Carey Davidson - The Five Archetypes: Discover Your True Nature and Transform Your Life and Relationships

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Names: Davidson, Carey, author. Title: The five archetypes : discover what the elements reveal about ourselves and our relationships / Carey Davidson. Description: New York : Tiller Press, [2020] Identifiers: LCCN 2019049595 (print) | LCCN 2019049596 (ebook) | ISBN 9781982141714 (paperback) | ISBN 9781982141721 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Self-realization. | Self-actualization (Psychology) | Five agents (Chinese philosophy) Classification: LCC BF637.S4 D3695 2020 (print) | LCC BF637.S4 (ebook) | DDC 181/.11dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049595 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049596

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To Dr. Stephen Cowan, who reminds me in words, deeds, and character that the way of the hero is unconditional love.

May you hear the pain in their no,

May you feel the need in their pain,

May you follow the love in their need.

DR. STEPHEN COWAN, MD

A lbert Einstein once wrote, When a light ray is spreading from a point, the energy is not distributed continuously over ever-increasing spaces, but consists of a finite number of energy quanta that are localized in points in space, move without dividing, and can be absorbed or generated only as a whole.

What is it about light that inspires us, enchants us, and gives us hope? A beautiful sunrise can change the rest of your day. A deep red sunset can stop you in your tracks. My first memory of meeting Carey Davidson is of light. A kind of pinkish yellow glow filled the room we were meeting in to plan a workshop for children. Like a single candle in a dark room, her enthusiasm was palpable, the way I think Einstein thought of light as not just waves but packets of energy.

In the tradition of Chinese medicine that I have made my life practice, this palpable light is what it means to encounter a Fire types energy. I did not know then that Carey was in the midst of enormous changes in her personal life, changes that would open her up and eventually lead her to create a center for healing in New York City where practitioners of all disciplines would be welcomed to share the space. I did not know the facts then, but I could feel the power of her energy. This felt knowing is one of the deep intuitive powers that Fire people like Carey innately possess. It is this Fire power that drew her unconsciously to notice the fields of sunflowers (tournesols in French) in France and choose Tournesol Wellness as the name of her holistic health and education center. Many of us, especially doctors, are taught not to trust intuition. It took me many years to learn how to cultivate it as a guide in my own practice. For Carey, though, her hearts intuition has enabled her to be open to learning, and this is what has inspired the book you are now holding in your hands.

We, as sentient beings, exist only in relationship. This is a simple fact. No one or thing can exist out of context. And yet so much of what were taught, particularly in medicine, takes things out of context, and this has become a source of great misunderstanding and suffering today. In my training as a doctor, I found that these relationships were often ignored for the sake of efficiency and convenience. Seeing my patients feeling increasingly isolated and alienated by the one-size-fits-all approach to medicine, I sought alternative perspectives, and it was in Chinese medicine that I found a system of thought called the Five Phase model, also known as the theory of the Five Elements, that promotes growth and cultivation of the very relationships that connect us to one another and make us feel whole again. What makes the Five Phase model so unique is that it does not divide what goes on inside your body from what happens outside, nor does it separate whats happening emotionally from whats happening physically. The same patterns of relationships are encountered at every level of our life. This is as radical an idea as Einsteins recognition that light is both wave and particle. This model has changed the way I understand health and has empowered thousands of families in my practice to grow and thrive.

The core wisdom in this book is based on countless sages of the past who observed the way the five archetypal powers that comprise the Five Phase modelWood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Waterinteract with each other. Because Carey is such an expressive Fire person, her enthusiasm is contagious in the pages of this book. Reading it, you will feel the excitement of discovering how what she calls the Five Archetypes motivate peoples lives. What makes this book so successful is how well she herself has balanced her Fire enthusiasm with deep self-reflection (Water) and precision and gratitude (Metal), which promote her driving vision of health and success (Wood) in all relationships (Earth). Because she walks the walk, Careys distinctive way of shedding light on this subject creates a reliable road map for understanding how to cultivate healthy, wholesome relationships in your life. May light shine in your life and inspire you to grow.

Stephen Cowan, MD

Tidewinds, Massachusetts

W hen you walk into an unfamiliar room, you instinctively notice certain detailswhat different people are wearing, the energy in the space, the dcor and style. You fire off decisions about who youre going to chat with, which people feel unapproachable, where youre going to stand or sit, and how long youre going to stay. It may seem that the motivations behind your decisions in this room are arbitrary and dependent upon your mood, as well as endless other factorswhat you ate for breakfast, how things are going at the office, the norms your parents modeled for you as a kid you get what Im saying.