Warrior King Magician Lover Pdf

[Katina Piccirilli]

KingWarrior, Magician, Lover (1990) is a classic manosphere staple for men looking into self-development.

The book mixes solid psychology with religion, myth, and self-development practices to teach men how to find their own highest version of masculinity.

Douglas Gillette describes himself as holding a B.A. in Theater and Communications and a Master of Arts of Religious Studies from the University of Chicago (emphasis in Religion and Literature), and a Master of Divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary (emphasis in Religion and Psychology). He also engages in artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpting, and interior design.

It bears the same relationship to the other three mature masculine potentials as the Divine Child does to the other three immature masculine energies.

It comes first in importance, and it underlies and includes the rest of the archetypes in perfect balance. The good and generative King is also a good Warrior, a positive Magician, and a great Lover. And yet, with most of us, the King comes on line last.

We could say that the King is the Divine Child, but seasoned and complex, wise. and in a sense as selfless as the Divine Child is cosmically self-involved.

In its central incorporation and expression of the Warrior, it represents aggressive might when that is what is needed when order is threatened. It also has the power of inner authority. It knows and discerns (its Magician aspect) and acts out of this deep knowingness. It delights in us and in others (its Lover aspect) and shows this delight through words of authentic praise and concrete actions that enhance our lives.

Instead of reacting with the compassion of the life-giving King who knows what his men are up against, Patton flies into a rage and slaps the soldier across the face, calls him a coward. humiliates and abuses him, and sends him from the hospital to the from lines.

Though he does not know it. what he has seen is the face of his own hidden fear and weakness projected onto another. He has glimpsed the Weakling within.

The heroic General Patton.

Though immensely imaginative, creative, and inspiring to his troops, at

least at times sabotaged himself with his risk-taking, his immature

competition with the British General Montgomery, and his insightful

but boyishly brash remarks.

Rather than being assigned a mission for which his true talent qualified him {to head the Allied invasion of Europe, for instance). He was sidelined precisely because he was a hero and not fully a warrior.

In addition to training, what enables a Warrior to reach clarity of thought is living with the awareness of his own imminent death. The Warrior knows the shortness of life and how fragile it is. A man under the guidance of the Warrior knows how few his days are. Rather than depressing him, this awareness leads him to an outpouring of life-force and to an intense experience of his life that is unknown to others. Every act counts.

We live in a time when people are generally uncomfortable with the

Warrior form of masculine energy, and for good reasons.

Women especially are uncomfortable with it since they have often

been the most direct victims of its shadow expressions.

A contemporary image of the Warrior turned passionless killing machine is, of course, Darth Vader from the Star Wars saga. It is alarming how many boys and adolescents identify with him. In this same connection, it is also alarming how many of these young men become members of survivalist and neo-Nazi groups.

If we are accessing the Warrior appropriately, we will be energetic, decisive, courageous, enduring, persevering, and loyal to some greater good beyond our own personal gain.

We will light good fights in order to make the world a better and more fulfilling place for everyone and everything. Our war making will be for the creation of the new, the just, and the free.

The Lover is deeply sensual-sensually aware and sensitive to the physical world in all its splendor. The Lover is related and connected to them all, drawn into them through his sensitivity.

His sensitivity leads him to feel compassionately and empathetically united with them. For the man accessing the Lover. all things are bound to each other.

The Lover needs the Warrior in order to be able to act decisively, in order to detach from the web of immobilizing sensuality, and he needs the Magician to help him back off from the ensnaring effect of his emotions.

He is passionate and has a sense of wonder and a deep appreciation for connectedness with his inner depths, with others, and with all things.

He is warm. related. and affectionate. He also expresses. through his experience of connectedness to Mother (the primal relationship for almost all of us), the origins of what we can call spirituality. T

his Mother is not his real, mortal mother.

