| The Rules for Being Human, author unknown, are | | | | everything you choose to remember. You are enrolled |
| posted on a plethora of web sites. While these rules | | | | in a full-time informal experience of Remembering. |
| are helpful, there is one fundamental flaw in its | | | | Each day you will have the opportunity to Remember |
| wording--that being that we are here to learn lessons. | | | | what you choose to remember. You may like what |
| The concept of learning lessons is flawed in that it flies | | | | you remember or you may think it irrelevant and/or |
| in the face of Carl Jung's concept of 'The Collective | | | | stupid. |
| Unconscious,' and the fundamental laws of human | | | | 3. There are no mistakes--Only opportunities to |
| existence. | | | | Remember. Emotional and Spiritual growth is a |
| The collective unconscious refers to that part of a | | | | process of trail and error: Experimentation. The 'failed' |
| person's unconscious which is common to all human | | | | experiments are as much a part of the process as |
| beings. It contains archetypes, which are forms or | | | | the experiment that ultimately prompts you to |
| symbols that are manifested by all people in all cultures. | | | | Remember what you have known since the beginning |
| They are said to exist prior to experience, and are in | | | | of existence. |
| this sense instinctual. Critics have argued that this is an | | | | 4. An opportunity to Remember is presented until you |
| ethnocentrist view, which universalized Jung's | | | | choose to Remember. An opportunity to remember |
| European-styled archetypes into human beings' | | | | will be presented to you in various forms until you have |
| archetypes. | | | | remembered it. When you have remembered it, you |
| Less mystical proponents of the Jungian model hold | | | | can then go on to the next opportunity to Remember. |
| that the collective unconscious can be adequately | | | | 5. Opportunities to Remember do not end. There is no |
| explained as arising in each individual from shared | | | | part of life that does not contain opportunities. The |
| instinct, common experience, and shared culture. The | | | | opportunity to Remember is infinite and continues for |
| natural process of generalization in the human mind | | | | infinity. |
| combines these common traits and experiences into a | | | | 6. 'There' is no Better than 'Here.' When your 'There' |
| mostly identical substratum of the unconscious. Thus, it | | | | becomes a 'Here', you will obtain another 'There' that |
| can be said that we all have access to the same | | | | will again look better than 'Here.' |
| archetypal information and therefore, we are | | | | 7. Others are Mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate |
| remembering what we have known since the | | | | something about another person unless it reflects |
| beginning of our existence from the source. The | | | | something you love or hate about yourself. |
| source being the entity we call God, Higher Self, | | | | 8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have |
| Essence Greater than Oneself or any name people | | | | all the tools and resources you need to Remember. |
| use to identify this unseen, unheard, unobserved, and | | | | What you do with them is up to you. The choice is |
| therefore unknown-by-anyone-else entity. | | | | yours. |
| Therefore, I offer to you a revised edition of The | | | | 9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to Life's |
| Rules for Being Human: I will title it--Laws of | | | | questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, |
| Remembering--Emotional and Spiritual Growth. | | | | and trust you are part of the whole. |
| 1. You have a body. You may like it or hate it, but it is | | | | 10. You will forget your soul's sole purpose is to |
| the one you chose for the entire period this time | | | | Remember. |
| around. | | | | 11. You can remember it whenever you choose. |
| 2. You will have the opportunity to Remember | | | | |