Your story · Your journey · Your legacy
What is Your life's Legacy?
Uncover the archetypal meaning beneath your life's story — and leave a legacy.
Psychologist James Hillman observed that each person is born with a defining image of their soul that is seeking to be actualized.
This suggests that underneath the details of your life's story, archetypal themes and motifs have been quietly guiding you toward your life's purpose and destiny.
While we celebrate the life and legacy of big-name stars and cultural icons, most people's contributions remain unknown and are eclipsed by time. Yet the significance of your life's story can become known to the world and exist into the afterlife.
Ensouled Cosmos offers practical ways
for you to share the essence of your life,
ensuring your legacy will be remembered forever.
legacy pathways
Three ways to work with a personal guide to explore the deeper significance of your life and the important gifts you have to offer the world.
A guided exploration of your life's purpose to help facilitate your process of self-actualization.
For when you're...
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Facing important career and life-changes
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Discovering meaning in life and finding your purpose
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In need of a youth mentor
- Beginning your journey
- Experiencing mid-life transitions
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Expecting an empty-nest
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Going into retirement
1) soul-searching
counseling
You Receive...
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One-on-one private sessions
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Heart-centered deep listening
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An archetypal and evolutionary perspective on your life
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PhD level guide to help you uncover your soul's code
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Customized guidance for your personal journey
($150 per 90-min Zoom session)
A personally-tailored 4-stage process that results in a booklet that conveys the archetypal significance of your life and legacy.
For those who are...
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Ready to share and celebrate their life's journey
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Quietly leading a remarkable life
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Artists, creatives, and community builders
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Seeking a deeper meaning of their life's story
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Under-recognized mothers and fathers
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Offering, or rewarding oneself with, a significant gift for milestone birthdays
You Receive...
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20 hours of support and facilitation, which includes:
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5 two-hour life review online sessions, documented, recorded, and transcribed
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10 hours of your guide working behind-the-scenes on preparation, interpretation, and presentation
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A final product consisting of a 8-10 page digital booklet portraying the archetypal significance and meaning of your life's journey
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Online access to your story in our Gallery for family and friends, with a public viewing option
Actual value = $3,000
Limited time price = $1,500
Work with a personal guide to explore the deeper significance of your life and the important gifts you have to offer the world.
2) A portrait of
your soul
1) soul-Searching counseling
2) a portrait of
your soul
3) your Legacy Project
Bring your biggest vision into reality with a tangible product you can share with the world.
For Luminaries who...
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Already know their purpose and need help bringing their life's work to completion
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Need counsel and guidance to complete unfinished books, films, albums, or major creative projects
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Need support securing their legacy before the end of life
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Want to set up the proper channels for their life's work to exist into the afterlife
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Aspire to leave a meaningful financial, social, or ecological legacy
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Lead organizations, non-profits, or businesses and want counsel on making an everlasting positive impact in the world
You Receive...
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A premium service, with the option of life-time support, for your most significant and cherished projects
Business partnerships and contract work
are available with Ensouled Cosmos, LLC,
for select clients.
Maximilian De Armon, PhD
Max offers an archetypal and evolutionary perspective with a heart-centered approach to personal development and transformative growth. With almost three decades of production experience in film, music, and theater, he brings an artistic touch to all the work he does.
His academic research focuses on self-knowledge and the cosmological process of individuation that each soul experiences when moving towards wholeness.
Meet Your Guide
Maximilian De Armon, PhD, earned his doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies in Philosophy and Religion, with a concentration in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. A substantial part of his research focuses on mapping the inner terrain of the psyche (soul), drawing on archetypal, transpersonal, and depth psychology, spiritual wisdom traditions, and evolutionary and neurobiological scientific data. His dissertation, The Cosmological Self: Towards a Planetary Consciousness, explores the evolution of consciousness and the scientific findings of the twentieth century that support the notion that individuals are embedded in a living Earth, an extension of the interior and exterior dimensions of an evolving universe, and a unique expression of the cosmos participating in its manifestation.
Max is also deeply committed to his own process of healing, facing the shadow, and doing the psychological and spiritual inner work needed to be a helpful guide for others. While he finds personal inner work to be foundational, he is also trained as a facilitator in the healing modality of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International, which helps women and men—and people of all gender identities—process their deepest wounds and recognize their shared humanity in a group process.
