The Soul's Code

Your SQ governs your mythology – the unconscious contours of the longing of your soul to return home.

In The Soul's Code, Mr. Hillman introduces the concept of the daimon. Daimon is a Greek word. The equivalent term in Latin is genius. Both words refer to an inhering spirit. We are born, each of us, (says James Hillman) with our own individual daimon. The daimon is our guardian. It knows our destiny. It kens our calling.

Renowned psychologist James Hillman, in his ‘acorn theory,’ suggested that each person has a call: an often-obfuscated but passionate idea of what her life is meant to be, just like an acorn holds within itself a blueprint of the oak it’s meant to become.

Just the way a seed holds inside it the potential to become a tree, every human being has a soul that holds inside it a vision of a future self. But that vision won’t emerge by itself. Your soul has to be trained until it is strong enough to have an impact on the world.