http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes
2007-12-07 08:37:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, never really liked the whole idea of "Archetypes"
2007-12-07 08:40:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jung's theories about Archetypes were important to me when I was transitioning into Paganism from Christianity, as it helped me make the leap out of Monotheism and into Polytheism. But now, not as much. I call myself a "Hard Polytheist," which means I believe in the Gods, I believe in many Gods, I believe that they are personalites seperate from each other, and I believe that they are entities external from me. I still believe in "archetypes" to some extent, but I see them as bridges in our minds between us and the Gods. So, the Gods are there, they are Real, they are not just figments of our collective imaginations. But within the anatomy of our minds, the Gods have left their mark. So, the Archetypes are not the Gods, but they are means by which we may know the Gods.
There are some Pagans who see the Gods as merely being Archetypes, and there are some Pagans who see the Gods as being different aspects of One God. As for me, I am a Polytheist.
2007-12-08 06:23:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that gods are archetypes--as did the Neoplatonist Plotinus and other philosophers ancient and modern. I think that the intellectuals among ancient peoples (east and west) viewed their gods as archetypes but that this way of thinking was lost when the Judeo-Christian idea came into play as the dominant cultural idea in which a legendary story about a prototype was accepted as an historical fact. Pedestrian religion and spirituality --even that of neopagans-- conceive of spiritual entities as "real" and distinct from their own selfs. In my own work as a spiritual practitioner, I have found the other to be "true": gods, spirits, etc., are archetypes arising in (human) consciousness.
2007-12-07 08:49:23 · answer #3 · answered by philosophyangel 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-14 19:30:07 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The gods are gods, not archetypes, aspects or thought forms.
They are gods.
Jung was an atheist who believed gods were shared constructs of the collective mind. In other words, if there were no people, there'd be no gods.
If I believed that I'd just worship tinkerbell. Clapping is really easy.
2007-12-07 09:21:18 · answer #5 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Funny you should ask. Actually, the conflict between Odin and Loki is the quintessential example of the archetypal battle between our everyday reason (Odin), and the chaotic, shadow side ro our nature that we keep hidden (Loki).
To quote Jung himself "Archetypes are like riverbeds. The longer water has flowed in them, no matter how long it has been absent, it will always find its way back to that same bed."
2007-12-07 09:27:16 · answer #6 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Carl Jung's archetypes don't play into my personal view. However, I do understand how he came to that theory.
2007-12-07 08:59:09 · answer #7 · answered by Kallan 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Negative.
The gods are not archtypes, they are the gods. They exist seperately and on thier own. No I can't prove it but I am going off of about 10k years worth of the my ancestors beliefs. I assume they did it right. *G*
2007-12-07 09:41:22 · answer #8 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
They don't appear in my journeys
2007-12-07 08:54:58 · answer #9 · answered by Tommy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