Indo-European Minds, Not Universal

I took the idea of archetypes from, I’m a Buddhist, from Tibetan Buddhism, where the entire practice is about embedding archetypes in our minds. And what I noticed in Jung’s work — he says he took the idea of archetypes from St. Augustine. But what we know, but that Carl Jung couldn’t know, is that what he considered to be universal and part of the collective unconscious of humanity, all the examples he gives are from Indo-European languages and religions.

Source: The Volya Radio Interview ~ Part One ~ Archetypes

In all of my work, I am only ever talking about archetypes that work on Indo-European structured minds, the minds of those whose language one, whose native tongue, is an Indo-European language. So that’s the only claim I’m making. I’m not talking about collective unconsciousness of humanity.

Source: The Volya Radio Interview ~ Part One ~ Archetypes

A critical limitation — and what makes the method honest. Tool 9 does not claim to analyse universal human cognition. It analyses the cognitive structures of people whose minds are formed inside Indo-European language, religion, and culture. This is what Russian Disinfolklore hacks: the specific archetypes embedded in Indo-European minds over millennia.

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