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Recieved: 2003/06/27 19:59
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [K-list] An introduction (Archetypes)
From: Druout

Ken writes:

>Are the same set of archetypes common
>to all humans, or are there different sets for different cultures? Some,
>such as, the hero, seem surely to be universal.

Dear Ken, List,

Fascinating question.

Near Death Experiences certainly seem to be experienced somewhat differently:
 From the interesting site http://www.clam.rutgers.edu/~mrhodes/RA3.htm :

"Africans interpret the event negatively as it being evil and "bewitching."
Micronesians picture loud noisy American cities filled with cars and tall
buildings.
The Japanese experience images of bright flowers and dark rivers which are
often seen in Japanese art.
Americans and the English often feel they were sent back for love or to
perform a job.
Indians often have a sense of peace and joy.

See also http://www.near-death.com/hindu.html for some Hindu NDE experiences

 For a fascinating description of Jung's NDE, see

http://www.near-death.com/jung.html

Jung discussed Animal symbols connected to the Chakras *Commentary on
Kundalini Yoga.* These seem to be pretty archetypal. see
http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/polls/po_snakes.html I frequently dreamt of several of these
animals during my initial experiences--way before I knew what a chakra was!

See below for more links.

Love, Hillary

The following is from the "Definition" portion of Jung's lecture in 1936 on
"The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious", Collected Works, Vol. 9.i,
pars. 87-110.


"My thesis, then, is as follows: In addition to our immediate consciousness,
which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only
empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix),
there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and
impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious
does not develop individually, but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent
forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give
definite form to certain psychic contents."

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3976/Jung2.html

For a list of Jungian archetypes:
http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~davisct/nt/jung.html

for a more modern view: http://www.tamicowden.com/heroines.htm

Love, Hillary


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