![]() Archetypal energies can be notoriously destructive, and yet they also hold the treasure of life’s deep meanings and purposes, and are responsible for the world’s greatest works of art and creative expression. ![]() They are powerful multidimensional forces that can overtake one’s state of consciousness, flood one with emotions, images, and somatic sensations, and possess an entire culture or epoch. ![]() For the archetypes that Jung helped the modern age become aware of are not just concepts, dry intellectual abstractions. ![]() We need what James Hillman called “an archetypal eye” with which to discern the patterns and powers that inform both the larger zeitgeist of the collective psyche and the unfolding experience and life challenges of each individual. Seldom has an age been so profoundly in need of critical insight into the underlying forces at work in the human psyche and their role in shaping the historical moment the world finds itself in. ![]() The archetype is not just the formal condition for mythological statementsīut an overwhelming force comparable to nothing I know. Archetypal Patterning and Archetypal Cosmology for the 21st century ![]()
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