Back to the past....riffing on THE PRESERVED

[Mark Kohut]

--- On Mon, 1/25/10, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> My take on a "collective unconscious"
> is essentially what I would
> label "human instinct," a consciousness that existed prior
> to "the
> fall," meaning prior to the development of a capacity for
> reasoning
> re. "good and evil." 

THAT might be the best said here on some of TRP's meanings as well........It is beyond/before reasoning......it is universal, therefore true of us as humans.....it unites us with
all animals, all creatures, All Being maybe?...a nice Pynchon hope.....
And beyond good and evil as well...........




If animals have something called
> instinct, it
> stands to reason that humans do also.  I'm sure the
> development of
> language is a large part of what divides humanity from a
> reliance on
> instinct.  But I don't think the divide is a sharp
> one, knowing that
> animals have a great capacity for reasoning, even without
> language as
> we know it.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> > As to the "collective unconscious," which is a
> separate term, the jury is out on that one.
>