What is your feeling about the collective unconscious? While Jung is widely known for his hypothesis, his meaning seems generally to be misunderstood. A sense of Jung’s actual usages of this term feels urgently needed for us in 2024, nearly a quarter of the way through the 21^st century, as we find ourselves living out daily the spirit of the depths with the spirit of the times:

I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism. // We have in all naïveté forgotten that beneath our world of reason another world lies buried. I do not know what humanity will still have to undergo before it dares to admit this. — CW4 p332 // Spring 1960