Pkinism.

 Now that we've covered the structure of Pkinism, it's time to discuss Pkin Allegories and how you can write and use yours in your daily life!

 

When it comes to Pkinism, Allegories (reading them, writing them and meditating on them) are basically the meat of your practice. Each Practitioner has twelve interconnected Allegories in total - and altogether, these stories serve a number of different purposes to help improve your quality of life and understanding of yourself. Some of the ways they can do this go as follows:

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• They tell you the chronological story of your emotional, productive and spiritual growth as a young person

• They get you to think deeper about who you are and your inner workings

• They develop your logical and critical thinking skills 

• They help you think about certain situations in your life (which may be incredibly confusing to you otherwise) from different perspectives

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Summary Visualization

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The first thing you'll need to get started on writing these stories is to do a visualization for the summary of your saga of Allegories. This is important because it will help you start getting to know the nature of your Archetypes' personalities and give you direction during the times on your journey when you will need it.

 

To do the visualization, you will need:

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• A pencil and pad of paper (for convenience, you can use a word processor)

• Your Mentor

• Your list of Archetype Names* or the ages/years associated with each Archetype (which you should have written down by now)

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PROCEDURE

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1. Sit or lay down in a comfortable position where you won't have any distractions, with your Mentor sitting near you with a pencil and pad of paper (or an open word processor).

2. Close your eyes and visualize the front door to a house (it can be any kind of house you want).

3. Say the name of the first Archetype in the list (or have your Mentor say it) as you visualize them walking through the door and into the house. If your Cycle is a Retroactive one and you don't have names for any of your Archetypes yet, simply say the age and starting year associated with each respective one and visualize them as living entities. Note any feelings that crop up for you about this Archetype as they come through the doorway (their general vibe, their gender, how they hold themselves, their physical features**, mannerisms, where they end up standing or sitting down in the house, etc.).

4. Have your Mentor write these things down  - as well as any observances they have of your facial expressions throughout the exercise - and repeat the process for each subsequent Archetype.

5. As each one after the first comes through the door, note also how they greet and interact with the Archetypes in the house who walked through before them and how those Archetypes react to the one in the doorway, and have your Mentor write these interactions down as well. If you have any Archetype Twin Flame pairings in mind, factor these in, too.

6. After you've finished the process with the twelfth Archetype, open your eyes and have your Mentor show you what they wrote. You can make any corrections you want.

 

The end result of this exercise is what you will use as the basis for writing your Allegories. However, it is important to note that while your perspective on the Archetypes' personalities and relationships are the most important out of anyone's - the earlier on you are in your Cycle (especially if it's the Real-Time type), the more limited your perspective will be, because you haven't lived out the rest of your Cycle yet (i.e, you lack the necessary context); and the same goes for the visualization. So my advice would be to treat it like a Starter Pokeball and modify different parts of the stories if they don't make sense to you, as you experience new things throughout your Cycle.

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Life and Art Imitating Each Other

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Throughout your Pkin Cycle, your Allegories have a very close-knit relationship with the events of your real life. Whenever a running theme is occurring in your life, it's bound to show up in your Allegories or seep into the personalities/relationships of your Archetypes. When this happens, it's important to take note of the pattern and add it to the saga, personalities and/or relationships in some way - and if possible, use this addition to garner wisdom that you can use in your real life.

 

Over time - as long as you keep meditating on this relationship - your real life will continue to feed your Allegories so they can grow more into the elaborate stories they will eventually become, and your Allegories will continue to bestow wisdom onto you that you can then use in your real life when things become confusing and/or overwhelming.

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A Note on Reevcies

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One important form of using the Allegories to gain wisdom is to pour the majority of your energy into meditating on the perspective of the Physical Archetype you last received for an entire year, which will then also be used to write and build upon the corresponding Allegory; the rest of that energy can be spent thinking about the perspectives of any other Archetypes involved in the story, which are simply continuations of the Allegories centered on them. You can even continue pouring energy into thinking about Archetypes that haven't been brought to you in physical form yet, whose personalities/stories may only exist as distant flickers before you receive them, during this time. After that year is up, you simply shift to the next Physical Archetype after receiving it and repeat the process.

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If you don't know everything there is to know about a much-later-received Archetype when their physical form is brought to you on the corresponding Reevcie - don't panic! Chances are, you're probably not at a point in your Cycle where you're supposed to know certain details about that particular Archetype yet, because maybe that Archetype doesn't know that thing about themselves, either - and that's okay! The whole point of the Pkin Cycle is that you are on a journey of self-discovery (not only that, but a 12-year journey - which is a really long time), and that comes with times where you may know certain details about your Archetypes and not know other details. That doesn't mean you have to stop trying to get to know yourself if you're confused - even in that area - but you can cut yourself some slack for not knowing yourself as well as you feel you "should." It's all just a part of the journey!

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Areas of Growth

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When you receive your fourth Physical Archetype, one thing you might notice is that they may have a mysterious connection with the Archetype that came 3 years prior (aka your first Archetype). If this is the case, the reason for it is because both of these Archetypes are manifestations of the same Area of Growth: Vulnerability, Productivity or Spirituality (which are all represented in the Pkin Venn Symbol). The same is true for every Archetype that comes three years apart from the last, and since there are twelve Archetypes for each Practitioner, each Area of Growth manifests a total of four times (so the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th Archetypes are all manifestations of Vulnerability; the 2nd, 5th, 8th and 11th Archetypes are manifestations of Productivity; and the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th Archetypes are manifestations of Spirituality).

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Because of this, the question of whether or not you would like to use these connections to have the Archetypes slowly figure out in-Universe that they're all different parts of the same person (or two people, if you're a Twin Flame) is a good thing to consider when writing these Allegories. That's what I (Ren Moulaison) chose to do, but you don't have to do that if you don't want to; you may just decide to stick to using the Areas of Growth in other areas of your practice, and that's perfectly okay, too!