ARCHE AS MONAD

THE ARCHETYPE IN CULTURE

Arche-Type - TYPE as in TYPO-GRAPHY.   Existence as a Printing Press.

This brings us to the association of 'imprinting' The 'arche' prints its own type. The archai imprints. 'Type' as Jung uses it, is rather like type as in the old metal types used in printing.  The old metal type Guttenberg used, was bound together with copper wire. This 'copper' is Venus. Again and again, one comes to the intuitive realization that...various routes...the revolving door archetype.  See Guttenberg article. 

But particular deities who, like Venus, are inherently composite and contrarious contain multiplicity within their own natures and are hence not agonized when their power is spread out, or paired with that of other deities in a new combination. Wind, Pagan, p.138. 

Take the Oxford Dictionary, and read through ALL the words that start with: ARCH. 

After all, one can pour a cup of water into the sea, but one cannot pour the sea into a cup.

I think many people use the word, when actually they mean stereotype. 

Types, as in printing press, the typewriter. Perhaps the Tarot is an archetype-writer.

Typology. As in the typology of insects and human sexuality that Dr. Kinsey indulged in.

And so on. For example there was no separation between astronomy and astrology, between alchemy and chemistry 

     And I believe that we layer our own contemporary interpretations, ideologies and theologies on the way that Renaissance thinkers, or creative types may, or may not, have set about consciously  creating the Tarot. Some individuals have the absolute audacity to suggest that the Tarot has nothing to do with Astrology, and others fulminate that Alchemy has nothing to do with Astrology or the Tarot. And as for the Kabbalah, one might as well leave that in the Ghetto! In South Africa we called this apartheid -  a crime against humanity, and the Tarot is not a system conducive to  iron curtains. As long as we herd each of the Major Arcana into concentration camps of ‘meaning’ we will suffer the consequences of typological consciousness.

In Tibetan Buddhism, the evidence is that the archetypes are constellated, that is to say, they  float through individual and collective memory in clusters, rich in relationships and details. Very few of us have had the time or the courage to plough through the Collected Works of C.G. Jung,  where we will see the process of enrichment that unfolds as Jung explores the archetypes in ever expanding detail. I have spent 30 years on Alchemical Studies and Psychology and Alchemy and I am still none the wiser. This is the way we should approach the Tarot. Some Tarot decks are very impoverished because they lack this richness of detail, or lack the triggers to set the imaginal process in action. From rags to riches, or riches to rags, it is all there, and you are free to start from the Head or the Tail.

 So at the end of the day, I have settled for the word ARCANA, plural, and ARCANUM, singular. And I know that it is very unfashionable to say so, but these 22 Arcana, are still Mysteries, not Mystifications!

this idea of a Bindu   is both Hindu and Buddhist . . .

In Tibetan tigle is also the sperm its the most nuclear form of existence its the form in which existence in a biological sense, packs itself up into this minutely condensed shape. But the seed contains the totality of the programme. we say it is a metaprogramme. it is metaprogrammatic. this is another very important area because it brings us to the most nuclear form of the archetype. you know, I would like to also like to amplify this because the seed in the right conditions, for instance with moisture and darkness is then amplifies to the tree or it becomes the flower or it becomes the elephant or it becomes the human being or it becomes the snake. These programs all emanate from these arcs each one has its own arc - and even their are arcs on a higher level - archetypes on a higher level, planetary or solar or whatever - Greek mythology consists of a sequence of arcs, archetypes but there is a lot in Greek mythology to do with these nucealer forms - in the sense of the generation of the gods - how the Gods the gods are conceived there is a seed teaching within Greek mythology and in Kabala as well there is a seed teaching - so it is this light that I view the word arc as in archetype. In one sense it is the most nuclear form and then that nuclear form is then fanned out or emanated outwards into its display mechanism -I call it. I was very influenced by Dr John Lilly, who wrote the book called 'Metaprogramming the Human Biocomputer' He also wrote another book called 'The Centre of the Cyclone' - a film was made about it. He talked about these seeds or these arcs in a sense of the Greek Pluto (Plutonic) because Pluto is the area in which we store the seeds, we store the seeds in a subterranean matrix. This is like a grain silo - its a place to keep the seed, in a pot But then he called it a display mechanism he said that the seed actually comes out from its dense concentrated form to its projected form. He used the word projection. It then becomes projected. And that projected form is representational. The representational form is possibly what Jungians call the archetype. for instance as a deity. A deity is a representational form - it has a face and arms, maybe many arms, and maybe many heads - but and maybe its thereomorphic - maybe it has a horses head - we know the theromorphic forms - but its nuclear form, its archetypal form, is abstract. Which is a bindu. Its just a dot. So in my system of analysis there are two polarities - the abstract nuclear - which I consider to be the profound form of the arc - and then the representational, display, projected form - which is the outer form of the arc. Are you with me. So it has these two polarities. And this we have to understand to understand the material we are going to use today on Dionysus. It is a very synthesized language and it has been built up over thirty years of research - and I feel, for me - the most important thing is that I can only give you the research that I have done - but YOU are going to use that material - the material is yours to be - I might produce the seed here - I might give a seed - but you are the richness of the soil in which the seed must take its own form. I am merely a transmitter. That seems to be my function. I do not know what I am saying - because you are the most important factor. You will then be able to make it experitial and Until we se up a dialogue present some material.

This is the material that I would like to share.

Now the next point is that as a Buddhist we look at it this way - I cannot see how you can heal people without again placing the process of healing within an extraordinarily wide existential frame of reference - my teacher says you will not heal any people of any mental illness - at the ground level, the urgrund level - this ground - you have to heal the existential ground - the suffering of sentient beings emanates - that final process - everything is a part of that process - the process is healing the existential fragmentation - the ultimate error in believing in an ego or a self - the ultimate sickness is the belief in an ego - and there will be mo healing until that ill=ness is healed - heal is to make whole - to make whole is a religious unification - now we are in the reaches of the divine union - the ultimate marriage beyond duality - this and that - as therapists - business - pays the rent - but have to play it within religious - Jung wore on his left hand a ancient Gnostic ring. Direct transmission - something came through him in a way - Jung was part of a Hermetic renaissance - a global matrix - again we have to place these things within larger and larger frames of reference until then are no frames of reference - spaciousness - it is sometimes translated as no- thing - ness.Dinge - things as such - the suffering with things. That's my introduction. Those points make me - feel easier to continue - if you have not resonated with it

NTR - ARCHAI - Therefore an Archai is a Tree shorn of its branches!

Argus the builder of the ship Argo is identified with Argus (...Greek...), the eponym of Argos, by..." Cook, Sky Gods, p.265. As A.B. Cook points out, the Argo had a keel of oaks from the sacred Oak Forests of Dodona. And Dodona had a spiritual connexion with Siwa. We are pointed back in time, to a possibly early migration by sea.