Varlawend: Mysteries Among the Stars

The Centripetal Law of Communication. Estimate Your Chances in Business Competition Victor Gulenko, April 25, 1998, Kiev. Translated by Dmitri Lytov, December 2005. Translator’s notes are given in  italics . Even possessing enormous capacities of memorization, our brain “prefers” to compress information in order to fit it into the narrow space of our operational attention. The volume of unconscious information is huge, but our consciousness can master it only through consolidation into comparatively small number of rationally convoluted concepts. Only in course of time and with some galling experience many business people acquire a simple set of criteria that allow evaluating people and situations. Growth of vital experience is inevitably accompanied with more compact convolution of information and mastering of operations of its qualitative processing. In this work I would like to show that typology, as a specific form of classification, helps to significantly accelera...

Humanitarian installation Most effective in the field of culture, art, religion, psychology and other humanities. Humanities have a special mental attitude associated with experiences of human imperfections.  All of them are more or less pessimistic, although they are trying to stifle in themselves disturbing forebodings.  They often have prophetic dreams that anticipate unexpected events and changes in the ordinary course of life. Humanitarian scholars, unlike more optimistic and democratic socials, do not have the gift of collectivism.  They prefer either separate communication with the circle of the elect, or addressing large groups of people. Despite their worldly impracticality, people turn to them in difficult moral situations.  Humanitarians have a special psychologism and the ability to empathize with human grief.  Moreover, humanitarians suffer not so much about a specific person, but about human problems.  Hence their moral and ideologica...

On effective areas of activity of socionic types V.V. Gulenko  ,  03.05.1989, Kiev. Published: "Socionics" (newsletter), Kiev - Novosibirsk, 1990, No. 1, p.  7 - 16. In our society, the socialization of abilities of various types of personality is traditionally ignored.  People often do different things.  Here is an example from life.  When distributing recruits to military units, young men of asthenic physique are sent, as a rule, to the most unskilled types of troops.  This is what Professor V.A. Sadovnichy, First Vice-Rector of Moscow State University named after Lomonosov, told in an interview with an LG correspondent: - Our mathematicians turned out to be, as a rule, the same place (in the construction department - VG).  You know, it happened that our mathematicians wear glasses.  Seeing the young man in glasses, for some reason, the staff of the military enlistment office did not hesitate to make the spectacle a real man (1)....