Title

Evolution of the Collective Unconscious

Description

"The collective unconscious is made up of experiential knowledge, symbols, and imagery that humans are naturally born with (no tabula rasa) and are rooted in ancestral experience and shared by all persons in all cultures. After millennia of evolution, the current collective unconscious of humanity would seem to include human exceptionalism, patriarchal hegemony, short-terminism, delusions of grandeur, illusions of unending growth, and the idolatry of technology. As the planet becomes overloaded with industrial civilization, our collective mindset seems to be unwilling to think long-term and face the realities of ecological overshoot. It remains to be seen whether our collective mindset can evolve to voluntarily refocus human agency toward contraction of the human enterprise, simplification of lifestyles, and peaceful resolution of conflicts before it is too late to prevent a chaotic collapse of industrial civilization."

Creator(s)

Mother Pelican

Denomination

Christian

Sub-Tradition

Roman Catholic

Audience

All audiences/General public

Rights

This information and image were accessed at http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv20n02page1.html on 02/02/2024.

Issues

english Mindfulness & Simplicity

english Restoration

Relation

Critique of Religious Patriarchy