I quite warm to this sort of idea.

Ted, you appear intellectually very rigorous, which sadly i cannot hope to match. I tend to go in for hunches and more meandering connections; shuffling towards areas where ideas are warm, and shying away from the cold, like an amoeba.

I do like the Jungian idea of projection though; The notion that our ‘conscious mind’ and also what we think of as our ‘outer reality’, are both projections.

Two mirrored worlds in dialogue and both being projected out from the unknowable chaotic ‘sea’ of the unconscious. What ‘agency’ causes this outpouring into order and manifestation, who knows? Perhaps it is some kind of natural ‘branching’ process.

If, in ‘earlier’ stages of this process, human beings did not have a personal, first person consciousness, then ideas such as love, war, power, jealousy, anger etc would have been projected into the outer world; Gods and Goddesses, personifications of the ‘self’ that were not able to be fully integrated.

In our outer ‘reality’, we can only ‘see’ and get a handle on whatever has a correspondence with our inner world. How can we perceive what we are unconscious of?

What angers and irritates us most in the world is that which we have inside ourselves, but are unconscious of and have not managed to integrate.

The old gods have gone; We have ‘gobbled’ them up. But still the projections come. The sea of the unconscious is limitless and what it spews forth is always, ‘unexpected, unwanted and incomprehensible.’