DNA and The Unconscious

To paraphrase Jung, the collective unconscious is that psychic component that contains all that is unknown that is shared by all human beings. DNA is shared by all human beings and all other life forms and is comprised of vast amounts of the unknown.

Not only does it encode all that has preceded us, it provides the mechanism by which that knowledge may or may not be altered and the path to pass it into the future, just as it has been doing for eons. At present, as tool-making animals, we are in the process of decoding some of those secrets or bits of information.

This encrypted symbolic language could well be the reservoir for the archetypes. The psychics, seers. and space-time travellers may well be persons who are able to access encrypted DNA in a more direct manner than can the majority of mankind.

Of what we know regarding consciousness, it is dependent upon conscious carrying and producing life forms for it’s maintenance. From our standpoint human beings are and have been this major vector. The validity of this fact would lend relevance to evolution in that evolution's purpose may be that of making consciousness possible by the development of human kind. Although we like to think that human beings are the epiphany of evolution, we may be the only beings we know of in a chain of other conscious developing beings that are yet to evolve. It is also possible that as we unfold this DNA phenomena, that we may be participating in the evolution of more efficient conscious producing beings.

When we allow our selves to think in such broad terms this adds another dimension to the reverence for all life forms. Since DNA/collective unconsciousness provides a practical way for us to comprehend how God and human beings participate in mutual evolution.

The idea supports Jung's contention that the ultimate purpose of human kind is that of revealing God's unconsciousness to Himself. A corollary to this then is the sacredness of life. Not necessarily the preservation of every individual life but the continuation of the cycle of life and death which supports the expansion of consciousness.

Anyone or anything that increases knowledge then could be considered an act of worship. The preservation of this planet or a means of expanding consciousness beyond this planet's confining limitations then becomes mandatory in the expansion of the conception of God.

Lastly, what comes to mind is that ultimate evil could then be conceived as the total destruction of all life forms, consequently, the extinction of all consciousness. Whatever record there might be of knowledge would have no meaning, what so ever, if there is no consciousness of it. (Gene Qualls)