“Archetypes are original patterns, subtle transcendental forms that are the first forms of manifestation. Radiant patterns, audible illuminations, brilliantly colored geometrical shapes and luminosities, rainbows of light, sound and vibration out of which the world of manifestation and the material world condenses. Archetypes are large mythic containers of consciousness that are the structural energetic form behind the manifested form in physical reality. Archetypal energy heals, catalyzes and transforms at a vibrational level of consciousness that goes beyond what the mind can cognize.

Archetypes function to assist us in looking at our lives from a much larger, more mythic and spiritually expansive perspective, than our ordinary ego’s day to day view of the self. In virtually all cultures, there are about twenty to twenty three mythic, archetypal containers of divine consciousness. These archetypal containers, when looked at as a whole, provide a patterning of consciousness, a blueprint for spiritual evolution. These archetypes can be seen in Tarot archetypes, Jungian archetypes, Mayan archetypes and many others. Archetypal forms remain constant as an energet6ic pattern of consciousness, regardless of how the individual form varies from culture to culture or time to time. These archetypal containers rise up from the collective unconscious, especially in the drama of the life of humans, making their presence known and felt as spiritual reminders that we are more than we seem in daily life.” Ariel Spilsbury

“You may begin to sense these transformative energies in many ways such as a sensation of acute expansion or a feeling of energy, heat or electricity pouring into the top of your head, neck back or in other specific places in your body. You may feel a tingling in your third eye. Or you may experience a pronounced shift in perception in vision, cognition or feeling. You may experience disorientation or suddenly changing reference points, which for some may create what I have fondly termed “cosmic car sickness.” You may get a feeling like catching your breath as if startled, or a deep sense of recognition in your heart or solar plexus. Don’t be concerned at these acknowledgments of archetypal presence just relax and breath more deeply.”  Ariel Spilsbury

“The partnership of archetype and human being is one that mystics and poets have long known, for myths and archetypes communicate from the poetic level of mind, allowing nature to speak to the imagining soul rather than just presenting us with scientific laws and probabilities. This poetic mind is of a higher order of coherence because  it has color, aesthetic form, rhythmic relationship. It belongs to a finer frequency of the mind-brain continuum. Indeed, evidence exists that in certain states of consciousness, the mind-brain system appears to move into a larger wave resonance, a frequency that may itself be nested in a continuum of mind beyond the field of the experiencing body. In this state, mystics and highly creative people come back enriched and enlivened to do or think remarkable things. When we meet myths and archetypes in this state, we can speak directly to the inner imaginal realm in which mind, nature and spirit converge and our highest potentials become available to us!.” Dr. Jean Houston