Becoming
Naikan 内観
How You Become Who You Are
“I have been many people. Banking-Andre. Finance-Andre. Tech-Andre. Each of those Andres is real. None of them was the whole.”
From the book Purpose · Chapter 1
Becoming is the dimension nobody asks about. Who you're turning into on the inside - the self behind your work, your love, your roles. Quieter than the others. You won't find it on a résumé or at a dinner party. You see it the day you notice you're not the person you used to be.
When Becoming is bright, you're evolving. Today's you is truer than the one you started with. You've done some inner work: therapy, journaling, fasting, retreats, long walks, honest conversations with yourself. You can tell the difference between the wound talking and the truth talking. You keep moving towards who you're destined to be, not who you were told to be.
When Becoming is dim, you've been performing the same self for years. Your childhood patterns are still running the show. You use the same defences you've used since you were fifteen, tell the same stories and react the same way you've always done. You've grown older without growing. Your life looks different, but you haven't changed.
Few realise Becoming is a dimension of Purpose. They think personal growth is a hobby, a luxury, something for people with too much time. Yet, it's the dimension that makes every other dimension possible. You can only do work that matches you, once you know who you really are. You can only be truly loved if you love yourself. Everything else waits patiently on this inner work.
The Four Archetypes
Heart, Mastery, Call, Return — together they form this dimension. Open to see the book Venn and rate yourself across the four.
The Four Archetypes
Heart, Mastery, Call, Return — together they form this dimension. Open to see the book Venn and rate yourself across the four.
From Chapter 4 of Purpose by Andre Raoul Jankowitz.
Where do you stand?
12 statements across 4 archetypes. Rate each honestly — the truth is the gift.
Higher Chi
The energetic source of your Becoming — felt as bright (alive, flowing) or dim (starved, blocked). Below: how each shows up.
Higher Chi
The energetic source of your Becoming — felt as bright (alive, flowing) or dim (starved, blocked). Below: how each shows up.
The inner voice. The one that knows. The one that speaks underneath the noise of your thinking and tells you what's true.
You have access to your own knowing. You hear what you actually think before you've decided what you're supposed to think. The 2am voice arrives reliably, with answers that feel earned.
You're at the mercy of other voices. You consult external authorities for questions only your inner voice can answer.
The Four Circles
Heart, Mastery, Call, and Return — the four archetypes of your inner life. Each can be bright (alive) or dim (starved). When all four are bright, you're becoming more yourself every day — not stagnation, not random drift, but motion.
The Four Circles
Heart, Mastery, Call, and Return — the four archetypes of your inner life. Each can be bright (alive) or dim (starved). When all four are bright, you're becoming more yourself every day — not stagnation, not random drift, but motion.
Heart
What Draws You Inward
You're curious about yourself. Not narcissistically - genuinely. You notice patterns in your own thinking. The inner world has texture for you.
You avoid yourself. The inner world is something you outrun with activity, achievement, distraction.
Mastery
What You're Learning to Master
You're getting better at being you. You've built one or two inner muscles you didn't have ten years ago. You react less. You recover faster.
You're at the mercy of your own internal weather. The same triggers still hijack you. You know what you should do. You can't yet do it.
Call
What Your Deeper Self Needs
You can name what your deeper self is asking right now. You're answering it. You don't lie to yourself about what you're avoiding.
You're in deflection. You're doing inner work in form but not in substance.
Return
Who You Are Becoming
You can feel yourself becoming. Not abstractly - actually. You handle things differently. You see things you didn't see. There's a sense of direction.
You're stagnant. You've been the same inner person for years. The outer life may have changed dramatically - and the inner one hasn't moved.
Five Practices
Five weekly rituals — Observe, Feel, Cleanse, Align, Serve. A meditative arc cultivating each Chi, with Serve as integration.
Five Practices
Five weekly rituals — Observe, Feel, Cleanse, Align, Serve. A meditative arc cultivating each Chi, with Serve as integration.