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Originally Posted by tabs
There is a thing known as collective memory which is a repository of knowledge that we each have that was built over the millennia. There are common sentiments that are universal among all men. So we do have access to our honorable ancestors knowledge.
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If you are referring to the concept of a collective unconscious first espoused by Carl Jung, keep in mind he was, by his own admission, a neurotic who believed in ghosts:
When Jung was six months old, his father was appointed to a more prosperous parish in Laufen, but the tension between his parents was growing. Emilie Jung was an eccentric and depressed woman; she spent considerable time in her bedroom where she said that spirits visited her at night.[8] Although she was normal during the day, Jung recalled that at night his mother became strange and mysterious. He reported that one night he saw a faintly luminous and indefinite figure coming from her room with a head detached from the neck and floating in the air in front of the body. Jung had a better relationship with his father.[8]