Collective Unconscious

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Eupsychia Institute
PO Box 151960
Austin, TX 78715-1960

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Before Jung's time, Sigmund Freud had given us only a superficial understanding of our unconscious mind, reducing it to a storage place for all our repressed personal psychological baggage. We had to be analysis forever to understand the unconscious motivations that were running our lives. Jung found, however, that the unconscious mind is much greater than Freud had realized, capable of accessing all of human memory–even humanity's future. He determined that the mind matrix (psyche) contains all human possibilities, past, present, and future–the archetypes in the collective unconscious.

...Jung saw a personal definition of the unconscious as only a superficial layer of the unconscious mind, however, and he coined the term collective unconscious for the greater part he felt Freud left out. Jung knew, from his own profound inner work and that of his patients that we are tied to a much greater archaic collective unconscious mind that emits universal symbols and processes we all share. He believed that it isn't possible to separate ourselves from all that has affected us as a collective soul. Dr. Jung therefore has contributed to our knowledge of wholeness and expanded our consciousness by giving us both a personal and a collective psyche to work through and make conscious. [excerpts from EMBODYING SPIRIT, pg. 110-111]

All of our human struggles and conditions are representative of aspects of the collective. We are here to take on the archetypal human situations–Birth, Death, Childhood, Marriage, Maturation, Transformation, and so on. And the archetypal personages–Mother, Father, Lover, Hero, Healer, Servant, and so on–as well. We are always taking on some part of an archetypal collective pattern that is of Humanity, and of our One Body. And we must never forget this; otherwise we get lost in our personal story lines, separating from our roots. Then we feel isolated and irrelevant in the grand scheme of things–which is not Reality. We are never "just" doing something personal or unique to us. This knowledge alone, if absorbed, is transformative; it will give you a sense of meaning and high purpose. So stop right now and really take this in, through a moment of deep Self-reflection.

When we touch into this dimension in our consciousness, all things humanly possible can be accessed. Then, if we will image (imagine) one of these possibilities, we can bring it down from the abstract into the concrete mind, and this potential can be ours. Spirit is materializing through us in this manner. Through our own creative mental intentions and abilities, we Self-create: we are the reality-makers of our personal world. Remember, in the new physics, we've learned that "the observer disturbs." [excerpts from EMBODYING SPIRIT, pg. 112]

Humanity's psyche is the Collective Unconscious Mind, which mirror's our species' universal Soul. [excerpt from RISING TO THE CALL, pg. 14]

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