Amir’s Reviews > King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine > Status Update

What is true within each man’s psyche is true in the panorama of history and cultures as well.


اینجا رو بهش می‌گم خط زرد. استفاده از شواهد تاریخی که‌ مربوط به زندگی جمعی انسان هاست برای تقویت استدلالهایی درباره‌ی روان فردی انسان ها همون چیزیه که یه کتاب روانشناسی رو تبدیل به یه اثر زرد می کنه. و اتفاقا اکثرشون میل عجیبی به گذشتن از این خط دارن.

God wanted to believe that everything he had made was good, but then, after all, he had made evil and hung it on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Satan, in the form of the serpent, was determined to expose the shadow side of this “all-good” creation. He succeeded through the “fall” of Adam and Eve. Only after Satan had exposed the evil in creation—and, by implication, in the Creator —could honesty begin.

In order for Man psychology to come into being for any particular man, there needs to be a death. Death—symbolic, psychological, or spiritual—is always a vital part of any initiatory ritual. In psychological terms, the boy Ego must “die.”
The old ways of being and doing and thinking and feeling must ritually “die,” before the new man can emerge.