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What is a Wizard?

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Here, we'll explore Myth, Druidism, Paganism, Chopra's Merlin,
and how the wizard appears in various other cultures.

Various accounts regarding Merlin:
The Lost Years of Merlin, T.A. Barron
The Seven Songs of Merlin, T.A. Barron
The Return of Merlin, by Deepak Chopra
The Way of the Wizard, by Deepak Chopra
The 21 Lessons of Merlyn, by Douglas Monroe
The Book of Merlyn, by T.H. White

Some Web Sites of Interest:

Great Wizards in Fiction & History:

(I'll provide bios as time permits)

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
Swiss psychoanalist; expert on the transformative power of sumbols;
contemporary gnostic.
"What we are to our inward vision, and what a man appears to be sub specie aeternitatis [from the perspective of eternity], can only be expressed by way of myth. Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. Science works with concepts of average which are far to general to do justice to the subjective variety of an individual life"
Memories, Dreams and Relfections

Briefly, 'archtypal images' are images from the collective unconscious.
"Jung describes these archetypal images as 'self-portraits of the insticts.' To put it another way, 'archetypes' are the instictive forces and instictive strategies or ways of behaving; 'archetypal images' are the symbols through which these instinctive things show themselves in dreams. Archetypal images include symbols that occur in mythology: God, Earth Mother, death and resurrection/rebirth, and many more. They are older than you, the individual. They belong to the collective unconscious. On the other hand, an archetype may have numerous images, some of them stemming from the deep collectice unconscious, others from the more superficial personal unconscious. The Femininre is such an archetype. Here are a few of its various images: your own mother; your grandmother; a cow; a cat; a witch; a fairy; a cave; the sea; night. Any one of these symbols appearing in your dreams might be from either the personal or the collective unconscious. As a general rule, says Jung, the more definite the image, the more likely is it to have come from the more superficial layers of the unconscious; the more indefinite the image, the more likely is it to have come from the deeper layers." Experpt from A Dictionary of Dream Symbols, by Eric Ackroyd.