Caroline Myss - The Monster (The Power of Archetypes)

Hello, Everybody -
We're going to do an archetype video today. This time, I am responding to requests. And one of the archetypes I am getting requests for, which surprises me, is the monster. So I looked at this and thought, the monster archetype, alright, I'll go there.
The first thing I want to say about the monster archetype is that it goes back forever. Societies have had monsters because so much of the monster's evolution comes from mythic times and trying to understand power and the order of nature. And when something falls out of the order of nature, it's assigned power that human beings don't usually have. So, monsters represent a whole spectrum of power that the ordinary mortal doesn't have or doesn't want.
There's a part of us that finds the monster archetype incredibly intriguing because becoming conscious is so rigorous. You become more aware that every choice and every word packs a punch. The monster archetype offers liberation from the constant effort that being a conscious, good person requires. So you say, I don't want to live that high. And a monster doesn't have to. What a monster gets to do is disregard every rule that makes us human.
But, our goodness always wants to believe we can defeat that.
Okay, this was something. Thank you all.
Love,
Caroline
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Caroline Myss is a five-time New York Times bestselling author and internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition. Caroline established her own educational institute in 2003, CMED (Caroline Myss Education), which offers a diverse array of programs devoted to personal development and draws students from all over the world. In addition to her written work, Caroline maintains a rigorous international workshop and lecture schedule and has produced more than eighty audio/visual products on subjects that include healing, spirituality, personal development, and the study of archetypes.
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[@madamcjwalker67]

Love Caroline. 💜❤️💚💛 It did occur 2 me that we are the monsters we need to conquer in order to enter the galactic community. Even the kindest among us have work to do.

[@janetfruhauf4467]

Fascinating archetype! Especially in these times we live in. Spot on, thanks Caroline ❤

[@lisakiraly5856]

So true … love this true information.. only as Caroline could deliver!! Love this lady .. the BEST modern mystic I have ever known 🙏

[@aspasiaholley]

I adore these Caroline. Thank you 🙏🏽 So many key points and takeaways. ❤ Being liberated by the dark. Holy moly! That’s powerful. I have to watch this again. 😂 Jampacked with great insights. Infinite love and gratitude

[@carolsampietro9873]

Thank you, Caroline! This is great and perfectly timely!❤

[@samanthapaitakispp]

Thank you for sharing this wisdom, Caroline.

[@pussycatmessages]

Thanks so much. Listening reminds me of when I read all of Anne Rice's vampire novels. What intrigued me was the desire of the older vampires to discover the origin of 'evil' and how they became vampires. It's a big, big topic to explore.

[@marleneschick4768]

Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are is a classic! Max, the child sent to bed without his supper (time out), ends up controlling all the wild things! It's a story about power and the child is the one with power!

[@Starleneschwark]

Thank you, Caroline. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@lovefluidart3120]

Thank you so much for this amazing video- always full of timeless wisdom. Much love.

[@dollcrazy300]

I think the monster represents our dark side, which we disown but love in a different (separate) character because in this world the monster is, like you said, free to do anything it wants no matter how vicious or destructive. Our own dark sides want to be that free and uninhibited. So we admire, but blame the monster for the cruelty in the world and therefore don’t have to look inward and do the often painful and hard work to “tame” our inner monster. However we could instead study the monster outside in order to understand the monster inside, which thereby controls it. The question is, do we really want to control it?

[@Silvermoonscorpion]

I've learned to give gratitude, grace and appreciation to my inner monster(s). They are potent teachers and messengers. Sometimes protective. How they came to be, the why of them is very interesting. Once I see them, understand them, they usually stop their screams for attention.

[@dollcrazy300]

@@Silvermoonscorpion Yep! 👏🏾

[@mariaroqueta3135]

YIPPIE!!!! I was waiting and I requested this archetype ✨🫶✨ thank u thank u thank u Caroline!🤍

[@onceagaindc]

We are around so many monsters in people rightnow we just want to be aware caroline. Thank you

[@RenneCR]

That was great! I'm writing a novella and the protagonist must confront how her humanity has been swept away and she's turned into a monster. TY!

[@pablopereyra6328]

It would be interesting to explore the monster as a way to access that above average strength/force in a controlled way. I’m thinking about the Hulk, how injustices made him mad and then he released his anger against the oppressor. Maybe a cautionary tale for the ones who exercise power without restraint. They may unleash forces beyond their own.

[@amandadavis8855]

Thank you so much for this Caroline! What a great explanation of what I myself have learned and experienced about human nature, beautifully expressed with such grace and intelligence. Excellent sharing, just excellent. Thank you so much for your wisdom!!

