Archetype Vision

the search for meaning
video editor multimedia artist
AKA Joan Pope

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a study in circles
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[Slightly Eerie Stoatley 🎃 @MatthewTheStoat]

the girls tree getting designed and worked up

[Nephthys @EarthTime]

The Hero must assemble a crew of 12 Knights of the Grand Cross to do battle with the Giant Serpent & construct the Grail.

[Katherine Dee 🐬/acc @default_friend]

The internet is prison planet exit the matrix brother we’re being loosh farmed

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Ouroboros (Tail-swallowing Serpent, symbol of time and eternity), c. 1760.

[Jash Dholani | link in bio has my books! @oldbooksguy]

mythological themes always bring out the best in artists. Botticelli's Venus, Michelangelo's David, Cellini's Perseus...artists do their best work when they visualize the mysterious world of the mythic

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a study in being human
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Illustrations from Splendor Solis: Alchemical Treatises of Solomon Trismosin, 1582

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Untitled (Cosmic Salvation) by Arthur Diehl, 1920

[Jash Dholani | link in bio has my books! @oldbooksguy]

"hierarchy architecture" versus "equality architecture"

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Bound by Time by Joan Pope, 2018

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Death Tarot by Danny Quirk, 2025

[Damien Echols @damienechols]

One of the greatest misunderstandings in religion is the belief that stories about what happens after death are necessarily describing what happens when the physical body dies. The Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Greek myths of descent into the underworld, and even the biblical accounts of death and resurrection can all be understood as descriptions of internal processes that take place while we’re still alive. The descent into the underworld is the confrontation with everything we’ve buried within ourselves. The judgment of the dead is the moment we can no longer hide from the truth of what we are. The terrifying deities of the Tibetan tradition are manifestations of consciousness that must be recognized rather than feared. And the resurrection described in Christianity is the emergence of a new way of being after the identity we’ve spent our lives constructing begins to dissolve.

The problem is that people have spent thousands of years turning descriptions of experiences into beliefs about places they’ll go after they die. They’ve mistaken maps of consciousness for maps of the afterlife. I’m not claiming to know entirely what happens after physical death. What I’m saying is that there’s a death you can experience long before your body dies, and until you’ve undergone it, you’re largely dependent on what other people tell you these stories mean. You can spend your entire life studying descriptions of resurrection without ever actually experiencing it. You can memorize every detail of the underworld without ever making the descent. At some point, you have to stop studying the map and actually make the journey. The kingdom of heaven isn’t necessarily somewhere you go when you die….it’s something you can discover while you’re still alive.

[rosa ✧ mundi @rosaxmundi]

Illustrated manuscript of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy produced in Northern Italy, during the late 14th century.
Having climbed past Lucifer at the center of the Earth, Roman poet Virgil (Virgilio) reaches out to guide Dante Alighieri, as they emerge onto the shores of the mountain of Purgatory.

"E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle."
(And so we emerged to see the stars again.)

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All is Vanity by Joan Pope, 2021

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a study in being human
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@halfblindbob awesome, thank you!

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A memento mori with a skeleton, a snake, and an apple, German School, 18th c.

[Einar Baldvin @Einarbaldvii]

Robert Fludd. 'The Nothingness That Was Prior to the Universe' and 'Light Flowing Forth from the Blackness' 1617.