A New Republic of the Heart by Terry Patten

Author:Terry Patten
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781623170486
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2018-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

Discovering and Transforming Your Archetype

How can you come to know the narrative thrust and arc of your own life? You begin by awakening beyond your narrow preoccupation with petty egoic concerns. But that is just the first step. What follows is a visioning process in which you allow your soul, or daemon, to assert its dominion over your destiny, and to connect you with your collective soul destiny.

You begin this process by dropping down into whatever it is that glows in your bone marrow, and asking from the heart, and from the very depth of your being, for help with aligning you to your soul, to help you learn to hear its voice. Knowing that you cannot come to know its unique contours simply via awakening as wholeness or the aliveness of pure awareness (as absolutely essential as that is), you begin to feel into the pulse of the sap that rises through your body and soul. You wait to hear a new, deeper, previously hidden voice. You ask, and then you fall silent and faithfully keep a vigil of listening, until you are able to discern the still-small voice of your soul.

You open your feeling further, to learn what is being said to you by the DNA of the protoplasmic informational energy that surges, nurtures, and replenishes your very consciousness, the actual nerve spark in your cerebrospinal fluid. Your soul or daemon is recognizable because it speaks in chorus with your heart and blood. Life wants to live. That which has always animated evolutionary emergence is still alive in you and wants to keep evolving. And it has a particular way it wants to more fully express this right now through your body, your emotions, your mind, your imagination, your relationships, and your creativity.

Metaphors that make vivid the journey from your “current way of being” to your “new way of being” are part of the transformational process as it is taught by New Ventures West and by Integral Coaching Canada.46 The new metaphor provides the vibrational signature through which we can attune to, resonate with, and embody our next higher possibilities. In coaching, new “capacities” are methodically cultivated. But the work derives a great deal of its efficacy from the ease with which the body and imagination can feel and inhabit a clear role in a story. This is why inhabiting a metaphor or an archetype is a skillful way to elicit our best capacities.

Such profound transformation ripens over time, and deeply. As Carl Jung wrote, “I ask myself what is the myth that you are living and I found that I did not know. So I took it upon myself to get to know my myth and I regarded this as the task of tasks. I simply had to know what unconscious or preconscious myth was forming me.” Likewise, in Integral Soul Work we ask: What is really going on? What archetypal stories am I enacting in my life? Generally, we come to realize that we have been

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