What remains unlived, unresolved, unredeemed and unanswered will be passed on to future generations.

If we accept Jung’s model of the collective unconscious, we are naturally and irrevocably connected to each other, to all of creation, in a way that transcends time and space. In its timeless nature, the collective unconscious is a remembrance of things past as they anticipate the future.

what Jung called the “central fire,” the pure archetypal energy that provides the patterning for all of its varied expressions through the levels.

What the ancients did for their dead! You seem to believe that you can absolve yourself from the care of the dead, and from the work that they so greatly demand, since what is dead is past. . . . Do you think that the dead do not exist because you have devised the impossibility of immortality? . . . The dead produce effects, that is sufficient.1 —

Meade, in his book Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul, writes, “Fate is the inner

“You are a collection of ancestral spirits, and the psychological problem is how to find yourself in a crowd. Somewhere you are also a spirit—somewhere you have the secret of your particular pattern.”

“primeval ancestors.”

A human life is nothing in itself; it is part of a family tree. We are continuously living the ancestral life, reaching back for centuries, we are satisfying the appetites of unknown ancestors, nursing instincts which we think are our own, but which are quite incompatible with our character; we are not living our own lives, we are paying the debts

By the time Jung writes his autobiography, his observations have led him to conclude that the figures of the unconscious are often indistinguishable from the “spirits of the departed.”