Introduction to Tarot, Qabalah and Archetypes

Summary

The 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

00:00

📚 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.

05:00

🔮 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.

10:02

🌕 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.

15:05

🤔 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.

20:05

🧘 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.

Keywords

💡Kabbalah

Kabbalah is a form of Jewish mysticism that seeks to understand the nature of the divine and the universe. In the video, it is described as a complex set of material with many facets, dimensions, and applications. It is also associated with the Jewish tradition of interpreting hidden meanings within the Torah.

💡Tarot

Tarot is a deck of 78 cards used in various forms of divination, meditation, and personal development. The video discusses Tarot as a system of symbolism that has evolved over time and has been attributed to different archetypes and Hebrew letters, connecting it to Kabbalistic traditions.

💡Tree of Life

The Tree of Life, or Sefirot, is a Kabbalistic concept that represents the ten divine emanations through which God reveals himself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the chain of higher metaphysical realms. The video explains how it is used as a system of organization for experiences and archetypes.

💡Archetypes

Archetypes are universal symbols, themes, or personifications that recur in literature, art, and culture. The video discusses how archetypes emerge from collective human experience and how they can be used to organize and understand personal experiences and concepts.

💡Divination

Divination is the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means. The video addresses the common misconception that Tarot is used for fortune-telling, which the speaker argues is not the deeper purpose of Tarot or Kabbalah.

💡Superstition

Superstition refers to a belief or behavior not based on evidence but on a desire for a certain outcome. The video uses the concept of superstition to illustrate how people can be misled by their own fears and illusions, which is contrasted with the intended use of Kabbalah and Tarot for personal development.

💡Hebrew Letters

Hebrew letters are used in Kabbalistic tradition to interpret mystical constructs. The video mentions that there are 22 Hebrew letters corresponding to the paths on the Tree of Life and to the Tarot trump cards, which are used to interpret divine will.

💡Gnosticism

Gnosticism is a collection of early Christian texts and ideas that were at variance with the early Christian church. The video discusses how Gnosticism influenced the development of Christian Kabbalah and how it is a label for a category of literature rather than a specific group.

💡Magical Traditions

Magical traditions refer to various cultural and historical practices that use magic and ritual to influence the world or achieve certain goals. The video touches on the Western magical tradition's interpretation of Kabbalah and how it has been integrated with Tarot symbolism.

💡Personal Development

Personal development involves self-improvement and the growth of one's abilities, values, and personality. The video suggests that the true value of Kabbalah, Tarot, and archetypes lies in their potential for personal development rather than in superficial uses like fortune-telling.

💡Metaphors

Metaphors are figures of speech that express one thing in terms of another, often to convey a deeper or more abstract concept. The video discusses how metaphors are used in personal development and magical practices to create an enriched internal world and to understand archetypes.

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