Beyond Intelligence

"The creator of the world did not fashion these things directly from himself but copied them from archetypes outside himself.” Jung concluded that man’s unconsciousness contains remote archaic patterns and instincts inherited from the ancestors..., so far as the collective unconscious contents are concerned we are dealing with archaic or—I would say—primordial types, that is, with universal images that have existed since the remotest times...The archetype is essentially an unconscious content that is altered by becoming conscious and by being perceived, and it takes its color from the individual consciousness in which it happens to appear." -Carl Jung