The collective unconscious contains unconscious, collective, inherited contents, among them, the instincts and the archetypes. It is a force within the individual with a potential of either creativity or destruction. The collective unconscious is the common “bed rock” (Karmic issues) level of the human psyche, shared by all human beings.


The collective unconscious […] appears to consist of mythological images […]. In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious.
We can see this clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic form were organised through the projection of images […]. These influences are unconscious introspective perceptions of the activity of the collective unconscious.”

C. G. Jung (Collected Works, vol* Para 325)