Applying Ancient, Universal Archetypes To Modern Day Civilization And Self Actualization

Infowars talks about the 5 Archetypes Lurking in Modern Day Madness, which he breaks  down into categories, that may be worth looking at; 

ZOMBIES/VAMPIRES

Cognitive abilities; none

Moral compass/group influence; none

Desired agenda; self

Worships; nothing

Typical dress; rags or whatever works

When you are not looking, they will; feed off of you, suck your energy, financially drain you, maybe even eat your face off

Project Paper Clip; CIA Smuggled In And Hired Thousands Of Nazis And Hundreds of War Criminals To Develop US Nuclear Industry; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/04/project-paper-clip-usa-imported-and.html

The Nuclear Industry Cult Of Death and Global Armageddon; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-nuclear-cult-of-death-and-global.html

5 Global Life Extinction Risks And Solutions For Them; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/dr-helen-caldicott-md-on-nuclear.html

DENIERS

Cognitive abilities; medium to low

Moral compass/group influence; whatever their group tells them; followers, even onto death. 

Desired agenda; get along, fit in, deny anything that disagrees with group think and 'normal'

Worships; wealth, fashion, cars, and 'normality', whatever is on mass media is 'god'

Typical dress; trendy, business casual

When you are not looking, they will; spread false gossip about you, and deny truth.

Top 100 Global Warming Denialist Groups Are ALL Funded By HUGE Corporations; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/06/top-global-warming-denialists-funded-by.html

What Is The Matrix, And What Does It Mean To Take The Red Pill?
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/08/what-is-matrix-and-what-does-it-mean-to.html

SOCIOPATH/NARCISSIST

Cognitive abilities; high

Moral compass/group influence; chaotic

Desired agenda; revenge, mass death, nuclear war, Armageddon, genocide, death, destruction and killing of perceived 'enemies' that oppose their world view or them personally

Worships; Self, possibly also small special group that also 'believes' exactly the same way

Typical dress; rags, executive, casual business, new age, whatever works for small group

When you are not looking, they will; molest your children, and/or stab you in the back, cause you to lose your job, and then climb over the top of you to grab the goodies you just lost because of their lies about you

How To Spot A Sociopath Or Psychopath - 10 red flags that could save you from being swept under the influence of a charismatic nut job; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-spot-sociopath-10-red-flags-that.html

Sociopathic Nuclear Industry; Ex Fukushima Engineer Confesses; No Cold Shutdown, Warned of Tsunami 20 Yrs Ago; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/ex-fukushima-engineer-confesses-no-cold.html

SCHEMER

Cognitive abilities; high, all about winning through secrecy, manipulation, lies and deception

Moral compass/group influence; blood and family, no one else, mafia type organization, top down structure

Desired agenda; total domination by any means

Worships; power, top down control, may use occult, and/or religion and/or money, and/or nuclear/atomic energy or other monopolistic and/or deceptive business practices to win at any cost

Typical dress; various, but business suit is common

When you are not looking, they will; steal your money, your rights, your freedoms, and your pension, and then steal or buy off the election and control media through whatever means to gain MORE power and influence, plus money. There is never enough, by the way.

Art And Science Of Deception; Global Corporations And The 1%
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/p/corporations-art-and-science-of.html

PROTECTOR

Cognitive abilities; varies widely

Moral compass/group influence; Golden Rule, works from the heart

Desired agenda; ending suffering, justice, peace, harmony, love

Worships; various; universal force for good, spiritual, Oneness, God, karma, pagan, bottoms up control, metaphysical, self actualized, self aware, does no harm

Typical dress; varies widely

When you are not looking, they will; secretly donate food to the local food bank, or do selfless good works, and in highest form, thinks about effect of actions on seven future generations.

The Universal Golden Rule; Moving Towards A Global Ethic; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/golden-rule-moving-towards-global-ethic.html

Where would you say the nuclear industry fits into the above 'modern civilization'  archetypes? Some would say that these are not archetypes, but rather personality disorders, and they may be right. So if the above examples are mostly personality disorders, what is an archetype? 

Underneath it all, any archetype is a very simplified look at who we are as people. No one fits 100% into any one archetype 100% of the time, and even if a person does fit on archetype at one point in their lives, they may change into another archetype within a certain period of time, given some 'maturing'  or evolving. There are some universal archetypes that cross most, if not all cultural and religious boundaries.

According to Wikipedia; "Jung described archetypal events: birth, death, separation from parents, initiation, marriage, the union of opposites; archetypal figures: great mother, father, child, devil, god, wise old man, wise old woman, the trickster, the hero; and archetypal motifs: the apocalypse, the deluge, the creation.

