ImpartialLake1256,
First let me say that I did think Sam seemed much more Six-fixed in this video than in the other two, and i did consider it for his head for the first time, but in the end it didn't hold up, and here's why.
In this video we have glimpses of the Gluttony in the mischievous Puckishness of the sequence starting around 9'45 and ending around 11'08". At its beginning Sam delights in the disruption of people's perceptions due to his detransitioning and at the end he laughs at and shrugs off the inevitable confusion it causes. Along with the Gluttony of the Puckishness, there is the sense that this dilemma is all like water off a duck's back; this is the
unattached nature of Seven, a
frustration type. Six is attached; the Five-Seven line has a 'teflon' quality to its 'object relations'. Sam will be similarly Puckish and teflon at other times--he already has Nine; he cannot have two attachment fixes (Six and Nine).
We also glimpse the Gluttony in something as simple as his attitude toward the coffee.Three mugs is a lot of coffee for one sitting and being in the morning we can assume there will be more sittings throughout the day. Not that Four with Six couldn't similarly guzzle coffee but there is absolutely no shame or excuses, just a rotund "Oh God, I really love coffee". And we can glimpse the Gluttony at the beginning of this video when he announces that he doesn't have a 'plan' to these videos. E7 = E-Plan and so he has to
renounce planning; once renounced, it's a 'journey of emergences', that 'is spontaneous and it's a revelation' (1'29"). Not that Four with Six couldn't have a similar journey; it's just that it's like he's putting us on notice that there is to be no 'limits setting' here--talking style Six and in some sense Six's world view. It's the finality of the non-finality of the 'teflon'--nothing will have to, nothing is bound to, 'stick'. Again, not double attached.
But above all and most intrinsically, the Gluttony of the Sevenness is to be found in a very premise of these videos: that Sam had to confront painful things about his false self
because all his life he had been pain-avoidant. It is impossible to underscore enough just how if anything
pain-seeking (masochistic) the combination Four/Six is--
especially with 4w5--and yet Sam's story is one of pain avoidance. If a Sam with a Six fix had made a similar series of videos, they would have been about having focused on the
wrong roots of the pain, not on a lifetime of pain avoidance. Eli has the Avoidance of E7 as
Pain; Riso Hudson has the Basic Fear of E7 as Deprivation (of sources of pleasure and sustenance). Sam continually refers to his decades long transition as a form of
escape; he hammers this in, and Escape is Seven. E6 is Fight or Freeze, E7 is Flight itself. Seven is the
domain of Flight, of flying.
So Sam's story, taken as a whole and in its essentials, gets to the
core of what Sevenness is. Sam expounds eloquently on this pain avoidance and the concomitant anguish of facing the pain beginning at 5'01" and continuing on to 7'06". (e.g. "They [we]
just want to feel the positive and so we look away from the stuff we can't deal with". And he will touch on it later too. Again, it can't be stressed enough how atypical this is of 4w5 to begin with, let alone 4w5 with
Six; this is a Seven fix, in tandem with Nine. It has to be
double positive for a 4w5. And sure enough, immediately after this segment, he goes into the need to be
seen--which is what absolutely clinches 9 >> 1, lest there were any doubt left. He has been talking about the influences of his fixes; first his Seven fix and then he proceeds to the Nine.
And so we come to the Entertainer. E.g. @14'15" "I just realized I've always been wearing a costume, always been wearing some kind of costume...the
performance, the persona". Sam as the Entertainer may not be so visible in how he is these videos but his characterization of himself in the transition days indicates that it was (hopefully I can find where this is far more pronounced in another video I saw). And, in speaking of Entertainers, it should be mentioned that the video series does exist. That might seem like a cheap shot, but with the heavy sp first and social last that he has on a 4wFIVE--Sam is an
extreme withdrawn-- I'm not so sure if we took away the Seven that it would exist.
So the series exists and in it in other videos he brings us to his favorite woodland place (not in this one oc) and exuberantly, with radiance, introduces us to his understanding of merging with the cosmos and God and the All. Not that a Four with Six couldn't do that; just that it wouldn't have that transparent simplicity, there would be a skepticism to it, or at very least a
refutation of other people's potential skepticism. But there is no such acknowledgement; it is sheer, unadulterated oneness with the universe, and this is not a high level abandonment of Doubt, because healthy Six will allay Doubt, not ignore it; this is going toward E7 L1 Ecstatic Appreciator.
So 7w6 fix for Sam. Sam is 479, he is a Puck . Granted, rather grim in his spartan bedroom with his heavy eyeglasses in a particularly somber mood, but even Pucks have their ups and downs. Tritype 479 is called by the Fauvres in
one of the few times they hit paydirt--take most of the link with a grain of salt--'The Gentle Spirit', and that is
what it is, and that is what
Sam is, seen very clearly in
the first video here. No 469 ever would be quite so spritely, or so ecstatic (at least not so 'ecstatic on an even keel'
).