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Your Mythical Being

When we look for guidance in how to construct our everyday lives, we still need to answer the central question of self: What are my dreams and desires? And that can only be answered by asking, in addition, Who am I? What do I want? What’s my purpose in this lifetime?
We know that our deepest relationships and meanings and contexts derive from the soul. And our aspiration also ultimately derives from the soul. In our time here on earth, this individual soul will not be fulfilled unless it completes its mythical quest, which we can think of as the Grand Plan around which our destinies are organized.
Inside every human being there is an overarching theme, a template for heroic living, a god or goddess in embryo that yearns to be born. This is who we were meant to be, the self that we deny ourselves because most of us cannot see the field of limitless potential that is open to us. This is our best self, the egoless self, that bit of the universe acting through us for the good of all.
You can pave the path to enlightenment by understanding the plan written on your soul, by nurturing the relationships that give you context and meanings, and by enacting your mythical drama. Out of that is born love and compassion. Out of that comes fulfillment and completion.
These mythical stories, these heroes and heroines within, are called archetypes. Archetypes are perennial themes that reside at the level of the collective, universal soul. These themes are representations of our collective soul’s yearnings, imagination, and deepest desires. These themes have existed forever.
Adapted from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press)
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add your comment »I study Caroline Myss. According to her teachings, there are 12 archetypes. And each archetype has a shaddow side. The archetypes, within, are assigned at the time of the drawing up of your Sacred Contract, because they're integral to your journey. Even the shaddow archetypes can be very useful to you, if you recognize them and keep them in their place, as opposed to letting them muddle things up. I must clear up: Caroline Myss states that we have 12 MAIN archetypes.
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"...You cand understand the path to enlightenment by understanding the plan written on your soul..." My question is :Who writes the plan, or does it matter?
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4 The material accessed previously paraphrases "messages from Michael",Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,cheaply purchased in paper at Amazon; or google"discussion groups of Michael material". It has been very useful to me and perhaps you will like it too.It cured an acute case of alienation blues that I was going through by making it easy for me to understand how I fit in with everyone else, and to be able to see the behavior patterns of souls at different levels so I could understand and keep away from, or deal with effectively, without becoming judgmental. The younger souls may be difficult or obnoxious or even dangerous but so were we all at those ages and it's nice to be able to understand inexplicable behavior which we would never engage in and rather than wonder at our difference, just escape and chalk it all down to experience. Like the Seth material it's best to ignore the group "stuff", the spirit writing is continuous and you can always get back to anything of interest. I SO hope you like it.
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Dixon, you sound so angry and just waiting to tell who ever they are wrong. There is a balance out there that you may want to find. You are angry and show it in your words, now try to find the opposite. You might like being happy.
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Oops, my messsage got cut off. Here is the rest.
. Religions have unfortunately put the emphasis on a heaven yet to come and how to get there (mostly by grasping THE truth that they espouse) but often try to do it without learning about love which means kill the infidels or burn the witches or kill the Christians or kill the non-Christians. Unfortunately, love is a word that has been overdone and misused to the point that people just roll their eyes and dismiss any talk about it. Love isnt something you define, it is something you either are or you are not. Whatever your archetype or mission or expression of life, if it is done in love it will be done the most perfect way. If not, it will not carry the impact or results that it otherwise might have. IMHO (in my humble opinion) that is. ;)
Thats MY truth and so it is!
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Uma, you did an excellent job of presenting the different "souls". Your presentation was very thorough and done with clarity. Thanks.
