Raffaello Manacorda – Learn, Love, Evolve

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This series of posts will take you on real-world journeys through the most magical sites I’ve found on this planet. Over the years, I’ve been blessed to explore an incredible number of sacred places, some of them well-known, some of them completely unknown. In most of them, I’ve found revelations and insights I am eager to share with you.

Oftentimes, these places offer direct access into the world of archetypes, the mythical realm where the evolution of human consciousness is forged over centuries and millennia. And yet, these “journeys” are also human and relatable, because they touch on themes that we are all dealing with in our daily lives.

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2025 IS THE YEAR OF ARCHETYPES I’ve been feelin

2025 IS THE YEAR OF ARCHETYPES

I’ve been feeling this for a while: many energetic and psychic patterns in me are converging in incredible alignment and focus on one theme: archetypes.

I’m seeing it become a bit of a buzzword and… I’m happy about it.

It’s about time humanity took the best of Jung’s teachings, and merged it with our current awareness of the body, sexuality, and the nervous system.

It’s time we all became familiar, again, with the world of archetypes - the transpersonal realm.

I want us to understand archetypes not just with our mind, but with our whole being, for the alive, electric, passionate energetic structures they are.

And I’m ready to show up for this.

I am super excited to share that my archetypal teachings will take the form of an in-person embodied retreat experience in the 2nd half of 2025.

Details of the container will be revealed in due time.

I’m also planning a longer-term, slower-paced offering centered on archetypes.

In the meantime, you can jump ahead & start the journey by joining my signature Archetype Masterclass.

This will help you lay the foundations of a shamanically informed understanding of the archetypes.
(and if you then choose to join the in-person retreat, the price of the Masterclass will be discounted from your tuition)

But why should you care?

Look, archetypes are REAL, in the same way our thoughts, feelings, desires and impulses are real.
Archetypes influence our lives. Because of them, we see or don’t see, understand or don’t understand, do or don’t do.

Archetypes shape our destiny.

I want everyone, within their limits, to have a relationship with archetypes and the transpersonal realm.

Only a society that understands the transpersonal can break away from the myopic, destructive short-term vision that’s bringing humanity to the brink of collapse.

So - join me for part or all of the journey, to your preference and capacity, but don’t let this opportunity slip away.

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Some testimonials from my recent Archetypes Master

Some testimonials from my recent Archetypes Masterclass. Next one is coming soon - stay tuned! 🤗

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It's time to tell you about my relationship. Afte

It's time to tell you about my relationship.

After two years of keeping it out of the social media eye, it's time to come out.

I am engaged to an amazing woman.

Gosh, I am so careful with posting this kind of thing.

It is so easy to create an illusion of perfect couple online, only to promote some coaching package.

This is not what this is. I'm not trying to sell you anything.

I'm sharing to expose a journey that has led me to flip 180 degrees in my attitude to relationships, commitment, and marriage.

I was socialized as a man in a Mediterranean culture.

I oriented myself fully toward freedom, purpose, and accomplishment.

I relegated the parts of me that longed for commitment, stability, and marriage to the shadow.

It had to be like this, and yet I'm so sorry for the partners I've had.

I wasn't ready to hold commitment, sensitivity, depth.

I needed TIME for those parts to be awakened. It took lots of years and lots of tears.

But once the "husband" archetype in me was liberated from the pile of crap I had accumulated on it, I felt... READY.

Full-body ready. Total-alignment ready. Goosebumps ready.

Less than a week after meeting her, I was ready for marriage.

Honestly, being fully committed to one person has given me some beautiful and strange gifts.

For instance: I've had the opportunity to fully feel my inner anxious / needy self, without judgment.

It's been GREAT.

I feel more connected to my crazy raging ecstatic orgasmic inner queen than ever.

Being in this relationship has also made me reflect on mortality, death, and old age.

Because I know this woman is the one who will be by my side when I die.

Never had that experience before.

So... as much as I love my partner, this post isn't about her. It's about me, and the massive shift I've been through.

And just to be clear...

This is not relationship advice.

I have no idea how my love life will develop, let alone yours.

But I'm celebrating that Life has given me access to a treasure trove of support, depth, and fun.

And I'm celebrating moving towards the initiation of Marriage with joy and ease.

May we all develop healthy relationships with the One, the Two, and the Many.

JOURNEY WITH ME ĠGANTIJA Location: Island of G

JOURNEY WITH ME

ĠGANTIJA

Location: Island of Gozo (Malta)

My experience there

I visited Ġgantija with a small group of ISTA companions, and with a clear intention. We were going into one of the megalithic temples of Malta, some of the oldest remaining sacred sites in the world, to meditate and pray. Walking into the temple, I did my best to empty my mind of any preconceived ideas, forgetting what I knew about the history of the Neolithic temples in Europe, and opening myself up for whatever wanted to come.

