THE ALLEGORY OF PINOCCHIO
The adventures of Pinocchio — written by the Italian author Carlo Collodi and first published in 1883 — is arguably one of the greatest allegorical spiritual masterpieces ever published.
It must be pretty darn good as it’s been translated into 260 languages, countless shows and movies, and it’s estimated to have sold 50–60+ million copies worldwide.
To come to know the allegorical meaning, is to learn all you will ever need to know about the purpose of Life itself and the Hero’s Journey of each human being here in Earth school regardless of where they might be in their realization of any of this.
Let’s unpack this and I’ll do my best to distill this into a Cliff Note:
First, the name “Pinocchio” itself is already a major clue — in the Italian Tuscan dialect the rare word “pinocchio” refers to both “pinecone” and “pine nut” but Collodi, much like Leonardo da Vinci did in all his artwork, ingeniously weaved a much deeper Truth into this seemingly innocuously chosen name.
“Pin” points at the Pineal Gland which is pinecone shaped and “occhio” means “eye” in Italian. Since antiquity, all the seers, mystics, sages, and holy avatars that have graced this Earth have spoken about “seeing” with our “Third Eye” which resides in our Pineal Gland where even science has now caught up to the fact our Pineal Gland has calcite microcrystals.
These crystals, when activated, start to vibrate and function as a radio receiver that allows us to tune into our Higher Knowing through the harmonic phenomenon known as sympathetic resonance. In a calcified state, these crystals are dormant and no signal can be received.
Back to the story of Pinocchio, what is this allegorical masterpiece really all about?
On the surface of things, Pinocchio is an animated wooden marionette made by hand by his Creator who in the story is characterized as the humble woodcarver named Gepetto who becomes his Father figure. Pinocchio is created as a puppet, but his deepest wish is to become a “real” boy.
Pinocchio then goes on an exploration of Life itself through all sorts of adventures, trials, and tribulations which each contain a lesson. Of course, and when he lies his nose growths so there is no hiding in Falsehoods for Pinocchio. He gets into all sorts of mischief, allows himself to be fooled, falls for shiny objects, hurts or harms others, and makes many “wrong” turns which then come back to haunt him as everything he does inevitably catches up with him.
Then, guided by Gepetto’s unwavering love and guidance, Pinocchio starts learning to start making better decisions, be more kind, caring, and generous and he starts witnessing how that’s all reflected back to him also in all sorts of beautiful serendipities, joy, and happiness. Eventually, he masters the principal of Life that what you harvest is what you sow, and eventually is granted his wish to become a real boy when he unselfishly chooses to give his hard-earned 40 cents to the Fairy that has fallen ill instead of buying himself a new suit like he had planned to. That night, he dreams of a visit by the Fairy who kisses — blesses — him and the next morning he wakes up a real boy and she left him a new suit, boots, and a bag with 40 gold coins.
Pinocchio is the story of all of us born as human beings and the discovery of Truth and our true Divinity within. This story runs very deep and can be challenging to fully embrace or grasp at its full depth as it’s somewhat intolerable to even consider ourselves as puppets.
Yet, until we awaken and our Third Eye starts to come online — however minute at first — we are indeed a puppet of our enculturated beliefs and all the “malware” (i.e. Falsehoods) that made its way into our Mind.
This explains why the world looks the way it does, as most “Pinocchios” are still on the journey of or towards awakening. And, henceforth, this is why Mankind doesn’t truly have any real problems, except we’re in a race to raise human consciousness as at higher levels of collective human consciousness, Mankind will have mastered the principal of Life that what we harvest is what we sow.
Finally, check the graphic once more as that holds a clue as well as it symbolizes the reunification with our Creator which — incidentally — is the very same metaphor in Michelangelo’s “Hand of God” mural in the Sixteenth Chapel in Florence, Italy.
There are celestial breadcrumbs of Gnosis everywhere you look, all you need is that one Eye opened to see it.
Once you see, you cannot unsee.
Love+Truth,
Robert
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