Sublime

Just as your laptop hard drive can get infected with a virus from an email, your subconscious mind can be infected with a mind virus from the environment around you. That’s exactly what’s happened in the examples above. The result of being infected with mind viruses like those is self-sabotage.

Referring to the medieval idea of the “daemonic,” Jung writes that “demons are nothing other than intruders from the unconscious, spontaneous irruptions of the unconscious complexes into the continuity of the conscious process. Complexes are comparable to demons which fitfully harass our thought and actions; hence in antiquity and the Middle Ages

parasitic pathogens of the human mind. These are composed of thought patterns, belief systems, attitudes, and mindsets that parasitize one’s ability to think properly and accurately.