The Indo-European Limit

In all of my work, I am only ever talking about archetypes that work on Indo-European structured minds. So that’s the only claim I’m making.

Source: Volya Radio Interview, Part One

The intellectual genealogy runs from Tibetan Buddhism (where the practice is about embedding archetypes in our minds) through St. Augustine to Jung. What Jung considered “universal” and part of the “collective unconscious” turns out to be specifically Indo-European — he did not know this, but all his examples derive from Indo-European languages and religions. This is where Finding Manuland provides the foundational research.

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