Pirate Lesson #1:
Thinking out of the Cave (Box)/Light
In order to be able to comprehend Pirate Psychology and the influence of the Pirate Archetype you must first be able to see it.
To look at the Pirate is to look at the Self. To know the Self (know thyself) has a healing function. There is a dark side to this experience that prevents many from further progress. The dark side of the Self is what psychologists call the shadow. The shadow consists of all the things that you would rather not know, would like to distance yourself from, and deny. To feel safe, we build up (psychological) walls and (metaphorically) live in a "box." The things that we do not want in the box are banished to the Unconscious and remain Unknown.
The "box" seems safe, but it also cuts-off our ability to really know our whole Self and fully experience life. If you wish to stop being limited and controlled by unknown impulses, you must be willing to look "out of the box" and encounter the shadow. Facing the Unknown takes courage, but the rewards are great. This is the Way of the Pirate.
Pirate Lesson #1 is a visual* exercise that is designed to take the viewer from the everyday World of thinking "inside of the box," to a new way of seeing things--out of the box: the Way of the Pirate. Plato had another metaphor for the box, which he described as a "Cave." Many who lived in this cave (box) were afraid to look outside because they did not want to know what Unknown(s) the light might reveal.
Scroll through the series of ten images below for a symbolic "casting-off" on the Voyage of discovery.
To look at the Pirate is to look at the Self. To know the Self (know thyself) has a healing function. There is a dark side to this experience that prevents many from further progress. The dark side of the Self is what psychologists call the shadow. The shadow consists of all the things that you would rather not know, would like to distance yourself from, and deny. To feel safe, we build up (psychological) walls and (metaphorically) live in a "box." The things that we do not want in the box are banished to the Unconscious and remain Unknown.
The "box" seems safe, but it also cuts-off our ability to really know our whole Self and fully experience life. If you wish to stop being limited and controlled by unknown impulses, you must be willing to look "out of the box" and encounter the shadow. Facing the Unknown takes courage, but the rewards are great. This is the Way of the Pirate.
Pirate Lesson #1 is a visual* exercise that is designed to take the viewer from the everyday World of thinking "inside of the box," to a new way of seeing things--out of the box: the Way of the Pirate. Plato had another metaphor for the box, which he described as a "Cave." Many who lived in this cave (box) were afraid to look outside because they did not want to know what Unknown(s) the light might reveal.
Scroll through the series of ten images below for a symbolic "casting-off" on the Voyage of discovery.
The "box"
The 'box' meets the Unknown
Seek the Mystic Bootye!
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Pirate Psychology and the Pirate archetype appear in many ways. But, in order to see this, one must first be able to perceive the Pirate within oneself.
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