Why We Do What We Do : Four Pathways to Your Authentic Self

By Caroline Hantske and Therese Emmanuel Grey

Beautifully illustrated poembook describes the story of Sanat Kumara and the 144,000 who came to Earth from Venus to save the planet aeons ago. A timeless epic of hope. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932203311
• ISBN13: 9781932203318
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Sirius Pub Partners
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Man know thyself

I know the authors personally, and have worked with them over a number of years to achieve profound levels of self-knowledge and significant personal transformation. This book is worth buying just for the brilliant recognition that everyone functions through the four archetypes of Father, Mother, Boychild and Girlchild within the four levels of being: spiritual (superconscious), mental (conscious), emotional (subconscious) and physical (unconscious). You might think of this work as combining the best of Jung, inner child work, James Redfield (control dramas), typology, integral psychology, plus the authors many unique and powerful contributions to the field of self-knowledge. Many previous writings on the inner child missed one or more of the key ideas that the child self is divided into a Boychild and a Girlchild, that our adult self is both Father and Mother, and that all four selves have distinctly different loving and unloving aspects. Further, while most previous typology work (Myers-Briggs, DISC, INSIGHTS, etc.) identify 4 orthogonal attributes of personality related to our conscious and perhaps subconscious minds, this is the first typology I am aware of that can accurately characterize our superconscious and unconscious selves as well. This work tied it all together for me to recognize that we have four faces (levels of consciousness) we present to the world -- and that each of those faces has the stamp of a particular archetype. Perhaps most importantly this book gives us tools for self-transformation. One of the most profound tools for me over the years has been a journaling technique (the dialogs), which enable you to directly experience your own inner loving archetypes and free yourself from the limitation of the archetypal combination you have inherited. The next 4 paragraphs summarize the four archetypes in the four levels of consciousness as I understand them. If you don't care for detail, thanks for reading thus far and skip to the last paragraph. Our superconscious archetype gives us a lens through which we see God and it defines our highest aspirations. If you function through the superconscious Father archetype, you see God as the lawgiver, the great architect of the Universe -- the Mosaic God (or the big bang), and you aspire to discipline, rules, order and structure. If I function through superconscious Boychild I see God as the savior or the warrior, and I aspire to be a great actor on the stage of life. If we function through the superconscious Mother archetype, then we see God as the unconditionally loving Divine Mother, and we aspire to nurture, teach, and guide all home. As is the case for me, the superconscious Girlchild archetype has me aspiring to God as the Holy Spirit, the ineffable indescribable mystery behind all life - seeking to convert and be converted. Our conscious archetype is how we think, and is the archetype that we function through most of the time. If you are one of the very few who function t

Marie Lepeltier, MA, Doctoral Student in Psychology

The principles of this book are timeless. It offers highly valuable tools for being more authentic and loving with oneself and with others.