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Therapies
There are many different therapies available. Many of them can be used individually to great effect, although they can all be combined and used to compliment each other.
A brief description of many of the therapies offered by our members is given below.
Archetype Therapy
The Study of Sacred Contracts is a way of exploring the different psychic fields between FATE and DESTINY
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Archetypes - An Individual Blueprint of Life Direction
There is a stage during our lives that we reach, where the search for meaning prompts us to ask: Do I have a destiny? What is my purpose in life? Or: Where am I going? To answer these questions and more we need to:
* Identify the patterns from your history that contribute to your current behavior,
* Cross match this information to archetypal patterns
* Then use this information to create a blue print of your life's journey, effectively a map that can add meaning and deeper self understanding.
On a physical level, archetypes are roles that we play seemingly without choice, contributing to the depletion or enhancement of our energy reserves.
On a soul level archetypes become individual expressions of our character. As we assert ourselves as individuals, we develop our strengths, become aware of our weaknesses and so create more scope for choice in life.
On a transpersonal, spiritual level they represent challenges we have overcome in order to strengthen our connection to the life force itself. According to our perspective and awareness of our own archetypes, all levels of our well being will be affected by these patterns: physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
Archetypes As Defined By Carl Jung
The Archetypal Patterns The Nature of the Archetypes Dreams and myths are constellations of archetypal images. They are not free compositions by an artist who plans them for artistic or informational effects. Dreams and myths happen to human beings. The archetype speaks through us. It is a presence and a possibility of "significance." The ancients called them "gods" and "goddesses."
What then is an archetype? Jung discovered that humans have a "preconscious psychic disposition that enables a (man) to react in a human manner." These potentials for creation are actualized when they enter consciousness as images. There is a very important distinction between the "unconscious, pre- existent disposition" and the "archetypal image." The archetype may emerge into consciousness in myriads of variations. To put it another way, there are a very few basic archetypes or patterns which exist at the unconscious level, but there are an infinite variety of specific images which point back to these few patterns. Since these potentials for significance are not under conscious control, we may tend to fear them and deny their existence through repression. This has been a marked tendency in Modern Man, the man created by the French Revolution, the man who seeks to lead a life that is totally rational and under conscious control.
Where do the archetypes come from? In his earlier work, Jung tried to link the archetypes to heredity and regarded them as instinctual. We are born with these patterns which structure our imagination and make it distinctly human. Archetypes are thus very closely linked to our bodies. In his later work, Jung was convinced that the archetypes are psychoid, that is, "they shape matter (nature) as well as mind (psyche)" (Houston Smith, Forgotten Truth, 40). In other words, archetypes are elemental forces which play a vital role in the creation of the world and of the human mind itself. The ancients called them elemental spirits How do archetypes operate? Jung found the archetypal patterns and images in every culture and in every time period of human history. They behaved according to the same laws in all cases. He postulated the Universal Unconscious to account for this fact. We humans do not have separate, personal unconscious minds. We share a single Universal Unconscious. Mind is rooted in the Unconscious just as a tree is rooted in the ground. Imagine the Universal Unconscious as a cosmic computer. Our minds are subdirectories of the root directory. If we look in our personal "work areas," we find much material that is unique to our historical experience--could only have happened to us--but it is shaped according to universal patterns. If we humans have the courage to seek the source to which our "account" belongs, we begin to discover ever more impersonal and universal patterns. The directories of the cosmic computer to which we can gain access are filled with the myths of the human species.
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