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Carl Jung Archetypes

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A universal subconscious, a part of the human brain that shares the same thoughts and ideas as everyone else, seems crazy, right? Carl Jung didn’t seem to think so in fact, he spent his career studying such things called Archetypes, signs and patterns that all humans share in their universal subconscious. The first examples of archetypes appear through the creation and flood stories of ancient cultures. Now, the real question is how did these civilizations that were thousands upon thousands of miles apart possibly have such similar stories? Carl Jung’s idea of archetypes and a universal subconscious is correct in that all the flood stories are similar.
In the flood story from the ancient Hebrew writings; God told Noah, that he would be able to bring on the ark with him: himself, his wife, his children, and their wives. In all, that was a total of eight people. As well, in the story of Matsya, Manu took on his boat with him: himself and seven wise men in all totaling to be eight people. Also in Genesis it says “And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.” I chose this quote because it demonstrates how the story portrays eight as the number …show more content…

Noah was told by God “Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.” As well as in the story of Matsya, Manu was told “As well as every plant and seed and two of every kind of animal he could fine.” These two quotes yet again pose to show how there is a universal subconscious between humans through the similarity between the two stories from these ancient

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