Archetypes
Mar. 10th, 2004 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
percivalInspired by a recent post from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.
