Inner Collective Weather

I have been reflecting on the concept of PSYCHIC WEATHER which I once heard someone speak of in Zurich. I need much more training in this subject, but I cannot find another teacher. It makes such a good analogy to look at some recent events of our modern world as if they were a kind of INNER WEATHER in the PSYCHIC world. Everyone is capable of viewing the OUTER WEATHER (THE RAINDROP KIND) as a non personal happening, but if there is such a thing as COLLECTIVE INNER WEATHER that we all share in common, few people are capable of viewing it as equally impersonal as OUTER WEATHER.

The thought comes to mind that INNER COLLECTIVE WEATHER should be taken as impersonally as the OUTER WEATHER. One could be free of a great deal of guilt which most people carry about with them.If they could differentiate the two kinds of WEATHER. Such a division would allow one to take appropriate measures for each kind of WEATHER.

INNER COLLECTIVE WEATHER would be the kind of suffering which is raging through our culture during the last few months and is so often viewed as a personal experience. Both WEATHERS get one "wet", so to speak, but the two are best treated by very different attitudes. INNER COLLECTIVE WEATHER is the accumulated mistakes of our whole historical experience but is not a personal matter. Ordinary OUTER WEATHER is an immediate highly personal experience. To assign guilt to the wrong level is useless suffering. To confuse these two attitudes is to leave one in a helpless confusion of cures that has no conclusion.

What can we say about INNER COLLECTIVE WEATHER? From the above manner of thinking, it is a profoundly deep attitude which is proving to be incorrect. History gives us some terminology that is useful for this inquiry: before the age of Copernicus COLLECTIVE THOUGHT was that the earth was the center of the universe and everything else was to be judged as peripheral to the earth. Copernicus upset this attitude by teaching that the sun was the center of our universe and our earth dependent on the sun as the center of our known world. Outer thinking slowly changed to the Copernican model but failed to make use of the model as an inner fact. It is high time we think of the Copernican model in an inner sense; if we could go through a Copernican revolution in an inner sense by seeing the center of our personal universe as not the ego, but as the SELF (as Jung defined it) we would have a far more accurate model of our human experience. To make this transition would be extremely difficult for modern man - who is used to thinking of his ego as the center of his universe - but it would be far closer to reality than our present ego-centric attitudes.

To put this in the simplest manner: It is time we made the Copernican revolution true inwardly as well as outwardly.
I am uncomfortable when I hear people saying that we will pull out of the present depression in six months or so and be back to normal again. If the Copernican revolution in its inner sense is required, no slight alteration of our "normality" will help. We had a chance at such a revolution several times in recent history but did not recognize it. Intelligence would urge us not to fail this chance.