ABSTRACT
The archetype corresponding to the situation is activated and as a result those explosive and dangerous forces hidden in the archetype come into action, frequently with unpredictable consequences. Jean Knox, George Hogenson and others interested in C. G. Jung's archetypes and the collective unconscious have begun to explore the possibility of a non-classical Jungian nature of the archetypes. This difference relates more to the archetypes as action patterns that do not necessarily originate from an unconscious place but rather are a result of neurobiological factors such as mirror neurons, the social environment and species typical behaviors. When thinking of the metaphysical and transcendent nature of an archetype there is an experiential basis for a belief in archetypes as representing the divine. In religions and spiritual practices all over the world, humans believe in something greater than themselves which transcends the ego and gives numinous experiences.
