Everything is prepared for you. Your path lies straight ahead.
Sometimes it is invisible, but it is there.
It is not the path chosen, it is the path laid out.
You don’t know where it leads, but you must follow it. It is the path to the Creator. It is the only path that exists.
The Pact with the Spirit
The pact with the Spirit is the tacit agreement between the self and that which is greater than the self: the Spirit, destiny, the soul, wisdom. This pact often involves an inner transformation, where the acceptance of trials becomes the fertile ground for wisdom.
The promise is not made outwardly, but responds to the call of our own spirit. The individual becomes the channel of the Spirit, acting according to their most intimate truth, while being deeply connected to what transcends them.
This pact connects us to invisible forces that help us discover our vocation, find our place in the world, and reconnect with what binds us to others and the universe as a whole.
The Memory of the Soul to be born
“For centuries we have searched for the right term for this ‘call.’ The Romans named it your ‘genius’; the Greeks, your ‘daimon’; and the Christians, your guardian angel. The Romantics, like Keats, said the call came from the heart, and Michelangelo’s intuitive eye saw an image in the heart of the person he was sculpting. The Neoplatonists referred to an imaginal body, the ‘ochema,’ that carried you like a vehicle. It was your personal bearer or support. For some, it is Lady Luck or Fortuna; for others, a genie or jinn, a bad seed or evil genius. In Egypt, it might have been the ‘ka,’ or the ‘ba,’ with whom you could converse. Among the people we refer to as Eskimos and others who follow shamanistic practices, it is your spirit, your free-soul, your animal-soul, your breath-soul.”
— James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
What is this inaudible voice that guides? Some call it God, intuition, third eye. Some hear it, others hide it.
We forget what we once knew as a soul to be born, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to remember it.
The transformations we experience throughout our lives serve the dual purpose of helping us remember what we have forgotten and preparing us for our journey back to our Creator, our Creatrix, our Heaven.
Life here is a journey back to that primordial state, a path of redemption or return to the source. It is where I must go. It is what I must do. It is what I Am.
Personal transformations are catalysts helping us rediscover the forgotten memory of our divine essence.
The path of intuition bestows blessings. Intuition gives existence to what must be and keeps alive all that is perceived. In perception sleeps the Truth of Imagination.
Each change, each trial, each joy – plays a role in this awakening process. A process of rediscovery through which we find our true nature, the one that is directly linked to everything we were destined for.
Each of us is a stone to be polished to enter the architecture of the world.
Reconnecting with the lost primitive self, often suppressed by cultural and societal expectations, is a reclamation of what we are. Myths, symbols, and archetypal stories help us access our unconscious depths.
It is called the deep voice of the soul or our forgotten traced destiny. A passage through the bowels of the World, through the bowels of our psyche.
You cannot see the light without the shadow,
you cannot perceive silence without noise,
you cannot reach wisdom without madness.
It is not by looking at the light that one becomes luminous, but by plunging into its darkness. But this work is often unpleasant, and thus unpopular.
[Jung]
The Shadow and Individuation
“Meaning is invisible, but the invisible is not contradictory of the visible: the visible itself has an invisible inner framework, and the invisible is the secret counterpart of the visible.”
— M. Merleau-Ponty, Working
The shadow is the invisible veil behind which a darkly splendid world of instincts, fantasies, and untamed drives slumbers, capable of creating all sorts of ecstasies. More importantly, the shadow is imbued with raw life, fueling individuation when embraced correctly.
The shadow reveals parts of ourselves we wish to conceal. Repressed aspects confront us with our imperfections, our vulnerability.
In this sense, the shadow brings humility. The Latin root of the word "humility" comes from "humilis," meaning "low" or "modest." This term is related to "humus," meaning "earth" or "ground," suggesting the idea of being low or close to the earth, symbolizing modesty and recognition of one's place in the world.
In this context, the shadow connects us to our own grounding. It is dangerous to detach ourselves too much from our shadow, for we then lose touch with our roots.
When we engage with our shadow, we realize that it is often not as dark as we feared. The primal instincts that reside within us find symbolic expressions, allowing these energies to have a place both inside us and outside us.
Dancing with the shadow is glorious freedom, liberation from constraints. This fire needs a refuge, a space to exist.
We need the shadow to reach our own individuation. We need the shadow to attain our completeness.
As Joseph Campbell said, "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."
"I must have a dark side also if I am to be whole; and since I became conscious of my Shadow, I also remember that I am a human being like any other."
— Carl Jung
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Michael Meade, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, 1996
Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1961
Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 1949
James Hillman, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, 1996
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