Caroline Myss
American medical intuitive, contemporary mystic, and bestselling author whose books — Anatomy of the Spirit (1996), Sacred Contracts (2001), Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1997), Entering the Castle (2007), and Defy Gravity (2009) — have made her one of the most influential figures in the convergence of energy medicine, archetypal psychology, and contemporary mystical Christianity. Born 1952 in Chicago, Myss developed in the 1980s a working partnership with the holistic physician C. Norman Shealy, MD, in which she would do medical-intuitive readings of patients she had never met; the published case studies and her later teaching synthesized chakra theory, the Christian sacraments, and Carlos Castaneda's notion of personal power into a coherent psycho-spiritual framework that remains widely used in alternative healing today. Her CMED Institute trains practitioners in archetypal-pattern reading; her audio courses and lectures are among the most-streamed in the genre.
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Quotes by Caroline Myss
98 quotes“To know your archetypes is to know yourself.”
“The Victim, the Saboteur, the Prostitute, the Child — these four shadow archetypes are universal.”
“Beyond these, you have eight more that are uniquely yours.”
“Discover them. Befriend them. Live them consciously.”
“This is the work of self-knowledge through archetypal psychology.”
“Power is the most important issue of the soul.”
“Where you give your power away, you suffer.”
“Where you stand in your power, you are aligned with the divine.”
“Reclaim your power from every place you have given it away.”
“This is the central work of healing.”
“The mystic Teresa of Avila wrote of the soul as an interior castle.”
“Each room represents a deeper level of the soul's life.”
“Most people live only in the outer rooms.”
“Spiritual life is the journey to the inner rooms.”
“At the center is the chamber where the soul meets the divine.”
“This meeting is the goal of mysticism.”
“And it is available to anyone willing to do the inner work.”
“You are not your wound. You are the soul that has experienced the wound.”
“Identify with the soul, not the wound.”
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