Introduction to Tarot, Qabalah and Archetypes
Summary
TLDRThe video script delves into the complexities of Kabbalah and Tarot, emphasizing their multifaceted nature and the challenges in understanding these subjects due to their intricate symbolism and historical evolution. The speaker discusses the different interpretations of Kabbalah, including the Western magical tradition, Jewish mysticism, and early Christian Gnosticism. They highlight the Tarot deck's connection to the Kabbalistic Tree of Life and the Hebrew alphabet, noting the Western magical tradition's unique approach to these systems. The script also addresses common misconceptions, such as using Tarot for fortune-telling, and instead promotes a deeper exploration of archetypes and personal development through engaging with these esoteric traditions.
Takeaways
- 📚 The study of Kabbalah is complex and has no single starting point due to its multifaceted nature involving various traditions and interpretations.
- 🌐 The internet has made it easier to access information about Kabbalah, but it also means there's a lot of misinformation and varying perspectives.
- 🔮 Kabbalah has different streams: Jewish, Christian, and Western magical tradition, each with unique applications and interpretations.
- ⚖️ The Jewish Kabbalists focus on the Old Testament for hidden meanings, while Western magical tradition uses Kabbalah as a framework for organization and understanding.
- 🌟 The Tree of Life or Sephiroth in Kabbalah is a system of organization that can be used to categorize experiences and archetypes.
- 🃏 The Tarot deck, while separate from Kabbalah, has evolved to include symbolic representations that can be connected to the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
- 🔵 The Moon card in Tarot is associated with intuition and the subconscious, and navigating through illusions and superstitions it represents.
- 🏛 The Tower card symbolizes the loss of the false self and liberation, often through traumatic experiences that lead to personal growth.
- 🧠拱 The blending of intellect (associated with the Sephira Hod) and creativity (Netzach) can lead to a more unified and enriched internal world.
- 🔥 Archetypes are expressions of deeper, ineffable concepts and are best understood through the study of classical stories and spiritual texts.
- 🚫 The speaker is critical of those who misuse Tarot for fortune-telling and those who misrepresent or misattribute their work on archetypes and metaphors.
Q & A
What are the challenges in starting to learn about Kabbalah?
-Kabbalah is a complex set of material with many facets, features, dimensions, and applications. There is no single good place to start learning about it because wherever you begin, it presupposes knowledge of something else.
How did the speaker initially get involved with Kabbalah?
-The speaker first started learning Kabbalah and magic as a student, when they were more interested in these subjects than in their assigned studies. They read many different books, gradually accumulating an understanding over time.
What are the three versions of Kabbalah mentioned in the transcript?
-The three versions of Kabbalah mentioned are: Kabbalah with a 'q' which is the Western magical tradition, Kabbalah with a 'k' which is the Jewish Kabbalah, and Christian Kabbalah which is an early Christian interpretation.
Why does the general population in Israel often regard mystical Kabbalists as fringe figures?
-In Israel, mystical Kabbalists are often seen as fringe figures or 'nut cases' because their practices and beliefs are not aligned with the mainstream views within the society and do not carry high status.
How does the speaker describe the evolution of the Tarot deck?
-The Tarot deck evolved from a collection of different elements, likely through games and methods of communication involving symbols and storytelling. Over time, it started to become a visual documentation of symbols, drawing on archetypes, and eventually solidified as a system that could be attributed to the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
What is the significance of the Tree of Life or the Sefirot in Kabbalistic tradition?
-The Tree of Life, or Sefirot, is a system of organization that represents objective external realities (the Sephirah) and the subjective paths connecting them. It is used to categorize experiences and archetypes, serving as a 'filing cabinet' for organizing concepts.
How does the speaker view the use of Tarot for fortune telling?
-The speaker does not give any validity to the use of Tarot for fortune telling or divination. They express frustration with the common association of Tarot with fortune telling, which they feel misrepresents the deeper symbolic and archetypal nature of the Tarot.
What is the importance of archetypes in the context of Kabbalah and Tarot?
-Archetypes are important because they represent universal patterns and concepts that resonate with people across cultures and time. They are used in Kabbalah and Tarot to organize and interpret experiences, and to create a deeper understanding of human nature and the world.
How does the speaker describe the relationship between Kabbalah, Tarot, and personal development?
-The speaker describes a recursive relationship between Kabbalah, Tarot, and personal development. By understanding the symbolism and archetypes in these systems, one can use them as tools for self-exploration and personal growth, going beyond traditional therapeutic models.
What is the significance of the Hebrew letters in Kabbalah and their relation to Tarot?
-The Hebrew letters in Kabbalah are significant because they are believed to have been used by God to create the universe through speech. In the context of Tarot, the Hebrew letters correspond to the Tarot trumps and the paths on the Tree of Life, providing a mystical connection between language, symbolism, and the divine.
How does the speaker feel about the modern interpretation and commercialization of esoteric subjects like Kabbalah and Tarot?
-The speaker is critical of the modern interpretation and commercialization of esoteric subjects. They express concern about the misrepresentation and dilution of these subjects, particularly when they are reduced to mere fortune telling or superficial art without a deeper understanding of the underlying symbolism and traditions.
