Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: This paper is a sequel to my discussion of Bee and Spider archetypes (Soidla, 1998a, 1998b). In the space of the author’s personal mythology, the Worm archetype is a continuum embracing spiritual materialism, individual superstitions, and popular magic at one of its ends. The other end of the same continuum reaches the realm of Thou, Atman-Brahman, Source, Silence. The dualistic and dynamic call of Another destabilizes the status quo and leads one into wandering on the continuum in either direction and can destroy one’s lifestyle and very sanity with seemingly no positive consequences—but can also lead one via a kind of metaphysical metamorphosis to healing and to Wholeness. A most portable Zoo. I AM A cunning Fox of spiritual materialism(Soidla, 1995b), also a yearning Dog (Soidla,1996) (and at the same time an Andalusian Doggie pretending to chase bees [Soidla, 1998a] and hardly knowing that in a crack of his/her paw one can sometimes notice the same Bees at work). I am an individualistic Spider (Soidla, 1998b), but
Author: T. R. Soidla
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2991714238