🌀 Hermes.pak: A Shadow Work Protocol - Plugin
A practical guide to debugging your inner world
👁️🗨️ Introduction: The Return of the Trickster
If Kronos.exe is the system default, rigid, rule-bound, built on internalized authority and fear malware, then Hermes.pak is the soul’s jailbreak. The alchemical trickster, that whispered esoteric jokes to Carl Jung for his Red Book.
In the previous article Soulware 3.0.3: Patch Notes - Activating Sovereignty.exe, we installed the mythic framework: Kronos conditions the ego to mirror external control structures (parents, society, morality). Hermes, however, is the soul's backdoor hacker, he doesn’t yet overwrite Kronos, he reroutes its scripts. He speaks in riddles, dreams, synchronicities, and half-remembered childhood symbols. He works not through force, but flow. When doing shadow work, Hermes is your perfect companion. He doesn’t moralize. He mythologizes. He won’t ask you to burn the dark parts of yourself, he’ll hand you a lantern and say, “Wanna see something wild?” So let’s dive in.
🛠️ PART I: Decrypting the Dream Code
When it comes to Hermes, he is the dream courier. He’s the one handing you those weird symbolic packets at 3:36 AM, that we call dreams.
🔹 1. Dream Journal as Divine Inbox
Keep a notebook or app by your bed. Each morning, even if it’s fragments, write what you remember. Hermes doesn’t care if it’s perfect, he wants you to catch the pattern. Just start with writing down dreams. What happened in it, and ask yourself:
What characters showed up? Are they me, a part of me, or someone I’m projecting onto?
What symbols repeated? (Snakes, keys, roads, monsters, houses, birds, etc…?)
What emotion lingered after waking?
Dreams often feel like encrypted riddles. You’re not looking for answers. You’re looking for the inner tension they reflect. Snakes are libido symbols, tying to instinct, danger, or shadow material, same as monsters. Where a house can symbolise the personality of yourself. Especially the emotions upon waking are very telling, yet sometimes there is more of a distance between the dream and ones waking self.
Yet the pattern in the dream, and its characters can still shed light on personal inner conflicts, when it comes to dream characters. Think here also figures that can thus symbolise your own shadow, but also male or female characters that can symbolise what the Jungians call Animus or Anima figures, regarding relational themed personal issues and inner conflicts. Yet these can also be psychological complexes, which are actually the trauma loops boot-loading into your inner dream environment.
Phanes OS: the radiant soul operating system, where your unconscious dreams are hosted like surreal sandbox simulations designed for shadow integration.
You can see here the Phanes OS as the main dream host, like that character Dream from the show The Sandman. Where you become a dream character, amongst the psychological complexes, your inner trauma loops, that are forced into scenario’s with you, based on current or past situations. Or newly made up ones. About a certain type of inner conflict between your waking self, trauma scripts, and the healthy instincts, that want this conflict resolved. Hence why these dreams keep happening.
So if you think why do I keep having this recurring nightmare of a Teletubby chasing me down the street 💀, yeah…. that is probably an unresolved conflict. What helps is to then approach the dream character, after you figured out what it might be about, with a little bit more curiosity. As our conscious attitude towards it, depends if it shifts from scary monster towards helpful friend. If we don’t accept the shadow update, it tends to go scary monster, but if we do, well then the entire dream shifts.
When Animus or Anima figures appear in the dream normally becomes way more intense, intimate, and vivid. They normally are there to guide the dream, or show something important to resolve the inner conflict. And it is basically your task to solve the puzzle. What emotions are you repressing, what inner conflict is at play on an unconscious level. What are you projecting onto a situation, and how does it tie into your childhood trauma.
So TL;DR this is your waking self dropped into a theatre of symbols, and the dream is the stage. Each character is a function, some are repressed instincts, others are echoes of trauma scripts or intimate Animus/Anima guides. The dream isn’t just asking for analysis. It’s asking for alchemical reflection. What needs to be seen, held, loved, cared about, accepted, or transmuted?”
🔹 2. Practice “Dream Re-entry”
Go back into the dream in a meditative state. Walk around. Ask the figures questions. See if they shift. This is active imagination, a Jungian Hermes favorite. It sometimes can take time for one to be able to get it right. It is best to pick a dream scene and then focus on it and visualise it. Then ask:
“What are you trying to tell me?”