Outlines
📚 Introduction to Kabbalah and Tarot
The speaker discusses the complexities involved in beginning to study Kabbalah, a mystical tradition rooted in Judaism with various interpretations and applications. They share their personal journey, which started with an interest in Kabbalah and magic, and how understanding often comes from cross-referencing different sources. The speaker also touches on the different versions of Kabbalah and the challenges of studying it due to its intricate nature and the presence of misinformation and 'nutters' attracted to the subject. They introduce the topic of Tarot, its significance, and the aim to dispel myths associated with it.
🔮 The Evolution of Kabbalah and Tarot
The paragraph delves into the history of Kabbalah and Tarot, highlighting the magical revival in the 1900s and the influence of figures like Eliphas Levi. It discusses the integration of Kabbalistic elements into Western magical traditions and the evolution of the Tarot deck from a collection of different traditions into a system of symbolism. The speaker explains the Tree of Life in Kabbalah and its use as a system of organization for experiences and archetypes. They also discuss the Tarot deck's structure and its connection to the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, emphasizing the importance of archetypes and the role of the collective unconscious in forming them.
🌕 The Moon's Role in Archetypal Symbolism
The speaker explores the symbolism of the Moon in Kabbalistic and Tarot traditions, contrasting it with the astrological and metaphorical interpretations. They describe the Moon card's path in Tarot and its connection to the Hebrew letter associated with it. The speaker emphasizes the Moon's representation of intuition and how it can lead to superstition if not properly understood. They also discuss the process of personal development through understanding and navigating the symbolism of the Moon's path, which involves overcoming illusions and developing a deeper connection with one's creativity and the manifest world.
🤔 The Intersection of Creativity and Reality
This section discusses the importance of connecting creativity with the real world without being misled by superstition or the false self. The speaker uses the metaphor of the 'Blast Tower' to illustrate the destruction of the false ego and the liberation that follows such a collapse. They argue that challenging and negative experiences can lead to personal growth and a better understanding of oneself. The paragraph also touches on the idea of using magical and Kabbalistic practices to unite different aspects of the self, such as intellect and creativity, to achieve a more integrated and enriched personal experience.
🧘 Archetypal Symbolism in Personal Development
The speaker addresses the misuse of the term 'archetype' by some practitioners, clarifying that figures like Jesus, Krishna, and Horus are not archetypes but expressions of them. They explain that archetypes are beyond language and often represented through god forms in spiritual and magical texts. The speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding archetypes through classical stories and how they have shaped human experience across cultures and time. They also discuss how their work with metaphors has been influenced by these archetypal understandings and how engaging with these archetypes can enrich one's internal world and provide guidance for personal development.
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Keywords
💡Kabbalah
💡Tarot
💡Tree of Life
💡Archetypes
💡Divination
💡Superstition
💡Hebrew Letters
💡Gnosticism
💡Magical Traditions
💡Personal Development
💡Metaphors
Highlights
The complexity of Kabbalah makes it difficult to find a starting point for learning, as it encompasses a vast array of facets, features, dimensions, and applications.
The speaker's initial foray into Kabbalah and magic was through reading various books, leading to a gradual accumulation of understanding over time.
The internet has made it easier to access information on Kabbalah, with numerous groups, forums, and YouTube videos available for learning.
Kabbalah has three main versions: Western magical tradition (Qabala), Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah with a K), and early Christian interpretation (Cabala).
Jewish Kabbalists look for hidden meanings in the first five books of the Bible, while Western occultists use it as a system for organizing experience and archetypes.
The general population in Israel often views mystical Kabbalists as fringe figures, not granting them high status in society.
Many mystics and Kabbalists may be considered 'nuts' due to the attraction of eccentric individuals to mystical studies.
Christian Kabbalah is influenced by Gnostic traditions, which were at variance with the early Christian Church's doctrines.
The Western magical revival in the 1900s saw the adoption of Kabbalistic elements into Freemasonry and the creation of the Western Cabalist tradition.
The Tree of Life, or Sefirot, is a model used in Kabbalah that represents objective external aspects, with paths representing subjectivity.
The Tarot deck's evolution is separate from Kabbalah, but over time it became a visual documentation of symbols, much like Kabbalistic traditions.
The Tarot deck has 78 cards, with a structure that can be associated with the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, as noted by Eliphas Levi.
The Tarot deck and Kabbalah share a recursive relationship, with each influencing the other in terms of symbolism and representation.
The attribution of Tarot cards to the paths and sephiroth in Kabbalah is a Western magical concept, not found in Jewish or Christian Kabbalah.
The Moon card in Tarot is associated with the path connecting the manifest world to creativity, symbolizing intuition and the potential for superstition.
The Tower card represents the loss of the false self through an external force, leading to liberation and personal growth.
Archetypes are ineffable and beyond language; god forms in spiritual texts are lower-level symbolism of archetypes.
The speaker emphasizes not using Tarot for fortune-telling, considering it a misuse of the cards' deeper symbolic meanings.
