From Innocent to Magician

In The Six Archetypes of Love, Dr. Allan G. Hunter identifies six classic profiles of individuals in love; the Innocent, the Orphan, the Pilgrim, the Warrior-Lover, the Monarch and the Magician. Hunter, who is a counselor and professor of literature, shows how we can move through and become any one of these archetypes at different stages in our lives and our spiritual development.

168 page paperback, illustrated with 22 tarot major arcana

From Innocent to Magician

Who are you in love? Are you the Innocent? Or could you be the Magician?

In The Six Archetypes of Love, Dr. Allan G. Hunter identifies six classic profiles of individuals in love; the Innocent, the Orphan, the Pilgrim, the Warrior-Lover, the Monarch and the Magician. Hunter, who is a counselor and professor of literature, shows how we can move through and become any one of these archetypes at different stages in our lives and our spiritual development.

Using examples from real-life, like Prince Charles and Princess Diana, from popular culture, such as Desperate Housewives, and from classical literature, Hunter helps answer universal questions about love: What exactly is love? How do we find it and how can we keep it? Why are there so many puzzling forms of it? In addition, the book helps to answer some of our more personal questions: Who am I in love? Who is my lover? What stage of development am I in and how can I transition from one to the next? By using the ancient Tarot to provide a visual reminder of each one of the classic stages, Hunter lays out the archetypal characteristics and behaviors of the individual in love, both in and out of the bedroom.

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Allan G. Hunter was born in England in 1955 and completed all his degrees at Oxford University, emerging with a doctorate in English Literature in 1983. His first book was Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism. In 1986, after working at Fairleigh Dickinson University's British campus and at Peper Harow Therapeutic Community for disturbed adolescents, he moved to the US. For the past twenty years he has been a professor of literature at Curry College in Massachusetts, and a therapist. He has produced two books specifically aimed at using writing and drawing exercises therapeutically - The Sanity Manual and Life Passages. Both books are based on his revolutionary interactive writing exercises, tried and proven in counselling sessions and classes. While working with clients in this way he began to uncover the presence of a series of archetypes within their writings. This led to his present work with the formulation of the six archetypal stages of spiritual development.

Four years ago he began teaching with the Blue Hills Writing Institute and he has remained with it ever since, working with students to explore the memoir and life-writing. His own experience of this medium is reflected in From Coastal Command to Captivity; The Memoir of a Second World War Airman, a project on which he worked with his father up to the time of his death. It required extensive reworking to bring this memoir to completion. As in all his books, the emphasis is on the healing nature of the stories we weave for ourselves if we choose to connect to the archetypal tales of our culture.

For more, see http://allanhunter.net/ or his YouTube Channel