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Carolyn Myss on Power, Purpose, Archetype and Accountability
June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: Kathleen Daniel
If you know Carolyn Myss, you know that she’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Author of Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing, and a book on the life of mystic Teresa of Avila, she’s uniquely capable of incisive thinking on profoundly mystical subjects. In Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can, she explores “woundology’ – a term she coined to describe how some people wear illness as a badge to navigate life – without a shred of sentimentality. Always outspoken, she takes people to task for being more attached to seeking answers, or healing, than to taking responsibility for making hard choices and needed changes in their lives. Which is to say, if you’re looking for milk and honey, don’t click on this CMED link to view her new work based on Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential. It’s the introduction to a workshop intensive called Archetypes, Medical Intuition and the Twelve Houses of the Mind. It’s vintage Carolyn, brilliant, and powerful. Here are a few paraphrased nuggets that gave me unique food for thought:
* The more psychic baggage you carry, the longer you have to wait for anything in your life. You are pulling a hologram of history. To move forward, you need to bring all of your energy into present time.
* You can’t just name your purpose, because purpose is a mystical idea, but you can perceive it. Also, (as Carol Adrienne says), your purpose is not only one thing.
* The idea that you heal automatically when you have an insight into your past is akin to magical thinking. You need to move from the darkness into your graces. It requires a different kind of energy to break through into present time.
* When marriages fall apart, it’s a collision of mythical archetypes saying, ‘hey, this isn’t the way the script for my myth was written.”
* Frustration is good, passivity is bad. Your frustration may be alerting you to an archetypal power shift, a shift in roles.
* A job doesn’t bring power to effect change, it’s about survival. When people begin to seek more power, they sense its limitations and begin to seek meaning and purpose. It’s the beginning of a yearning to be called, and it usually arrives in the form of a crisis.
