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Mind, Memory, and Archetype Morphic Resonance and the Collective Unconscious - Part I

Psychological Perspectives (Spring 1987), 18(1) 9-25

by Rupert Sheldrake


ABSTRACT

In this essay, I am going to discuss the concept of collective memory as a background for understanding Jung's concept of the collective unconscious. The collective unconscious only makes sense in the context of some notion of collective memory. This then takes us into a very wide-ranging examination of the nature and principle of memory-not just in human beings and not just in the animal kingdom; not even just in the realm of life-but in the universe as a whole. Such an encompassing perspective is part of a very profound paradigm shift that is taking place in science: the shift from the mechanistic to an evolutionary and wholistic world view.

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