The Marion Method Series, Part Three: The Maps

And the maps are ways, um, the maps for me are ways of understanding what's happening to more clearly be, um ...

Yeah, understanding.

When we're on those windy roads or the, going through the forests that are very dark or the dark nights of the soul, to actually have maps for these things.

For example, last year, I went through a really big time.

So I was, uh, 57 when I went through, I had some very big physical symptoms.

I was going through lots of big questionings, really the first time in, since probably 1987 [laughs] that I was questioning, what am I doing? And is this, is this, you know, am I going to be needing to or am I invited to change how I do things? And I remembered wh- in the middle of it, oh my gosh, I remember Roger Evans, who I learned from at the Institute of Psychosynthesis London, he shared about his dark night of the soul.

And I, so I went back to psychosynthesis.

I went back to the work.

I went back to their understanding of the dark night of the soul.

And all, uh, straight away, just having that map made so much difference.

And the way I think of it, I think there's such a strong need for us as humans for understanding, for making meaning, for understanding life, reality, our experiences, our relationships.

And so for me, that's how I see maps.

I see maps as helpful- ways, ways that we resonate with, that make sense of our experience and help us as we're traveling the journey, just as having that map last year.

Ah, Dark Night of the Soul, yes.

Oh, that makes sense.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

The, the need for information, but also the need for, for meaning and for purpose and for understanding, I think these are such core human needs.

And I know for me, so many of these maps, that map last year and the maps in the MM work, so I find so helpful.

And I hear this from my mentees as well, is having, um, the particular elements of these maps.

What I find so often is they, they bring understanding which actually helps be with, particularly with the pain, more painful times as well.

And for me, this is part of the psycho-spiritual map actually in itself, which I did learn so much from, from Psychosynthesis by Roberto Assagioli, and which I then also, um, brought my own flavor, my way of understanding to, which is that we are a soul, we are a soul, a wise soul.

It's one of the main maps of the Marion Method, or the MM.

A wise soul of love, will, and consciousness, and we need to develop a personality in order to move through the world.

And in Psychosynthesis, it was called bifocal vision, and actually we had trifocal vision as well.

The way I see it in the MM is finding ways to, uh, not finding ways to, to really hold that we are both.

And the maps are ways, um, the maps for me are ways of understanding what's happening to more clearly be, um ...

Yeah, understanding.

When we're on those windy roads or the, going through the forests that are very dark or the dark nights of the soul, to actually have maps for these things.

For example, last year, I went through a really big time.

So I was, uh, 57 when I went through, I had some very big physical symptoms.

I was going through lots of big questionings, really the first time in, since probably 1987 [laughs] that I was questioning, what am I doing? And is this, is this, you know, am I going to be needing to or am I invited to change how I do things? And I remembered wh- in the middle of it, oh my gosh, I remember Roger Evans, who I learned from at the Institute of Psychosynthesis London, he shared about his dark night of the soul.

And I, so I went back to psychosynthesis.

I went back to the work.

I went back to their understanding of the dark night of the soul.

And all, uh, straight away, just having that map made so much difference.

And the way I think of it, I think there's such a strong need for us as humans for understanding, for making meaning, for understanding life, reality, our experiences, our relationships.

And so for me, that's how I see maps.

I see maps as helpful- ways, ways that we resonate with, that make sense of our experience and help us as we're traveling the journey, just as having that map last year.

Ah, Dark Night of the Soul, yes.

Oh, that makes sense.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

The, the need for information, but also the need for, for meaning and for purpose and for understanding, I think these are such core human needs.

And I know for me, so many of these maps, that map last year and the maps in the MM work, so I find so helpful.

And I hear this from my mentees as well, is having, um, the particular elements of these maps.

What I find so often is they, they bring understanding which actually helps be with, particularly with the pain, more painful times as well.

And for me, this is part of the psycho-spiritual map actually in itself, which I did learn so much from, from Psychosynthesis by Roberto Assagioli, and which I then also, um, brought my own flavor, my way of understanding to, which is that we are a soul, we are a soul, a wise soul.

It's one of the main maps of the Marion Method, or the MM.

A wise soul of love, will, and consciousness, and we need to develop a personality in order to move through the world.

And in Psychosynthesis, it was called bifocal vision, and actually we had trifocal vision as well.

The way I see it in the MM is finding ways to, uh, not finding ways to, to really hold that we are both.