Lowering our voices into a respectful silence, we spontaneously split up, each going in their own direction to find some solitude. I sat down on the ground and closed my eyes. The visions came almost immediately. What I saw was something I had never quite experienced before.

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We all have stories and identities that limit us,

We all have stories and identities that limit us, yet we struggle to keep them alive.
“ People are mean ”
“ I don’t belong “
“ Men are dangerous “
“ Women are untrustworthy “
these are some examples of sweeping, absolute statements that we harbor in our subconscious.

Once we construct our identity around these beliefs, we have an unconscious incentive to keep those beliefs alive.

So, we select situations that can confirm them and often provoke people into behaving exactly the way we expect them to. But when all else fails, we resort to distortion, the ultimate tool to prove ourselves right.

Through distortion, we literally see what we want to see and hear what we want to hear. Countless arguments between friends, lovers, and family members are a dance of distortion. Each person distorts what the other one is saying, according to her own beliefs and wounds.

We experience a strange satisfaction in being proven right, even though our “truth” is damaging and demeaning to us.

Stopping the game of distortion requires us to become humble, and develop a dose of healthy doubt. Sometimes, we need to choose whether we want to be right, or to be happy…

#distortion #distorted #distorsion #subconscious #subconsciousmind #belief #beliefsystem #beliefsystems #beliefs #provoke #provoking #behaviour #beingright #beright #right #truth #selfdevelopment #selfconscious #selfconsciousness #selfcare #growth #growthmindset #humble #doubt #happy #livehappy #spiritualsexualshamanism

Here’s a little teaser from my upcoming Archetyp

Here’s a little teaser from my upcoming Archetypes Masterclass (happening tomorrow May 23rd at 5pm GMT)

THE ARCHETYPAL CROSS

There’s an infinite number of archetypes in our collective unconscious. But out of them, some of the most powerful are those arranged along the “cross” of Dark/Light and Masculine/Feminine.

Through this Cross, the quadrants of Dark Masculine, Dark Feminine, Light Masculine and Light Feminine are explored and brought to life.

While we generally desire to experience each quadrant, some of the archetypes that reside within the Cross can feel unfamiliar and unacceptable. In our discomfort, we often relegate them to the Shadow, where they undergo a transformation, becoming distorted and potentially harmful.

Making contact with the archetypes that populate the Cross and expressing them to their fullest potential is the work of a lifetime. Yet, this is also one of the most practical and rewarding tools we can use to understand ourselves and others.

In the Masterclass, we will explain the Cross in-depth and examine closely one of the Case Studies to see how it can be used in a counseling setting.

If you wish to know more about the Masterclass and/or sign up, please visit raffaello.life ~> Offerings ~> Masterclass and feel free to e-mail lillahovanyecz@gmail.com for any Qs!

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DON’T YOU GET BORED OF TEACHING ISTAs? I’ve b

DON’T YOU GET BORED OF TEACHING ISTAs?

I’ve been asked this question 3 times in the last month.

I’m getting close to my 100th ISTA container, so the question is legitimate.

Yes, every training is unique. Different teams, participants, locations, dynamics.

But still, people ask me, don’t I get bored of listening to the same stories again and again?

After all, human dramas aren’t all that varied.

Honest answer: I rarely get bored, but I sometimes feel a strange sense of despair.

I have this painful realization that, no matter how many people I support, there’s always more. It can feel overwhelming, like trying to empty the ocean with a bucket.

But there’s a catch.

In every ISTA training that I can remember, SOMETHING has happened that has touched my heart.

I don’t know if you can relate, but I’m the kind of person who cries while watching movies.

I cry for sad scenes, but I cry much more watching scenes of friendship, trust, forgiveness.

When the fundamental good-willed nature of humanity is revealed, I ball my eyes out.

And if this happens to me in front of a movie... just imagine live.

To be clear, I don’t try to ENGINEER these situations. Ever. As a faciltator I’m not here to offer solutions. I’m here to offer loving presence.

What I do is wait, patiently, as an attentive and loving cat.

And when I least expect it, BOOM. Something happens that shatters my heart.

It’s usually the smallest things.

Two participants that had projected the crap out of each other, embracing in a hug.

A couple saying sorry to each other.

A man revealing his attraction for other men.

A woman claiming her inner warrior.

Stuff like that.

Like orgasms, these moments of realness come unannounced.

They usually last for mere minutes. But they fill my motivation tank for months to come.

So... I don’t get bored. I’m doing something meaningful, and just the right amount of challenging.

I know that one day, I’ll probably be doing something else.

For now, though, this is the perfect place to be.

Thank you for being part of it.

#ista #ista_tribe #istalevel1 #istalevel2 #schooloftemplearts #passion #spiritualsexualshamanism #despair #heart #hearttouching

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