ABSTRACT
We have previously divided the domain of investigation into religious, scientific and aesthetic. At any given stage one or other of these categories is liable to be predominantly obtrusive, but it does not mean that the other ones are not discernible. For example, the patient claims to be entirely scientific, to have no particular religious beliefs and not to be in any way artistic. But religious and aesthetic elements are quickly and easily discerned amongst all this presenting scientific material. Frequently one can point out that it is not a question of not having religious beliefs, but that the religious belief which the patient is betraying is one which is an insult to his intelligence. Consequently, his scientific view betrays hostility to the religion which is hostile to it. The fundamental, basic elements belonging to the primitive level of the human personality are at war with each other. The Grid categories are useful for the purposes of talking or thinking about these elements here—not in the consulting room. We could suppose human behaviour or activity which we would not call thought at all. Alpha-elements and beta20elements are supposed to represent elements which are equally primitive and difficult to observe, but even when we deliberately choose two meaningless terms, like beta-elements or alpha-elements, almost at once those empty categories have acquired a meaning. It is as if the mind abhorred a vacuum and filled it up accordingly.
