A bodily experience occurs after the death that is perceptually identical with the bodily experiences of companionship before the death. 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.