In Jungian psychology, archetypes represent universal patterns, images, and symbols that are part of the collective unconscious. Archetypes are the psychic energy phenomenon of the universe, nature, and the process of the soul. Archetypes are symbols with a psychic and emotional energy within the unconscious which serve the purpose of bringing things to our awareness that need to be addressed to fulfill our spiritual purpose. Archetypes play a crucial role in our lives since they mirror the inner depths of our psyche in, and through, symbolic forms, people, mythic and religious stories, behaviors, and other personalities. Caroline Myss, today’s pioneer on the power of archetypes, shares in Archetypes that “it is impossible for us to know who we truly are unless we understand archetypes and, more specifically, our own personal archetypes, because archetype are the psychic lenses through which we view ourselves and the world around us…Archetypes have always been the engine of the human unconscious, but you could live your whole life and not know that. Archetypal patterns are like a door into a hidden realm, parallel reality. Discovering this parallel, in which archetypes reside and learning about your particular archetypes is a way of meeting yourself, perhaps for the first time” (xiii, xv).