WHO I AM

Why Daimon

It was Heraclitus who first mentioned DAIMON, in the motto Ethos Anthropoi Daimon, “a man’s character is his destiny.” With the Myth of Er, Plato later revived the concept: the Daimon was the protective deity assigned to each Soul before returning to life, to fulfill its destiny.

Here is the myth:

Er was a warrior who, though dead, was granted the privilege of returning to earth to tell men how the destiny/rebirth system worked and to warn them in choosing carefully what life to have, before returning to earth…

In the afterlife, Er found himself in a verdant meadow where sat, around the goddess ANÀNKE (=necessity), the 3 Moires, goddesses of fate and daughters of her and Zeus. Ananke held up all the spindles (the possible fates of humans) on her knees, and from time to time LACHÈSI (=the lot) would take a pile of them and draw the turn, asking each Soul, lined up for reincarnation, to choose its fate. Souls chose based on their past, some by confirmation, some by contrast, some just hastily. Once chosen, Lachesi assigned each one a DAIMON (protective deity) to help them in the task/possibility of fulfilling their own unique and exclusive destiny. At that point the second moira, CLOTO (=the spinner) confirmed it and finally the third, ATROPO (=the inexorable) made it immutable. After the ceremony was over, the souls walked into the valley of the LETE River, the river of oblivion, and were forced to drink its water so that they would forget the afterlife experience. Some souls could not restrain themselves from thirst and drank too much; they will be the ones who, in life, will have the hardest time recognizing their choice. The Daimon, conversely, does not drink, having to remain acutely aware of the destiny to which it is bound and of which it is the guardian.

The Daimon thus represents our inner guide, that subtle voice that inspires us along our evolutionary path so that we can fulfill our existential mission (or Life Purpose) and thus achieve Eudaimonìa, a fully and deeply realized life. That same voice that often, disoriented by surrounding “noise” (contingent events, pressures, stereotypes, social or other people’s expectations, etc.) we are no longer able to grasp, often making us dissatisfied despite the results or restless and cyclically in search of “something else”, but without being clear about what.

Thus, as Socrates first did with maieutics, the coach accompanies the individual in listening to Self and supports him or her, with simple but powerful questions, in bringing out what he or she intimately desires and then concretely commits to achieving, step, after step, after step. Thanks to Coaching then, everyone can take charge of his or her own destiny and bring it to fruition.

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