Every individual is made up of a central thrust through existence. This drive, this thrust through existence, is survival. It is the effort on the part of the organism to survive. We call the urge toward survival a dynamic. The dynamic goes toward succumb in the exact ratio that it is enturbulated (put into a state of agitation or disturbance). It goes toward survival in the exact ratio that it is clean and clear. That is regarding it as just one dynamic. If we take a look at this dynamic through a magnifying glass, we find that in this one thrust there are actually eight thrusts, or eight dynamics. See the booklet The Dynamics and its corresponding course to learn more about the dynamics and how to use this information to improve your life and the lives of others.

1	SELF—The effort to survive as an individual. It includes one’s own body and one’s own mind.	2	FAMILY—The urge toward existence as a future generation. It has two compartments: sex; and the family unit.
3	GROUP SURVIVAL—A group can be a community, friends, a company, a social lodge, a state, a nation, a race or in short, any group.	4	MANKIND—Species. Man’s fourth dynamic is the species of mankind.
5	LIFE FORMS—The urge to survive as life forms and with the help of life forms such as animals and vegetation.	6	PHYSICAL UNIVERSE—It has the four components of matter, energy, space and time.
7	SPIRITUAL DYNAMIC—The urge to survive as spiritual beings or the urge for life itself to survive.	8	INFINITY—Also commonly called God, the Supreme Being or Creator.