before the Cosmos's infinity commences.
This is where awe originates – from our soul's alignment with the divine forces of the universe's ultimate energy: love. Where reverence becomes the unifying state-of-being. The macro-Destiny, where language bows to all that is impossible to define – the boundless neverendingness of infinity.
In this state, we remember to feel ourselves as held by something unknowably vaster. And we know that all our respect, our presence, our care – are tiny echoes of a deeper concerto, within which we are each notes on God's manuscript. Here, we stop naming. We start bowing, not from smallness, but from recognition of awe. That we are not the originators of dignity – we are its expression - expressors of it.
To respect this realm is not to worship anything so small as to be encompassed by dogma, ideology, or scripture but to listen to the concerto. To attempt to inhabit wonders realm. To let the great silence restore coherence. To take it all in and accept what cannot be known. To respect that knowing 'it' is not our role – only to feel it. To tune in.
On Unconditional Reciprocity:
Love, in its highest form, is not transaction – it is transformation.
Unconditional Reciprocity is the field I labelled in which each being contributes what they uniquely are - not to get something in return - but because the act of offering itself is life-affirming stillness. It is the sacred loop of Being inside something vast, loving, and receiving without keeping score – where presence is the gift, and respect is the integral to the combustion of the 'Lie-Engine'.
This unseen force that moves beneath the surface of all things is a quiet, radiant current, unmeasured and immeasurable, yet capable of reshaping everything it touches. It is not performance, not transaction, not a commodity to trade - it is love in its original form. Not the syrupy imitation we've been sold, but the deep field of presence that asks nothing but to be itself. It is the breath within breath, the quiet fire beneath every act of courage, the sacred thread binding people to purpose, and purpose to potential.
This is the same field I came to name Unconditional Reciprocity. A state of Being, not bargaining. A space where each soul brings forth what they uniquely are - not to gain, not to impress, not to manipulate - but because the offering itself is the reward. It is the slow, life-affirming stillness that arises when we gift our essence without needing to be seen, without needing applause. It is the sacred loop of giving and receiving beyond keeping score, where presence becomes the gift, and respect is not a currency but the very air we breathe.
Unconditional Reciprocity is what takes shape when we tend to the Hearth of another as if it were our own. When we nourish without needing to dominate. When we receive without gripping. When we witness another's becoming with the same care we longed for in our own unguarded moments. It is not about limitlessness or martyrdom. It is not the abandonment of Self, but the revelation of it.
It arises only when each giver, each receiver, has done the inner work - when they've turned inward and asked: What is it I carry that's truly mine to give? What lives in me that could serve the world, not from exhaustion, but from overflow?
Without this inner inquiry, what we call love curdles into obligation, performance, or manipulation. But with it - once we are anchored in our own centre, once we've done our soul's inventory and found clarity of purpose, not perfection - then, and only then, can the giving become clean, and then the reciprocity can be unconditional.
For love in this form is not a reward for goodness nor a symbol of compatibility. It is the soul's currency. The pulse of respect made real. The ethical rhythm of coherence when the heart is in tune with something beyond itself. It does not seek to conquer. It does not fear difference. It simply meets what is - with grace, with reverence, with enough wholeness to not need to take anything hostage.
And though many are closed to love's centrality - though generations have been trained to confuse it with approval, control, or attachment - it waits still. In the silence behind every word, in the ache of every loneliness, in the soft refusal to give up on beauty despite all the noise. Love waits. And in the field of Unconditional Reciprocity, it returns us to ourselves - not as islands, but as sacred participants in the great circle of becoming.
Here, respect is not offered. It is inhabited. It is not a performance but a presence. It is the field itself. And love, ever unseen yet always here, becomes the compass home.
Hearth and Henge: The Sacred Anchors of Relational Coherence:
If the Good Being Map of Respect is a mandala of sacred participation, then its twin totems – the Henge and the Hearth – are its elemental anchors.
The Henge represents the symbolic core of heart-centredness. It is the structure of soul coherence - the inner alignment that orients all six rings. It is who we are when no one is watching. The truth beneath identity. The compass that governs how we hold our values, even when tested.
By contrast, the Hearth is the altar. It is where we enact reverence, where our values are made visible through warmth, presence, offering, and care. The Hearth is not just a fire - it is the intentional tending of the sacred. It is where service is made soulful.
The Henge is what we are made of. The Hearth is what we make of it.
🔲 The Henge: The Reverence of Purpose:
We revere our life’s purpose through the architecture of The Henge. Each Sarsen stone in the outer ring symbolises a core vocational attribute, capability, or inner resource - elements drawn directly from your framework of the Talent Triangles. These aren’t simply traits. They are stepping-stones on the pilgrimage to self-awareness, vocational embodiment, and ultimately, awakening - the apex of The Purpose Pyramid.
Thus, The Henge becomes more than a monument. It is a mirror of readiness. A structure encoding all the gathered strength, discernment, and skill that prepare the self for mission-alignment. It is the spiritual architecture of our “What” - the outward form of our contribution to the world. It shows that we are ready to hold something sacred because we have forged the capacity to do so.
🔥 The Hearth: The Singularity of Why:
At the centre lies The Hearth — not many stones, but one flame. It is not composed of attributes, but of conviction. Not multiplicity, but singularity.
The Hearth represents the central organising principle of a life well-lived. It is the Why we act, speak, create, serve. The sacred flame that compels movement in the direction of meaning. It embodies the North Star - the bearing-point that steadies the compass even when the path disappears.
If the Henge is our architecture, The Hearth is our altar.
It burns at the heart of all we do. It is the soul’s chosen principle. It is the revered singularity we orient toward, again and again.
🌐 Together: The Crosshatch of Good Being:
The Good Being blog becomes the crosshatch, the weaving-point, where The Henge (outer structure) and The Hearth (inner flame) intersect.
Where attributes meet principle
Where vocation meets devotion
Where external form meets internal fire
And it is this interweaving - the lived expression of self in coherence with soul - that defines not just success, but radiance.
Together, they keep the Six Rings alive.
When our Henge is solid, we can act with coherence. When our Hearth is warm, we can relate with compassion. One offers us centre. The other is sanctity. One roots us. The other reaches outward. One is who we are. The other is how we love.
So when you feel lost, return to your Henge.
When you seek to express, gather at your Hearth.
Closing: The Return to the Radiance of Full-Humanness:
Between the sacred structure and the sacred flame, the mandala holds. And in that holding – we remember how to be whole.
This is not an article. It is a map. Not a diagram. A devotion.
The Good Being Map of Respect is not to be read. It is to be internalised. Felt. Walked. Embodied. It is the art of coherence made visible.
A soul-aligned architecture for how to live without betrayal, relate without distortion and build without domination.
This is respect as resonance.
Not a behaviour but a vibration.
To walk the mandala is to:
Walk with our soul
Speak with our conscience
See others as flames, not threats
Treat the world as kin
And move through existence as if our life is a love letter to the Source
This is not a theory.
This is civilisation.
If we do not recover respect as resonance - as relational integrity - we will continue to fracture: as people, as cultures, as a species.
This is our invocation.
To return to the Backbone of our Soul.
To walk outward through each ring.
To become once again what the world aches for:
A being of reverence.
A carrier of coherence.
Living mandalas.
Walking prayers.
A good being, among many.
Our map is here.
Our souls are waiting.
This choice is ours.
Respect is the heartbeat of Source.
As Source is our heart's beat.
Respect is Nature's rhythm.
Shall we begin?
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