Archetypes & History - 12.15.09

Student Question: In the seminar last weekend you said that archetypes are the ones that are running history and our lives. Can you give a little more information on that?

“Well at a certain moment in history there was a choice made, not at a conscious but at a super-conscious level . . . within not only the human species but within the realm of all the actants—no longer to support the dharma. And the dharma then—at an archetypal level—recognized that it must go into exile. And the world was then run by false powers,” explains Shunyamurti, the spiritual director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. And it is only through the archetypes—not through any individual ego—that the dharma will return. And it is at this moment in history—when all love seems to have disappeared from the planet—that it must and will return. Recorded on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 15, 2009.