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A Separate Calling - Magical Realist - Nov 4, 2025
There is a sense of destiny in one's quest for ultimate truth. In getting behind the masks and stage props we are forced to complacently live with in order to taste some more fundamental and certain reality. A daunting task to say the least! And how audacious to assume that you of all people deserve to know what the truth is behind our cultural and historical fascades. Why so dissatisfied? Are you mentally ill? Are you a troublemaker just seeking attention? Can you even handle the truth? In the end, the seeker just learns to live with the quest they have been entrusted with because it has come to define their whole sense of self. To follow it bravely wherever it may lead. And to know in their own heart, in spite of all failures and disappointments, in spite of all the dead-ends and U-turns and wild goose chases, that it is not all for nothing.
"Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance."---Henri Bergson
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears."---Henry David Thoreau
"The Seeker represents the archetypal pattern of the individual in search of meaning, truth, authentic identity, and deeper understanding beyond conventional answers and surface appearances. This archetype embodies the restless drive to find what's missing, to discover who you truly are, and to pursue the questions that won't let you rest despite the discomfort of uncertainty and the loneliness of the quest.
In Jung's analytical framework, the Seeker manifests as the impulse toward individuation itself - the drive to become who you most deeply are rather than accepting given identities, cultural scripts, or collective values. This archetype represents the willingness to leave familiar territory, to question what others accept unthinkingly, and to pursue truth even when the path is unclear and the destination unknown.
The Seeker archetype embodies the understanding that some people are called to search for meaning rather than accepting ready-made answers, that authentic identity must be discovered rather than adopted, and that the journey toward truth often requires solitude, discomfort, and the courage to walk paths others don't understand. This archetype teaches that the question is sometimes more valuable than the answer, the seeking more important than the finding, and the journey itself the destination...
Stages of the Seeker's Journey
This archetype manifests differently across development:
The Call: Something disrupts conventional life - crisis, dissatisfaction, existential question - initiating the search.
Leaving Home: Physically or psychologically departing from familiar territory, conventional answers, and collective values.
The Quest Begins: Actively exploring various paths, teachers, and practices seeking truth and meaning.
Trials and Challenges: Encountering obstacles, disappointments, and the difficulty of the search itself.
Dark Night: Periods when all paths seem false, no answer satisfies, and despair about ever finding what you seek.
Integration: Gradually realizing that what you sought was within, that the journey itself was the answer.
Return: Bringing what you've learned back to ordinary life, no longer seeking externally but living from discovered truth."--- https://www.selfgazer.com/blog/jungian-archetype-the-seeker
."..oh but nothing is a dead-end, just a detour and you can take as many detours as you want because your Soul isn't bound by Time and dreams are but Stardust born of every star dying to breathe in yet again, just another dance of a death and birth of a star, a dream, a path to find and to lose, a walk, a long long walk, a thousand detours and yet each one as full of life and beautiful as the majesticity of Life is meant to be.”
― Debatrayee Banerjee