For those long wearied by what has become the typical hyper-intellectual, guessing game and deductive reasoning approach to the Archetypes, I recommend reading this particular Q’uo session to get a sense of a far better way of approaching this topic–in my anything-but-humble opinion!
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When you feel that you may perhaps have evoked or become part of the archetypal part of the human experience, that does not mean that you have moved from humanhood to an archetype. It means that you have hollowed yourself with enough clarity, honesty and purity that you have made room within the dedication of your seeking for your experience to be filled with the resonance that moves from finity to infinity, from specificity or locality to universality or non-locality.
Becoming an archetype is a kind of knowing that does not depend on fact, detail or learning. Touching into the archetypal is touching into the entirety available within specificity. It is certainly not available consciously or by the application of learning or analysis. Archetypal truth is essential, and as several have suggested throughout this weekend, that which is archetypal remains forever mysterious, so that it is by your being that you explicate and bear witness to that which is pure or purified within you.
This instrument would call this purified substance feeling or emotion, and we would agree that these are the words closest to describing those rivers of energy that water the land of archetypes, that rich, mountainous treasure trove in which one range leads to another and to another and to another in an unending set of discoveries and realizations.
That which is magical within you awaits your choice. Let us look then at the nature of the choice before you and the resources with which you meet it.
I really love this quote. It made me wonder, though, if ‘a non-linguistic approach’ might be an even more accurate way to describe it than ‘non-intellectual’? It feels like there is still a massive amount of intelligence involved in connecting with an archetype, it’s just not the calculating, word-based kind. It’s an emotional intelligence that permeates reality in itself.
Wait. Are you inviting an intellectual conversation about this.?
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I guess we have little choice about that in this context, but the main point, as I see it, is the idea that talking about it, the intellectual study of it, does not move us closer to experiencing it. It only let’s us talk about it, perhaps with more clarity about the outer, untouched aspects of it.
The experience comes after “hollowing” the self with humility, love and unflinching honesty, particularly, I would throw in here, when it comes to the matter of self-worth. These are all functional perceptions of the inner self, not the intellect.
To your point, Raz, “non-verbal” might be a better descriptor. I chose the one I used above just because soooooo much weight has been given over many years to analysis and other 3D methodology to supposedly explore this topic, when the essence of it, as described above, is known through an intuitive awareness of how infinity interpenetrates the seeming finite. Or, to put it the other way around, the functional awareness of how the seemingly finite is actually abundantly pregnant with infinity.
A good example of this is THIS very moment. At this moment, your/my/all-of-our highest and best selves are looking on and smiling at us. Please take a moment to smile back at them.
I appreciate the irony of using a text based medium to discuss moving past a verbal approach!
Your declaration about naked self-awareness is beautiful, and it makes me consider the nature of words in this context. Even in the practice of hollowing ourselves out, linguistics can still be of service as navigational tools for our awareness. They provide direction and focus, even if they aren’t really ‘saying anything’ about the actual essence we are directing them towards. Words are wonderful tools for organizing our attention, I have come to consider the key is in refraining from imposing their significance upon the phenomena we are pointing them towards.
This reminds me of a discussion we had in another thread, a quote from there with a slight variation:
intelligence is not intelligence, it’s just called intelligence
Yes, when we’re in the position of standing on the outside and trying to hollow out our inside, words can help us organize our thoughts about the process. But when we are sitting on the inside and the energies of Creation are slipping around us, an intellectual perspective is more of a habit than anything particularly helpful. When, through great purity of intention, one stands at the gateway of transcendence, facing a more pure version of self in spirit form, intellectual comments are actually not helpful. Communication is less with words at all, but through deep feeling. Can you put yourself there and feel that? Words are second rate here because one’s impulse is not towards personal expression. It is merging as an expression of–and discovery of–self and being.
That’s why the message above was about a “kind of knowing that does not depend upon fact or detail.”
Imagine that to which you could truly and completely surrender your entire being. Is that really a time for discussion or even personal expression? The whole point is the experience of that which is bigger than and beyond the small self. So, why talk about it? Live it. (“…he said.”)
Sure, that’s fair. I am being persnickety about the overall approach–intuitive versus analytical–and your particular case, you are flexible and sensitive to the point where you can flow in whatever way the moment may suggest. You know, like, just “living it,” so to speak.
