Gaia shared - (and good lord this is long - tl;dr for moi 😆)

“So when you’re looking at the Security Strategy this is the theme for all 4s. Are they going to be dependents all their life? Are you simply going to be dependent on the social interaction? And if you’re going to be dependent on the social interaction, it’s always going to be a life of bonds made and broken, and friends changing and so forth and so on.

The other side of that is becoming a benefactor. In other words, getting to the place where you can really bring out your influence. This is a place where with young children it’s very, very important that they to see that because they're attracted to someone else in their circle doesn't mean that that person is better. This is one of the most important things for 4s to understand. It’s very easy for them to raise up the level of the other. It’s very easy for them to see that and see the other as the benefactor.

This business about being the opportunist that opportunity comes from the other. I don't want you to think that the 4 has to bow down each time that happens. It’s not like anybody’s doing a 4 a favor. They don’t have any choice. It’s just the way the mechanism works.

It’s one of the things to see about the security strategy of the 4 is that in order for them to be healthy, they have to see that when they’re out with their circle, they’re a benefactor, not a dependent. That’s quite a step.
Again, it is the security of seeing that you’re secure within yourself, you’re secure within the group. You’re secure in your role within the group, and you know how to get out. And in going into the group, the more the 4 is able to reveal, the more the group becomes their confidants, the more powerful the 4 becomes, the more influential they become and the better they feel about their life…

Emotional Resonance is the pleasure
principle. And what I mean by that is how—it’s hard to find the
words for it—how enjoyable or not it is to be in the world. We know that being in the world is both enjoyable and not. It’s a wave. It’s a movement thing. We know that.

But it’s about your spirit as you move in this realm of pleasure that is there and not, and how your spirit deals with that. This is the real quality that you’re looking for in Emotional Resonance.
So, look at the theme. You’ve got Kindness/Meanness. And you can understand right away what happens when the 4 ends up being dependent, when the 4 ends up being fatigued, when the 4 ends up being an abdicator, their spirit is mean. It’s mean. It can be very mean.

Challenge a 4 and see how mean they’ll get. Oh, nasty, nasty, nasty, and influentially nasty. You don’t want the meanness of a 4. If you’ve got a 4 for a lover, never take that lover to the point that they’re going to display their meanness, because you’ll never forget it.

And they will be mean about everything you thought they didn’t care about; everything. They won’t leave out anything. After all, they’re empathic. They take it all in. You don’t want that meanness. And of course, the meaner they become, the less likely it is that they’re going to be advantaged in social opportunity. And the whole function of being a 4 slowly breaks down.

The other side of it is Kindness. Now, if you want a 4 to be kind with you, always nod your head when they talk. And if you nod your head when they talk, even if you’re thinking “Gee, they’re full of @#$%,” and you’re nodding your head, everything is okay. And they’re so kind. They can be so sweet. This is their social gift.

I’m always amazed that people when they meet 4s for the first time, you’re introduced to a 4, and you know right away that that person is going to think, “Gee, what a nice person.” Ah, you haven’t had a chance to challenge them yet. You haven’t tasted their meanness. You haven’t stepped over the line yet.
So, what we really want is we want a lot of children that are raised that are not mean. And meanness is born in the social milieu. It is. And I’ve been a teacher for a very long time. I can remember what it was like to teach young people. I can remember what it was like to teach his generation when they were 13. They’re mean. The social environment of children is mean, mean, mean. And it is. They’re cruel.

All of this is inherent in the nature of that 4th line. We have dysfunctional 4th line children. We put out a great deal of this meanness. Not only this meanness, but the social group begins to dysfunction. In other words, we can’t survive without the necessary input of the 4. Everybody would like to avoid the common cold every year. But that’s a disaster. We’re not here to avoid it. We’re here to go through it. We need to. Otherwise, we don’t upgrade our immune system. And you constantly have to upgrade your immune system.

The 4th line being that moves towards that negative, that moves towards the meanness, that moves towards more abdication, that pulls further away, they don’t make the necessary influential contribution that keeps the social milieu dynamic and moving forward, because after all, these are influential beings.
How many of you are 4/6s? That’s a lot of 4/6s in the room. I could feel—this is the meanest group of people I’ve ever had to deal with. I could feel the vibe the whole time I was doing the 4/6. I could feel this, because when I was doing the 1/3 there were a few things I picked up with my open centers. But the moment I was doing the 4/6, I felt like boy, I’m hitting people. I could feel this, “What I didn’t get from my parents.” More than half this room is a 4/6.