Transcripts
one of the biggest problems about trying
to talk about kabbalah
at all things kabbalistic there is no
good place to start if you're trying to
learn this material
if i'm trying to teach the material
wherever you begin
it always presupposes and assumes you
know something else
there is no good place to to begin to
learn something
because it's such a complex set of
material there are so many
facets features dimensions applications
and different variations
on the model wherever you begin it's
hopeless
so when i when i first started learning
this stuff i
bought i was a student and i wasn't
really interested in the stuff i was
supposed to be studying so i was
learning kabbalah and magic that was my
entry into all this stuff i was reading
lots of different books
understanding very little of them
however with as
i read more things there would be things
i would read in this book
that would explain a little bit about
something in a previous book think oh
now i understand what that means
and so over a while the
you sort of accumulate an understanding
and knowledge of it
unfortunately these days there is the
internet lots and lots of groups and
forums online
and lots of youtube videos and other
forums as well i'm sure are available
which makes it a lot easier to begin to
learn what all this stuff is and what's
about
so in this particular video i want to
give really a very
loose introduction into tarot
why i what what i do with tarot what
what it means to me
why it's so important blah blah blah and
hopefully dispel
a few myths that i think some of you may
well have
i started out with taro and kabala and
there are three
versions of kabbalah there's kabala with
a q this is the western magical
tradition
which basically pretends to be rooted in
the jewish kabbalah
which is kabbalah with a k and then you
also have the cr
early christian interpretation of
kabbalah which is kabbalah with the sea
they are three very very different
applications
one of the things the kabbalist the
judaic capitalists are doing
is they're looking at the first five
books of the
the bible so the old testament and
looking at
hidden passages hidden meanings and
symbolic representation within that
there is a large amount of that within
the western capitalist
metabolistic tradition but nothing to
the degree
of that the jews will be doing with this
now if you go to israel
um which is obviously the jewish
homeland where you'll find an awful lot
of
jewish capitalists the general
population regards
the mystical jews the mystical cabinets
out there
as nut cases it's not something that
carries a particular high
status within within society they are
very much a fringe very much
the um yeah the nutters of the community
now within within your days now you're
going to find an awful lot of mysticism
and
a lot of mystical capitalists who are
worth paying attention to
my own experience of finding various
teachers over the years is that most of
them are nuts
much like you'll find in any of the
western magical groups or magical lodges
and organizations
i've been a member of a variety of
different groups and still am a member
of a number of groups
and it there is an attraction to
the crazy element so
in the backdrop to studying kabbalah you
have to bear in mind
there is a lot of nutters they get
attracted to it and so
not everything that you find will be
authoritative and make any sense because
it is really little more than psychosis
but it's psychosis shared by other
people it's fantasy type stuff
now within the christian kabbalah you're
going to find a lot of stuff coming out
of the gnostic tradition that's
gnognostic and if you're unfamiliar with
gnosticism
it's something i think is worth studying
gnosticism isn't a
thing it's a label placed upon a
category
of early christian literature which was
essentially at variance with what the
early
christian church was attempting to
establish because you have to bear in
mind at some point
everyone everyone following that
tradition was jewish and then
people adopted these these doctrines and
then those doctrines had to be
formalized
because in the early days there was lots
of disparity worldwide as to
what people call themselves christians
what they were actually doing
and so the early really the council of
nicaea
was one of the first things to actually
form around about the 300
324 325 was their first meeting to try
and formalize what the doctrines would
be
now the christians who refused all that
stuff and we're looking at other
things largely mystically inspired
through a lot of capitalistic
notions not just capitalistic nations
there are others too
their stuff is regarded as gnostic but
to think of
the gnostics as a particular sexual
group is a mistake that's not not what
they were
now scroll forward a lot of years to
the 1900s and in the 1900s
there was a magical revival where
western
interpretation of kabbalah
largely occurring through characters
like eliphas levi who was actually
catholic
a devout catholic in fact and
freemasonry starts to adopt an awful lot
of
the the the jewish kabbalah and the
christian kabbalah
starts to apply magical interpretation
on it
following western magical traditions
reviving some of the medieval
medieval practices as well and the next
thing you know we have the western
cavalier and that had been evolving for
quite a long time prior to the
to the 19th century so a little bit
that's a little bit of the history so
it's hugely convoluted there's lots of
traditions lots of threads
so if you read two books on kabala and
they don't seem to be talking about the
same thing
that could be why um and if people want
any
books or recommendations i can just
leave it in the comment section i'll
answer
any questions you have i can make
recommendations there
there are so many recommendations i
would give it all depends on what is it
you would want to get out of it
what would be your purpose what is it
you want to learn what we have here
is the um the what is known as the tree
of life or the cepha sephiroth
and essentially just to give the the
some of the wording we've got these
these circles here
they are sephirah sapphira and then we
have the straight lines in between them
and these are
paths these are the paths that connect
the sapphire or the settleroth
there's 10 sapphira 22 paths
there are variations in capitalistic
tradition this is the one that i use
i'm not going to go into all the
variations because what's the point
um find one pick it stick with it and
find the one you like
stay with that one but there are so
there are variations
now here is how this is generally
regarded
the sapphira are representative of
objective external hardcore
stuff so it's objectivity the
paths connecting them are subjectivity
