04-07-2013: ARISTO ON ARCHETYPES: HEALING THE PSYCHOPATH
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Channel: paradoxman316 · 2013 · Education
Aristomenes Papageorgopoulos wrote: "Some corrections. The topic was unrehearsed so I didn't do any research. The versions I read back in the day (to my mind and off the top of my head) mentioned Haroun Al Rashid as being the monarch who chopped women's heads. Apparently, it is someone else, fictional, but still an archetype reflected in history. These wiki links will put things into perspective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahry%C4%81r#Shahry.C4.81r. The Arabian Nights are explained more accurately here, but I think I communicated the gist of it. The king's psychopathic response was not inherent, but caused by his experiences with female infidelity. The shadow element of his response is, however, connected to the anti-female atrocities of fanatics in the Middle East funded by western psychos. Still, Scheherazade was the woman who used archetypal engagement to heal that deep wound, which was my point. And she took 1001 nights to do it by most accounts (which is over three years). She did not tell that many stories, however, but extended each tale over several nights, cutting them off with a cliffhanger as the articles say. Although I wasn't accurate in the details my point remains: archetypes are powerful resources and food for the soul and manifesting capacity. Note: you can use the above clarifier in the blurb if you like. And thanks for asking for the references. I wouldn't have made the corrections if you hadn't." Here's more info from Aristo: http://www.candlelightstories.com/storybooks/the-arabian-nights/; http://www.candlelightstories.com/2009/03/27/arabian-nights-introduction-by-andrew-lang/. How the stories begin: http://www.candlelightstories.com/2009/03/27/arabian-nights-prologue/. Here are podcasts of some of the tales: http://www.storynory.com/category/fairy-tales/1001-nights/. The prelude tale: http://www.storynory.com/2010/08/09/the-1001-nights/. We take so much for granted where such stories are concerned. Yet, like religious parables they expertly address our visible human nature and experience, while pointing for those with ears to hear at many elements of the invisible and esoteric wisdom. This wisdom is kept occulted or so they say. Yet it is through all these little recognized stories that it is right there under our noses, like so much of what truly matters in this world.