Although the number of archetypes is limitless, there are a few particularly notable, recurring archetypal images, "the chief among them being" (according to Jung) "the shadow, the wise old man, the child, the mother ... and her counterpart, the maiden, and lastly the anima in man and the animus in woman".[10] Alternatively he would speak of "the emergence of certain definite archetypes ... the shadow, the animal, the wise old man, the anima, the animus, the mother, the child".[11]

SELF

The Self in Jungian psychology is one of the Jungian archetypes, signifying the unification of consciousness and unconsciousness in a person, and representing the psyche as a whole.[1]The Self, according to Jung, is realised as the product of individuation, which in his view is the process of integrating one's personality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_in_Jungian_psychology

SHADOW

The shadow is a representation of the personal unconscious as a whole and usually embodies the compensating values to those held by the conscious personality. Thus, the shadow often represents one's dark side, those aspects of oneself that exist, but which one does not acknowledge or with which one does not identify.[12]

ANIMA/ANIMUS

The anima archetype appears in men and is his primordial image of woman. It represents the man's biological expectation of women, but also is a symbol of a man's feminine possibilities, his contrasexual tendencies. The animus archetype is the analogous image of the masculine that occurs in women.

WHAT IS AN ARCHETYPE?

Any attempt to give an exhaustive list of the archetypes, however, would be a largely futile exercise since the archetypes tend to combine with each other and interchange qualities making it difficult to decide where one archetype stops and another begins. For example, qualities of the shadow archetype may be prominent in an archetypal image of the anima or animus. One archetype may also appear in various distinct forms, thus raising the question whether four or five distinct archetypes should be said to be present or merely four or five forms of a single archetype.[12]

Archetypes are innate universal pre-conscious psychic dispositions that form the substrate from which the basic themes of human life emerge. The archetypes are components of the collective unconscious and serve to organize, direct and inform human thought and behaviour. Archetypes hold control of the human life cycle.

LIFE PASSAGES

"The archetype is a tendency to form such representations of a motif - representations that can vary a great deal in detail without losing their basic pattern ... They are indeed an instinctive trend".[16] Thus, "the archetype of initiation is strongly activated to provide a meaningful transition ... with a 'rite of passage' from one stage of life to the next":[17][18] such stages may include being parented, initiation, courtship, marriage and preparation for death.[19]

PSYCHOLOGICAL ILLNESSES

Melanie Klein: Melanie Klein's idea of unconscious phantasy is closely related to Jung's archetype, as both are composed of image and affect and are a priori patternings of psychewhose contents are built from experience.[20]

Many archetypes have been used in treatment of psychological illnesses. Jung's first research was done with schizophrenics. A current example is teaching young men or boys archetypes through using picture books to help with the development.[24] In addition nurses treat patients through the use of archetypes.[17]Archetype therapy offers a wide range of uses if applied correctly, and it is still being expanded in Jungian schools today. With the list of archetypes being endless the healing possibilities are vast.

ARCHETYPES IN FILM/MEDIA

Archetypes abound in contemporary films and literature as they have in creative works of the past, being unconscious projections of the collective unconscious that serve to embody central societal and developmental struggles in a media that entertain as well as instruct. Films are a contemporary form of mythmaking, reflecting our response to ourselves and the mysteries and wonders of our existence [25]

HERO

Contemporary cinema is a rich source of archetypal images, most commonly evidenced for instance in the hero archetype: the one who saves the day and is young and naive, like Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, or older and cynical, like Rick Blaine in Casablanca. 

MENTOR

The mentor archetype is a common character in all types of films. They can appear and disappear as needed, usually helping the hero in the beginning, and then letting them do the hard part on their own. The mentor helps train, prepare, encourage and guide the hero. They are obvious in some films: Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio, Obi-Wan, and later Yoda in the original Star Wars trilogy.

SHADOW

The Shadow, one's darker side, often associated with the villain of numerous films and books, but can be internal as in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The shapeshifter is the person who misleads the hero or who changes frequently and can be depicted quite literally e.g. The T-1000 robot in Terminator II. 

TRICKSTER

The Trickster creates disruptions of the status quo, maybe childlike and help us see the absurdity in situations, provide comic relief; e.g. Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back, Bugs Bunny and Brer Rabbit. The Child often innocent; could be someone childlike who needs protecting but may be embued with special powers e.g. E.T. The Bad Father - often seen as a dictator type, or evil & cruel e.g. Darth Vader in Star Wars. The Bad Mother e.g. Mommie Dearest, along with evil stepmothers & wicked witches. The Bad Child; e.g. The Bad Seed, The Omen.

