Archetypes Are Like People...

Archetypes are like people. You have to get to KNOW them to better understand them. Talk to them, listen to their "flavor" and observe how they respond/react to various ideas and situations.

We all have voices in our head. YOU'RE crazy if you think you DON'T. From the moment you were born, your head's been filling up with voices. Your mother's voice. Your father's voice. Your brother's voice. Your sister's voice. Your friend's voice. Your teacher's voice. Your preacher's voice. Your co-worker's voice. Your boss' voice. Your spouse's voice. An actor's voice. An athlete's voice. A politician's voice. An author's voice...

They all have something to say, and we all respond to and hear them differently. Some we listen to more than others. Some we love. Others we hate. Some we believe. Others we don't. Still, they carry on in our head and shape our perception one way or another.

So archetypes can just be thought of as the BIG voices. They're the "voice pattern" behind the various people we come to know. Uncle Bob, Mom, Reverend Holyman, Dr. Smartperson, or whoever else is essentially an "actor"--a fleshy character we can specifically identify in order to experience the archetype "brought down to earth." In turn, the archetypes are given a voice through our own human voice and experience. You mom may be Hestia--goddess of the hearth and home. The girl you adore becomes Aphrodite--the sensually seductive female goddess of love and beauty. You little brother is like the eternal child, Peter Pan--unwilling to grow up and only wanting to have fun. You boss is an evil king--cruelly commanding his workers like slaves and unwilling to give them raises. The professor from college is a wizened wizard--passing down occult knowledge through meticulous study. The rock star is Dionysus--god of wine, parties, and ecstatic revelry...

But it's never super cut and dry. The people we know really all wear more than one mask, for they're ALSO filled up with many voices, and the voices are all filled in with many archetypes. They ALL flow through us actually, in perfectly unique arrangements within each person. So when you get to know and understand the archetypes, and which ones are more active than others, and how they're all at play, you can start to distill YOUR true "make-up" by filtering out which voices belong to OTHER people (and the archetypes they present to "visit" you and your mind for interactively stimulating activity), and the archetypes that (currently) most closely coalesce around YOUR voice and position. (If you confuse someone else's voice as your own, you might confuse their path/direction with your own also...) The question becomes, what's YOUR fairy tale? The other "characters" are all necessary for the experience of the "play" as a whole, but don't lose sight of YOUR role and YOUR voice and the archetypes YOU'RE drawn to embody as you move YOUR story forward.

Eventually, as you boil down to the core, you'll notice that even YOUR voice and YOUR archetypes aren't always consistent. Differing circumstances may call for different faces. However, you'll notice that something IS consistently the same within you underneath it all regardless. Then you start to suspect that even YOUR archetypes are really just blowing through like currents of wind, directing you in and out of different "scenes." Then you can start to identify and purify what YOUR essence really is in order to find there's a clear, calm voice that speaks directly to (and as?!) you. That could be thought of as your Higher Self, or Holy Guardian Angel, etc....

It's really YOU! You ARE truly a higher spiritual being, a star, and an individual archetype all your own! (Granted, even stars have "flavors," or some subtle degree of "personality," so your brand of brilliance may seem to conglomerate more around certain sectors of archetypal significance...) Anyways, there is a YOU that transcends space and time, projecting a little fleshy spark of itself down as your body and human personality and being in order to further enliven and enlighten itself through your denser physical experiences and learning.

Think of yourself (in full) as being more of a sort of black hole-torus-vortex-yin-yang type of concept...There's a side (the physical you) that's a dark,dense, heavy center of gravity anchored down that attracts, collects, and contracts mass/matter (or matters/experiences/karmic effects) as "food"/"fuel", and digests that all back out to the "other side" of yourself (the spiritual you) as light, energy, and expansion! BOTH "sides" are really YOU--complementary poles along a spectrum.

As we "burn through" the heaviness of our physical karmas, effects, lessons, and experiences, we open up wider our limited and contracted (so many word implications are implied to apply there...) understanding to include the more expanded, brilliant, inclusiveness of our spiritual truth, being, and potential. As such, our Holy Guardian Angel/Higher Self is able to grow "brighter" and fuller and become "closer to God/Source." It's a mutually connected relationship between us as our little self (physical dimension) and our more limitless Self (spiritual dimension). As a cyclic result, the more our spiritual side is able to expand, the more energy is potentially (and potently) available to again later be concentrated down into a form, but the successively succeeding form is all the more grand and ideal as it's able to be INformed from a more grand spiritual nature!

So we're ALL truly a bright heavenly energy at the same time as being an earthy form, and the archetypes (in whatever way we allow them) simply help us to bridge the gap by guiding us along the way to understanding the "fine print" nuances of who we REALLY are...fully!

This may be quite an "out there" postulate to present...However, if THIS can at least be seen, perceived, and considered as a possibility, with at least a "maybe," then it shouldn't be too far of a reach to also entertain the idea that some "voices" we hear (or think may be a more appropriate term[?], as such communication can simply be likened to streams of "flavored" thought running across the receptive side of our "mind screen") may belong to other spiritual beings that are non-physical and DON'T have a body (down on the low, dense, physical level where ours exists anyways...), and maybe never did...If we're truly a higher spiritual being, capable of tuning into and more clearly hearing the essence of OUR Self, then wouldn't it stand to reason that we might be able to receive correspondence from OTHER non-physical sources that we're resonating with enough to hear/perceive? I think so. Angels and spirit guides and beings of light (and darkness) and aliens and fairies and elementals...oh my. And until we can detect, hear, and recognize them at THEIR true height of individuality, like us hearing our own Holy Guardian Angel/Higher Self clearly, all these other non-physical beings might also simply have to make use of employing the archetypes, flavors, images, and masks that will help make THEM more real and comprehensible for us.

The paths one can take on the journey of life are endless, but everything we encounter lights the way Home for us all. Who are YOU in the experience now?