07-05-2018, 10:52 AM
One remark I'd offer: we're always working with the archetypes. There's never a time when we're not. The question is whether we're doing it with a sensitivity to the resonances foremost in our mind, or whether we're unconsciously working with them and still learning the correspondences via trial and error. If this is the case, and it's about the quality of attention and attitude with which we approach these matters, then it really has less to do with the subject of study and more to do with the nature of how we're approaching it. In other words, it's less about whether there's a more correct way or time to study the archetypes, and more about understanding our own situation well enough to begin accepting what our studies and thinking will show us.
I feel like a broken record, but here's the deal: there is very, very little forum, or even person-to-person, discussion that will assist one with the study of the archetypes. This is very affective, subtle, deep mind work. You are becoming sensitive when you are studying the archetypes. It's unlikely that another's thoughts and energy are going to make your thoughts and energy more intelligible at this level. I don't think there's a danger in studying the archetypes too early per se; I think there's a danger in diving into using the resource of the deep mind without full honesty and acceptance of yourself.
Yes, I am simply recasting the initial question -- should you work on the lower chakras first -- in different terms, since those first three chakras are the most basic way we start to know ourselves. But there's something to be said for reaching beyond a mechanical curriculum and understanding the fluid, subtle nature of what we're attempting. Sometimes merely discussing these things in writing lends these endeavors a sense of concreteness, tractability, and determinacy that they do not warrant.
There's a difference between talking about the study and doing the study. When it comes to the archetypes, this difference widens into a chasm. It's akin to Ra's distinction between technique and heart.
I feel like a broken record, but here's the deal: there is very, very little forum, or even person-to-person, discussion that will assist one with the study of the archetypes. This is very affective, subtle, deep mind work. You are becoming sensitive when you are studying the archetypes. It's unlikely that another's thoughts and energy are going to make your thoughts and energy more intelligible at this level. I don't think there's a danger in studying the archetypes too early per se; I think there's a danger in diving into using the resource of the deep mind without full honesty and acceptance of yourself.
Yes, I am simply recasting the initial question -- should you work on the lower chakras first -- in different terms, since those first three chakras are the most basic way we start to know ourselves. But there's something to be said for reaching beyond a mechanical curriculum and understanding the fluid, subtle nature of what we're attempting. Sometimes merely discussing these things in writing lends these endeavors a sense of concreteness, tractability, and determinacy that they do not warrant.
There's a difference between talking about the study and doing the study. When it comes to the archetypes, this difference widens into a chasm. It's akin to Ra's distinction between technique and heart.
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