and what we can do is use this for one
of a better term
as a system of organization or as
alistair crowley refer to it
a filing cabinet in which to start using
these as categories
to start organizing experience and
organizing archetypes
and for me as a therapist and someone
who works with metaphor
someone who has a background a longer
background in magic
and kabbalah than i do in therapy
it's also a very very useful way of
sorting out
concepts as well and i want to just give
a little introduction
into how that happens now one of the
things
we also have with the evolution of
the kabbalistic traditions you also had
the evolution development of the tarot
deck
now the tarot deck didn't start off as a
singular thing this was a collection of
different stuff probably through
games and through ways of communicating
symbols
and storytelling that kind of stuff and
that was a separate tradition to kabala
the tarot deck has 78 cards
22 trumps 10 court cards
and 16 um
what we call they're the court cards
let me start that again it has 22 trumps
10 um numbered cards of which there's
four suits there's 40 of those
and 16 court cards which are king queen
and so on they're very similar to the um
the playing cards deck it just has extra
cards in it
very different tradition to this however
they start to develop over time within
storytelling and symbolism
and and largely drawing on archetypes
the tarot deck starts to become
a visual documentation of of symbols
much like kabala did now anything that
is
attended to by multitudes of people over
long periods of time tend to take on an
archetypal nature
let me just give you an easy example
it's what i always use so forgive me if
you've heard this before
look at what's happening with christmas
and the christmas story
so christmas within within the western
tradition is largely two things that
have collided together
we have the ancient pagan traditions
which are occurring around about the the
winter time
and then impose upon that with christian
dominance
in the west we then they then put in
okay this is where we're gonna have
christ mass
so the birth of christ gets imposed on
it today what we have are traditions
that are drawn both from the pagan roots
but also from the christian imposition
upon that
but no one really cares no one really
cares about those things
it's just something that's from our
childhood we like to recreate
and people you mustn't cancel christmas
like this year
the cancelling of christmas was such a
political thing
the big event is the central thing in
our in our calendar
now over time it started to change so
santa claus
starts to emerge and that comes again
that's the number of you have saint
nicholas
uh saint nicholas and santa claus very
similar you have the
traditions from from scandinavia from
germany traditions from other parts of
europe
that start to coalesce to become santa
claus
and you have the green man if you have a
look at
typing santa claus green man you'll see
santa claus used to be green
and because it comes from the green man
tradition as well as saint nicholas and
other
things that start to coalesce into a
single entity
and then around about the early 1900s
advertising gets in
and santa claus then becomes red and
coca-cola probably a huge influence on
that
it's not the only influence but a huge
influence now
so we now have santa claus but he's not
the same as father christmas
you see father christmas there's only
one but santa claus is everywhere
and so you have these weird things and
we we also have
the invocation of christmas we're
creating the spirit of christmas
so we have the holy trinity we have
father christmas santa claus and the
spirit of christmas
and if you do the rituals right it feels
like christmas you have
the christmas spirit has descended and
so we have this recreation of
another archetype from elsewhere but it
starts to get more interesting
because then along the lines a song gets
made i think this was
in the late 1800s where in a song
santa claus is referenced to coming from
the north pole
and that wasn't thought of before then
so now we have the north pole narrative
now within that reindeer start to get
added in
and then the reindeer get named and then
the stories are attributed to those
reindeer
and we have rudolph the red-nosed
reindeer
and then we have all the other things
that happen so now the story starts to
get embellished and becomes quite
creative and starts to expand and
develop
but it's not solidified yet because
there are still elements being added the
americans in recent years have added in
the grinch you have a variation going
back years
in germany and i can't even pronounce it
but it's the
the demon of christmas so you have lots
of elements that are beginning to get
added in
and become involved in the story
the story has not solidified it is still
being adjusted and corrected over time
now 100 200 years from now it may well
be solidified it may take more
generations than that
kabbalah has it has been the same thing
it has evolved
and become tweaked here and there and
adjusted here and there
the tarot deck was undergoing the same
process and eventually it began to
solidify
because both take on an archetypal
nature because that's what tends to
happen
archetypes emerge when the group mind
work and work and work on something
over long periods of time it starts to
become archetypal
because archetypes are things that are
true to all people
they start to take on very strong
similarities and it was elephants levi
who was the first person to note what to
make the attribution at least publicly
make the attribution there's 22
paths and 22 trumps
so we can attribute a trump tarot card
to each of these paths
there are 10 numbered cards of four
suits
oh we've got 10 numbers here so we can
attribute the numbers to these things
now within kabala there are what's
called the four
worlds uh we only see in
in two dimensions but actually you would
see four of these
stacked on top of each other for one of
a better description so we have the four
well so there's your four suits
your 10 numbers your 22 22 trump cards
and then we have the 16 court cards
which are a little bit inconvenient for
the system
but they still fit in here actually
quite well as well
so around about the mid-1800s levi was
the first person to start publishing
that actually these things are the same
then along in the early 1900s you have
the golden dawn
and they then formalize the system which
then gets adjusted later on
so now what we have is this as a useful
representation of tarot symbolism
and tarot symbolism as a useful
representation of this there's a
recursive relationship between the two
but this is a western imposed tradition
you won't find this in the christian
kabbalah you won't find this in the
