16 Mar How To Access Your Inner Magician To Enable You To Thrive (Its Time To Learn To Use Your Mind)

So, we have identified that The Magician Archetype is the Archetype responsible for creating the survival patterns in our minds. This is because the Magician Archetype essentially is a metaphor for our minds. Not to be confused with the full scope of our psychological make up. Our minds are a huge processing centre and its role in all this should in no way be under estimated. 

But in the role of The King Archetype we discover our Sovereignty – in The Warrior Archetype we find our will to take action, to set boundaries and to protect our physical and psychological space and in The Lover Archetype the internal drive to connect; be it with the world out there or within, with ourselves or with others.

All these and more make up aspects – ‘parts’ of who we are which need to be considered when creating an internal dialogue with ourselves in order to go from surviving to thriving. 

For example the needs, wants and desires of the Lover within and the acquisition of their needs, wants and desires is going to have a great impact upon whether or not we consider the lives we are living to be surviving or thriving.

Likewise if we are able to muster the will from within our Warrior to make changes to our lives we can begin to create lives for us which have meaning to us and break the patterns of survival mode living and lay the foundations of an existence transcendent of any limitation which upbringing and psychological limitations have sought to set for us.

But to get this dialogue going we need to embody our Sovereignty. Our Sovereign right to exist without apology or justification. The patterns our mind usually makes in survival mode put our Sovereignty into shadow in one of two ways, either through inflation or deflation. 

So, we either over compensate for a sense of power and presence we don’t intrinsically feel by beefing up our machismo. Or we abdicate our right to sovereignty and in order to ensure our existence doesn’t ruffle any feathers or disturb anyone around us, we play small, deflating ourselves for fear lest our head appear above the parapet and be lobbed off.  

Neither of these approaches to life are fulfilling, or representative of the truth. In fact in many ways living like this creates dishonesty. We lack genuinity when we approach life from either of these angles first of all because our sovereignty is in fact – a fact. However, it is up to us to claim this as fact and operate from this internal awareness in our day to day interactions. 

Society at large, friends and family, bosses, politicians and religious leaders often have a vested interest in you staying ignorant of your sovereignty so there is collusion to keep human beings stuck in limiting paradigms which do not make for a life of thriving. I mean employers don’t need you to recognise your full value and worth, otherwise they may not be able to indefinitely employ you to do whatever menial task that they have you doing for the pittance they pay you. 

Your survival mode living suits a lot of people just fine. However, doing the work is all about addressing those internalised frustrations which have been left to permeate and characterise our lives and make us miserable.

The misery we experience living unexamined lives is not a small matter. A broad brush look at the statistics of men’s suicide rates, not to mention the rates of men hurting and killing others, or ending up incarcerated or diagnosed with some sort of mental or emotional disorder is immence. 

So misery is not arbitrary, it has an agenda and we do ‘the work’ to address the pain points in our lives. 

However, suffice to say; many of the pain points which we perceive to be external, as we do the work we discover to originate within, from the place which only we have authority over, our internal psychological landscape. Therefore, it is our responsibility to see where we are sabotaging ourselves by continuing to allow our lives to be framed by narratives which are out of date, perspectives and ways of looking at the world and our place in it which keep us stuck in a survival framework incapable of enabling us to unfold, to blossom and to thrive in the many wonderful ways we can when we are unencumbered by the baggage of outmoded programs from our vulnerable and infantile past.