Jung saw that “feminine” and “pagan” contents on the rise in the Western psyche and felt that the task of individuation involved resisting these collective forces and developing a critical response to them. Pagan longings, gnostic impulses, and unorthodox spiritual strivings have been repressed for hundreds of years in the West.[26]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes

THE FOUR DIRECTIONS

In many or most global aborigine cultures, archetypes are seen differently. For example, the four directions are archetypes for them, with attendant Beings who have great powers. In more civilized areas, the four directions mean nothing other than north, east, west and south are compass directions. To anyone other than an aborigine, talking about or using the four directions for anything other than finding a place to go with a compass or a GPS would be seen as a silly superstition. 

Wikipedia; "The Mandé creation myth is the traditional creation myth of the Mandé peoples of southern Mali. The story begins when Mangala, the creator god, tries making a balaza seed but it failed. Then he made two eleusine seeds of different kinds, which the people of Keita call "the egg of the world in two twin parts which were to procreate".[1] Then Mangala made three more pairs of seeds, and each pair became the four elements, the four directions, as corners in the framework of the world's creation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mand%C3%A9_creation_myth

The four directions are even mentioned in the Bible; "According to the verses in Ezekiel and its attendant commentaries, his vision consists of a chariot made of many heavenly beings driven by the "Likeness of a Man." The base structure of the chariot is composed of four beings. These beings are called the "living creatures" (Hebrew: חיות hayyot orkhayyot). The bodies of the creatures are "like that of a human being", but each of them has four faces, corresponding to the four directions the chariot can go (East, South, North and West)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkabah_mysticism

Wouldn't you agree that we all have many parts, and many mysteries within us? There is no one alive on Earth that does not have some darkness inside, which could even be unconscious. Every person also has a mysterious something that can be discovered within, that would be within the realm of mysticism, or metaphysics. 

Everyone is made up of many archetypes that Jung describes; father, mother, child, devil, god, wise old man, wise old woman, trickster, and hero. Everyone likes to think of themselves as nothing but the best, but they end up expressing some unconscious darkness in one way or another within the space of a lifetime, even if they do this unconsciously and deny it later on if confronted with it.

Life is all about archetypes.. We play roles in our lives and switch archetypes frequently. Everyone is born and becomes a child archetype, and then eventually also becomes an elder, possibly wise. There are no limits on the number of archetypes, as Wiki points out. You could say, there are as many archetypes as there are people on the planet.  Archetypes are often an unconscious motivator of peoples actions. If a person's needs were not met as children, that person will act out that need as an adult. If someone was abused as a child, that person will have a high chance of acting out on that abuse as an adult and become one of those deniers, sociopaths, zombies or schemers.

SYSTEM ARCHETYPES

Addictions are another archetype group. If a person is not creating more love, beauty, peace, and harmony while living their passion and doing no harm, odds are that this person is addicted to something unhealthy, like drugs, alcohol, power, money, sex, shopping, science, or whatever. Due to a general lack of real agape love in the world, there is no lack of addictions in the world either.

System archetypes are patterns of behavior of a system. Systems expressed by circles of causality have therefore similar structure. Identifying a system archetype and finding the leverageenables efficient changes in a system. The basic system archetypes and possible solutions of the problems are mentioned in the section Examples of system archetypes.[1] A fundamental property of nature is that no cause can affect the past. System archetypes do not imply that current causes affect past effects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_archetype

ARCHETYPE OF SELF ACTUALIZATION

Within the mystical and metaphysical communities there are many ways to approach and interpret inner experiences that lead to self actualization. In the Christian community, Christ Consciousness would be called an Archetype. In the Buddhist community, Buddha mind would be called an Archetype, and so on, through all religions and spiritual paths.. All religions and spiritual paths all lead in one way or another to an inner state of self actualization. Of course, this label is almost meaningless, because one does not 'arrive' at a destination. It is much like trying to describe God. How does one describe infinity? It is impossible, so the only way to get an idea of what this is all about is to actually experience it.

For more information on self actualization, click on;

Beyond Maslow's Hierarchy; From Survival To Self Transcendence via @AGreenRoad 

http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/every-person-has-set-of-needs.html

The more conscious a person can become of their archetypes and true inner motivations, both conscious and unconscious, the more consciousness that person will tend to have and the more self actualized they will become. The more inner experiences one has, the more consciousness one will have as well, as a general rule. Modern civilization that is not based on happiness as a primary goal may have more unhealthy archetypes than healthy ones. In a society where archetypes revolve around happiness, relationships and spirituality the archetypes tend to be more positive and sustainable ones. 

A good goal may be to integrate some of the universal archetypes into all religions and work on building interfaith relationships between diverse religions, because underneath it all, they have much more in common than they believe. 

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Applying Ancient, Universal Archetypes To  Modern Day Civilization And Self Actualization; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-archetypes-of-humanity-and-of.html

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