The Numinous and the Archetypes as Timeless, Cosmic Ordering and Regulating Principles in Evolution

The Jung/Pauli concept of the unconscious archetypes as timeless cosmic ordering and regulating principles verifiable in the external world and (phenomenologically) in the internal world of the psyche suggests concepts of mind which transcend that of the individual in a transpersonal sense. And a numinous dimension implicit in the evolutionary process. As the Bohm/Hiley treatment of active information as the bridge between the mental and the physical extends Mind indefinitely beyond the human species. In the spirit of physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s (2007) comments on extended Mind, humanity could be viewed as responsible for the future of the biosphere and responding to the figurative “summonses” of global warming and pandemics such as HIV/AIDS.