If he succeeds in giving collective validity to his widened consciousness, he creates a tension of opposites that provides the stimulation which culture needs for its further progress. P. 111 Central to Jung's philosophy is the concept of the collective unconscious . 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.