Storehouse consciousness is a term used in Buddhist psychology to describe the oceanic dimension of the unconscious where all memory, history, and potential are contained. Storehouse consciousness has both individual and universal dimensions. In the individual dimension, storehouse consciousness holds the patterns, the sankharas, of each person’s past. In the universal dimension, it is a shared reservoir of collective memories, images, and desires. Carl Jung explored some aspects of storehouse consciousness, using the term collective unconscious. More recently, neuroscientist Karl Pribram and
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