jewish kebab this is entirely
created invented western magical concept
that is borrowing a lot of stuff from
from judaism
so now let's just go through what some
of these sapphira mean
and and where the tarot would fit in
here so down here
this is melcooth forgive me
if you're a native hebrew speaker much
like every other person i've ever met in
the magical tradition who is not
jewish or a native hebrew speaker
none of us pronounce any of it right but
we just copy what everyone else says
and that seems to be the way so what we
end up with as being hebrew
in no way would be recognized in israel
i can be fairly sure of that
so down here is malcooth and this is
this basically is interpreted as
kingdom this is the world of
manifestation this is the
physical world everything you can see
and touch
it gets misattributed as being the
planet earth because it's planetary
attributions up here
but it's not the planet earth it is the
physical body of the universe
so the the manifest universe is down
here
this is the lunar sphere yeast salt and
this is very much uh the eso means
foundation
and in yeast this is the luna sphere
the moon is is an archetypal symbol
and the way to picture this is moonlight
reflected off still water
and it is the the archetypal symbol for
the unconscious the subconscious
for dreams all stuff that's below the
surface
the moon doesn't produce its own light
it reflects that of the sun
and so the moon reflecting light onto
the pool of water and of course what's
unhappening
under the water is is representative of
subconscious stuff
so this is very much representative of
all those things
so this is my physical body the physical
world this is the
subconscious mind hard
over here which actually translates as
splendor
is generally regarded as the sphere of
the intellect
it is where intelligence is attributed
it is where
the sciences uh the world of medicine
the world of magic
that kind of stuff but more specifically
it's not intelligence as in what you
know
it is the will to intellect the best
description here is
this isn't the library it's the decision
to go to the library in order to learn
that's what hard is representative of
over here we have netzer which means
victory or triumph is sometimes
interpreted as
now nets over here is much more about
the creative stuff
hot is representative of the planet
mercury the moon is yeast
but over here it's venus and so venus is
much more the creative
artistic side of stuff intellect
creativity left brain right brain these
are ways you can
categorize this and if we just come up
to here we have tephrath
which translates as beauty which is the
sphere of the sun
and sun is representative of
consciousness itself
of manifestation of life that kind of
thing
then above here we have gabora which is
generally is strength this is all the
martial stuff guess what
it's mars is attributed to here
planetary and so this is representative
of all of the
male martial archetypes and
force strength might war anger
rage vengeance all those kind of things
and hess said over here this is where
hasidic jews come from it's the from
hassan hessed
this is very much of jupiter and this
basically means love of
loving kindness this is the this is
mercy
over here so this is the ability to
to strike this is the ability to forgive
and then we get into much more
archetypal stuff here which is this is
the archetypal father
this is the archetypal mother and then
that's the combination of the two
going right up into into divinity so all
well and good so far
now we can attribute everything as
martial to this
this one here attribute everything
that's about loving kindness and
forgiveness into this one here
and so on so we make attributions the
paths between the two
are very representative of tarot
symbolism tarot trumps
and i'm just going to give you a few
there's no point trying to teach the
whole thing
because i say this is an enormous
subject because then we have to go into
what is an archetype
and why are they even important and why
are they
organized that way and we would be here
for a very very long time and that's not
really what i want to do for this video
but let me just come into this this path
here
so this is the 29th path it's attributed
to a hebrew letter because guess what
there's 22 hebrew letters
which also match to each of these paths
that is from the jewish kabbalah
but also matched to the tarot trumps
so a tarot trump as well as being
representative of a path
is also representative of a hebrew
letter the hebrew letter is what
comprises
obviously letters comprise a word and so
the jew
the jewish cabalists are looking at
words
to break down their mystical construct
because god created the universe
through speaking it and so we can
actually start to interpret
effectively the divine will by the
interpretation of the symbols and so
forth through the hebrew letters
at this point i just need to emphasize a
few points
so do i believe in god do i believe
in tarot no believe forget anything to
do with belief
here is one of the problems that tara
has because
of what it is just like everything else
it gets jumped there's a bandwagon gets
jumped on by large numbers of people
who then don't really understand what
they're doing but they understand a
little bit and then jump on it so tarot
now is for fortune telling it's for
divination it's for
reading the future really and you know
what
i have to deal with that a lot which is
why i so rarely reference
tarot because the moment i do people oh
yeah i've got the tarot cards oh i do
tarot readings oh dear god please go
away
and there's no point in me even
attempting to communicate anything
deeper with that person
it's just like when people use astrology
for divination and fortune telling
here's the deal just one label the point
here
covered 19 did anybody any astrologer
psychic
medium tarot reader in fact anybody
predict it
nope just like every other major world
event
now given the sheer body of predictive
literature if you
sift through all of it you're gonna find
one that matches
but you know and it's like it's true
it's true that person predicted it
really
what about the thousands and thousands
and thousands of other predictions they
made they're absolutely bogus
just like everything else so i don't
give any validity to any of that
the majority of tarot decks that are
produced are
lovely they're lovely works of art don't
deny that but they have
no reference to the archetypes
whatsoever they have
no validity as far as archetypal tarot
symbolism
or kabbalistic symbolism goes there are
very very few decks that do
the the vast majority of them are just
people
making pretty art and calling it tarot
when it's not at all
for me this is just like if you read nlp
for dummies
i'm i was astonished that that book got
