Archetypes

[percival]

Inspired by a recent post from apel, I'd like to share a book with you that I'm reading just now. It's called Sacred Contracts by Caroline Myss, and it's about detecting archetypal pattern in your life, and about using this knowledge to find out what you were sent to do. It's the book I need to read, but had trouble finding.

I've just finished Chapter 4 on the four primal archetypes within everybody. The names have negative connotations, but they are important warning signs that show you where you go wrong.

- The Child: wants to be indulged and mothered
- The Victim: has been wronged
- The Prostitute: sells work, love, happiness, sex for money
- The Saboteur: sabotages behaviour, especially encouraging short-term gain at the expense of long-term spiritual development.

All of these have a good side and a shadow side. My biggest shadow archetype is certainly the Saboteur right now, closely followed by the Child.

Comments

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Caroline Myss (pronounced 'mace') is fairly amazing. She is all about archetypes and if you can work your way through some of her wordier stuff, it's very rewarding. I particularly like Anatomy of the Spirit. Do enjoy.

[perceval.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely check it out. I'm also very interested in Anodea Judith's work. Do you know it? this is the sort of psychological training that I would like to do together with the body work - encompassing mental, emotional and spiritual aspects.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

No, I don't know her work.

I do know, however, that Polarity Therapy [shameless plug for one of my favorite things in the universe] also takes into account the client's mental, emotional, and spiritual needs.

[perceval.livejournal.com]

Where did you train in Polarity? The main UK course I've found looks like a rip-off to me (£3.5K ...)

interesting...

[cerise-noir.livejournal.com]

I don't know Caroline Myss, but i have heard for the above mentioned principles and i am personally interested reading more. i wonder if they have this book in ebooks. but anyway tell me why you feel you *need* to read it? and if not you who else would *need* to read it and why? if that question makes any sense.

I'm interested in psychology, but don't like the discipline per se, found my way with an understanding of people through cultural anthropology so i'm an anthropologist by training. But anyway, that's crudely my interest.

Re: interesting...

[perceval.livejournal.com]

I am looking for a way to give the infertility meaning without recurring to Fundamentalist Christian literature. This seems to be "it". It's written in a spiritual language that I can connect with.

And I am really interested in anthropology, anthropological linguistics, and the rest :)