The mind is, of course, subjective, whilst the environment about us would seem to be an objective fact. We know this because science says so, but to what extend does the subjective mind impinge upon this objective reality?

It is a subject that has fascinated philosophers for centuries, but it is an area of research so often missed by parapsychologists and psychical researchers. So I ask a question: Is objective reality simply a bare canvas to be filled by our subjective thoughts?

THE NIGHT I SAW MY UFO

An anecdote to explain what I mean. One night as I was going to bed a blast of wind rattled the window. I wasn’t in a particularly good mood. I pulled back the curtain to see how bad the wind was and became suddenly transfixed.

In the garden next door, about two feet above the ground, was a cascade of golden lights. I have since called it my angel, or UFO, and it was so beautiful that my mood disappeared. After watching for quite a while, I went to bed and slept peacefully for the first time in ages.

The next morning I investigated. There was a pile of bricks in the garden, and trapped on it was the cause of my vision. An empty packet of crisps with its reflective insides showing had reflected an orange street light as it blew in the wind.

TOWARDS A COLLECTIVE REALITY

I have offered just one very visible example. Yet the interplay between objective reality and the subjective mind can be seen as a continual process. Jung offered his theory of ‘archetypes’ within a collective unconscious. We can now look at this in a new way.

An objective reality would be the same to all people. At the root of sensory experience would be a shared impression – a ‘collective’ experience, as it were. This collective experience would provide objective ‘archetypal’ impressions in the unconscious.

We can see this in action in the discipline of Semiotics, where ‘signs’ and symbols provide collective meaning and direction. A red traffic light, for instance, is a collective instruction to stop. A dark cloud is universally precognitive of rain.

WE LIVE IN TWO WORLDS

Such archetypal imagery would also mix with the ‘collective’ aspects of the mind. Certain mind traits, for instance, are shared, whether through our genes or repetitive behaviour.

This interplay between shared mind and environment offers a credible existence to Jung’s collective unconscious. Indeed, myth itself can be seen as a shared psychology writ large, filled with archetypal personality types and human dilemmas.

This reality of a physical, objective world and a shared psychological world has been expressed in religion throughout human existence. Since earliest times we have lived in two worlds – the physical world and a parallel spirit world. We can now, perhaps, see what this concept means.

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