Spirituality for Living

Archetypes are essentially non-verbal data. They are perhaps the most primal objects of awareness there are, and reproduce themselves in both our behaviour and in the pattern of events as they arise in nature and human activity on a “non-psychological” level. The world of symbolism is very real. As real as matter. As real as your own flesh and blood. You gain more power when you see both the “spirit/symbol” and the literal meaning of anything in your life. Use both, and your actions and intentions will be doubly effective.

“The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure–be it a daemon, a human being, or a process–that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . .” Carl Jung (“On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry”)

“Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!” Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)

Theory Of Archetypes

Archetype is a modern word for a force that has always been present in life. Their legitimacy is still being debated, but there are some questions that find their answers in the theory of archetypes that have no answer in any other paradigm. Example, children are born with a section of their brain exclusively prepared to “learn” language. Also some basic instinctive responses occur quite commonly in individuals who have no practical reason to have them, like fear of spiders or snakes, without ever having seen one in person. Archetypes are essentially non-verbal data. They are perhaps the most primal… Seek More

Using Archetypes

To use archetypes, I’m thinking that by our conscious intention to impress upon them we can “change the world” potentially? Indeed, but it’s not really possible to “tag” an archetype. They won’t incorporate psychic graffiti. It’s more setting up a system of relating to the archetype. An example is the Navajo snake dance ceremony. All cultures recognize the literal facts about snakes. They don’t have a human type of consciousness, and they can be potentially life threatening. But the Navajo people have a different view of the “why”. They evaluate the threat of a snake differently than a white person… Seek More

Practical Application Of Archetypes

When you see that reality is made of the exact same symbolism as occurs in your dreams, you can begin to make decisions and choose behaviours that incorporate the power of this same symbolism. Behave in an intelligent and conscious way toward the content that is in your environment anyway. Now you might ask, what’s the point of this? Ever notice in your dreams that though it seems illogical, your actions still have a sort of cause and effect pattern? You move the fish and the door to the strange house opens, and in the dream you totally expected it… Seek More

Patterns In Human Awareness

I am familiar with forces at work that behave as “Gods” do. As broad as my knowledge base may be, I do have a better grasp of some things from personal experience than others. The only Gods I have experienced are more or less “thought forms”, colonies of psychic energy that act upon the world and those who have an affinity for them. First some definitions. Archetypes are patterns that show up in human awareness and culture. Memetic characters that have their basis in the fundamental structure of our nervous systems. Intelligence, as I will use it tonight, is defined… Seek More

Masculine And Feminine

Someone just told me that Taurus is a feminine sign. Feminine in having a yin polarity, yes, and you are about 49 percent female by default. All men are or you could not survive. When you hear the terms masculine and feminine, they don’t actually have much to do with modern conceptions of gender role. They could be seen more like the electronic terms. Some forces act by reacting. They respond to or echo things. Receive. They are seen in physics now as two layers. An electromagnetic interplay. Yes. This applies to things like neural discharges as well. So feminine… Seek More

Archetypal Intelligence

As for archetypal intelligence, archetypes have behaviour. They do have their own intelligence. This is why questions like, “What would Jesus do?” make any sense. Whether we have made the conscious decision to allow it or not, many archetypes have both taught us, as they manifested in the behaviour of our parents and authority figures, or swayed our behaviour by animating our imagination, speculating about how some thing would think or act. We are natural imitators. In Hawaii, we acknowledge archetypal intelligence through our various aumakua, including plant and inorganic. Indeed, and the tree is an archetype. When we tell… Seek More

Gods Do Have Flesh

All human thought is anchored directly or indirectly to experience. Just as we establish rapport with human beings, and can fall out of rapport with human beings, we can develop connection to archetypes or social problems with archetypes. Functional magnetic resonance imaging has shown some of the old theories about psychoanalysis to be true, while others have been found to be groundless. But the relevant discovery here is that our brains only support so many models of human behaviour on an instinctive level, and we get in touch with, and lose touch with, these models as our life experience changes.… Seek More

New Gods

There are two basic realms of our archetypes. The genetic, those that arise in our consciousness from our natural development, our natural hormonal inclinations, as well as our experiences of the natural world. Our body minds are naturally equipped to tell us things about the sun and the sky. But my point in describing natural archetypes is that the invisible presence / idea / spirit is present in the world around us, even outside of the human social realm. Now for the new Gods, and the primal and new Gods do interact. Just as the hero Gods got their start and… Seek More

Archetype Evolution

They say history repeats itself. The reason history repeats itself is archetypes preserve themselves, or try to, and they are capable of evolving just like organic systems. This sounding like nonsense? And we have to be conscious enough to break the cycle. i.e. Kill the God? If the God is an enemy, then yes, there has to be a Ragnarok. Gods do become enemies over time, and as the prophecy says, there shall be a new heaven and a new earth. History not only repeats itself, it also stutters. Yes. The Gods argue, talk over each other, thus the staggered… Seek More