The other question is, how many of you are emotional? Altogether, how many are emotional; just emotional people? I haven’t had to pee so much in teaching this class. Yesterday I thought I had a bladder disease. The emotional energy combined with your childhood, this is a killer. I’m going to need a catheter. [student laughter]
You’re cleaning me out. Yes, you emotional people, you really help me. To have an open emotional system and to go out in the evening and have a few drinks with people who are emotional, this is a killer. You’re never at the table. A little humor there. [laughter]

Okay, let me get to the Awareness Resonance. This is one of these words that always bothers people: Corruption. This is one of my favorite themes of the 4th line, because I understand what that means.

I used to give the story of the judge, because we’re looking at the 50th gate and the 50th gate is the gate of the law. This is the gate of the lawgiver to the tribe, that one that sets the rules that’s going to protect the nourishment of the intelligence of the tribe. Laws in and of themselves are not necessarily always correct. Laws eventually lose their value and a new evolution takes place and a new law replaces it. There are very few judges that know how to change the law. Only the corrupt ones do that. You corrupt the law. You break it yourself, and you set a new standard.

It’s one of the things that I can only explain to you biologically is to understand that the 4th line is responsible for the communal immune system. And as such, it’s responsible for the awareness of its community. Now, I also don’t want to give the 4th lines this inflated sense of value, but yet at the same time I truly want you to understand that they are the lynchpin of community awareness.

In other words, when you’re dealing with a 4th line being, what you’re dealing with is the possibility to influence the group, the community, but influence that community to take another evolutionary step. In other words, this is not about maintaining stasis. The 4 enters into a relationship with others not for the relationship. Never for the relationship; that’s secondary.

Biologically you enter into that relationship because it’s your task genetically to influence the other. That’s what it all about. And not simply influence the other, but influence the group. That’s why it’s so difficult for 4s to accept challenge. That’s not what they’re designed for. What they’re designed for is to simply say “You don’t have to challenge me, everything I’m telling you is the truth. Just listen to what I’m telling you.”

It’s not their job to say “All right, I’m going to give you the whole basis of why I’m telling you.” That’s not their job. They’re not 1s. It’s just this 4 theme. So one of the things to see when 4s enter into a group they corrupt it. They have the potential of transforming that group. The moment that they’re not transforming the group, is the moment the group loses its fertility.

The most important thing about that is that what it’s really losing is the development of its intellectual tools, the intellectual capacity. So 4s are very important. They’re very important in upgrading, because that’s really what it is, upgrading the awareness of their groups…

Remember, a hexagram has two exponents. A hexagram can express its value in two ways: It can express its value in a closed group, and that’s the role of the 4. Or it can express its value universally, and that’s the role of the 5.

Now, the role of the 4 is the foundation. In other words, it’s all built on the tribe. It’s all built on the community. This is the way the foundation is laid out. So the 4 has enormous responsibility. If you’re going to change the world, it’s not heretics like me who are 5s that are going to change the world. It’s the 4s that take the message to the group; they’ll change the world, because the unit that they can influence, they can influence so profoundly.

We can’t stay healthy or not, without the influence of the 4s. That’s one of the things to understand about their role and one of the things to understand about transference is that because they are like that, because there is always this shift mechanism, they can influence everyone. And they maintain, in that sense, the global immune system.

One of my old jokes, and I always use Buddha because I don’t like Buddha, that if you could bring Buddha back with a time machine you could drag him out of whatever and bring him back—have a woman bring him back because that would piss him off—but anyway, bring him back.

You get him here and you go looking for a Bodhi tree, you finally get him and he sits down under the Bodhi tree and he drops dead. He drops dead because the immune system of 2000 years ago is an immune system that dealt with an environment that was very different. Our environment is changing moment-by- moment and our immune systems have to adapt. This is the function of the 4th line.

That’s why it’s a line of influence. And in the same way that it influences us in terms of our global immune system, it influences us in terms of our global intelligence. It may be wonderful that we have the Internet full of more information than any person can consume in a lifetime, but at the same time it passes over villages where people don’t really know very much, if you know what I mean.

In other words, it’s one of the things to understand that universalized principles are all fine and good, but the only way you’re truly going to impact humanity is that you have to impact humanity at its basic configuration, which is the basic groups, the basic communities, the basic tribes. And that is the realm of the 4th line being.”

~Ra Uru Hu