This transformation is communicated by the followers of Jesus to the larger world. Developmentally, this announcement strikes a responsive chord in a society whose meaning-systems are dominated by mythic polytheism. Another way to describe this development is to call it a change in the boundary between consciousness and the unconscious in the human psyche. The unconscious becomes more accessible. Inner awareness becomes suddenly safer.
Introspective competence takes a great leap forward.
Classical Buddhism has much to say about introspective competence. It opens people up to parts of themselves that were previously inaccessible. Now, when the kerygma-metanoia of Jesus' resurrection opened up the psyches of Mediterraenean society, they experienced a new personal, emotional freedom . This condition included an inrush of unconscious content that the ego was not prepared for. Soipsisms and obsessions occurred as well as integration and wholeness.