The 'totality' of the conscious and unconscious life. The mind considered as an organic system reaching all parts of the body and serving to adjust the total organism to the needs or demands of the environment. The center of the individual's field of consciousness which provides unity and continuity for the personality. Collective Unconscious - The inheritance of the collective experience of humankind, storing humanity's experiences in the form of archetypes that unconsciously predispose us to organize our personal experiences in certain ways.
Archetypes shape the content of our dreams, emerging in various forms as archetypial images.
Dream Theories Edgar Cayce Carlos Castaneda Assoc. An archetype of healing. Like our own wounded inner child, Persephone, had been abducted into the dark Hades of her unconscious patterns and process. She was lovingly searched for and assisted by Demeter, her mentoring mother. Their annual reunion, depicted here, was celebrated by the Greeks as the Rite of Spring.