[@angelagholson4988]

Letting people like that in your life is a life or death situation. Some call it narcissism, just straight monsters.

[@gr8hndz4u]

Fascinating Thank you 🙏

[@maryannribble3254]

Check out Irene Lyon’s work - As an attachment parenting / trauma informed ( was a single mom & helped care for 4 of my grandchildren ) person - I truly believe the survival and evolution of the human species ; depends upon becoming conscious of and engaging with understanding &. Compassion - the monsters within us ! ❤ thank you Caroline , for this wonderful study !!

[@AEBodyAlchemy]

I love all your content and we are regularly listeners. I am also one of your many, many students. The thread I am following through your examples The Shape of Water, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Frankenstein is that the "monsters" in each of those stories were full of compassion and what we could call goodness. As a parent, I feel that the embrace of monsters is an effort to help teach my child to look deeper that another's skin. I am working to help my kiddo and the kiddos I work with in my practice to look inside each person, to pay attention to their energy and to not get caught up in physical differences. The true monsters in each of the three examples above are the "normal looking" or wealthy humans, while those with the monstrous appearances are the conscious and compassionate beings. So I wonder if the embrace of The Monster, in its light, is about the embrace of seeing others more deeply.

[@Ariadne-lo6yu]

I thought another important side of monsters are to be impulsive , the instinctual energy (which can help you survive ) is not rising to higher possibilities. A narcissic impulse , (concentrated version of reality turned to self only, no empathy, no inclusion of others reality and life force)… Thanks for those precious videos !

[@theravenmagick]

Yes!!!! Let’s do the BEAST!!!! I was soooooo unconsciously interwoven into beauty and beast. Hades and Persephone, vampires too (but as you mentioned is so astonishing as it’s a predator) and also dragon mythos too….. PAIN IS PLEASURABLE for many in these mythic archetypal “kinks” I’d be honoured to discuss it further with you anytime!

[@lilatemelovski4561]

The movie ‘Arrival’ is also another great movie that demonstrates the monster/alien archetype tertraphilia with Amy Adams

[@leilareginaleite3644]

My Dear I love listening to you🙏🏼

[@cherylvigliante8756]

Another wonderful episode, thank you. Helped me put many things into perspective.

[@louannebridges2417]

Well said Carolyn. Nice to know Im not alone in seeing this

[@cmralph...]

Thank you for this. So interesting and pertinent to our current societal timeline.

[@adejohan]

Oh my God! Thank you so much Caroline for dissecting this archetype. Such deeper insights into this archetype is fascinating.

[@brendasmart553]

Monsters also ties in with the Badboy syndrome & those drawn to them, or vise versa.

[@lcfiddles]

My sisters are monsters, never reflecting, but instead love darkness, who follow the political monsters ruining our psyche. Everyone knows who he is! who they are! So she says it. Thanks to her. Love her courage.

[@mannie2075]

I am so blessed who catch up with your amazing beautiful lessons dear Caroline!!☀️💎✨👌🙏❤️💪🏼💃🏻🦋♊️💕🌸🌞😘🥰 Thank you so very very much and much love from Sweden and we are doing this together ✨🙏🥰👌❤️☀️🌞😘💃🏻💎🦋💕🌟

[@Starleneschwark]

Great workshop!🙏💜

[@lwamp5230]

This was very informative. Thank you!

[@sharonmassey2923]

Nice to hear Notre Dame pronounced correctly.

[@lisabrown1114]

Sesame Street built a whole learing framesork around monsters and hidden figures Cookie monster, the count mr snufflelapogous, to name a few.

[@heriport6654]

Deep

[@Urspo]

The need for monsters reminds me of the last line in the poem Waiting for the barbarians: Now what's going to happen to us without barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

[@maitevankoutrik5869]

Fascinating! I’m hooked on your archetypes video’s. Was wondering if you can do one on the architect/engineer? 😊

[@Colodreamer2731]

Amazingly true...

[@michaelanthony386]

In the short-term it doesn't take effort to be a monster but it definitely does in the long term.

[@TaalluullaahhBaabbyy]

Wonderful❤

[@Amelia_PC]

About using monsters instead of angels, I think it has to do with the 'familiarity breeds contempt' effect. As people became more materialistic, the idea that we should only listen to beautiful things became a kind of outdated role model from the baby boomer generation. Publishers then used monsters to challenge this concept. Unfortunately, most people need something shocking to grab their attention, so monsters became a popular choice. I remember being the odd kid out who listened to the monsters instead of the angels. As a child, I thought I wasn't pretty, and the monsters resonated with me. For other kids, the monster figures were appealing because they were rebellious. In the 80s and 90s, no one expected an angel to challenge the status quo. Well, my childhood was steeped in the hip-hop and punk era, after all! XD Do I like monsters today? Nope. I prefer angels, literally.

