A New Musical Journey

[Plenum]

What impact did the archetypes have on you that it caused so profound a change?

I think for me, it was like an ordering system for consciousness. Of course, the archetypal mind is only one portion of a greater faculty that we know of as 'mind', but it is a very deep and core one, at least in the 3d perspective of things.

I've always wanted a system to dissect the operations of consciousness. If you ever had a high school chemistry class, then you'd be familiar with the Periodic Table of Elements. I always thought there was such an ordering and patterning present in the mind similiar to that structuring of the elements, and it wasn't until I alighted upon Ra that I found it. The Archetypal Mind. The 3 rows (or ladders) of 7. With a culminating Choice.

It just blew my mind open. And the description of the various categories from Matrix and Potentiator on upwards was just so neat and precise.

to me, this laying bare of an operating system level of consciousness, one that is common to us all, and that is highly functional and purposed ... I just said wow. This is like the Holy Grail for consciousness.

as I started to become more familiar with each archetype, leaning heavily upon the Names offered (Magician, Empress, etc) my dreams became extremely vivid and enlivened with tableaus illustrating how some of these archetypes played out in certain scenarios in my life. They still needed to be decoded of course (as all dreams), but I would have a strong sense - almost like a big finger pointing - as to which archetype the dream was pertinent to. That aided in the decoding process immensely.

This dreaming/archetype phasing lasted for maybe a year, at best guess. It was the first real opening to the unconscious mind that I had as an adult; I remember that as a child (and probably up until the age of 10) my dream world was just as vivid as my real world. And then it died away after that age.

It wasn't until maybe around age 30 (or perhaps just before) as I started getting into David Wilcock's take on things, which led to the Ra Material, that dreams started taking equal important in my experience. They became more frequent, recall was more precise, and there was more 'material' to process, analyze, and decode. It was the renaissance of a deep connection with the unconscious. Triggered, I believe, and aided by the archetypes in my opinion.

so for me, Ra's system of archetypes opened a long-shut doorway to a more complete portion of myself.

yeah, so even more than having a pre-Ra phase of life, and a post-Ra phase of life, I have a pre-archetypes phase of life, and a post-archetypes phase of life.

my main area of study has since shifted to the energy centres (which are a glorious topic in themselves!) but for me, the Archetypes are a deeply fond period in my life. The True Awakening I believe, to the Truer Self.

and I guess I am hoping that some of this music will translate some of the movements and the patterns of the Ra Archetypes into an emotional and note-driven vortex of sounds that depicts my experience of these cards.

anyway, simple question, long answer

Plenum