OP, do you believe that Jung's concept of collective unconscious is inherited memes, perhaps even malleable and natural, or a genuinely metaphysical, transpersonal and unitive mind?
I'm not sure. I need to think that over. What do you think about it?
Fuck, I wish I could tell you. The consistency of our memes are unmistakable to the point at which I wonder whether the muses are in fact an external force (or internal, but what's the difference, really?) influencing our actions. Part of me--the skeptical face--wants proof, scientifically rigorous evidence, before I can accept it. But then again, I think I've been contacted by a certain Zoklet member in a dream once and I think some other members can say the same, unless he/she just happens to be that
dreamy. All I can say for sure is that I want to believe. Nothing is certain, in my mind, but that means nothing is beyond doubt either.
I think RAW said it best: "I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions."
I can tell now that I've had too much caffeine today, so getting back to your point, I think... the universe is void of meaning, a projection of mind. Without our cognizant presence, it's all just naked, essential and barren. We seed semantic souls unto the inanimate and build our society on consensus perception. Ideas spread like viruses and I think even if brains aren't connected by astral fibers, the astonishing viscosity of thoughts is a part of human evolution that blurs the lines between metaphysical and natural. I think that my question will be irrelevant in 100 years and that, one day, we'll all be a single point of light hanging in the aether and we'll inevitably imagine what we have now out of sheer boredom.
