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More Jungian goodness from 'Like Stories of Old'
Just musing this morning over coffee:
From being around or in numerous occult orgs and groups, and even starting a couple, I learned to beware of people who deliberately or unconscionably assume these roles for you. They can take on the role of what Jung called the ' Mana Personality', while maybe useful in the short term (which I question) it can limit your own growth from taking on the same role, and deny yourself access to this Archetypes.
In the groups I started I worked to keep myself humble and very much human-sized. They fell apart because the occult usually attracts people looking for other people to take a strong hand with them, if only to overwrite the bad strong hand they were raised under. Not my style. There are many people who need a Father figure (or Mother figure in pagan groups) , and I feel bad for them, but that's playing with fire, often resulting in a power imbalance that can create an social environments for exploitation.
Orders, covens, the "elder" in your tradition will often exploit this. Just beware the power you see in them is you own power, projected onto them. Not in a 'LHP' vampire "energy" sense, these are deep psychological structure that bridge to the Divine worlds. They are not the Divine, they are reflections in our monkey meat brains , but also drive us. You must own them yourself and reclaim them from people you have given them away to. That said, we can share.
Final thought. To those in occult leadership positions, please, be kind to the young folks.
The best leaders are those who work to make organizations that can survive without them.
See also
The construct of the 'mana personality' in Jung's works: a historic-hermeneutic perspective. Part I
Just musing this morning over coffee:
From being around or in numerous occult orgs and groups, and even starting a couple, I learned to beware of people who deliberately or unconscionably assume these roles for you. They can take on the role of what Jung called the ' Mana Personality', while maybe useful in the short term (which I question) it can limit your own growth from taking on the same role, and deny yourself access to this Archetypes.
In the groups I started I worked to keep myself humble and very much human-sized. They fell apart because the occult usually attracts people looking for other people to take a strong hand with them, if only to overwrite the bad strong hand they were raised under. Not my style. There are many people who need a Father figure (or Mother figure in pagan groups) , and I feel bad for them, but that's playing with fire, often resulting in a power imbalance that can create an social environments for exploitation.
Orders, covens, the "elder" in your tradition will often exploit this. Just beware the power you see in them is you own power, projected onto them. Not in a 'LHP' vampire "energy" sense, these are deep psychological structure that bridge to the Divine worlds. They are not the Divine, they are reflections in our monkey meat brains , but also drive us. You must own them yourself and reclaim them from people you have given them away to. That said, we can share.
Final thought. To those in occult leadership positions, please, be kind to the young folks.
The best leaders are those who work to make organizations that can survive without them.
See also
The construct of the 'mana personality' in Jung's works: a historic-hermeneutic perspective. Part I