Lineage

Lineage in the Seba method is the organizing principle by which the knowledge graph is held together: every figure, concept, and work is situated within a descent — a tradition of teachers and students, influences and inheritances, across which the material came to be as it is. The principle stands against the two modern habits it refuses: the habit of treating every thinker as an individual producer of ideas, and the habit of treating ideas as floating objects unconnected to the forms of life that carry them.

The Seba lineage as a whole, as articulated in ARCHE, is the Western tradition of taking the soul seriously as a psychological reality — the arc running from Homer through Plato and Plotinus, through the biblical and wisdom literatures, through the Hermetic and alchemical transmissions, through Jung and the depth psychology he founded, into Hillman and the archetypal psychology that elaborates it. Within that lineage, smaller lineages — the Zurich classical-school, the Dallas archetypal-school, the London developmental-school — mark genuinely distinct sub-traditions, each with its own governing figures, its own reading of the founder, its own characteristic practices. See seba-method and arche.

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