Seeking, Seeker, Sought: Which Type Are You?
There’s four types of people in the world. At least according to the categorical narratives I am about to show you. Trust me, this is not another ‘Which Spirit Animal Are You?’ quiz. This is much deeper. You might not even know about it. What I’m talking about is more like the GPS for your soul. A bunch of ‘merit badges’ for your incarnate self. And like merit badges, these are pretty much shiny, quite insignificant, participation trophies. Something you can puff your chest out about but nobody else really cares (except for their own shiny badges). In the end, it doesn’t really matter. But while you’re here doing Earth-things, these are pretty defining labels we might self-identify with, whether you know it or not.
These the badges, these labels, signify where, relatively, you are in your quest on your personal mountain of truth. Where are you on your personal ‘path’ in your soul’s backcountry? Where does that curiosity for a truly satisfying answer take you? What affinities do you have that you just know this is the ‘IT’ for you? How deep is the relationship you have with your own spirit? On this quest you can be on-path or off-path too. And being off-path is just fine, there’s no judgement at all.
On Judgement
Judgement doesn’t serve the greatest good of anyone, it just throws trash in your inner-world (a place you’d like to keep clean, I might add). The exception to this is to see that what you’re judging others on is the things you really are self-judging with. In this case, then you can get in touch with that negative self-talk and see what’s at the root of that and find solutions and corrections. You’ve just turned trash into gold. Otherwise judging yourself in comparison to others (what I call playing the ‘compare-game’) or judging others just throws more trash into the world, and there’s already enough trash out there don’t you think?
Back to the Metaphorical Landscape of Knowledge
There exists an infinitude of peaks to explore on the proverbial mountain ranges of knowledge and self-inquiry. Each peak is symbolic for the journey it takes to know and truly understand a topic. With an infinite amount of peaks comes an incalculable number of trails to take on the way. On your way to your initial peak of choice, you may end up hitting a few other peaks on the way, and maybe change course to a new peak to check out different from your original one. There is no wrong-way to go out here. You can even have multiple paths to different peaks at the same time.
There is one big peak at the center of this wilderness of knowledge however. Bigger than the rest. It stands taller than the others because it’s the most challenging and most important peak. This big pinnacle represents your knowledge, and thus relationship, of yourself. That is the peak of all peaks. With that peak Sought, many other peaks can be seen and known.
“To know thyself is the beginning of Wisdom.”
-Socrates
The Four Types Of People
The types of people you find out on the mountain ranges of personal-inquiry can be generally clumped into the following: The Seeking, The Seekers, and The Sought. Those are the three main types, and then there is another. The Fourth Type of person is those who don’t know that mountain ranges of personal-truth even exist. The Fourth Type doesn’t know Seeking is an option. It would be like an isolated tribe who lives high and deep in the Himalayan Mountains would have no idea that tropical islands like Fiji are a part of this reality. Similarly, an isolated tribe on a remote Fijian island would have no idea that snow exists. The Fourth Type of person isn’t aware that there’s even a possibility that they can search for something bigger than themselves. I feel this Fourth Type is fairly rare but they do exist due to societal and life-experience restraints.
I feel that once you are aware, if you even have an inkling of a idea, of a greater reality that you’re interested in, then you jump from the Fourth Type to the Seeking category. Once it’s on your radar, it never comes off it. Even if all you do is trust that things “happen for a reason”, that is a piece of Seeking. A Seeking type might wonder “Why am I here?” or they are just open to the idea that there is something bigger at play in the world. I feel a large majority in the world make up the Seeking type.
The transition from Seeking to Seeker is subtle, but important. The change signifies a self-awareness that you are actively Seeking greater knowledge. You know you seek, and you like it. The deep itch of some unknown origin is just too much to not scratch, and you know it feels good when you scratch it. A Seeker feels the curiosity to want to know “Why do things happen for a reason?”, “What is the bigger picture out there?”, “Who am I?”.
To go from Seeker to Sought is more dramatic than the last transition, but there’s still an element of subtleness. Like bringing water to a rolling boil, the latent heat builds-up over time, and once a certain point is reached, causes a sudden phase-shift. Once the bubbles rise to the surface and sublimate to vapor, they cannot be ‘unbubbled’. Once you know what snow is like, that stays with you forever. The Seekers path will meander like a river, checking out this and that, but it eventually starts tracking towards a greater destination. The Seekers path will wind towards a big peak. Towards the big peak of self-knowledge. From this main peak, the perspective gained is the one you can’t ‘unbubble’. The Seeker becomes a Sought. Reaching a Sought position will come with a general sense of ‘I found what I’m looking for’ and ‘I got what I came for’. It can feel like finishing a good long book, with that imprint of accomplishment and gained wisdom. I feel that, more definitively, a Sought will experience the naturally occurring awareness of the connection to God, Spirit, Source, The All, Creation, etc. and the ability to know how to get back to that connection. I know this sounds a bit metaphysical, because, well, it is.
