The collective unconscious is invisible intangible and over arching a shared pool of symbols embedded in a universal psychic structure common to all human beings - a concept common in Eastern philosophies such as Buddhism. Jung pinpointed that dreams are the space where there is a dialogue and tangible relationship between the worlds of the personal and collective unconscious' sharing this world where archetypal symbols guide us towards self knowledge, understanding and balance our own psyches using collective symbols or archetypes to form our dreams which guide and even determine our waking states. The concentration of material in one place, put there by a mass of individual will and desire makes the internet a place of intense numinosity. The presence of the internet makes the concept of a collective unconscious tangible and understandable and much less abstract. This material is beyond individual awareness, and made up from every possible aspect of human existence is a collective repository - it becomes what I call a psychic vessel.
People deposit material to, or receive material from, a shared space.
This process, and each of these individual actions, like the processes in alchemical practice also operate in a duality , a parallel process , a combination and fusion of the physical and the psychic. The internet begins to function as an intermediary alchemical space as I call it, a place of psychic gestation which hovers between a personal and collective conscious and unconscious which maps a change and movement in the psyche of the user. A process of cause and effect. These changes were not just passive responses to the material the alchemist was viewing, or the methods they were using but it involved a process that could be described as interactive . This was a psychic interactivity that worked on many levels - and moved fluidly between the physical or material and a psychic or spiritual reaction or interaction with it on the part of the practitioner.