How Carl Jung’s Collective Unconscious Quietly Ruins Your Life
A 3 part guide to escaping its negative influences (+ DOWNLOADABLE SUMMARY 📝)
“Man knows only a small part of his psyche, just as he has only a very limited knowledge of the physiology of his body.
The causal factors determining his psychic existence reside largely in unconscious processes outside consciousness”
— C.G. Jung, ‘Aion,’ Para. 253
There’s more to you than you.
Consciousness is a small raft in the middle of a tumultuous sea of unconsciousness. Below is the unknowable depths of your mind. Our society’s mantra is: “believe only what you can see,” but what if, what we can’t see, is more influential than we’d like to believe?
What if there’s unobservable forces not just affecting your life, but determining it?
The legendary psychologist, Carl Jung, dedicated his life to solving this problem.
Most people ignore his warnings – most people pay the price for ignorance.
Here’s a 3 Part Guide To Escaping the Negative Influences of Jung’s Collective Unconscious
(See end for downloadable summary)…
Part I: What is the Collective Unconscious?
The collective unconscious is as big as it is old.
Jung theorised its existence to explain the primordial images and instincts he found analysing the dreams of his clients. Simply, it’s the universal mind we all share. The native software that comes pre-downloaded with our brains.
It transcends race and culture.
It’s also the home of archetypes.
These are the impressions left from our ancestors. Instincts and data that help us survive what they did. There isn’t a finite number of archetypes as there’s no finite number of situations in life.
Overcoming fear and helping the community – the Hero.
Gaining esoteric knowledge and using it to aid society – the Wise Old Man.
The archetype itself is formless. But the unconscious mind communicates with us in images. To tell you about your Shadow, it will send a shadowy figure in a dream. To warn of unconscious fears, it might fill you with arachnophobia.
The language of the collective unconscious is that of symbols and implicitly.
Part II: How It Quietly Shapes (and Sabotages) Your Life
Hermes Trismegistus (a wizard figure said to be a contemporary of Moses) once said:
“As above, so below; as within, so without”
Jung agreed with this when he said:
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