Real Magic Happens

Real magic can happen in an instant when you collaborate with your personality archetypes. They’re a direct line that connects you to universal wisdom and the management of meaning and fulfilment.

You can use archetypes to access what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious. You could say the collective unconscious is like a global mind bank, full of human wisdom that has accumulated over eons of time.

Archetypes are a collection of universal story patterns that describe the human experience. This includes thinking, feeling and behaving. To this collection, every human being has added their own ideas about what it means to be, for example, a warrior, queen, sage or hero.

As universally understood story patterns, it means that archetypes are experienced regardless of your culture.

Each archetype gives you an idea of its characteristics, experiences and challenges. An archetype contains specialist knowledge that you can access just by naming it. And because your mind is a part of this global mind, you automatically get the idea.

You get the broad idea of a warrior. You know how the story goes. At a macro level, our global, universal understanding of the warrior is a story about, and therefore an experience of protection. The story of the queen is about the experience of rulership. The story of the sage is about the experience of wisdom. The hero story is about the experience of leadership. Each archetype contains strategies to effectively manage the stories, and the challenges in those stories. They’re the experiences you’ve recruited into your life, consciously or unconsciously.

Which brings us to the micro level. This is where the conscious collaboration with your archetypes creates the space for real magic to happen. When the collaboration is not a conscious one, then you leave yourself vulnerable to sabotage. Sabotage is multi dimensional so it’s not always easy to conquer. You sabotage yourself. Others sabotage and undermine you, either accidentally or on purpose. Or you inadvertently (or worse, deliberately) sabotage others.

At a micro level, your personal understanding and experience of an archetype will be more nuanced because you are unique and so are your life experiences. It’s at this level that archetypal information will deepen your self understanding and self awareness.

Here’s how it works:

An archetype is an abstract concept. The brain compresses information and compression leads to abstraction. Abstractions are multimodal. They include information from all senses. Compression makes it possible for your brain to think abstractly. And because your brain is wired to the world, a world that includes archetypes, it means that everyone has split second access to this collective, unlimited source of wisdom.

All you need to do is identify the archetypes that are active in your life. When you’re conscious of your personality archetypes, you can use their information to make some real magic happen.

Reference

Feldman Barrett, L 2018, How emotions are made: the secret life of the brain, Pan Books, London.