She is bound to disappoint him much of the time in his need for connectedness and perfect or infinite, love and nurturing. Rather, the Mother that he is sensing beyond his own, beyond all the beauty and feeling (what the Greeks called eros) in the things of the world.

The Hero is, in fact. only an advanced form of Boy psychology-the most advanced form. The peak, actually, of the masculine energies of the boy, the archetype that characterizes the best in the adolescent stage of development. Yet it is immature. and when it is carried over into adulthood as the governing archetype, it blocks men from full maturity.

Little later he says that businessmen with a warrior ethos have sex with their staff supposedly because warriors see women as fun.

Again, the authors fail to see and understand general evolutionary psychology.

Modern subatomic physics, it has been said, looks very much like Eastern mysticism as it approaches the intuited insights of Hinduism and Taoism.

This new physics is discovering a microworld beneath our seemingly solid macroworld of sense perceptions.

The same is true of depth psychology.

Jung, as he was making his first maps of the unconscious, was struck by the similarities between what he was discovering about the energy flows and the archetypal patterns in the human psyche and the quamum physics

This felt a bit convoluted and like a description that was made up to fit the model, instead of the other way around.

So he is introverted, or extroverted? Because, barring ambiverts and introverts who learned to act more extrovertedly, introversion and extraversion are usually understood as mutually exclusive.

I think that initiation at too early an age can easily be a form of oppression and, potentially, abusive. Initiation is about foisting and forcing values and culture into someone who is still too young to decide whether he wants to be part of that culture and way of living.

His energy comes from envy. The less a man is in touch with his true

talents and abilities. the more he will envy others. If we envy a lot. we

are denying our own realistic greatness. our own Divine Child. What

we need to do, then, is to get in touch with our own specialness. our

own beauty. and our own creativity. Envy blocks creativity.

The Know-It-All Trickster has no heroes. because to have heroes is to admire others. We can only admire others if we have a sense of our own worthiness. and a developing sense of security about our own creative energies.

Most eye-opening for me were the Warrior and King archetypes, together with their shadows.

Most of all, I was wowed because this book reflected some of the values and ideals of this website, and it helped expand on them.

One of the values of this website said:

Most important thing is that we are at all times incarnating an archetype or its shadow side. In every situation. So if you don't like how you behaved, you can think about what kind of energy you were representing. Were you too aggressive, so maybe The Sadist, the shadow side of the Warrior? How would a noble king have behaved? (Very interesting the idea of the king, that is actually in service of its people. Much like in LOTR)

I read a lot of books about archetypes and his book is the best on the subject. He also has some books on the specific archetypes. For example one of his book specifically focuses on the magician archetype. Unfortunately those book are out of press and you can only find low quality pdfs. There are some rare copies on the internet but it is like 150-250 for a second hand copy.

But updated for our current 21st century with less jargon. In our current times the Magician and Lover archetypes are more embraced and the King (Sovereign) archetype is the least one compared that to original Robert Moore's work where he says the lover archetype is the least embraced one

Thoden too has been through his own struggle with impotence and despair. When we first met him in the darkness of Meduseld we saw the contrast that Tolkien drew between the glory of Eorl the Young, celebrated in a tapestry that adorns the walls of the hall, and the shrivelled old man imprisoned within his own mind and the whisperings of Grima Wormtongue. Gandalf liberates the true Thoden and does so to such effect that just a few days later Thoden is able to lead his people on the glorious charge against the hosts of Mordor massed against the gates of Minas Tirith.

Thoden manifests the energy of the king and the warrior archetypes in their most positive way. As a true king he shows his people that he will die in their defence. As a true warrior he hurls himself into the forefront of the battle with such force that he is able to turn the direction of the battle. Even the Lord of the Nazgl himself must leave his long cherished triumphant entry into the city in order to deal with the new threat. And as a warrior king Thoden focuses the energies of all his people onto one goal and that is the defeat of their enemies. So truly does he manifest these energies that all his people are as one with him upon the charge, even the frightened Merry.

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