What is Archetyper.com?

Achetyper.com is a hub in the adventure of searching for patterns to gain insights on confounding issues about life and the universe. The site is a growing repository of ideas, insights, and resources gathered through an intellectual exploration of the world around us.
This website is about the observation, interpretation and synthesis of conceptual patterns, archetypes, paradigms, metaphors and analogies.
Seeking the Truth is the main mission of the maker of this site. The route taken in which to pursue that goal is by looking all around to see the signs by which Truth manifests itself.
This goal rests upon the premise that the universe is teeming with footprints of primal archetypes and tell-tale signs of a blueprint upon which the cosmos hangs in the balance. And the joy of adventure, and intellectual exploration in pursuing that goal is what this site is all about.

What is the 'Archetype'?

Archetype derives from the Latin noun archetypum via the Greek noun arkhetypon and adjective arkhetypos, meaning "first-moulded". The Greek roots are arch or arkhe- ("first" or "original") + typos ("model", "type", "mold"). It is a term whose earlier meaning, "original model," or "prototype", has been enlarged by C.G. Jung and by several contemporary literary critics. A Jungian archetype is a thought pattern that finds worldwide parallels, either in cultures (for example, the similarity of the ritual of Holy Communion in Europe with the tecqualo in ancient mexico) or in individuals (a child's concept of a parent as as both heroic and tyrannic, superman and ogre). According to Jung, archetypes are innate, universal prototypes for ideas and may be used to interpret observations. Jung believed that such archetypal images and ideas reside in the unconscious level of the mind of every human being and are inherited from the ancestors of the race. They form the substance of the collective unconscious. Literary critics such as Northrop Frye and Maud Bodkin use the term archetype interchangeably with the term 'Motif' emphasizing that the role of these elements in great works of literature is to unite readers with otherwise dispersed cultures and eras. The word archetype appeared in European texts as early as 1545.

What are Archetypes?

Archetypes are original patterns or models from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype. An archetype is a generic, idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated.
The concept of psychological archetypes was advanced by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, c. 1919. In Jung's psychological framework archetypes are innate, universal prototypes for ideas and may be used to interpret observations.
Although archetypes may come to mean different things, as defined above, the archetype definition that this website refers to is a mix of all of the above, but with a special emphasis on conceptual ideas such as metaphors, analogies and parables.

What is an Archetyper?

An Archetyper is someone who seeks Truth by discovering its patterns and manifestations. Hence, an Archetyper is a keen observer, a constant thinker, and a pattern-seeker. The Archetyper collects ideas, metaphors and analogies and synthesizes them in order to produce novel ideas to understand things in a whole new way.