Isaac Luria

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• MRMystical Receptivity

  10 / 10
• RTReverence for Tradition

  8 / 10
• TDTheoretical Drive

  8 / 10
• CECommunal Embeddedness

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• John Scotus EriugenaLIGHTHOUSE

  Periphyseon — God as the unfolding nature that creates itself.

• Pseudo-DionysiusTHRESHOLD

  Apophatic theology: saying only what God is not, the one honest path.

• Bahya ibn PaqudaLIGHTHOUSE

  In Duties of the Heart, inner intention is the heart of Jewish piety.

• BonaventureTHRESHOLD

  The Itinerarium charts the soul's journey through nature into God's depths.

• SuhrawardiLIGHTHOUSE

  Illuminationist philosophy — light as the metaphysical primitive.

• Junayd of BaghdadTHRESHOLD

  A sober Sufi who returns to the world after fana, carrying knowledge of unity.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Isaac Luria's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• View from above →

  Mentally zoom out — your city, your country, the planet — and look back at your day.

• The 60-second case →

  Compress your argument until 60 seconds is enough.

• Argument mapping →

  Draw the structure of an argument as boxes and arrows. See its load-bearing walls.