Archetypes

DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY (ARCHETYPES): - "All materialthings. Their language is connected as is the Rh
bodies are condensations of frozen bodies." (2) Jungfactor in the blood. It is rare and traceable to Iberia,
is becoming 'in vogue' again, I hear. Perhaps this time(the one between the Black and Caspian Sea) and
around it won't just involve so little real appreciationthe Mayan. They also seem to have lived in harmony
for all that he meant and understood. Dreamuntil the Norman or other conquests were occurring
interpretation and projected Western values can be ain Europe. Needless to say the conventional wisdom is
Freudian gambit - Jung grew to see things few willtrying to paint them as sacrificers of barbaric
ever admit to in the present ideologies of the West.proportions, but that too can be traced to Moshe (as
He was able to contact the future before the Firstin Moshe Rabbenue) and European influence and
World War and it almost convinced him he was mad,practice. There is no doubt in my mind that the
until he saw his visions were right - then he knew itnature and archetypes of the Mayan culture make it
wasn't himself who was mad - it was the world heclear there was a long tradition of harmony and
lived in! His archetypes may be a contact with theawareness of the ego and its conflict that adds so
genetic 'history book' that the Director of the Humanmuch negative inputs to our shared experience with
Genome Project talked about recently when henature. I like the words of the following author who
announced that only 2.8 centimetres of 1.8 metres ofhas lived in the lifestyle or with these people even
a gene are required to make the human being. Itmore than I have."Even though the Mayan temples
might be a collective 'tap-in' or even the 'medullabecame overgrown with jungle lushness, the Mayan
oblongata' has the ability to record the knowledge ofbeliefs have survived. Because of their togetherness
previous evolutionary experience of man'sall these years and their deliberate lack of contact
development. Personally I feel it is a matter of somewith the Spanish, the Mayans have managed to
of each of these things and the factors relating topractice their beliefs and practice them today almost
chaos and the interference of conflicting vibrations oras they did thousands of years ago." (4)The Mayans
wavelengths in the confusing array of bandwidthssay we should be careful and observe our
and personalities.The 'archetypes' and our dreams areinvolvement with nature and the progressions of
definitely important to our discovery of what the souldifferent forces. They say: "Do not put yourself, in
and oversoul is trying to achieve. Our consciousfront of your SELF!" Most people are unable to quiet
waking experiences are far too influenced bytheir mind and keep order in their memory and recall,
convention and peer pressures or the five senses, todue to a lack of proper tools (like Ars Memoria, in the
differentiate the ego's interest from the purpose we'Symbols and Concepts section') and the spiral of
are here to explore and refine. Is there a connectioneducational inputs that have no flow and fit. If we
between the archetypes and the helical structure ofhave a through-line of purpose and ethic these
all the naturally occurring paradigms like time,problems of the busy-mind disappear and a greater
harmonic building blocks of one dimensional force,sense of mental and other well-being permeates our
nanotubes, DNA and telomeres, etc.? Is thatlives. The Mayan are naturally this way and if
structure part of a form which is unique to the earthWestern Man succeeds in abusing them with greed
experience or does it have close corollaries in otherand need then it will be a greater loss in my heart
parts of the universe? We are on the verge ofthan I wish to bear.The inner questThe tradition of
breaking down the insights of intuitive attunedvision, and the inner quest by the shaman, the Druid,
masters of the philosophies that are aware of thethe saint or the holy man, seem to be connected at
ego and its NEEDS. Soon the Eastern mystics andspecific places where the energy forces of the
shamans of the world will be universally appreciated, Iplanet are located {In the microcosm of our mind or
hope. Their ethic is a clear requirement to explore ifthe macrocosm of the universe, too.}. The Celtic and
we are to begin the 'New Age' in a position to makepre-Celtic shaman, the living embodiment of the
the most of all that can be! It might be required bycollective psyche, was the link with the ancestral
other life forms we call alien before we are allowedspirit world. He performed the ceremonies connected
to participate in the cosmos and its order. That wouldwith the dead, and the annual rites of renewal on
be great!"When I go past the dark alleys andbehalf of the living. The age-old communal tomb
passages of my mind, I come to the core of mywhich was the source of his power {Like relics of the
Being. - At the core of my Being I am in touch withCatholic Church. The lattices of the DNA archetypes
the light and the love and the knowingness that areand stone enclosures were designed to house the
inherent properties of my natural state." (3)One offorces of personal and tribal attunements.} was the
the outcomes and plans involved in the rape andplace where the forces of heaven and earth could
pillage of aboriginals and nature-worshipping culturesmeet. The vulva-shaped megalithic dolmens from
around the world was a history that injected war intoCornwall and India show how widespread was the
the lives of the Mayans. Personally I have a hard timeancient belief in the burial receptacle as a womb-place
accepting that the 'missionaries' of the Keltic/Toltecof the Earth Mother and the Other-world. These
or Druidic tradition that are reported in the storiestombs were usually constructed with giant stone
about Kukulcan and Quetzacoatl were responsible.slabs forming a chamber and a trenched passageway,
However, they were probably accompanied by thosethe gaps filled with dry-stone walling and covered by
members of their society (or followed by) whoa great mound of earth. Dolmens, quoits and
brought the mindset of European power-mongerscromlechs are the remains of the original chambers.
and aristocrats. I can see where the OstrogothsNatural caves and artificial chambers cut into the rock
disappeared to and it wouldn't surprise me if thewere also used.The block of sandstone, 28 ft. (8.6
Sybarite/Milesian faction had ousted other 'Bruttii'm) long, which is called the Dwarfie Strane, is an
before the 6th century BC., who found their way toexample, unique in Britain, of a rock-cut chamber. It
the Upper Mississippi area of the Great Lakes beforemay have been used for meditation or initiation; for
moving south to the more extensive mounds they'at each end is a bed and pillow of stone capable of
built.There is mounting evidence that the Basqueholding two persons, with a hole above to admit light
played an important part in the Mayan scheme ofand allow smoke to escape'.