King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
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King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
The Precocious Child in a man keeps his sense of wonder and curiosity alive, stimulates his intellect, and moves him in the direction of the mature magician.
The Magician, then, is the archetype of thoughtfulness and reflection.
True humility, we believe, consists of two things. The first is knowing our limitations. And the second is getting the help we need.
His control is, first of all, over his mind and his attitudes; if these are right, the body will follow.
His energy comes from envy. The less a man is in touch with his true talents and abilities, the more he will envy others. If we envy a lot, we are denying our own realistic greatness, our own Divine Child. What we need to do, then, is to get in touch with our own specialness, our own beauty, and our own creativity. Envy blocks creativity.
For every child, from a developmental point of view, Mother is the goddess and Father is the god. Boys who are too bound to the Mother get hurt.
we have to take responsibility for what we’re not responsible for.
One of the hardest things to do as a counselor or therapist is to get clients to separate their Egos from their emotions without at the same time repressing the emotions. There is a really good psychological exercise for doing this that can help; it’s called focusing, originated by Eugene Gendlin. We ask our clients, when they sense the onset of st
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