past the publishing review
because there's nothing in that book
that i recognize as being nlp
and i do wonder about the authors of
that book and the the people that
published it
if they ever actually attended a real
nlp training
but you know what they probably did
attend trainings that were called nlp
trainings
they just didn't know what they were
being taught wasn't nlp
and there's so much of that in every
field that doesn't have an objective
measurement to it
so you're looking at chemistry science
physics there's objectivity it can be
measured against
the moment we're in some worlds of
subjectivity it's very very hard
to have any form of quality control and
so therein lies the difficulty
now the reason why so rarely publicly
talk about these kind of things
is because it drives me insane that the
vast majority of people
will immediately go so can you tell the
future can you make predictions can you
i've been involved a lot over the years
with alchemy as well
and everyone whatever i mean i never
this is what i never mentioned publicly
um apart from now really because the
moment i say well i
i i'm an alchemist if i were to label
myself in that way oh you're trying to
turn lead into gold
because throughout the years of alchemy
being an operating philosophy
the charlatans jump in there and will be
selling
the lead into gold philosophy selling
the courses
it's no different to the stakeholder
salesman today selling nlp hypnotherapy
personal development to coaching
it's not the what we're seeing today in
terms of the basketization
of the concept has always happened and
then people learn those things they
think that's what it is
write books on it other people learn
those things write more books on it they
reference each other quote each other
and now there's this massive body of
knowledge and literature that's entirely
bogus and no one realizes
and this is so
such a problem for anyone who wishes to
be taken seriously with tara kabala and
that kind of stuff
and so it's not it is a problem and so i
can't i can't deny that
so let's just have a look we just do two
cards for this particular video
let's keep it brief the moon is the card
that's attributed
um to the moon trump card so this path
here that connects malcoth which is
kingdom the manifest world
to that of creativity now the moon
the moon symbolism i won't go into that
symbolism but i'll just describe it to
you
it is typically there are two two
pillars two hills two towers
two cons to upright things or some
description
there is water there is a valley between
the two things
there is a dog and a wolf so a tamed dog
and a wild dog wolf and they are howling
at the moon
and there's usually a crab or lobster
type imagery at the base of the card
now these go very much into astrological
and an ancient metaphor
and into archetypes now the moon
card as a path is not the same as the
planetary attribution of the moon
that's attributed to eso these are
slightly different variations on the
concept
now if we were to do an initiation if i
were to create an experience of the path
of the moon of what this card
represents of what it symbolizes we
could go
through a lengthy analysis of all of the
um
all of the symbolism and the archetypes
or we could actually create a little
experience for the person
and the way we could do that would be
simply the the moon card is symbolic
of intuition but all the stuff that
comes with intuition
you see everyone has degrees of interest
in tuition
but we also have degrees of stupidity
that come with it
oh yes i'm very intuitive engineer yes i
think i'm i'm quite psychic
yes i always know when my my
girlfriend's going to phone me i can
always i can always feel it and you
start to get this this
they start off with you know we can all
intuit things about the world
but people take it to a ridiculous
degree and
the logical extreme of intuition goes
into superstition
where now we have all sorts of weird
religious
morality and social behaviors
because we're superstitious as well and
that then goes into
like blowing out the candles make a wish
that kind of stuff um being frightened
of witches being frightened of being
hexed
um there's lots and lots of variations
on this and lots of people say they're
not superstitious
but they are just look at how many
people are terrified of dying
what happens to them after death people
still have we have a whole society
that has this morbid fear of death
despite it being
absolutely inevitable for every living
being on the planet for everything
that's ever lived everything's going to
live
but we live in a complete denial of it
we've constructed this bizarre reality
that seems to be a logical extension of
intuition and where that would take us
to
if you think how we could do intuition
is largely
your senses how you construct the world
through the senses but without vision
and so to to have this experience you'd
be blindfolded
and the the initiation we would use to
use initiation
as a term we would have a person undergo
a journey and we would have two
two rooms one is organized with the
symbolism of malcuth i'm going to save
that for another day
and the other room is organized with the
symbolism of netzer
and essentially the person is going to
navigate their way between the two rooms
we would orientate them to to their
malcooth room which is
all lovely decorated and it's got all
the all the right things going on
we would then stick a blindfold on them
open the door push them through the door
they don't get a choice
out you go but they don't know this
is the structure they don't know what's
going to happen now they have to get
from one place to the next they're
blindfolded
they have to find their way but what
we're going to do is we're going to put
things in the way
we're going to make them frightened
we're going to create experiences for
them
that are absolutely real except they're
not
the person doesn't know they would have
no way of knowing this so for example it
might will be they go through the door
and they're into this this journey where
there's a corridor or whether it's
if you're out in an open field or
however it is that would be between
these two venues
they're going to feel their way they
don't know which way to go they have no
people lose their sense of direction
very fast when they're blindfolded and
they have nothing to hold on to
somebody might whisper to somebody else
careful gaffer is going to fall in the
hole
there is no hole somebody else might say
that if you put up the tripwires
there are no tripwires we can start to
put things
in there that would cause them concern
but all of those things don't exist so
we're going to give the person
an experience of being confronted by
superstitious nonsense that's not
happening it's not real
