Now, most of the time we’re like tortoises-we carry our shells, our homes, on our backs, and we find that all the problems and personality traits we had in the past come with us into the new environment. Your world shifts from one environment to another. That’s also what happens when you travel (Hermes is the god of travel). You’re changing yourself, or your world, from one thing to another. Transforming reality is really another way of crossing boundaries and making connections. In this way, many of his skills involve not just movement, but transformation. He likes to move things and people and information from one place to another, and from one state to another. He is quick and agile, traveling with the speed of thought. Hermes likes to move-physically, mentally, emotionally. But a few good phrases that make a noble attempt would be “making connections” “crossing boundaries” “transforming reality.” But what concept? What is the unifying principle there? The archetype pulls together most of the points in that bullet list I shared, into a single gestalt concept. Hermes is MUCH more than just communication and messages. I think the reason for that is because in our current society, we don’t have a simple frame of reference for this archetype. But the more I spent time with Hermes, the more I realized there was this much deeper aspect to this god and archetype than I had initially conceived. I mean, there was the simple aspect of “God of quick thought and communication” that I could get in touch with. Hermes initially felt like a very foreign archetype for me. Trickster who likes to fuck with our sense of reality God of language and rhetoric and writing God of diplomats, businessmen, and traders God of communication (and miscommunication) Hermes and His Children.Let’s talk about Hermes. I realize perhaps this crash has actually improved things for the better, and everything feels calm and beautiful.” REFERENCES: I look to my left and see that some of the debris from the island has landed in the water, which allowed for a bike path to be built from our land to the island, across the water. The island looks a lot less ominous in shape. It’s been totally reconstructed by the crash of the boats (which are no longer visible). The shape of the island across the water is totally different.

The next morning, we wake up, and it’s a beautiful day. There is a lot of destruction – so much dust and debris, and the sky gets very hazy. I can see them fall slowly off the top of the island to the base. As we anticipate an enormous crash, we take shelter.

We all realize they’re about to fall as they’re balanced precariously. There is a theory they went ashore when the water level was higher, but we all know that doesn’t make much sense… we would have seen them there long ago, but in this case, they just appeared, seemingly out of nowhere.

They’re huge, a third of the height of the island. All of the sudden, we all realize there are three enormous boats that look like cruise ships balancing on the edge of the top of the island. It’s a beautiful day, close to sunset, and the view is gorgeous. It looks like Devil’s Tower in Wyoming (the one in Close Encounters of the Third Kind), but this island is lush, tropical, and Jurassic. Some of the people I know, some I do not. “I’m on a piece of inhabited land, by the shore, with many others in a beach town. How we perceive his message is not his interest. Hermes is the symbol of a living reality seeking conscious acknowledgment, the agent of creativity and transformation. Olympus to the underworld of Hades–Hermes now swifts his way from the unconscious to ego awareness. Just as he alone traversed the realms–from the heights of Mt. Hermes disdains regulation and law to deliver new ideas, dissolve opposites, and provide decisive experiences. Like the quicksilver that is his Roman name, Mercury/Hermes appears on winged sandals, heralding the new. God of jokes and journeys, thieves and magicians, the tricky Guide of Souls” arrives as a surprise. Kerenyi found in Hermes a representation of “a third way of living life, besides the Apollonian rational and the Dionysian irrational. Karl Kerenyi collaborated with Jung in demonstrating the psychological meaning of Greek mythology.

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