Summary of James Hollis's Prisms

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 When we come to our end, if we are conscious, will we wonder what our journey was about. Will we perseverate over the mistakes, the roads not taken, the woundings. Or will we remain curious, tracing what was unfolding from within us all the while.
#2 The human ego is a thin wafer floating on an iridescent ocean. It can so easily be engulfed by the billows around it, but it arrogates to itself a privileged position, fancies itself a sovereign in a world of lesser beings, and makes large choices having large consequences.
#3 When we are confronted with an insurgency from within at midlife, we must not down an analgesic pill or seek a guru through whom we might find clarity and direction. Instead, we must turn within and pay attention to the thoughts, feelings, and images that flood us.
#4 The other is other, and not necessarily a friend of ego comfort or predictability. The call of the Other is often intimidating and even frightening to the ego world, but it carries the imperative and agendas of nature and divinity, and must be followed.

Sujets

• Psychology
• Human development (biology)
• Aging
• Developmental
• Adulthood

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 04 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669399940
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on James Hollis's Prisms
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

When we come to our end, if we are conscious, will we wonder what our journey was about. Will we perseverate over the mistakes, the roads not taken, the woundings. Or will we remain curious, tracing what was unfolding from within us all the while.

#2

The human ego is a thin wafer floating on an iridescent ocean. It can so easily be engulfed by the billows around it, but it arrogates to itself a privileged position, fancies itself a sovereign in a world of lesser beings, and makes large choices having large consequences.

#3

When we are confronted with an insurgency from within at midlife, we must not down an analgesic pill or seek a guru through whom we might find clarity and direction. Instead, we must turn within and pay attention to the thoughts, feelings, and images that flood us.

#4

The Other is other, and not necessarily a friend of ego comfort or predictability. The call of the Other is often intimidating and even frightening to the ego world, but it carries the imperative and agendas of nature and divinity, and must be followed.

#5

The archetypes are transpersonal and link us to all of humanity. They serve as a template and an umbilical bloodweb into the substrata of nature itself. They are energies in service to nature's purpose, not the ego's.

#6

The archetypal imagination is the process by which we create our own sense of structure, meaning, and purpose out of the evanescent forms of things. It is our unique gift to the world.

#7

The Great Mother is an archetype that is recognized through its incarnation in a form available to consciousness, but it is not created by individual consciousness. It is a patterning process that varies greatly, but its form is universal.

#8

The archetypal imagination is common to all humanity, and it is through this imagination that we are able to connect with the larger forces outside our powers and in which we daily swim.

#9

The archetypal imagination is what we bring to help order history’s disheveled table. It is not about us, but it is most uniquely us in the end. We carry it. It is implicate in all living things.

#10

We all have a calling, an energy that was meant to be embodied. We are the humble instruments to bring it into the world.