Better life by knowing yourself and being more conscious The archetypal test 'Gods in You' is a good way to start to study yourself. It helps you to recognize the basic structure of your unconscious mind. We learn our emotional abilities and behavioral patterns by imitating our parents. Their conscious teachings is not very important. The real thing is their concrete behavior based on their own emotional patterns. Emotions in us gives energy to our behavior. Every culture gives patterns for coping with these emotions. The everyday consciousness is often only superficial explanations, which does not have very much to do with real behavior. When our parents give us advices, they tell their ideas and hopes about good behavior. They are not even themselves behaving according to them. The unconscious behavioral and emotional patterns have been guiding them and they are also guiding us. These patterns are called archetypes. These archetypal patterns can be thousand years old. They are changing slowly and are coming mainly unconsciously by imitation from gone generations to coming generations. This learning proses is helped by the structure of language and its sayings. Our whole folklore with mythic stories are their 'coach'. This test helps you to find these old patterns which are guiding you. Because the archetypes are different for different position in the family the test gives a structure of archetypal patterns. It gives one kind of comparable value to different role-players in the family. So the test shows also how important your mother and father and your sisters and brothers has been to you. The structure of our unconscious mind is patterned by our culture and by the positions of the different role-players in our family. The family is the only place for a child to grow up. When we grow up amidst the familial archetypes, the needed independence cannot be found until we separate ourselves from the family. There is an inner need in us to live our life in a special way. Because there is not another person like you, you may have a special gift to give for whole mankind. It may be new way of life, new way to love, new poem and so on. Therefore the culture offers also archetypes, which guide us to find our own way of life, which is same as to find one's soul. Otherwise we do not get fulfillment in our life. So we need also archetypes which has been viewed as heros in fairytales an mythic stories. They appear as male guide and hermit for man and wise woman and strong woman for women. These help us to find real, unselfish love. Without love we do not reach fulfillment in our life. Without love we are not anything. This test also helps us to be more conscious. The mythic stories tell us that from the beginning of mankind the light of consciousness has been important. With this consciousness human being became human. It is our godlike special ability. We can be like an outside attendant of our life. Because of this ability, we can worry about the goodness of our life. To develop our consciousness we can learn to live better. As many old as well as modern spiritual teachers (like Eckhart Tolle) say, by becoming conscious of our doings much of our pain and our anxiety disappears and good things like happiness and peace of mind get more space in us. In the Gospel of Thomas there is saying: "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." Archetypes found by the test can be used to develop our emotional abilities. For example, if you are strong in father or mother archetypes without having small children, you can start to dominate grown-up others and cause problems. You can learn to diminish their power in your life. When you are strong in sister or/and brother archetypes you may cause problems by start to compete with friends and colleges. So you may develop jealousy and quarrels. This kind of archetypes disturb also marital relationships. Instead we can develop the archetypes with help to live better life. The archetypes of wise woman and hermit give abilities alert consciousness and find peace of mind. The archetypes of lover helps us to love and archetypes of seeker and strong woman guides us to deeper emotional abilities to be a man and a woman Here is some background knowledge for the different archetypes, which you can find using the test.

Better life by knowing yourself and

being more conscious

The archetypal test 'Gods in You' is a good way to start to study yourself. It helps you to recognize the basic structure of your unconscious mind.

We learn our emotional abilities and behavioral patterns by imitating our parents. Their conscious teachings is not very important. The real thing is their concrete behavior based on their own emotional patterns. Emotions in us gives energy to our behavior. Every culture gives patterns for coping with these emotions. The everyday consciousness is often only superficial explanations, which does not have very much to do with real behavior.

When our parents give us advices, they tell their ideas and hopes about good behavior. They are not even themselves behaving according to them. The unconscious behavioral and emotional patterns have been guiding them and they are also guiding us. These patterns are called archetypes.

These archetypal patterns can be thousand years old. They are changing slowly and are coming mainly unconsciously by imitation from gone generations to coming generations. This learning proses is helped by the structure of language and its sayings. Our whole folklore with mythic stories are their 'coach'. This test helps you to find these old patterns which are guiding you. Because the archetypes are different for different position in the family the test gives a structure of archetypal patterns. It gives one kind of comparable value to different role-players in the family. So the test shows also how important your mother and father and your sisters and brothers has been to you. The structure of our unconscious mind is patterned by our culture and by the positions of the different role-players in our family.

The family is the only place for a child to grow up. When we grow up amidst the familial archetypes, the needed independence cannot be found until we separate ourselves from the family. There is an inner need in us to live our life in a special way. Because there is not another person like you, you may have a special gift to give for whole mankind. It may be new way of life, new way to love, new poem and so on. Therefore the culture offers also archetypes, which guide us to find our own way of life, which is same as to find one's soul. Otherwise we do not get fulfillment in our life. So we need also archetypes which has been viewed as heros in fairytales an mythic stories. They appear as male guide and hermit for man and wise woman and strong woman for women. These help us to find real, unselfish love. Without love we do not reach fulfillment in our life. Without love we are not anything.

This test also helps us to be more conscious. The mythic stories tell us that from the beginning of mankind the light of consciousness has been important. With this consciousness human being became human. It is our godlike special ability. We can be like an outside attendant of our life. Because of this ability, we can worry about the goodness of our life. To develop our consciousness we can learn to live better. As many old as well as modern spiritual teachers (like Eckhart Tolle) say, by becoming conscious of our doings much of our pain and our anxiety disappears and good things like happiness and peace of mind get more space in us.

In the Gospel of Thomas there is saying:

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."

Archetypes found by the test can be used to develop our emotional abilities.

For example, if you are strong in father or mother archetypes without having small children, you can start to dominate grown-up others and cause problems. You can learn to diminish their power in your life. When you are strong in sister or/and brother archetypes you may cause problems by start to compete with friends and colleges. So you may develop jealousy and quarrels. This kind of archetypes disturb also marital relationships.

Instead we can develop the archetypes with help to live better life. The archetypes of wise woman and hermit give abilities alert consciousness and find peace of mind. The archetypes of lover helps us to love and archetypes of seeker and strong woman guides us to deeper emotional abilities to be a man and a woman

Here is some background knowledge for the different archetypes, which you can find using the test.