The Law of Responsibility

[rva_jeremy]

What I do know is that I have spent a lot of this thing called time contemplating the archetypes, and meditating upon them, because it was my understanding that it was the most difficult to understand piece of the Ra material, so I wanted to learn so that I could teach. I guess it is a little hard to hear that my efforts are not welcome here, and I took that probably a bit more personally and harshly than I should have, which likely closed my heart chakra a bit.

Jade, I want to first say that I find your analysis of the archetypes quite valuable.  Specifically, I think you are a voice crying in the wilderness on important concepts like the feminine archetype that are extremely sensitive to talk to about.  They speak to some of the most fraught patterns of thought in our complex.  Heck, they speak to some of my most abject distortions.  

It's most uncomfortable to hear when it cuts closest to my fears, hangups, and frankly just the nasty side of me--and it can be tough to afford those ideas the appreciation that they are richly due.  You would be wrong to interpret all resistance to your insights as evidence of a misstep.  In these particular matters, I think you should rather interpret the resistance as evidence that you're hitting lots of nails on their head.  That must be frustrating!

It's something that prevents me from doing much public, conversational analysis of archetypes with others.  Because they go to the root of our thinking and the identities and ids we build around that thinking, one should expect any extended analysis of archetypes, especially involving any other person, to get personal, and quickly at that.  I think this is why those of Ra have always stressed a personal, intimate interpretation of the archetypes: it's hard enough to be naked in front of oneself, let alone others.

Yet it's clear to me that we all need a "boost" to get to the point where we are having personal resonances of the archetypes with which we can work.  We need some sort of guidance to decode the parameters with which we can make interpretations.  Indeed, those of Ra invited this sharing of Don's musings with readers and guided Don when his "subjective" interpretations were off.  So it's not entirely personal; it does benefit from some sort of discussion.

I don't know how to thread that needle between what lends itself to discussion and what lends itself to solitude.  But I do know that it's a difficult thing you're attempting to do, and when we're in a discussion like this, all parties ought to be extremely mindful that the subject of archetypes is a hall of freaking mirrors.  There is nothing more "meta", and it surprises me little that the way it is discussed would become the subject.

Anyway, your insight is appreciated, and I think perhaps all that is needed in addition is just an understanding that this is sensitive and personal, so that we can help each other navigate the channel.