What if the increasingly disruptive external circumstances in the world are just a mirror of the ennui we’re feeling internally?

Sogyal  Rinpoche spoke of the necessity of dethroning the rational mind when he  said, “The ordinary mind has a false, dull stability, a smug and  self-protective inertia, a stone-like calm of ingrained habits.”

Like  most of us, Richard Tarnas initially thought that evolving one’s  consciousness involved ascending a very tall cognitive ladder with  graded hierarchical steps that represent successive developmental stages  in which we solve increasingly challenging mental riddles. In the words  of Joseph Campbell, he was mythically challenged. Upon studying with  leading-edge thinkers and depth psychologists he began a holistic view  of understanding the world which drew on archetypes. As he puts it:

“Our  worldview and cosmology, which defines the context for everything else,  is profoundly affected by the degree to which all out  faculties–intellectual, imaginative, aesthetic, moral, emotional,  somatic, spiritual, relational–enter the process of knowing.”

The  journey of individuation known as the hero’s journey begins with the  archetype of The Fool, also known as the jester, trickster or dummling.

Looking  at real life examples, fictional ones as well as our personal  experiences with the archetype, we won’t be taking a dry, abstract  approach but one that is alive and practical in application.

Illuminating  concepts are balanced by an immersive and collaborative employment of  life story exploration and authentic relating.

Working with an  intimate group (maximum of 10 participants) the intention is to develop  an ongoing support circle as we each hold space for and assist in the  midwifing of one another’s aspirations and self-actualisation. Lunch and  dinner are provided.

Stories have always been the most powerful  tool in assisting us to bypass the conscious mind to strike us in our  gut, or heart centre. Capturing the transformative nature of archetypal  understanding, Caroline Myss said:

“If you know your archetypes -  and not just yours, if you know how to perceive the world in archetypes,  through archetypes - everything changes. Everything. Because you have  two things: you can see through one eye which is impersonal, and through  the other, which is personal. That's the way the game is written down  here.”

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