Soul, Myth and Worldview in a Changing World

Essentials of Analytical Psychology and the Descending Path

Abstract

This essay addresses the fundamental role of analytical psychology in our changing world: promoting the expansion of the worldview of Humanity. In current times of constant transformation, it becomes imperative to adopt a conception of the total world, which includes the 360 degrees of existence: not only the daytime 180 degrees of ascent, light and order, but also the lower 180 degrees of the unconscious. , the nocturnal and the mysterious. The integration of the descending realm in our psychic world, however, contrasts with our Western worldview, which conceives both fields as opposed and exclusive. The mytho-poetic language, and the mythologems manifested in various myths, open the psychic space to delve into the deep paradoxes of the total worldview. Myths such as Añañuca (Chile), Osiris (Egypt), Dionysus (Greece), or Innana (Sumeria) emphasize the downward path, narrating a key moment of archetypal transformation in which opposites merge—Life and Death, ascent and descent. , birth and decline. In order to integrate this paradoxical and generative way of experiencing transformation, individuals must search for their personal myth not in external circumstances, but within themselves, from where the Supersense is revealed.