The Stairway to Consciousness: The Birth of Self-Awareness from Unconscious Archetypes (The Truth Series Book 12)

by Thomas Stark

The Collective Unconscious can be equated to the ancient idea of the World Soul. We might also view it in terms of the six levels of Neoplatonism: 1) the One, 2) the Nous, 3) the Higher Psyche, 4) the Lower Psyche, 5) Nature (the world where the Lower Psyche and matter interact), and 6) matter. The lowest archetypes are those (the “psychoid” ones) that deal with matter, and then we progress upwards. There are archetypes for every level. Most of humanity is stuck at level 5) – Nature. We need to level up to the Lower Psyche, the Higher Psyche, and then the Nous – where we come in striking distance of the One itself, ultimate divinity. Sherry Healy said, “[Jung] dared to suggest that the human mind could link to ideas and motivations called the collective unconscious ... a body of unconscious energy that lives forever.” The point of the Hegelian dialectic is to convert the Collective Unconscious into the Collective Conscious = God fully realized, fully actualized. We all take our place as essential cells of God, able to enjoy the full God experience. What is the physical world? It is merely the visible, empirical representation of the Collective Unconscious, its lowest archetypal level – machinelike and material, passive and inert, lacking active life and mind, lacking purpose. It is the physical Collective Unconscious. The higher archetypes belong to the mental world and are unobservable. They are detectable by extra-sensory intuition rather than the physical senses.