Jung's equation of the ground of being with the ground of psyche.
The Journal of analytical psychology September 1, 2011 John Dourley 5 citations
This paper explores Carl Jung's and the alchemist Gerhard Dorn's concept of the 'unus mundus,' the unified ground of reality. It argues that Jung and Dorn identify this ground with an experience of divinity that is the common origin of both the individual and the whole of existence. The work notes the monistic and pantheistic implications of this experience and amplifies it through the medieval mysticism of Meister Eckhart and Paul Tillich's modern philosophical theology. The authors conclude that the Jungian psychological understanding of ground surpasses monotheistic consciousness and supports a new societal myth that identifies the ground as the source of all divinities. This myth, they argue, is urgently needed to alleviate the threat that monotheistic consciousness poses to human survival.