To round out his intellectual and spiritual training, Max has been involved in producing for the arts for almost three decades, beginning in the late '90s in New York City. He paid his dues working for celebrities in theater, film, and music, and learned his skills from some of the world's best at their craft. For instance, he worked directly with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Stephen Adly-Guirgis, and LABrynth Theater Company on critically acclaimed theatrical plays; at Rawkus Records in Greenwich Village and Mirror Image Studios in Times Square for Hiphop legends; and on major blockbuster films and television shows, including three seasons as a production assistant on Tina Fey's Emmy award-winning TV show 30 Rock.
As a documentary film producer, some of his credits include The Future of Energy: Lateral Power to the People, made in San Francisco, and the 10-part docuseries Changing of the Gods, made in Santa Fe, New Mexico, both streaming on Amazon Prime. Max currently lives in the majestic Western Sierra Foothills of California with his growing family.
After working for some of the biggest stars, Max wants to help you bring your light to the world so that you can leave a legacy.
Education and Certifications
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Facilitator Training Certificate for Gender Equity and Reconciliation International
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Bachelor of the Arts, Magna Cum Laude (Hunter College, City University of New York)
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Recording Engineer and Production Diploma (Institute of Audio Research, NYC)
Awards
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Changing of the Gods, 10-part series streaming on Amazon Prime
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The Future of Energy: Lateral Power to the People,streaming on Amazon Prime
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Seeding the Field: 30 Years of Transformative Solutions, educational series for Bioneers
Film Producer credits
Major Film Credits
Press
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Albums recorded, mixed, and produced at De Armon's recording studio in New York City
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In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, theatrical play, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and written by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis
How is it working with Max?
"[A] good life story is one of the most important gifts we can ever offer each other."
~ Dan P. McAdams, pioneer in narrative psychology
stage four: Portrait CREATION
This is where your life's story becomes your legacy. Your guide will make you a customized written portrait of your soul. This portrait will include a 8-10 page digital booklet that tells your story, and highlights the archetypal structure and deeper truths of your soul's journey.
The finished product may also include some culturally and religiously specific symbols, personal photos, and artistic elements that accentuate your story. You can share your portrait with your friends and family and, if you desire, with the rest of the world.
Sharing your story can be one of the greatest gifts you give to yourself and those you love.
stage three: INTERPRETATION
How a life story is interpreted is often just as important as the story itself. There are different ways to interpret significant events and the trajectory of your life. Once your story has been told, documented, and metabolized, your guide will utilize evolutionary and archetypal perspectives to interpret its deeper meaning with you.
As interpretation is a creative act, your guide will personally work with you to see what resonates most and what misses the mark. After rounds of refinement, the final interpretation will not only reflect the truth of your unique story, it will also be something you can identify with that establishes the meaning and purpose underlying your personal mythology. "Myths," according to psychiatrist Jean Shinoda Bolen, "evoke feeling and imagination and touch on themes that are part of the human collective inheritance."
Since you are the central character of your personal mythology, you get to make the final decisions about how your legacy will be remembered.
stage two: Meaningful dialogue
Along with being witnessed, the magic of this process lies in the alchemical synergy that is created between you and your guide. Dr. Dan Siegal has explained how interpersonal neurobiology supports the notion that "the source of mind is not just within us, but also between us." As you share your biography and inner experience, your guide will ask sincere questions that elicit your authentic emotions and deep contemplation on the most important parts of your life. Advice may be offered when appropriate, but more importantly your guide is seeking to understand you in a profound way in order to provide a genuine reflection of your soul, and to create a space for you to be honest about the self-narrative you're creating.
Meaningful dialogue requires a balance between reaching a desired outcome and honoring the process necessary for bringing psychological material from the unconscious into consciousness awareness.
stage one: Deep Listening
The power of deeply listening to one's story can have profound effects on their ability to share their story authentically. Have you shared the story of your inner world? Beyond your biography, a personal mythology is wanting to be seen, heard, and validated. Clinical psychologist David Feinstein believes that personal mythologies are typically unconscious and shape the way we experience the world and our relationships.
Through the process of deep listening, we are going to explore your personal mythology and the archetypal nature of your psyche. As part of your Portrait of Your Soul experience, the hopes, fears, and dreams of your imagination will not only be acknowledged, they will be honored and respected. As you gain more self-awareness of the deeper archetypal patterns that structure your psyche (soul), you can become a conscious participant in shaping your own self-narrative.
At Ensouled Cosmos, your guide is committed to holding sacred space for your deepest psychological truths to be witnessed in their full complexity.
A portrait of your soul
A heart-centered, individually designed 4-stage process
for uncovering the deeper meaning of your life's story.
