Satya said:
How fascinating.
I just read up on it, and I can follow this path of integration in myself. I see I can go from 4 to 1 and not stopping there but also going on to 7 and then to 5. But when I try to go to 8, I hit a wall.
It seems that is one fear for which I can't let go.
I don't remember how it works... whether if you can actually track through ALL the points. I think the first integration point is always the most apparent. (You're taking up strengths on the One if you're a Four that will help buttress your Four weaknesses.)
I am betting that some things about the One might seem wrong to the Four -- most likely, the rigidity aspect, the Four likes to flex with the situation, responding to the emotional contact. In contrast, One overlays the emotional content with their own judgments.
As an other example, Eight in many ways feels like the bane of the Five, even if it's the Integration point. Five wants to remain detached. To use power on others feels WRONG; the Five wants to stay out of the situation, so as to not impact what happens, and thus correctly observe and analyze it.
However, this also makes the Five powerless to use her insight to actually engage and help others (other than indirectly, such as writing books or doing art, I suppose). Learning how to let oneself engage the world, steered by the acquired insights, is what a Five needs in order to realize her efficacy. She does not have to fear wielding power or influencing others, and can trust her Five perceptions.
The disintegration is to Seven, which is basically a Five who is afraid to engage and instead gets caught up in fervish compulsive endeavors -- engagement anbd exploration of sensation without commitment or force, TAKING rather than GIVING or IMPACTING the world positively.