Archetypes show up throughout history, mythology, in literature, television, and film. They are found in individual relationships within families, among friends, and in romantic partnerships. Archetypes are visible in the pantheon of gods and goddesses of many cultures throughout the world and across centuries of time including for example ancient Greece and Rome, Mayan civilization, and Indian mythology.
Carl Jung wrote in his 1936 lecture on "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious": “The concept of the archetype indicates the existence of definite forms in the psyche which seem to be present always and everywhere.”
Archetypes show up as groundbreaking social and political leaders, including the emperors of the ruling dynasties of China and Sho-guns in Japan. In near term history, 20th century heroes such as Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King represent real-world characters who literally changed reality. They changed the way we think, feel, and perceive – how we interact with others, what we think of as good and as possible. They shifted our paradigm, changing our current reality through opening into new possibility fortifying as reality.
Imagine a woman representing a universal mother offering love and compassion for every human on planet earth, otherwise known as Mother Teresa. Or, imagine a man devoting his entire life to peaceful protest freeing an entire nation from hundreds of years of occupation simply by non-violent communication, also known as Mahatma Gandhi. These characters represent revolutionary, path-breaking leadership which change the lives of millions of people.
Literature and film often base character development upon archetypes, both historical and mythological. In comic books, superheroes of noble character represent honor, truth and justice. A model for Neo, the nearly godlike hero of the blockbuster hit The Matrix, can be found in the Ancient Sumerian character, Gilgamesh. Neo’s character “wakes up”, witnessed by every audience member causing a collective awakening, a turning on of the light, encouraging the general public to step out of the unfeeling, unthinking, machine-made grid into an organic life. Archetypal characters are repeated over and over again in many different stories and forms, rooting in cultural memory.
And, in the 21st century
Soulstice will develop archetypal characters and bring to the world their stories and lives online, in print and on the big screen, advancing the model for collective unconscious to radically change the 21st century. Rooting stories that raise the vibration of the planet inside of today’s culture, Soulstice will literally change how we perceive reality and the way we can live.
Examples of archetypal characters for representation on canvas, in comic books, on film, and in print:
A woman belying all odds in becoming a mogul who is gracious and kind to everyone by creating emotional relationship with the public and later applying her wealth and fame to train young African girls in world leadership
A female MD with a sacred approach which combines allopathic medicine with spiritual accountability: patients recognize the larger experience in their pain by accepting responsibility for its relationship to trauma in their family and childhood, enabling deep healing
A talented, female artist who invites others to experience who she is as a woman in unlimited dimensions—through her art, in her physical presence, and how she speaks as a Lady that opens others to who they can be
A man who builds an empire that supports the leadership of the feminine; he re-orients the masculine so that it
appreciates fully that what it means to be a Lord is to completely invest in Ladies