I feel like I must make a point clear too, that a Sought type will not stop being a Seeker, and a Seeker will not stop Seeking. There is no going back, only experiencing a deeper sense of fullness and an expansion of the path traveled.
On Uniqueness
I will not put further labels, descriptors, or an attempt to classify the behavior or habits of the types. It’s a vain exercise to box-in and categorize a bunch of humans, there’s too much beautiful variety in everyone’s expressions. Each one of us is so unique with strengths, abilities, and qualities that no one else has. Our brains love to categorize and catalog things to make more sense of this world. I know mine does. Maybe one day when I’m short on content and feeling lazy, you’ll see a list of the “Top 11 Hobbies for Water Loving Seekers”. But today’s not that day.
What Will Each Type Find At The Delta Page
The Delta Page is a place for those who want to see a better way to interpret, navigate, and understand our current events. It’s a place for those who want to see more than what they’ve been shown. The Delta Page is tailor-made for The Seeking, The Seekers, and The Sought.
The Seeking shall find a path in the metaphorical wilderness of knowledge. A Seeking person will find trailheads, jumping-off points, and places to start. The Seekers shall find more defined paths, even a proverbial trail map, but perhaps just another awesome peak to check out. With The Delta Page, a Seeker shall also find inspiration and encouragement and comfort knowing someone else is out there with them. For The Sought, they’ll find engaging reflections of the journeys of the mountain ranges of self-inquiry. With The Delta Page, a Sought type will also find new peaks to seek out. The Sought will also find support, encouragement, and cooperative collaborators with The Delta Page producers and community.
What about the children?
A question you might be asking is “What type are children? They experience the pure joy of creation without any of this searching.” And that’s a great question! I feel that children are Sought, just unconsciously. The connection to Life, God, The All, etc., is automatic for them. But being unconsciously aware of that connection means not being able to harness it to its fullest capacity, and that’s totally fine because children are still developing beings. It’s in the indoctrination, education, and adapting to society where children loose touch with this connection and adopt a more societal accepted way of being. Through good parenting, teachers, schools, elders, and community, growing children and adolescents can rekindle their connection to their inner-wisdom and begin their own path. It is ultimately an individualized journey through the metaphoric mountain ranges of knowledge.
My Life Through The Types
My life has had some twists and turns and eras of ignorance, but I feel that’s pretty par for the course in being a modern day human. As a child, I had a sense and inner-knowing that there was something more to life. Around age 7 or so, I had forgotten that knowing, and continued on in a pretty standard, pretty nice childhood. At this time I was a Fourth Type. Around age 16 that little spark inside started to come back, but I was too consumed with being a teenager and just trying to navigate that weird time the best I could. I was mostly still a Fourth Type with intermittent spurts of Seeking. I was living in this type until about age 20 or 21 when that deep itch that there was something more was getting stronger. Strange synchronicities started to happen, and I began to trust that there was something more. Books, conversations, and information started coming my way that piqued my interest and seemed to scratch that deep itch. I was now a Seeking type.
This lasted until I was 25 and there came a pivotal moment when I made the conscious decision to go all the way with this search. The moment I had was seriously like the red-pill/blue-pill moment in The Matrix movie, just no actual pills involved but a decision to be made nonetheless. I was now actively Seeking, and I transitioned into a Seeker type. I was searching for the secrets of the Universe. There came a point when I realized that the secrets of the Universe where the same secrets of myself. I caught a glimpse of the metaphorical big peak in the hazy wilderness of knowledge, and I set my winding path towards there. Years passed and many trials and tribulations of life happened. There came a point when I was about 33, and it was subtle but true, when I got to that big peak and thus transitioned to the Sought type. That was far from the end of the journey, as there is no end! Since then, I’ve deepened and expanded my relationship with myself. Since journeying to that proverbial big peak, I explore what other paths exist up and around it. I also continue to seek out many other peaks that I feel interested in. The beautiful journey continues here at The Delta Page.