“What part of me are you?”
“What do you want?”
🧠 PART II: Shadow Work as Mythic Debugging
The shadow is not the enemy. It’s just the code you’ve disowned because Kronos said it wasn’t safe to run. This does not mean to go chaos mode, but let Hermes help you.
Trace projection errors
Re-integrate rogue inner fragments
Rewrite belief scripts with mythic metaphors
🔹 1. Track Your Projections
When you get really annoyed, jealous, or obsessed with someone, pause. That’s usually a Hermes-flavored alert:
"You’re projecting suppressed code."
Ask:
What part of me does this person reflect that I don’t allow?
What need am I displacing onto them?
What am I trying not to feel?
Hermes is less about judging and more about mirroring. Projections are soul-mirrors dressed as enemies or idols. You can here best also look at your behaviour and that of the other person, as this also reflects, especially if possible over time, what the pattern is that occurs. If it keeps happening with you, around others. Start to compile a list of what is the pattern that is going on. And try to figure out as well, what is the opposite of this. As sometimes what is repressed can be the opposite. Think superiority hiding, feelings of helplessness, or passive aggressive behaviour hiding low-self worth issues next to assertiveness repression.
🔹 2. Reclaim the Exiled Archetypes
This is where we go hunting through your psychic attic for the characters your ego had to banish just to survive childhood. Hermes loves these shadow-side child parts of you. He doesn’t shame them, he slips them notes through via the portal back door, smuggling them back into the system. Because often, the parts of you that got exiled are actually your core powers. But Kronos.exe couldn’t handle them. Start first with a simple prompt, but don’t let the simplicity fool you, this is deep soul code-retrieval.
What traits were considered “good” when you were a kid?
(Obedient? Quiet? Happy? Selfless? Modest?)
→ These are your approved roles, the ones you had to perform to earn love or safety.What traits were “bad”?
(Angry? Loud? Emotional? Rebellious? Sensitive? Sexual?)
→ These are often suppressed archetypes, locked in the basement of the psyche, and they’re not actually bad, they were inconvenient to the system you were born into.What version of you did your family not allow?
→ Was it the wild one, the curious one, the witchy one, the sad one, the leader, the sassy truth-teller, the dreamer, the nonbinary shapeshifter, the sexual being, the smart one?
Let Hermes help you name these exiled figures. Hermes might show up through your freewriting, drawings, flashbacks, or even that one fictional character you always just identified with “for some reason.” That reason is the exiled archetype trying to come home. Think of this as a psychic jailbreak, Hermes is the thief who sneaks into your inner prison and opens the door from the inside. Then ask:
Which of these exiled traits were actually the true you?
Which were instinctual defenses mistaken for rebellion?
Which parts of you knew too much too soon?
And here’s the kicker: the “bad” parts were often the most awake. They already knew the system was broken. They felt the soul wasn’t safe here. They refused to submit. That’s not dysfunction, that’s divine resistance. Hermes teaches you to re-code your inner myth so that these figures aren’t shadow threats anymore. They’re soul-keys. They were never here to ruin you, they were waiting to help you reclaim yourself once you were old enough to see through the mask.
In the Part 2 article we will dive deeper into Comfort Characters & Identity Exploration, after we will also cover Rewriting the Childhood Myth, and Projection Debugging. All part of the new Hermes.pak Soulware update. One of the first steps to wiggle some of that weaselly freedom from Kronos.exe and its outdated Bronze Age malware.
🧬 Soulware 3.1 – Patch Notes
📦 Update: Hermes.pak installed successfully.
🗝️ Core Features:
🔓 Unlocked: Dream Re-entry Protocols — Access surreal sandbox environments for live shadow debugging.
💡 Activated: Archetype Recovery Engine — Reclaims suppressed traits via deep-system scans of early behavioral code.
🦊 New Companion AI: Hermes.exe — Guides with trickster prompts, dream riddles, and psychospiritual puns. No moralizing. Just mythologizing.
🕵🏻♂️ Firewall Bypass Tools — Smuggles exiled archetypes past Kronos.exe security protocols for re-integration.
⚠️ Kronos Compatibility Warning: Hermes.pak may cause system instability in users still running high levels of fear-based compliance scripts. Side effects may include: lucid rebellion, re-enchantment of the inner world, and spontaneous myth-making.