but everything suggests to them it is
real and they have to find their way
through that nonsense
that's what this path represents the
best symbolism i've heard of this best
description is it's the it's midnight
you're in the forest it's pitch black
you cannot see a thing
in the distance you hear walls and there
are witches about
but you don't know whether the walls are
actually tame or not because they might
be dogs
and there aren't actually any witches
but because of the times that you live
in there are witches
and you now have to try and get your way
through and get home
now here's the suggestion that i would i
would put to this
once we have understood and been
initiated
into those concepts and we have learned
to overcome both develop
intuition without going into its absurd
conclusions
and we're able to do that without being
tripped up being misled by our own
illusory senses
we are able to connect our creativity
to the real world think about what the
schizophrenic does
think about what the narcissist does
think about what the
anxious person does they're connecting
superstitious things that aren't
happening
they're not real and they're connecting
them to the real world
they're projecting out their fears into
the real world
that may not actually even exist for
them so
what we're able to do is use this as a
as an interesting way of personal
development that there's no therapeutic
model here there's no
there's no technique process from any of
the like cbt or nlp
that would replicate this this enables
us now to start to play with concepts
that we wouldn't otherwise be aware of
so what would happen if you could
connect your creativity
to your real manifest world without it
deceiving you and being misled
by suggestion from other people's
superstitious nonsense
and so that's that's essentially what
the path of the moon
would represent at this level it has
other stuff to it too
so that's just one of those things now
of course we've got 22 variations on
these
which are very linear it connects these
two experiences connects these two
experience we can connect these two
but in in magic in kabulistic
orientated magic we're going much
further than that
because we're able to juxtapose things
across context
and start to mix and match these
concepts to take us into
interesting areas of personal
exploration
this serves as a guide for a terrible
term
but it serves as a guide to to start to
organize experience and to sort
through experiences that we wouldn't
otherwise even conceive
existed for example this one here i know
i know so well
um people never even think about how
much nonsense do i listen to
from coaches and therapists i'm just
like what are you doing you know that
but they can't stop them because they
don't understand
that actually manifesting this
superstitious nonsense into the real
world
is a creative process but it's not
necessarily one that's going to be very
useful
now the path that connects hard to
so remember hard is intellect or the
will to intellect the will to know
and nazar is very much in the the realm
of creativity
the path that connects here is the
blasted tower
and the symbolism of the blasted tower
is a tower
that has been struck by lightning
there's sometimes there is a
an external force as well coming at it
and the tower is collapsing and there
are people falling out of it
now this is such an archetypal symbol
it's amazing i
i it's one of my particular favorites
generally your
tarot readers um the fortune tellers who
never really paid attention to the
archetypes
they kind of get it right but they see
this as a holy negative
card now what the tower represents
symbolically
is it is the loss of the false self
mediated through external force so
essentially this
is the really bad day that just keeps
getting worse
and there's nothing you can do about it
you're screwed it doesn't matter you're
nothing you do
and i've i think we've all had phases in
our lives where this is having to use
the job and as a result of the job you
can't pay the rent that's not going to
pay rent you can lose your house and
then you ah it just goes and
it snowballs and then when it gets worse
it just gets even worse and then you
feel really bad and you're not
functioning particularly well
and then you start falling out with
people it just gets worse being
autobiographical here
many people have had that now that's not
what the tower symbolizes
but when that happens and
it becomes the best thing that's ever
happened to you because you
wake up to your own nonsense even if you
didn't create the nonsense even if it's
not
this was not of your creation but you
wake up to this you you become
aware of the persona the full
self the ego that actually
the lies that you've told about yourself
to yourself and you get to stop doing
that
and you emerge a better person basically
that what doesn't kill us makes us
stronger
that's what this path is when it's just
negative trauma and there's bad stuff
happening
that's not what this is that's this bad
stuff happening but when we have bad
stuff that enables us to be liberated
and that's the symbolism of the card the
people in the tower
notice they're in an elevated position
that tower is destroyed and they are
freed from that
but at the point they're falling i don't
think they would go yay we're free
no no we've been struck by lightning and
now we're falling to our deaths
that's generally how they'll be
experiencing that but the reality is it
enables them to
the false ego is destroyed um
this by the way is that the level three
of my metaphors of movement training is
built entirely around
the archetypal symbolism of this path
i'm just giving a very very brief
overview of the party
is more than what i'm saying just to
make that clear
so now what would happen if we initiate
on this this path rather than having
intellect and creativity as being
separate
we can now have unity between the two
instead of having left brain doing left
brain stuff and right brain doing right
brain stuff
and having these quite abstract things
where we're lurching from
panic and worry at one moment and then
talking to ourselves and reassuring
ourselves of the next and backs of wars
backs and forwards
what would happen if we created unity
between the two
and largely this destructive element
that is symbolized by the tower or just
symbolized by this but this path is is
representative
of how we can start to unite the the
intellectual and the creative part
in and bring them together in a much
more creative way
so one of the things we can do and this
is what the kabbalistic and magical
practices and meditations are about
are ways of bringing about unity through
disparate parts
utilizing the archetypes now
if there's interest in the archetypes
i'm
