Jung's model of the collective unconscious posits a deep stratum of psychic content shared across humanity — the archetypes — expressed in myths, dreams, symptoms, and cultural forms across every tradition. The Sutras' concept of the universal saṃskāric field carries a similar structural insight: individual minds are not isolated but participate in patterns larger than personal history. Engaging the archetypes is not intellectual exercise but a direct encounter with the transpersonal dimensions of one's own psyche.
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