Sing Your Song
The Troubadour Thread
The Self
There are so many prescriptive practice that tell us how to act or how to be. What practices we should do. Some say we should practice stoicism, or hedonism, intermittent fasting, keto, veganism, whatever. There are a bunch of different systems that define what it means to be a person as a collection of attributes: Enneagrams, Genekeys, Clifton Strength, Human Design, Myers Briggs, Astrology, The Tarot (in many different flavors)
My conclusion is that we are all different and have to create our own path. We can pick and choose and mix and match from practices and protocols, but we cannot model ourselves on another person imitation is not the way… it is creation. I think about Jung’s analysis of the Imitation of Christ, which Jung writes about in many places. The Imitation of Christ is not about copying Christ, it’s not mimesis. Rather, it’s about finding the Christ in yourself, the divinity or higher self, and expressing that.
Troubadours!
So back to archetypes. Christ is an archetype. I recently did a practice where I attempted to embody the archetype of the troubadour. I looked at images of troubadours, I listened to troubadour music, I walked and interacted how I might imagine a Troubadour to do these things. This I suppose is similar to meditating on images of the Christ, in listening to the Gospels, and in acting similar to the way that Christ acted. But what does it mean to find the troubadour in myself, versus modeling myself on the troubadour.
I imagine the troubadour is the lover, romance, friendship, brotherhood and sisterhood and ecohood, love of the world, the expression of this love through song and poetry and grace. How would I express this with my own unique makeup?
I am looking at a wider swath of troubadours. Here is Violeta Parra.
xo
Meredith