Chanti Tacoronte-Perez
41 / Archetypes
Tags: active imagination, Chanti Tacoronte-Perez, coronavirus, Covid-19, Demonic/ Daimonic, dominant function, dreams, ego, extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hermes, inferior function, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), Pan, Panacea, pandemic, Pandora, serpent, snake, Trickster, Zeus
September 16, 2020

Humanity is being summoned to change its perspective in an assortment of ways. When a pandemic wipes the calendar clean, the heroes are not the rich, successful, and scholarly; the heroes are those at the bottom of the economic hierarchy, the people who are risking their health to maintain normalcy during isolation and self-quarantining.
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Joanna Capelin
32 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Apollo, archetype, ego, ENTP, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), Hermes, Hermetic, integration, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Joanna Capelin, myth, shadow
October 4, 2017

The mythic relationship between Apollo and Hermes personifies a working relationship between two entirely different styles of being the world. Apollo, lord of reason, light, and order, appears fascinated by Hermes—a figure associated with trickery, liminal spaces, and movement. Despite the two gods’ intrinsic tensions, they build a lasting relationship.
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Bernard Neville
01 / Archetypes / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollonian, archetype, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Bernard Neville, Demeter, Dionysian, Dionysos, Eros, Fe, Fi, greek gods, Hades, Hephaistos, Hera, Heracles, Herakles, Hermes, Hero, Hestia, mental processes, Ne, Ni, organizational development, Prometheus, Se, Si, Te, Ti, Trickster, Zeus
October 8, 2010

Organizational behavior, even more than individual, is shaped by myth and unconscious dynamics, rather than by rationality. I have noticed parallels between Jung’s observations of personality type and the gods who were at the centre of the classical Greeks’ understanding of motivation and behavior. The Greek pantheon can provide ways of talking about a wide range of value systems, energies, feeling states, behavior habits . . .
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