Working with archetypes (prematurely)

[Cobrien]

Not sure what you mean by 'spiritual capabilities', if I get your jist I agree. Agree, living consciously has a built in feedback.  Regarding working alone, in a ritual, not a good idea (Exception of self transformations). Not, however, as a general rule of spiritual development.

The last bolded quote, 'a point at which the adept takes up its work', useful.  Due to a mess of emotions clarity is impossible at the archetypal level to the beginner. 

May as well, OP follow the training program laid out and practice the healing exercises.

O guess about the "overestimation of spiritual capabilities" when working alone, its more about:

When you are working alone, spiritually, you dont have any feedback from "outside".
It is very hard then to realistically estimate one's state or stage of spiritual development.

Since we have a "built-in" aversion to deal with uncomfortable states, many tend to think of themselves as pretty advanced in healing and spiritual development.
"I am alteady there" is the best means to avoid all the inpleasant stuff.

When we get together with other seekers, in a real life setting i mean, we can much better judge where we stand, since we have somebody to compare, and also somebody who can give honest feedback.

I think thats what plenum was saying.

I would fully agree on this.

I found healing is the core of spiritual evolution, i would even say there is no evolution without healing.
And from my own experience and from observing all the seekers i know in real life, healing is not a matter of months or a few years, but rather decades.
On the intermet however i met many people who are convinced to be really far along the road and mostly done with healing, while pretty obviously they barely scratched the surface.
Its hard to get a realistic picture without being able to compare and without honest feedback from outside!

Sounds good. I can remember telling myself over and over I was gonna love. When you realize love is the very focus of self awareness things change, gradually.

Internalization is the only method to polarity. How you react to the influx of energies is constantly tested.