Re: TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
George Hammond
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Copyright George Hammond 2010
TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
Richard Wagner composed a very famous tune. Popularly
known as "Here Comes the Bride" it is played at virtually
every wedding in Christendom. He also wrote an opera
entitled Gotterdammerung or the "Twilight of the Gods" and
it is this subject which concerns us here.
It is not common knowledge and in fact it is only known
in very high places that the so called "gods" of
pre-Christian religion (Paganism) were actually what are
today called "Personality Types". In fact (Hammond 1994,
2003) has shown that the "gods" of the ancient Pagan
religions are nothing other than the 2nd-Order Personality
eigenvectors (Personality Types) of modern Psychometry and
furthermore that there are exactly 13 of them and that they
are precisely cubically Intercorrelated (e.g. Thurstone�s
Boxwise). For the peer published proof of this claim see:
http://tinyurl.com/2b86k7e or: http://tinyurl.com/27njofa
But back to the story. Even most highly educated ancients
didn�t actually know what the gods were. Cicero for
instance a leading intellect of Rome wrote a tract entitled
De Natura Deorem (On the Nature of the Gods). In this
summary of Greco-Roman theology we discover that Cicero
didn�t have a clue as to what the gods actually were;
whether they were material or invisible, where they lived or
what they did. The book is a debate among learned experts
of the day about the basic existence or nonexistence of the
"gods". It turns out that none of the experts knew for
certain what the gods were or whether they even existed. It
is therefore truly ironic indeed, that now 2050 years later
modern Psychology is having the same exact debate all over
again� only this time the gods have been identified as
"Psychometric eigenvectors" rather than more grandiosely as
"gods". As we shall see in a moment, not only were the
Greco-Roman authorities correct, but modern Psychometry also
turns out to be correct and the 13 2nd-Order eigenvectors of
Personality are in fact IDENTICALLY the 12-Olympian gods of
Paganism. As for the discrepancy between 12 and 13; at
least modern Psychometry, if nothing else, can brag that it
has improved upon the wisdom of the ancients by about 8 % !
Wagner�s Gotterdammerung is taken from an old Norse
legend and the "twilight" of the gods occurs in a final
apocalyptic battle between the world�s major personality
types. But fact is stranger than fiction it turns out, and
the prospect that science now beholds is that the twilight
of the gods is not to occur in an apocalypse but in a
revelation. Modern science has now discovered that the
"gods" originate in the simple anatomical cleavage geometry
of the brain, and not in the possession of mystically evil
or divine powers! The gods it turns out are biologically
ordained to be a unified complement rather than conflicting
adversaries just as the left hand is complementary to the
right!
Now you might wonder why I am bringing up this historical
identification of 2nd-Order Personality Factors with the
gods of Pagan religion. Well, there is even more to the
story. As Psychometrists you are aware that there are
higher order Factors beyond the 2nd-Order. In fact Raymond
B. Cattell the greatest experimentalist to ever investigate
Personality Psychometry not only resolved all 12 of the
2nd-Order Factors and published them in 1973 (in:
_Personality and Mood By Questionnarie_, p 128 Table 21), he
also factored them to the 3rd Order where they turn out to
underlie the Bicameral/2-Party System (Hammond 2003).
Amazingly he even made this intriguing final statement in
the paper:
"The correlations among the tertiaries, though
less invariant than among the secondaries, are
reasonably stable, and are set out for those who,
with reinforcements, may wish to proceed to
the fourth order."
Raymond B. Cattell (1975):
Third Order Personality Structure Evidence from Eleven
Experiments, J. Multivariate Experimental Personality
and Clinical Psychology 1(3) 118-149 Quotation cited
above appears on p 139-140
Ray Cattell never lived to get to the 4th-Order. But I
did, and what I found is this: All of Psychometry stops at
the 4th-Order in a SINGLE Factor. It is easy to identify
the biological cause of this final factor, it turns out to
be the Secular Trend in human growth which has been known
for about 100 years and in this particular case it is the
Secular Trend in human brain growth which causes the final
Factor of all of Psychometry.
Incidentally, I got to the 4th-Order by simply factoring
Cattell�s published 4x4 3rd-Order Intercorrelation matrix.
Interestingly, it was Dr. Paul Barrett our moderator on
IDANET who actually offered to run the modified matrix
through SPSS for me. I still have his original SPSS print
out dated July 1, 1997! The upshot is that while the
2nd-Order Factors are the "gods", it turns out that the
final, solitary 4th-Order Factor is "God", with a capital G!
The God of the Bible. Yes, on July 1, 1997 Hammond, Barrett
and another PhD named David Routh (who ran a parallel SPSS
check).. actually produced the WORLD�S FIRST SCIENTIFIC
PROOF OF GOD��a "factor analytic proof of God"!
OK� this is becoming a twice told tale, and in fact I am
even writing a book about it�. but there is a reason that I
am posting this to IDANET. Fact is, Psychometry is taking
quite a beating lately mainly due to the lack of progress
towards the Structural Model of Personality. The
discouragement is so great that many are seriously
questioning whether the eigenvectors of Psychometry even
exist! As I have pointed out this parallels the debate in
ancient times as to whether the "gods" actually existed, and
what they were. It is therefore highly important that the
field of Psychometry begin to take a "heads up" approach to
the current Psychometry dilemma, and try to realize what a
monumental accomplishment the discovery of the Structural
Model of Personality actually is, historically speaking�.
and to realize that it is exactly the sheer size and scope
of the discovery that is causing people to get cold feet
even as we are about to cross the finish line. Now is NOT
the time to get cold feet or to shrink back and begin
doubting the final victory, but to try and contemplate how
much of a victory it really is and to prepare for a sudden
and monumental advance in Psychology.
Finally, I am somewhat discouraged with the 220 members
of this list. Now is not the time to circle the wagons and
contemplate a bleak future. Now is the time to scent pay
dirt and to get moving with a renewed enthusiasm for
Psychometry and Psychology. It is true that the event that
is about to transpire is immense and perhaps scary to some.
But remember that sincerity, caution and politeness will
never fail in such a situation, and frankly, the time has
come for some renewed and enthusiastic conversation
concerning the future of Psychology and Psychometric
Personality research.
George Hammond, M.S. Physics
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