“…the archetypal energy of The Vampire has exploded into the consciousness of our current generation.” 

I have been a fan of author Carolyn Myss since reading her first book  Anatomy of the Spirit back in the mid-90s.  Her clear, humorous, no nonsense style of communicating attracted me—but it is her constant reach for deeper levels of awareness and spirituality that makes me her student.  This last week I listened to a recent lecture she offered on the Internet.  During the talk Myss pointed out that the world we live in is both physically and spiritually “on fire,” and that one of the best ways to learn to navigate this new world was to learn how to use archetypes.  Regardless of whether you’ve heard of Carolyn Myss before, or the “why” of archetypes, a couple of her ideas stuck out that I felt were worthy of discussion.  The most important of those were how a couple of today’s common archetypes are a reflection of life in the 21^st Century and what that means to you and me. [Read more…]