Self-healers are Theseus, in the Labyrinth,
looking for the Minotaur
Useful metaphors exist in ancient mythology for what we do in energetic healing work. Self-healers can be represented by Theseus, in the Labyrinth, looking for the Minotaur. Initiates and healers have always been doing this kind of work.
Theseus knows to win his freedom, and the freedom of his fellow enslaved countrymen, he must make a strategic intervention down into the dark, confused and confusing labyrinth (the sub and unconscious has little directionality and is only very rarely visual. Most of the perceptions available are indeed limited to the auditory and to feelings (kinesthetic percepts).
Theseus, the conscious self, is not alone exploring the Labyrinth. He has princess Ariadne with him. Ariadne represents the soul here. Theseus is only the conscious self. But he is the agent of the soul as Theseus is in charge of the tools of directionality and choice. Ariadne cannot show him the way out directly but she has unraveled and left a thread of continuity for Theseus to follow and find his way back out of the Labyrinth, once he has done the work of slaying the unresolved disturbance
The Minotaur represents ANY unresolved disturbance making trouble in your life, especially those lodged in the sub or unconscious. Theseus must meet this disturbed part of himself on its own territory and resolve it. The Ancient Greeks were not all that sophisticated. To “resolve” a problem is represented by killing it.
Drawing on the wisdom of therapeutic myth scholars in Anthroposophy, we can understand the bull-headed Minotaur represents the typical dysfunctional basic self of the Age of Taurus. The Greeks lived primarily in the Age of Aries. The Taurean ways were exhausted and outmoded. They needed to be “slain” so the newer, fresher Aries energies could lift humanity.
How does Theseus succeed? With the indirect guidance of the soul (Ariadne) he is encouraged to employ a simple but strategic tool right at hand, the thread (of the wakeful intellect, the sequential, rational mind can link cause and effect into chains of causation and into meaningful sequences of logic. In Greece of 1000 BC, Theseus’ thread is not so much his logical mind as his thread of wakefulness to observe cause and effect, trail and error, using results as a guide for where it is safe to travel in his own lower depths.
With his thread (of wakefulness), Theseus descends into the dark unconscious while remaining connected with the light of day above.
So, self-healer, if you feel like Theseus, hunting down the Minotaur in a Labyrinth of your own making (your own sub and unconscious) you are not alone!
Ask yourself, Do I know any healers or teachers who appear to primarily give advice?
Ask yourself, Do I know any healers or teachers who appear to work from and with the heart?
Next page: the sequence of self-healing:
self-sensitivity > self-trust > Intuition > self-testing > self-healing
(c) Bruce Dickson 2008. Thank you for respecting my material.
VERBATIM reproduction in all forms encouraged as long as credit is given:
Bruce Dickson, medical intuitive
IntegrationArts.net 310.287.2813
Want more? More articles like this at IntegrationArts.net > Free Stuff > Publications > Articles. Want books? See the Three Selves books. at IntegrationArts.net > Publications.
Want 1:1 coaching sessions to get unstuck in your self-healing process? 310-287-2813 I take final calls at 9:30 PST. $35 per half hour, an investment in awakening your inner healer.
Need SIMPLER instruction in self-healing than this post? Eight BEGINNING self-healing EXERCISES are given in the book Self-Healing 101! available at Lulu.com and in Oct 08 at Amazon.com. Posts below are further and deeper exercises and techniques self-healers are using today, applicable to most energetic and quick-release modalities. See what value you can get out of them!
Practitioners of ANY self-healing modality are encouraged to post here via comments. If of value to the group, I will share your post with all.
