Dear connoisseurs of consciousness science,
It gives me immense pleasure to announce my new book written together with Valentina R. Onisor, M.D. : The Return of The Archetypes – Re-Visioning Your Self and Society with Human Values.
The book addresses a crucial aspect of our lives and the way it impacts our society and our actions. What compelled us to write this book has much to do with the crisis mankind and consequently, our civilisation are facing today. It is a dire warning that we are losing our valued institutions of freedom—capitalism, democracy, and liberal education. Let us touch upon the idea of archetypes to contextualize.
Nine evocative words are the modern names of the archetypes: Abundance, Power, Love, Goodness, Truth, Beauty, Justice, Wholeness, and Self. Spiritual wisdom traditions discovered them as ideals to live by that come to us via the experience we call intuition. Later, the Greek philosopher Plato gave the name to the concept.
The archetypes are seen in the spiritual traditions as the purpose of our life; it is claimed that their exploration gives us satisfaction and happiness. Why? The archetypes are attributes of an underlying Oneness that is the foundation of human consciousness; their exploration take is back to the Oneness from the manifest ignorant and contracted consciousness that we live. Oneness is experienced as an expansion of consciousness which is what brings satisfaction and happiness.
Religions call Oneness by the ambiguous name of God, clouding things up a little. Religions also simplify the definition of archetypes by saying that archetypes are God’s virtues; living them we earn God’s favour, violating them we invite’s God’s wrath.
More objectively and phenomenologically, you can think of archetypes as the highest contexts for exploring new meaning and noble feelings; they are important for creativity. At the societal level, the archetypes drive us toward civilization. Spirituality oriented scientists such as Teilhard de Chardin, psychologists such as Carl Jung and James Hillman, and visionaries such as Sri Aurobindo see the embodiment of the archetypes as the purpose of evolution itself. To paraphrase Teilhard, the purpose is to bring heaven on earth.
If we lose freedom to pursue purpose and archetypes, we are in the danger of losing civilization itself. It is time to make the case for a return the archetypes in our midst, in our persona, in our professional lives, and in our social systems. It is Pollyannaish to cry foul and offer no help. Are there guidelines for making such changes? There should be. The purpose of this book is to develop the guidelines for the return of the archetypes. The good news is that there are new developments of human thought to provide us guidance.
This book is based on the wisdom quantum physics has unexpectedly given us, namely that quantum science is the key that opens the door to a science of consciousness: all objects of our experience are possibilities for consciousness to choose from, with purpose. And the purpose at this stage of human development is the exploration and embodiment of the archetypes. The evolutionary development of human being is directed toward this as foreseen by de Chardin and Aurobindo.
Quantum science is also telling us something new. There is opposition to archetypes built into the human nature. We have enormous inertia to change. Besides, the manifest world is built based on a mechanism that produces forgetfulness of who we are, that we are potentially all One. The new message is this: The drive to forgetfulness sabotages our Oneness and produces mechanical tendencies, however, quantum creativity and exploring the archetypes drive us toward purposive evolution.
Why the current crisis? Crisis is needed to provide motivation. We must bring back the archetypes and resume the journey of their exploration or else. Or else, we lose the civilization that we have earned through millennia of exploration. The current worldview of materialist science and dogmatic religion keep you so busy with your lower needs that you don’t get to think much about higher needs, meaning, purpose, happiness, or higher intelligence. Once you tire of the straightjacketed way of the current worldviews, once you realize that those old worldviews will never be enough to solve the crisis problems they created, your curiosity is perked, Is there an alternative?
That is when you discover that you are hearing the wrong misleading messages about the aborning quantum worldview: ‘’quantum physics only applies to sub microscopic material objects, not us human beings’’; or “nobody understands quantum mechanics,” or ‘’quantum physics is full of unsolvable paradoxes’’; or the opposite, ‘’quantum physics can fully be understood within the current materialistic paradigm’’.
The Return of the archetypes book will reveal that:
- Quantum physics can be understood only when you give up the current dogmatic worldviews;
- Quantum physics is the doorway to a new ontology for science namely, that Consciousness is the ground of all being, an ontology that integrates science and spirituality;
- With the new ontology there is no quantum paradox, only understanding open to everyone including non-scientists.
- Once you understand and wake up to the new worldview and get used to wearing the new conceptual lens, you have the secret of how to live the quantum way;
- Once you learn to live the quantum way, you will be able to satisfy both your lower needs and higher needs, live a life of both mechanical cause and creative purpose, find room for both pleasure-seeking me-centeredness and relationships of happiness.
- Most importantly, you will be able to build your soul and transform from your dissatisfied ego driven by conditioning and dominated by bigger egos to an intelligent life of freedom and higher intelligence required for civilized relationships and navigating your life in a complex crisis-prone world always with appropriate action.
Once you have mastered the quantum way, you can apply yourself to transform society and save civilization—quantum activism, or teach others—quantum life coaching; in this way, you will be the emissaries of the archetypes.
Bringing such a change is not for the faint hearted. And there is good news! The purposive movement of consciousness is with us. I invite you to check out the book and be a part of this worldwide movement. We learned a lot from history and with the power of quantum science of consciousness to lead us, let’s return the archetypes to our lives!
Love,
Amit
