Collective Unconscious

### Aliases

Collective Unconsciousness, The Collective Will, Forces External, Alaya, The Great Reason, The Great Will, The Will of Humanity, Sea of Souls, Realm of Epiphanies

### Users

Humans

> Think of the Collective Unconscious as a gigantic sea, an unfathomable sea where various creatures are born daily. These creatures are angels, demons and gods. Every day new entities are being born from the human unconscious, like a great number of fish jumping out of the sea.
>
> Sophia.

The **Collective Unconscious**, also known as the **Cognitive Will** and the **Collective Will**, refers to the deepest part of the human psyche where human archetypes are stored, which is also the source of all Tulpas, among countless other metaphysical beings, including the New Gods that exist in the deepest layer of the Cognitive Will.

## Overview

The Collective Unconscious exists as the shadow of the ego of human beings, being the place of unconsciousness where the archetypes of humanity inherited from their ancestors are stored. Through humanity's faith and their aim to create a story for themselves, humans have given birth to entities that embody their ideas, fears, philosophies, thoughts, as well as their desires and dreams.

This power known as Collective Will is a power that comes directly from the souls of human beings, as a consequence of having inherited the powers from their original and creative source, God and Sophia, who created the souls of human beings by removing fragments of their own unfathomable bodies. Of all the deities that were born from the Unconscious and from human faith, the most powerful of them is, without a doubt, the New God, Mr. World.

Furthermore, as the Collective Unconscious is a power that comes directly from souls, fragments of God, the Collective Will is timeless and is constantly changing history and timelines. The Collective Unconscious is also related to the ability to perform miracles, that is, to bend a circumstance that seems impossible and make it possible as long as you believe it is possible. The power of faith allows a human through the Collective Unconscious to shape the cosmos according to their belief.

## Description

The Collective Unconscious is described by Sophia as a gigantic sea where various gods, demons and other beings are constantly born. The Collective Unconscious is purely abstract and exists as the "backstage" for the true forms of the gods, that is, their purely archetypal and abstract forms.

The deepest region of the Collective Unconscious is where the God of Chaos exists united to the void beyond all voids, also existing as part of the Great Will of the Universe (Bythos). As part of the Great Will, the Demiurge has complete control over the entire Multiverse, existing within it and at the same time existing outside of His creation, with all of His appearances in creation (including to the angels), being through manifestations of fragments of His true being (the same for God, but on an unfathomably higher level).

In short, the Collective Unconscious is the megaversal consciousness, a cosmic sea of symbols and archetypes, dreams and ideas, made manifest.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Observer Effect**: The Observer Effect, also knwon as Understanding and Cognition, is a sub-power of the Collective Unconscious. Despite the name, it is not relating to the observer in the sense of seeing, but in the sense of experiencing something, although it is linked to the sense of sight as well. The observer effect is the changes that the act of observation will make to a phenomenon being observed. This effect can be caused by a person's five senses. The observer effect also allows a human to be able to deny the fundamental truths of somewhere or even a deity, being able to overthrow and even kill it.
* **Collective Consciousness**: The Collective Consciousness is, as you can imagine, the "opposite" of the Collective Unconscious, being also a power of observation of humanity. Collective Consciousness is a cultural set of moral and normative ideas, the belief that the social world exists to some extent apart from and external to the psychological life of the individual. The Collective Conscious is responsible for standardizing things in the human realm, such as the way human beings act and their way of living, believing and wanting to grow. This power allows a user to be able to reinterpret reality with awareness of what it is doing, of its own free will, if it is done in a relatively large group of people.

## Myths and Legends

The Collective Unconscious, according to the concept of analytical psychology created by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, is the deepest layer of the psyche. It is constituted by the materials that were inherited, and it is in it that the functional traits, such as virtual images, that would be common to all human beings reside. The collective unconscious is a reservoir of latent images, called archetypes or primordial images, that each person inherits from their ancestors.

### In Popular Culture

* **Dream of a Thousand Cats**: In The Dream of a Thousand Cats is said that there was a time, many eons ago, when reality was extremely different from now, when the world was not ruled by humans, but by cats. Cats were ten times bigger than humans, and humanity was just their slaves and food. However, at some point a man endowed with a divine gift appeared and told the other humans that he discovered that reality was shaped by dreams, dreams sculpted the world. Humans then dreamed of the world as it is now and reality was reset, with cats now being humanity's pets.
* **Megami Tensei**: The Collective Unconscious is also the main element and source of power in the Megami Tensei franchise, mainly from the Persona series of video games.
* **American Gods**: In American Gods, the Collective Unconscious is the source and origin of the gods. The gods that are forgotten by humans cease to exist and cannot be revived.
* **DC Comics**: In DC Comics, The Presence, the main God of the DC universe, is the Judeo-Christian conception of God, molded through the collective unconscious to be the God worshiped by mankind.
* **The Unwritten**: In The Unwritten the cosmic entity known as The Leviathan is the embodiment of the fictional unconscious, which is the collective unconscious of real-life writers. In short, it contains the collective consciousness of all who experience stories and forms a symbiotic relationship with the worlds.
* **TYPE-MOON**: In TYPE-MOON the Collective Unconscious is known as Alaya. In contrast to Alaya, who is the will of humanity, Gaia is the planet's will to survive.

## Quotes

> Gods are real if you believe in them.
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> Odin.

> Samson, your strength does not come from your hair. It came from your faith. When you stopped having faith, your power stopped flowing.
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> Yaldabaoth to Samson.

> And Jesus said unto him, If thou canst! **All things are possible to him that believeth**.
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> Mark 9:23.

> My thesis then, is as follows: in addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic conte.
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> Carl Jung on the Collective Unconscious.

> The power of the human unconscious is unlimited and has the ability to perform the most diverse miracles. The power to believe. Did not Jesus say, "Thy faith has saved thou"?
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> Gabriel.

> They evidently live and function in the deeper layers of the unconscious, especially in that phylogenetic substratum which I have called the collective unconscious. This localization explains a good deal of their strangeness: they bring into our ephemeral consciousness an unknown psychic life belonging to a remote past. It is the mind of our unknown ancestors, their way of thinking and feeling, their way of experiencing life and the world, gods and men. The existence of these archaic strata is presumably the source of man's belief in reincarnations and in memories of 'previous experiences'. Just as the human body is a museum, so to speak, of its phylogenetic history, so too is the psyche.
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> Carl Jung on the masculine archetype within the woman and the feminine archetype within the man.

## Trivia

* Since the Observer Effect is related to the five senses, and since no human being really feels, hears, or even sees anything, but only has the sensation of perceiving things, everything in the cosmos can be merely the fruit of their own human imagination, including the supreme gods, which would be the archetypes of the Collective Unconscious.
* While Dʰéǵʰōm is the will of Earth, the Collective Unconscious is the will of humans.
* The Collective Unconscious is why pagan gods and new gods want worship so much, because the soul emanates an indescribable power that makes them much stronger.
	+ It is unknown if deities are truly effected by the unconscious on its own or if they change themselves in accordance with what humans believe for the purpose of being worshiped. A true chicken or the egg scenario.