quite happy to go through those it's a
lot
there's a lot of stuff there and it's
it's i love it so i'm more than happy to
talk about it
but i don't want to go through it all if
if people aren't really interested in it
the one thing i will say at this moment
in time is that when i hear
trainers talking about archetypes they
have it entirely wrong
there's a number of people who have
essentially these are nrp trainers who
have ripped off my metaphors work
and there's another one this week that
i've become aware of now what they've
done is they've ripped off the work
and i can oh i've confronted all of them
on it and what they'll do is go no
you've just taken this stuff from george
lakoff you've just taken this stuff from
um miese or whatever a name is coming
and i haven't that's not where the work
comes from they just don't know it any
deeper than that
and so what they're doing is they're
taking my material reattributing it
where they think it's safe to do
and they're not saying i'm now teaching
according to caroline mace
i'm teaching this according to lake off
and they're not at all
um i think they assume i don't know lake
off and don't don't know me but
who knows the problem they've got is
when they are
instead of using metaphor they're using
the word archetypes
and they think say if we look at krishna
and jesus archetypally
they're said to be very similar there's
a lot of similarities between them and
then
we can also bring in the egyptian god
form horus as well
there's lots of symbolisms of them jesus
is not the archetype
horus is not the archetype um krishna is
not the archetype
there there are different expressions of
the same archetype the moment we try and
get into
what is the archetype we're into the
ineffable
it is beyond language which is why in
the spiritual text in the magical texts
the god forms are usually used
and the archetype is above the the
reference point of the god form
so the god for itself is a useful
reference point it's the highest we can
go
before we get into the ineffable and
essentially the spiritual traditions
will say
the ineffable is god the true god but
it's unreachable by man we can't even
speak his name
it is unspeakable it is beyond language
it is it is something
outside of the concept which is why we
have to create
lower level gods as high level symbolism
of the archetype so just say it again
things like jesus
krishna and and and horus they're not
archetypes
but they are different expressions of
the archetype
we will use those terms and say yeah the
jesus archetype the
horus archetype as a point of
convenience but it's not really the
archetype
if that makes any sense you'll know the
people who've ripped off my work
because on their youtube videos they're
talking all the time about archetypes
but actually
when they use the word archetype they
actually are using metaphor taxonomies
and that's what they're referring to
which is just not correct at all
what i do have is that the majority of
the metaphors work that they do
and the taxonomies have come through an
understanding of the archetypes
that i have learned over the years
through these practices
and the the classical stories especially
scriptural stories
um things from the the greek classics
the great stories
that get retold across thousands of
years
there's there's you the clue there they
take on they have
high archetypal value which is why
they're the stories that last
and of the thousands of other stories
that emerge every year
they disappear because they're very
localized to specific events
but some stories are big big archetypal
content
and that's why they resonate so
powerfully with people over such
wide wide spans of time but also across
large portions of population because
they have high archetypal content
and the retelling retelling retelling
shapes them accordingly
and then they solidify
within those stories what you can start
to find is so
how does if we take the planet mars or
the god mars
how does he behave if we take
jupiter this is much more about
structure and construction and stability
but also about forgiveness
it's easier to be very forgiving when
you're stable
hence why jupiter and forgiveness do go
hand in hand
when you're feeling unstable and
insecure it's very it's very difficult
to be very forgiving
but when you have a lot of strength and
a lot of stability
then you're actually able to be a lot
more forgiving
what we can start to do is to look into
the the ancient stories
how did those embodiments of the
archetype behave
and interact with each other because now
you can start to get some behavioral
cues
and clues about how to
to work with your own symbolism your own
metaphors and experiences
because we're limited on what we have
learned ourselves
in terms of how to behave as children we
had strong identification with various
characters from movies and cartoons and
in our comic books
we had various action heroes and fantasy
heroes who we would identify with in
varying forms
and that if we were to use that as an
embodiment of an archetype
enriches our internal world and gives us
some degrees of flexibility but we stuck
with those and ignored the rest
what would happen if we strongly
identified with all the different
embodiments of archetypes
and and and reenacted either
symbolically
through meditation or dramatically
through ritual
and ceremony like in in magic we we
start to create an enrichment and
variation
as we learn the different archetypes
that people are embodying
and we know the variables by which they
interact with each other and what the
results are
and largely for me these classical texts
that are reverberated through the years
are really good demonstrations of the
kind of interactions that people
like and that's why they retell the
story because it resonates powerfully
so a lot of the work that i've developed
from the metaphor stuff has been derived
through modeling out
some of those things within those
classical stories now the ones i've used
are predominantly biblical
simply because in the western traditions
western's culture
the bible was the number one influence
if i was in asia i'd be looking at the
vedas or you know the
the hindu texts somebody said loads of
them and so if i was in the middle east
i'll be looking at islamic texts and
the jewish ones as well because they are
hugely influential in the cultures there
so i think that's what i want to go
through with this one if anyone has any
specific
questions or things they'd like me to
cover on archetypes
on any of the the the stories that i
that i utilize on kabab itself and tarot
symbolism
then i'd be delighted um no
i'm not going to tell you a fortune
that's nonsense by the way and anyone
who tells you otherwise
is a fool
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