Of course, this might be true. And the training should be flexible enough to accommodate for that reality.

But let’s look at it honestly a little. Many people find it hard to choose a path in life. They have so many talents and so many ideas and possibilities, and they never end up choosing.

Based on personal experience and working with many people over the years, at Reclaim your Inner Throne we believe this is very often because choosing a very deliberate path for yourself is a death process which requires letting go of many of your youthful, naive dreams.

Yet for most of us, growing up and becoming self-sustaining in what we do involves making a clear choice.

Time in our lives is limited, and while having many talents is appreciated in your life as a civilian, in your professional life, it is the one talent you chase and refine that will sustain you.

 

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To make matters more complicated, a feature of higher levels of human development is that our sense of self starts becoming more fluid and context-dependent. 

Some individuals can take this experience to mean that they must embody a huge range of different roles depending on context. In fact, we believe this is an incorrect conclusion.

We work from the belief that we all have at least one unique gift to bring to the world, and that a life of purpose involves getting increasingly connected to this gift – which is typically (but not always) connected to our wounding and/or lineage patterns. 

We realize that there are teachers and bodies of work out there which take a more radical approach, and argue that purpose and meaning will never be anything more than an ongoing process of interpretation.

As Reclaim your Inner Throne is an organization that lives inside the tradition of depth psychology, we take a different approach. 

On this training, we instead work with the assumption that it’s more fulfilling for individuals (and more effective for the tribe) to discover the pattern of our deep Self – and then give our gifts from that place – than it is to believe that there is no inherent structure or intelligence to life and the universe.

Yes, making this choice is often uncomfortable. But not nearly as uncomfortable as living a whole life confused about “what you’re going to do when you grow up” and supporting it with advanced spiritual teachings on the not-self or non-dualism.