Chivalry for the Mind
There are many new psychological models used to diagnose the health and disease of our mind. Few work because they are drug based or they treat the mind as one dimensional. With shadow work, analysis becomes two dimensional but still locked into a solely mental construct. Even if soul is considered or Jungian archetypes analyzed there is still this attempt to dissect the mind from its host to get at its core contradictions. I say there is only one problem and one solution.
The problem is that the mind is designed to be a loyal knight in service to the inner king, but the king is held prisoner in the dungeon while the knight sits upon the throne. The mind has imprisoned the heart. The solution is to set our heart on the throne and take a knee. Until the mind is properly placed with purpose, power and restraint within the body, heart, mind complex it will remain in perpetual psychopathy even if the modern culture supports its disease.
A new model of psychoanalysis based upon bioadministration taps the oldest myth of western civilization of the knight (mind), the princess (heart) and the dragon (body) to place our mind back in its proper service. The fairy tale is generally told as an outer battle for possession of a princess between the knight and the dragon, but its true value lies in observing and analyzing the inner struggle of mind, heart and body.
First we will place the princess and the heart in the triad. To truly be worthy of capture and release in a life and death struggle, the heart must occupy an exalted place. The true princess knows her purity (her connection to the zero point) is her greatest power to rise above any concern for the timing or outcome of any drama being played out between mind and body, hero and dragon. Royalty knows anyone who approaches the throne must be vetted and tested for pure intent. Defenses are designed to perfect or destroy because the whole game of life is centered upon what lies at the heart. If the princess does not own the zero point there is no chance at harmony or victory for any of the three.
Next, the dragon. It is the initiator of the knight that lies deep inside the body and the cave where the princess is “captured”. The dragon’s job is not to win, but to test the worth of the knight. Or said differently, test what the knight will risk death for. The dragon forces the mind to confront their own intent and purity of purpose. In short, to test the mind’s commitment to its own heart. The dragon only dies in the process of ensuring the human protection of the heart’s exaltation.
Then there is the knight on a quest, whether he knows it or not. Many knights (minds) ride around distracted and never engage. Many knights hear the heart’s call for help but see the dark cave and never enter. Some knights upon seeing the dragon fear for their life and run. Then there is the true knight whose own mind must find true purpose within and, once refined, be willing to die for the prize. A mind without true purpose is not even in the game. A knight without true heart service is a menace and the main disease of modern culture.
Life makes use of dragons, knights and princesses of all shapes and sizes. When explored closely much of the cosmonomic motor/generator producing neutralizing force is driven by this triad housed in separate people. The father protects his daughter from older cads. A young woman struggles to hold her ideal of the divine feminine in a fallen world. A man is haunted by the dragon of his failed attempts at love and living behind barricades. The list of cross currents between the three players is nearly endless.
I, for one, am glad to live in an age where romantic love is a major driver of human interaction and this three player myth as a founding ethos. There are many worlds built on far worse divisions. By my study, nearly all human interactions can be harmonized within the knight, princess, dragon triad because these human events are outer codependent reflections of an inner disturbance within the individual mind, heart, body. For example, when a woman bounces back and forth between the knight (good boy) and the dragon (bad boy) there is no true and lasting escape from the cave until she finds her own knight and her own dragon within.
My goal with this dive into codependent psychotherapy is to simply point to another star in the bioadministration firmament reflecting our outer nature to our inner nature. As above, so below. As within, so without. If we want to change anything in our outer world, we have the inner chalk board with chalk and eraser to work out the solution. Examine any interpersonal issue in your life with another human being and find out who is the dragon, who is the princess and who is the hero. See yourself as playing a role for the other humans in your drama and them playing a role for you. Honor the game life is calling you to and play your part fully.
But once you see how the game is played and how you have been played by your own internal imbalances attempting to find codependent partners to keep your game alive you might start to see the fastest way to sustainable harmony is within your own internal triad. Step one is to establish right relationship between the three players of mind, heart and body. And since for ninety-plus percent of us in the current age of unlimited, free programmed light with nearly free sugars to feed it, our overly amped minds have not been in the game of internal harmony. The sun must shine within to even see the inner world we came here to master and to serve.
Here is my diagnosis. At times, we are all princesses trapped in a dark cave of despair. We too often guard our heart like toothless dragons with no fire letting ourself be spoiled. And we are our own knight playing king with no kingdom.
So, I encourage each of my readers to begin to see the true nature of our mind and therefore our government. It is our scout. It is our spy. It is our gatekeeper. It is our library. It is our prime minister. Mind is NOT our king. And so the dragon must eat him for lunch.