Episode Seven: What Is an Archetype?

We’re getting deep today, exploring the great psychologist Carl Jung’s concept of the Collective Unconscious and the archaic “super-personalities” that dwell there — the Archetypes.

The Divine Child, the Virgin, the Wanderer, the Lover, the Mother, the Warrior … on up to the King, the Queen, the Sage, and the Mystic.

Yes, you and I are governed by these (and empowered by them), even though they reside in a precinct of the psyche that we can only access through dreams and visions, intuition and insight.

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