SPIRITUAL AI

Soul’s Code: Chapter 2 Growing Down James Hillman addresses in Chapter Two the process of growing down in order to find your daimon, and the power of the archetypes existing there. “Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkenings and despairings that the soul requires to deepen into life. For existence, how it comes to be and where it might be going, and what its tasks could be.” American culture is willing to do almost anything rather than confront the darkness of growing down. Advertising spends billions of dollars exploiting psychology’s discoveries to tempt, distract, and convince consumers to part with their hard-earned money. Its efficacy can be found in the shallowness of their culture. The lengths, as individuals, we are willing to go in order to avoid our daimon. Consequently, we remain alienated from our Self, and vulnerable to all the manipulation of a variety of scoundrels.