Archetypes for Self-Empowerment: God and the Devil

God and the Devil are two big contrasting archetypes that must be understood in order to enjoy a healthy happy prospering life. Archetypes are fundamental patterns of life energy that are both universal and also basically invisible, so they’re open to a lot of interpretation for how they may be seen and understood. Thus everyone must react to the archetypes, but not everyone understands their reactions or what to do with them. This situation becomes both a dangerous potential for ignorance, and a powerful potential for enlightenment. Guess which sides God and the Devil play on? God empowers with loving truth, while the Devil incapacitates with scary lies.

Many cultures will create God and Devil characters using lots of judgmental rules and dramas that don’t clarify the choices available to you. To survive the global crises visible in the world today, you need to choose once and for all between negative and positive lifestyles. But cultural misinformation can make God seem punishing and worth rebelling against, while the Devil is often falsely sympathetic. At this time in Earth history, many people are sold on the entertainment value of good versus evil stories and stereotypes. The cost of fitting into this culture is to become lost in conspiracy fears, toxic relationships, and stuck emotions that cause serious illness. So you can stay upset and feel trapped with everyone else, or you can set yourself free with a little education and evaluation of your own.

If you remain unconsciously reactive to archetypes, you’ll be easily misled and manipulated in ways that can ruin your life. If you further blame the Devil -- or some other inhumane enemy figure -- for your misfortunes, things are guaranteed to keep getting worse. That’s because the Devil promotes mindless self-destruction with endless frustration and conflict. The true plan of God – or any other divine guiding figure -- is for you to become ever more conscious of how existence works so you can create the best life for yourself. The choice is easy and obvious, all it takes is the courage to keep learning the truth beyond old habits and false paradigms.

Join us this Sunday May 3, 2026 for a free enlightening talk on how God and the Devil really work. We’ll explain the spiritual principles involved in your eternal life of expanding consciousness. The Universe is alive and loves you, so it’s always ready to connect you with your higher self, aka God, Goddess, Great Spirit, Creator, Source, All That Is, and more. The devil, aka negative ego or narcissistic sociopath, is really just the brutally defensive survival personality that grows in you when you’re disconnected from higher loving guidance. There is no natural source of evil in Creation, which is why the devil arises as a clear warning sign that you’re doing something that isn’t working. When you learn to catch and stop your devil from growing into a serious problem, you can easily avoid problems in life and stay on the track of your own destiny to live happy ever after.

For this meetup, consider your images for God and the Devil from several stages of your life. What did they mean to you when you were a child, a teen, a young adult, now? How have your emotional reactions changed with your definitions? This can be a key exercise to notice your own sovereign power to choose the beliefs that change your whole life. Religion has been an easy target for pushing simplistic limiting ideas, such as God is a parental authority figure with power to punish and the devil is to blame for everything bad. As such, people are encouraged to stay child-like, giving their power away as they react for or against a judgmental culture of good guys versus bad guys. That’s exactly negative energy. Reality tells the truth sooner or later, with revelations of betrayal, scandal, and damage that can make everyone look and feel bad. When God and the Devil are seen to be spiritual psychological principles within every consciousness, then you are able to connect with your own higher self and let go of the bad choices and old habits that kept you a negative prison. We’ll look at the path of enlightenment to leave negativity forever, and conclude with a guided meditation to collect your life lessons and forgive yourself for old mistakes, so you can finally live the true glorious existence of the spiritual human being.

Welcome! Our Inner Selves Mastery spiritual support group is free online every Sunday 11am-130pm EDT, with the last 30 minutes for a guided meditation. If you can’t stay you can get the recording. You can signup here for this meeting and visit www.signupISM.com for all events, newsletter, videos, and more.

Best wishes,
Carl Johann Schroeder
Inner Selves Mastery
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