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of transformation are identification with a cult hero, through magical procedures, transformation by technical means such as yoga, and there is natural transformation (individuation). Natural transformation is the process of death and rebirth. The child is abandoned and comes back home. This process gradually happens over a lifetime of listening to our inner Self and becoming closer to the soul/spirit.

The process of individuation is the coming to terms with the reality of the inner Self in contrast to one's fate/Trickster. Most often the individuation process begins with a serious wounding of the personality. Trauma to the ego can jar a person into being forced to confront the shadow and there-by start the hero's journey.

The mandala ,or magic circle, is the center and the final stage of the individuation process. For Plato the circle was an important eternal form. The circle is a perfect unity of oneness. Traditionally these mandalas are used to focus the concentration in meditative practice. Meditation has been used throughout the centuries to bring a person to a state of oneness where longing and desire are no longer a factor. Jung used mandala's in his therapy to find the personified archetypes that were hampering the process of individuation and are shown within the circle and outside the center point. Within Jung's mandalas the center point was the goal of each person. The final goal of the individuation process is the reach the quality of the Self or Great Man. The Great Man is represented in the figure of a circle divided by four or a stone. When the totality of the psyche comes into the light of the mediating ego, then all unconscious talents and abilities will be accessible. The Great Man is the emergence of each human's individual genius and full potential.

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Copyright 1997, 2006 C. George Boeree
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3. The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
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4. Theory of Forms
Copyright 2006, S. Marc Cohen
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5. Memories Dreams, Reflections
CG Jung, Vintage books, 1989

6. The World as Will and Representation
Arthur Schopenhauer, Dover publications 1969

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