Interesting hypothesis, were did you get that? I know about Freud's classification of "Ich", "Es" and "Über-ich" (that is "Ego", "Id" and "shadow"?) and I know of Jung's "collective unconscious" but the rest is new to me.
Many years ago, during grad school, I went to therapy at that school, to come to terms with inhibitions that were connected to my upbringing in religion. Over the next year with the help of friends and circumstances, I reached a state of self actualization. Although this had been the goal of therapy, it all seemed anti-climatic when it occurred. The march to that goal, was the most enjoyable part. Afterwards, I felt I wanted more than just being a healthy ego in culture. This is when I discovered Carl Jung and his thesis of the Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, during a trip to the local book store.
Jung's thesis was less about our unique ego, and more about collective human potential that we all share; human nature common to all. To help define and describe the collective unconscious, Jung made extensive use of collective human symbolism, much of it from the world's religions. This made him less popular among the various orientations of psychology, since it rubbed Atheism the wrong way. Atheism did not wish religion to have any credit, for anything, and Jung brought religion into science, via the world wide similarities within collective human symbolism.
As a scientist, who was also still spiritual from my youth, I wanted to see and experience the collective unconscious for myself, and not just read about it and memorize. So, I decided to perform unconscious mind experiments on myself to see for myself. This started with recording my dreams each morning. I did this for over a year. I would awaken and while drinking my morning coffee at work I would write in dream journal and later that day analyze the symbols.
As time went on, this attention to the unconscious mind started to induced spontaneous symbolism from the unconscious mind, which increasingly gave me my first hand experiences of the collective unconscious. Science needs to see to believe. As a scientist, I was following that path by becoming both the scientist; observer, and the experiment; collective unconscious induction dynamics.
There was times when I would dream symbolism, only to read about these in books by Jung, I had never seen before, the next day; synchronicity. Cause and affect was often reversed compared to expectations. This is how I knew I was not reading and dreaming what I had read; expected cause and affect.
These early experiments; interaction, lasted another year and I was able to map out the layers of my psyche, including the collective unconscious and inner self, based on only the first hand data from the inside. This had the unintended affect of dissociating my personality since the differentiation into the details had broken apart its natural integration. A synchronicity was connect to my starting to read Jungs most challenging work; Mysterium Coniunctionis, which was Latin for the Mystical Union; symbols of transformation.
This begins the stage where the inner self would induce scenarios. I needed to solve these riddles coming from the subroutines that were active. The alchemists called it the 1000-fold distillation. These started easy and when you solved a puzzle I would get a dose of endorphins that made me feel timeless. As this buzz ended; few minutes, another puzzle would appear. As puzzles got more complicated, it would go on night and day, with as many as seven subroutines on at the same time. When it was done; two months, I was spit out and back to normal.
The inner self had taken over and led me through a type of healing process that helped me to reintegrate the firmware, but with my ego now more of a part of that final integration. This resulted in an interactive rapport. Much of my extrapolation of psychology is based on these experiments and the unique data; both the differentiation and the integration stages, I was able to generate and observe in the first person.
It was very dangerous and I would not do it again. I was younger and naive which seemed to offer me protection based on my unbiased approach. It was done with will power at the beginning, until the operating system had a mind of its own; inner self. I even had to develop what I called "Thought Dimensionality Theory", to help me record and analyze real time data, while I was neck deep in unconscious dynamics; many animated subroutines from the collective symbolism. I could plot the data and analyze it by looking at the plots.
I have tried to share that research over the years, but people in psychology of the ego, get bent out of shape, since they are not used to the idea of anyone being the scientist and the experiment to collective first hand data of deeper level subroutines. That was considered crazy, but it was needed to explore those deeper parts of the operating system, where first hand science of the mind, stops.
One thing that did result was I developed an interactive rapport with my inner self. This made me very creative, in all areas of knowledge, since they are all rooted in these collective firmware. This allows me to extend the frontiers against the comfort of the collective. I was correct about higher human potential. But being in the future makes it harder to influence the present.
. Buddhist meditation, for example, is strongly discouraged for people with a pathologically weak self, because Buddhism teaches that there is no self. Through Buddhist meditation, you may cause or nurture depersonalization and free-floating thoughts without connection to the self. When these free-floating thoughts are perceived as external - schizophrenia.