[@FeralCoot]

thank you

[@marthaneel6990]

Thanks a lot for another wonderful video, Caroline! Will you do the shaman / exorcist at some point? 🙏

[@spawnkie]

I always thought characterization of a monster varies. There are physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual "monsters"? I think monsters are an extreme of a perspective across from angels, for example. They are the same thing but different extremes, dark and light if you will. I also suppose it goes toward your definition of a monster. I have met some people would deem as monsters due to their physical deformity, but they have the kindest souls. I liked your ending line: people always think they can overcome the monsters. Thank you for the new word: teratophillia!

[@vivianedivine2835]

Monsters gives us the chance to be heroes

[@Francis-sb5tx]

👏👏👏

[@lorenaderivera9095]

Tks for your knowlegde, super intesting

[@kryptic_trades]

Teratophilia - Since so much of our sexual attraction is a distorted image blossomed from the desire to act out or heal subconscious childhood patterns/dynamics, I wonder if some of this attraction comes from the fantasy of knowing that a monster could inflict great pain & misery on you if they wanted to.... but because they love you so much, they're willing to fight against their very nature to protect you instead.

[@rosemarydunaif9158]

You need to read The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tails by Bruno Bettelheim!

[@brainfog307]

💖Thank you Caroline monster was a nickname for me by my older narcissistic sister - I’m a skinny autistic creature when she’s a huge strong tall and angry- maybe she was scared of me after all 🧐

[@Francis-sb5tx]

She definitely was, she just couldn't show it because that would mean that she's inferior.

[@metalrabbit09]

I'm enjoying the age of people, including authoritative ones, beginning to question the dictates of the Corporatocracy, Neoliberalism, and more. There had been no adults in the room for a very long time.

[@Francis-sb5tx]

👏👏👏

[@jla8070]

Yes, imprisoned by the dark. And indigenous people talk about the cannibalistic windigo spirit the more it eats the hungrier it gets. .

[@PetruViljoen-cy3gh]

Jack the Ripper received 40 love letters from women once he was jailed.

[@brendasmart553]

That's still a prison thing, love letters written to the perps remain a constant! Penpal hopefuls too.

[@PetruViljoen-cy3gh]

@@brendasmart553 Crazy!

[@LadyPC]

Elephantitus ❤

[@shengdavis4597]

You are so lovely❤️❤️❤️

[@marwametzler4368]

It is fascinating to me how you still bring up examples from history & manage to avoid & ignore mentioning our current-time monster entities carrying out g3nocid3s daily since over 6 months! I love all your work, yet I keep waiting for you to speak truth to power on this topic & address it openly. Where are those conscious aware spiritual leaders of our age & why are they all concerned more about their brand & being banded than about speaking TRUTH? Maybe you’ll dive into the archetype of a leader if you haven’t yet!

[@lilatemelovski4561]

Monsters on Sesame Street for kids.

[@angelrobles9068]

Is she saying that you cannot get out of the monster prison - like there’s no cure or fix for this?

[@lillymadsen5594]

The real monster is an office and the people that are really driving this country. It’s disgusting it’s despicable.

[@Lioness_of_Gaia]

How disappointing that politics were brought into this, with name calling.

[@pablopereyra6328]

Insatiable greed and need for power

[@ariana7436]

I love Caroline and her work, and am working through my archetypes right now. But yes I totally agree that politics should be left out, it puts a damper on the whole message for me.

[@Lioness_of_Gaia]

@@Alextangents That's how you see it. Interesting.

[@ChowForever]

She’s giving examples of monsters, and he is a monster.

[@Lioness_of_Gaia]

@@ariana7436 Yes, me too. This isn't rare for her, either. Disappointing. I'm back to third eye drops, where things are non biased (or at least aware and healing). I'd love it if you'd let me know your favorite y.t. channels, if you have a minute! ✨💚💜💚✨

[@ardeshirafshari1670]

you're this archetype, when you don't wear makeup.

[@abrahammiguel1791]

Qué triste. Esta mujer no sabe nada de literatura ni sabe diferenciar lo que es ficción y realidad.

[@lillymadsen5594]

Well, I love you Carolyn but when you call Trump a monster, I have to disagree with you. I don’t know what planet you’re on.

[@Egle3]

Welcome to "AO3" site :D

[@BUY_YOUTUBE_VIEWS_m004]

Informative!