Mandala suite 2
Mandala 207
... there must be a transconscious disposition in every individual which is able to produce the same or very similar symbols at all times and in all places. Since this disposition is usually not a conscious possession of the individual I have called it the collective unconscious, and, as the bases of its symbolical products, I postulate the existence of primordial images, the archetypes.
... the identity of conscious individual contents with their ethnic parallels is expressed not merely in their form but in their meaning.- from Concerning Mandala Symbolism. C. G. Jung. trans. from "Uber Mandalasymbolik," Gestaltungen des Unbewussten (Zurich, 1950)