By Sophie Rouméas
Photography by Nikada
How does one recognize those who are awakened?
Is it by their ability to define
who they are in their soul
and live aligned with?
How they navigate the ocean of interconnectedness?
Plato, Jung, Spinoza, and countless others
mapped the human psyche with archetypes.
We wish to be free, defined by our aspirations,
not only by our actions and reactions.
To succeed in life
is to grasp the usefulness of these codifications,
learn from our behaviors and their implications—
then break free.
When I meet the Other,
I am not in front of a Rebel, a Priestess, a Judge or a Lover,
I am in front of you, with the same rights, the first of which
is to be free and equal in dignity.
Whoever you are, you were not created in my image—
I am not a reflection of you.
We are face to face
to discover the richness of human evolution.
I can ignore what I don't understand about you,
reject what I don't recognize—
or appreciate where you are,
meet you in the middle,
neither at your house nor at mine,
in a space of respect and curiosity,
creating room for sharing and learning
in conversation.
One by one,
I mindfully deactivate the codes of my past.
Then, my shadows can’t activate yours,
nor yours activate mine.
Transference disappears from our reality.
I, you, we
bathe in the lit flow of unity.
From fractional archetypes,
we become the fractal
of harmony.