The Guide to the Path to the Pathless

The creative individual is one who follows the path of the mythopoetic imagination, driven by the inner daimon (Indryg) into the pathless forest: the mythic Greenwood, with nothing to guide him except his own wits and the promptings of the daimon.  The daimon represents the instinctive, unconscious will, more powerful than the conscious will.  The creative individual, then, as Jung says, has little power over his own life, is not free, but captive and driven by his daimon, so he is not merely, as Guide, an advising, helping spirit but a demanding god: the God-within, the Self, his personal god.  He must make known to himself that which the daimon demands of him and must act on it.  Then he can make his way forward in the pathless forest.