A Symphony of Becoming, and Two Dynamics Come of Age: I Reign and I Reason

My dear friends and fellow seekers,

I have two things to share with you today. One is a gift of music. The other is a refinement of the model itself, and an honest account of how it came to me.

A Symphony of Becoming

For a long time I have wanted you to be able to feel the Seven Governing Dynamics, not only study them. So I wrote seven songs, one for each Dynamic, and together they are A Symphony of Becoming.

Each movement follows one Dynamic from its wound to its healing. The first notes are often the sound of what it feels like when that Dynamic is broken: the cacophony, the cutting-off, the lie. The last notes arrive where the Dynamic is whole. If you have ever wondered what Respondability or Discernibility sounds like, here is my attempt to answer.

Movement V, "Take Me Home," the song for the fifth Dynamic.

Every movement has a page on the website with the video, the story behind the song, the full lyrics, and the scriptures that stand behind it. You will find them all together at A Symphony of Becoming, now in the top menu. The final movement is a grand finale that gathers up the themes of the six before it, and it ends with a child and an adult learning together.

Two Dynamics come of age

Look at the wheel below. Each circle is one Governing Dynamic, shown in its color of the visible spectrum, all of them gathered around Christlike maturity. Two of those circles now carry names that are more mature than the ones I gave them before.

The wheel is not a timetable and not a ladder. The Dynamics are reciprocal and mutually supportive.

The fifth Dynamic: Sovereignability, now “I Reign”

For years the fifth Dynamic has been described with a series of short declarations. Over time I used I Claim, I Own, and I Author, each in different books and at different seasons. All three were true, and none was the whole.

Late on the evening of November 6, a new word came to me: I Reign. I did not take it lightly, and I tested it hard, against scripture, against the General Handbook of the Church, and against the catalog of 385 distinctions I have been building to keep the model honest.

Here is what I mean by it, and what I do not mean.

I Reign means that I exercise rightful sovereign authority over myself, under God, without usurping another’s sovereignty. It is the personal use of divine moral agency to choose for oneself.

It does not mean ruling over other people. The Lord’s own description of righteous authority in Doctrine and Covenants 121 rejects unrighteous dominion and names persuasion, gentleness, meekness, and love unfeigned as its only lawful tools. That word reign is dangerous if we hear it as kingship over subjects, and so it must always be heard as under God.

The word carries more than personal choice, though. Every calling in the kingdom comes with a setting apart, and with it a real stewardship that we are accountable for discharging. That is a form of reigning within the office of our calling. And in the temple we are promised that the faithful will become kings and queens, priests and priestesses, unto the most High God, to rule and reign in the house of Israel forever. That is our destiny. But there is a difference I want you to hear clearly: ordination is an event; discipleship is a process. We are authorized in a moment, and we learn to exercise that authority righteously over a lifetime of diligence and effort.

I also learned something about the sword. In the temple I came to understand that authority is to be rightly used to wield the sword of justice in defense of truth and virtue. Charity decides what is just. Discernment sees what is true. Sovereignability is the Dynamic that acts, and it acts only within the stewardship that is genuinely ours.

I Claim, I Own, and I Author have not been discarded. They are the parts that make up the whole: what I may rightfully govern, what I am responsible for, and the choices I author. I Reign is the center around which they turn.

The seventh Dynamic: Teachability, now “I Reason”

The seventh Dynamic is still called Teachability. What has changed is its declaration. In some of my earlier writing I used I Comprehend or I Learn. In October I settled on I Reason, because the capacity that grows inside Teachability is reasonability, the ability to think, weigh, integrate, and revise what we understand. Teachability is the Dynamic that is always willing to become more than it is, and “I Reason” says what it does.

A second map: the Ascension–Descension Governing Flow

Some of you met this diagram briefly in my October 3 post. I showed it then without teaching you how to read it. It deserves a proper introduction, because it explains why each Dynamic matters to the others, and the wheel above does not.

Ascension–Descension Governing Flow Dynamics. I received it in the temple and first sketched it on a whiteboard on September 18, 2026. It is still a developing map.

