The Disturbing Theory About Like-minded People That I Discerned After Reading Carl Gustav Jung
Let’s talk about the natural mind.
Doesn’t it happen to you that sometimes your gaze crosses that of a stranger, and you both look at each other as if you recognize each other?
Sometimes, I walk down the street and cross paths with people I’ve never met before but feel I’ve known all my life.
And I know they feel the same way about me because how they look at me gives them away.
It happened to me with the owner of a coffee shop I never go to.
It happens to me with a brunette girl who always crosses my path in the afternoons.
And I don’t mean any attraction. It’s something more profound than that.
It’s an affinity.
It’s like a life unlived, a friendship that hasn’t been yet but could be the moment I decide to open that door and talk to that person.
It’s like getting excited about something that hasn’t happened yet, but something inside you knows will happen if you open that door.
It is mind-blowing because Jung, the great genius of psychology, has much to say about it.
The theory of the inner eyes
“Deep down, I know very well how things are. The “true knowledge” consists in an instinct or a mystical participation with others. One could say that they are the “second term eyes” that see in an impersonal act of intuition.” — Carl Gustav Jung.
This phrase was written by Jung in his autobiography just before explaining a strange event that happened to him at the wedding of a friend of his wife.
Jung did not know the bride or her family. He was placed at a table surrounded by strangers.
At that table, there was a lawyer with whom he felt a connection, and they started talking about criminal psychology.
During the conversation, the guy asked him a question, and Jung invented a story with all the details as an example to answer him.
The lawyer was speechless as he listened to him. Jung went to take the air, not knowing what he had said to annoy the lawyer.
After a while, a guy who had overheard the conversation came up to Jung and said, “How are you so indiscreet?
Jung didn’t know what was happening because he had made up the story. But apparently, the story he had made up in great detail as an example was exactly the lawyer’s life.
Boom!
And worst of all, after learning of such a strange coincidence, he realized he couldn’t remember a single word of the story he had told the lawyer.
It was as if he had channeled something — like a medium — without realizing it.
The channelings.
Jung, after analyzing what had happened, realized two things
- In a book he had read, a Swiss politician (Heinrich Zschokke) described something similar to what he had experienced. Heinrich was in an inn when he met a stranger, and with his inner eyes, he immediately saw that he was a thief.
- That also happened to his mother regularly. Jung said, “My mother often did not know what she was saying. A voice of absolute authority would come to her and say exactly the right thing for the situation.”
Therefore, Jung realized that we can channel knowledge from somewhere else, incarnate in us, and make us say or do exactly what is required without realizing it.
It is like flowing. It is an intuition. It is a channel that connects us with the collective subconscious, where it is clear that all truth is known.
In the autobiography, Jung calls it the “Natural mind” and says the following in a footnote.
The natural mind is the spirit that arises from man’s nature like a spring from the earth and expresses the wisdom proper to nature. It says things carelessly and without conscience.
Conclusion
We are all connected. But some people more than others.
In the bible, we can read, referring to Jesus, “and he did not need anyone to testify to him about man, for he knew what was in man.”
In the same way, we know things about other people we do not know. Those people we look at with familiarity as we pass them on the street.
It is as if some conduit connects us to the collective unconscious, where the whole truth of the entire world is. And for some reason that I don’t understand, we share these channels with people we don’t know.
With other people with whom we are spiritually brother and sister.
A virtual hug
AG
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