President’s Message

Carroy U. “Cuf” Ferguson 

THE VOICES OF TRANSFORMATIONAL
ARCHETYPAL ENERGIES
The Psychic Energy behind AHP’s Mission
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 I want to use this opportunity to expand on my previous message, which I called “Path of the Bridger,” a path nurtured by what I have called Archetypal Energies.

Again, these are Higher Vibrational Energies with their own transcendent value, purpose, quality, and “voice” unique to the individual that operate deep within our psyches, at both individual and collective levels. And, we tend to experience them as “creative urges” to move us toward our highest good or optimal realities. My purpose in offering this perspective is simply to suggest to AHP members, and other kindred spirits, that there has been and continues to be profound Energy Sources that support the nature of our individual and collective work in the world. Hopefully, this suggestion simply serves as a reminder or affirmation for why we do what we do. However, it is the “voices” of a particular set of Archetypal Energies that I call Transformational Archetypal Energies which I think serve as the primary “Psychic Energy” behind AHP’s mission and “kindred spirits on the edge.” While I have mentioned them in other writings for AHP, I have not yet said that much about the nature of these “voices” (or feeling–action tones) and their Psychic Energy.

There are three kinds of Archetypal Energies, as I have come to understand them, although I have identified 25 of them that seem to cut across various racial/cultural/ethnic lines. Again, I use easily recognized terms to evoke a common sense of these Archetypal Energies. The “voices” of what I call Foundational Archetypal Energies (e.g., Trust; Humor; Hope; Courage) assist in establishing a personality structure with Qualities, a foundation, that allows the person to entertain the possibility of choosing to grow, to expand, to move Higher, and to do so by choosing a path of growth with Joy. The “voices” of what I call Transformational Archetypal Energies (e.g., Love; Acceptance; Inclusion; Harmony) support efforts to change the foci and preferences of one’s Consciousness and support the blending, transformations, transcendences, and transmutations of Energies as people make authentic contact with Higher aspects of themselves and with Higher aspects of others. The “voices” of what I call Spiritually Integrative Archetypal Energies (e.g., Understanding; Peace; Wisdom; Unity) often “mirror” and “reflect” the integration of the Ego-driven aspects of ourselves with the Higher aspects of ourselves, while encouraging us to “be” who we truly are (our Authentic or True Self) and to “act out” the Qualities of this state of Being in the world. Here, however, I want to focus briefly on the “voices” of the four Transformational Archetypal Energies, which, I think, have guided and continue to gently guide AHP’s creative and transformational mission in the world.

My view, therefore, is that AHP has been/is supported and inspired by the “voices” of the four Transformational Archetypal Energies: Love, Acceptance, Inclusion, and Harmony. Below is an attempt to “mirror” these “voices,” as I have come to know them. I present these “voices” as if there is a Higher aspect of each person talking directly to each personality, as a listener, about these four Archetypal Energies. My intention here is to co-create vibrational resonance. As I have previously mentioned, these and the other Archetypal Energies, are explored more in detail in my forthcoming book, Evolving the Human Race Game: A Spiritual and Soul-Centered Perspective. A Higher aspect of a person, therefore, might describe the Transformational Archetypal “voices” as follows:

• Love is a state of Being and feeling and a state of doing. It is the Source feeling-tone and Authentic Essence or Soul Quality behind all creative acts. Love has no limits, nor does it perceive anything against which it must defend itself, for indeed it is a part of all creations. Love is the Authentic Essence of who you are in your infinite expressions and multidimensional forms, as the Universe has given you birth with it. Love is everemerging, unconditionally, and ever-expansive. Love is the only feeling that transmutes, transforms, and transcends all levels of Consciousness. As the prime moving force, Love is the strongest and gentlest force in your Universe. Love is, and is to be freely given and received. Love “grounds” you and is your birthright. However, Love can only be given by the giver. Love is the primary line of communication to All-That-Is.

• Acceptance is an Energy aspect of Authentic Essence or a Soul Quality that re-positions you internally and externally and urges you to examine, to embrace, and to love all aspects of who you are and what is so. In this regard, Acceptance has a function of opening the door for Love so that Love can transform and transmute other energies, a function that ultimately also allows you to transcend what may appear as opposites or polarities at some levels of Consciousness. Acceptance acts as a bridge between Lower and Higher Centers of Consciousness and serves as a doorway to and for your creative imagination. As such, Acceptance is a doorway for envisioning alternative possibilities. Acceptance is also a doorway for experiencing the wholeness of your Self and for seeing more of the Whole or Source Energy/Spirit or All-That-Is.

• Inclusion is an Energy aspect of Authentic Essence or a Soul Quality that urges you to expand your Consciousness as you become more and more of who you are. In expanding your Consciousness, this Archetypal Energy assists you in embracing more and more of your Self as an aspect of Source Energy/Spirit or All-That-Is from the standpoint of your unique perspective. Inclusion functions to nurture your movement through the doorway that Acceptance opened so that Love can expand and move forward (outward), allowing you to experience more and more of your Self. Energetically and vibrationally, then, Inclusion works along with or is a companion for the Archetypal Energies Love and Acceptance. In this light, Inclusion also urges you to seek and to find communality with others.

• Harmony is an Energy aspect of Authentic Essence or a Soul Quality that facilitates the creation of constructive outcomes for all Spiritual blending. Harmony also encourages, nurtures, and supports the give-and-take of all Energetic exchanges–physical, mental, emotional, and Spiritual– using the principle of balance. Harmony is one of the Qualities, along with Beauty, that sets the stage for the emergence of Joy. Harmony facilitates the vibrational and energetic work between your Higher and Lower Consciousness and Soul contacts by acting as an “ideal maintenance form” to move toward, once Acceptance has created a bridge and opened the door for Love. Harmony is therefore the Archetypal Energy that emerges when aspects of your Self and/or others are “touched” by Love (i.e., you get in “touch” with the Love inside of you and others) and is the Archetypal Energy that remains as a vibrational and energetic reflection (the reflected outcome) of the nature of Love.

In my view, the “voices” of these four Transformational Archetypal Energies serve as the “Psychic Energy” behind what we do as an Association, and they fuel our individual and collective work in the world, as well as the work of other kindred spirits. Archetypal Energies, however, are multidimensional in nature, seeking “form” and “expression.” In this dimension, this is done in the context of “free will,” or the context and gift of “choice.” So, a primary challenge for each person is to recognize that s/he has a choice to give these Transformational Archetypal Energies “form” and “expression” in her/his own unique way, to channel them through one’s own unique creations and co-creations, and to allow them to “flow” more freely through one’s individual and collective relationships and work. The Transformational Archetypal Energies position each person to shift her/his Consciousness in such a way as to focus on the creation and co-creations of optimal individual and collective realities. In this light, AHP is an organized “form” and “expression” of these Transformational Archetypal Energies, mirroring their “voices” through its transformational mission for all—locally, nationally, and internationally—who choose to engage a shift in Consciousness toward optimal individual and collective realities.


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