How to read it. The diagram has seven levels, one for each Governing Dynamic, with Level 1 at the bottom and Level 7 at the top. Every level has two sides.

• The left side is the functional, receptive polarity. This is what a Dynamic looks like when it is healthy and receiving what it needs.
• The right side is the dysfunctional, blocked polarity. This is what the same Dynamic looks like when it is starved, wounded, or obstructed.
• The arrows between levels show that neighboring Dynamics are connected. What happens at one level reaches the levels beside it.
• The two rails carry the main teaching. On the left, a gold arrow rises. These are the Developmental Facilitators, the conditions that feed upward and open access to Level 7. On the right, a red arrow falls. These are the Developmental Blockers, the conditions that shut that access.

What it shows. Each of the seven Dynamics occupies a level with a positive pole and a negative pole. The six lower levels either feed access to the seventh or block it. A person who is enabled, bonded, aligned, lovingly regarded, respected, and seeing clearly is far better positioned to become wise. A person who is disabled, isolated, powerless, condemned, disrespected, and confused is being shut out of wisdom by those very conditions, which has nothing to do with how bright they are.

That is the same truth I described in the Integrated Maturation Principle, seen from another angle. Each Dynamic, as it matures, provides more favorable conditions for the others, and each wound makes the others harder. It is not a rigid staircase, and it does not say that anyone must finish one level before beginning another. It describes the conditions that make growth easier or harder. It is also why the songs of the Symphony begin where the wound is and travel toward the healing. I leaned on this diagram while writing Movement VI, “Now I Know,” where clear perception is won against the voices that try to blur it.

You will notice that the fifth level reads Ownership Rights and Accountability. That level is where I Reign lives. The diagram describes what it feels like when our rightful standing is respected and reverenced, and what it feels like when we are lied about, undermined, or condescended to. Both are part of the same Dynamic.

How these changes came about

I want to be honest with you about this, because I think you deserve it.

I did not invent the Seven Governing Dynamics. I was instructed by the Holy Ghost to study the chakras, and in that study I was taught to recognize an underlying architecture of governing emotional dynamics. I am a cartographer, not the author of the landscape. I am mapping, as faithfully as I can, the governing dynamics of the laws of God. What I do author is my descriptive language, and my language is still maturing. Line upon line, precept upon precept, I am learning to understand what God has designed. After years and decades of study, I finally see that “I Reign” belongs at the center of the fifth Dynamic.

That is why I do not treat these names as final pronouncements. When a better word appears, the map improves. The land has not changed.

What this means for my books

My published books were written under the earlier names. Some say I Claim for the fifth Dynamic, and some use I Comprehend or I Learn for the seventh. The architecture they teach is sound, but I want every book to carry the most mature expression of it.

So I am going to take on the enormous editing task of updating all of my published books to carry these upgrades. It will take real time, and I am not going to rush it. When each book is ready, I will tell you here.

An invitation to help

I have an ask. This is a large task, and I would welcome company in it. If you would like to help me with the editing, especially if you are proficient with AI, please reach out. If you are not, that is perfectly all right, because I can teach you. Willing volunteers are welcome.

To volunteer, write to [email protected] with the subject line Volunteer for the book editing task, or use the contact page. Tell me a little about yourself and how much time you might be able to give. We will work out the rest together.

A holiday invitation

If the Seven Governing Dynamics have spoken to you, I invite you to bring them into your home this season. A book that helps someone understand what they need, what they can do, what they are willing to do, and what they are truly responsible for is a gift that keeps giving long after the wrapping paper is gone.

• Start here: How to Optimize Your Emotionally Dynamic Life by Unleashing 7 Christlike Superpowers, Fourth Edition, the cornerstone of the whole model.
• Browse the whole library: more than forty books, one for nearly every need, on the books page.

Give one to a son or daughter who is finding their way, to a friend who is carrying something heavy, or to someone you love who simply wants to understand themselves better. And if you have already read the books, a gift copy carries the model into another heart, and your review helps other readers find it.

Thank you for walking this path with me, and for letting the music carry some of the work.

— Kelly L. Call