ABSTRACT
C. G. Jung held the view expressed by Plato that the world itself has a soul or psyche. He considered that the psyche is not something that appeared spontaneously from nowhere when life has evolved to a certain degree of complexity. He subscribed to an ancient conception known in Latin as the Anima Mundi and in Greek as the Psyche tou Kosmou, meaning "the soul of the world". Jung held that the psyche is fundamentally "chthonic" or "of the earth". The chapter describes the awareness of psychological processes to include this chthonic element with the aim of attending to a more comprehensive wholing or healing. The black and the white could also be seen to suggest a kind of splitting that is perhaps characteristic of Cornish psychology. The Cornish national flag is the cross of Saint Piran. Piran was a sixth century Cornish abbot who is now widely accepted as the patron saint of Cornwall.