Dixon, many of us here disagree with your truth but most of us dont care what you believe. What we react to and care about is what seems like your superior attitude as the truth carrier NOT your beliefs. We react to your putting down people you disagree with. Cant you just accept yourself as you are and others as they are without thinking you have to launch a crusade against all infidels? Sound like some other branch of believers we have all heard of. Dixon you think you are a hammer and everything is a nail. Isnt there more to life than that? Sorry fellow but your yammering is only getting on peoples nerves and isnt convincing a one of us (except those who see things as you do) that we need to hop on your bandwagon. What the heck is the point???? Stop it already please. Let it be, let it be, let it be. Love ya guy. ;)
Now, MY souls purpose seems to me to learn the hardest lesson for any human to learn and that is the lesson of love. It seems to me that the primary thing Jesus tried to teach ( and Jesus wasnt and isnt the only one) is that one thing. If you get that, then the rest falls into place where it should be. Religions have unfortunately put the emphasis on a heaven yet to come and how to get there (mostly by grasping THE truth that they esp
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3 Priest souls; link the ALL THAT IS and the people, having the need to link heavens and earth, doctors, artists, merchants, mothers,dancers, that is the dominant need and pleasure.Scholars; are very neutral towards the rest of the world, their pleasure and need is in solitary study and preservation.Artisans; complete pleasure and drive is in how things work concretely, perfection of form to purpose.Sages; are communicators,the center of attention, they love the interplay with audience, pleasure is in performance.Warriors; are the most aggressive. They must move forward,battle and create change,whatever walk in life they must lead the charge and that's where they are happiest. It's easy to see how these roles play themselves out and that how by understanding them see how to place ourselves in them. For instance, there is a Belly Dancer: If a king; the Mata Hari type using the dance as vehicle for intrigue and action, a priest; she dances as sacrifice to bring heaven to earth, a scholar; her true interest is in finding, restoring, and saving all the forms of the dance,artisan; performance is just the period at the end of the sentence,all that matters is practice and perfection that is where her joy is, sage;is the perfect performer, everything that matters exists in the interplay with the audience,warrior; is aggressive and brave, she dances to raise spirit, servitor; dances to please and takes pleasure in the giving. Whatever your chosen role this should tell you your type.
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2. The personal arch-type is the one that has governed your fantasy as a child and that you have been moving towards all your life.When a group of souls emerges from the great Tao there is a role in the group that that entity will always have and amongst all the transience of earth experience it is the one constant.It will always be part of one's persona throughout the SYMBOLIC 7x7 lives, matriculating in accelerated spiritual growth program University Earth. The seven roles that our souls fill are:King,Priest,Sage,Artisan,Warrior,Servitor,and Scholar.Thusly we get to refine our learning and proficiency from life to life.It takes many lives to produce a Leonardo DaVinchi,or any of the other jewels of human history, while we get to experiment with all the different potentials and challenges of all personality types;returning never the same but yet the same being:Kings are concerned with world events and there are the least of them since least needed. A king soul may never actually be a king or ruler of any type but will do everything with the prime focus of how it will play out on the world stage. Servitor souls are the largest group because they take pleasure in smoothing the way for others and are the most useful.The smallest groups are king priest and scholar, they are least needed,the largest are servitor, warrior,sage and artisan. It's easy to determine your own role because it has to do with what you are always attracted to and gives you the most pleasure.
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Let me add that "faery tales" are also valid to our species. They date from ancient times, the grim tales of the brothers Grim; and they are very grim.Forms considered suitable for young eyes during the 19th century were sanitized and these are the stories we are mostly familiar with; but earlier, during the dark ages of western europe while a mini-ice age lay across the land children were not protected from any kind of horrific images.During the long winter nights,with the tale running to rape and murder and cannibalism, no one said "hush the children are listening". No one would think to do so because that was the way things were and survival was a challenge shared by all.These are cautionary tales to teach behavior likely to lead to success dealing with the strange and different;the walls between the worlds were thin and other intelligent races than humans shared the space.When confronted by faery, in any form, with what could switch from ordinary to strange and perilous in a flash, these tales taught how to behave.Good manners always saved the day because that is how very different peoples can get along. Jung considered the people in the faery-tale arch-types also;there are the wise fool, the champion, the witch, and so-forth and we see them among us now. Myths are pagan scriptures, even in the christian world they were considered teaching sources up until the industrial revolution when factory and foundry filth drove faery away and newly land poor struggled to survive.
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