Ideas & Reflections
“The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” — Carl Jung
These ideas explore coincidence, archetypes, and the Collective Unconscious — where meaning emerges through language, symbols, and patterns we often overlook.
Collective Unconscious
The "collective unconscious" is not individual, but universal. Contrary to personality psychology, it possesses roughly similar content and behaviors in all places and in all individuals. In other words, because it is the same in all people, it constitutes a super psychological basis for all which exists universally in each of us." --Carl Jung
Coincidences
"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
Archetypes
"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
Meme
Words are the seeds of culture, and letters are the roots from which words grow. Just as genes construct life, letters construct language and civilization. They not only gave rise to Western writing systems, but also became the foundation of Mandarin pinyin in the East. As codes of the human collective unconscious, letters instinctively record, replicate, and propagate culture, carrying the continuity of the human spirit. They are the "meme" of culture...
Pareidolia
"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
