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Philosopher

Philosopher

Questions

Do you ask a lot of questions about life and love deep and meaningful conversations?

Have you often questioned life to the point of paralysis and depression?

Do you fall into despair when you lose your meaning of life and belief system?

Do you tend to ‘throw the baby out with the bathwater’ when you discover a fatal flaw in your beliefs?

Have your profound contemplations and search for meaning helped your life make sense?

Description

Someone with this archetype is consumed with understanding and creating a meaning of life. It is a quest and a passion and it is compulsive. It will take the person on many paths and belief systems. When they find a system that identifies and provides adequate answers, the philosopher comes alive. They will feel joy, happiness and inner peace, and will love discussing their understandings and moments of enlightenment. When philosophers lose their philosophy, as they do periodically, they experience enormous despair and grief. They lose their sense of purpose and eventually decide there is no point to life. They withdraw and become cynical and aloof, questioning everything until they are unable to move or take action.

Philosophers are deep thinkers, and can only achieve inner peace and serenity once they have the security of a philosophy that they believe in wholeheartedly. Those with this archetype love the questioning process itself. They are the deep thinkers asking the big questions such as, ‘Why are we here? What is our purpose? Why do we experience pain? What happens when we die?’ ever since childhood.