..”the onslaught of instinct becomes an experience of ’the greater personality’.”
– Edward Edinger
I use this quote because it shows in such a good way how psychology today is in itself a ”meaningful coincidence” between an inner situation and an external event, and that there are coincidences that are stretched further than a single lifetime. Meaning now occurs in our present inner understanding of the mental flow of images that has arisen from a previous meeting between the collective consciousness and the underlying reality of the cosmic mind. These experiences and events have not been immediately connected to any visible causes because of the timespan involved. In the cosmic totality, everything happens simultaneously. Coincidences are always direct. But for the collective consciousness to pick it upp as such, it needs a single mind. A consciousness that can join them together. Without the scale of the cosmic reality, the experience is too large for it to be able to perceive that there is a relation outside the observer’s field of perception, so it will only be verifiable much later. And the connection is lost in time. But we can regain it when ”the onslaught of instincts becomes an experience of the greater personality”. Which I think is slowly happening right now. This is how I interpret my experience of it, and how it relates to our contemporary collective consciousness right now.