Constellated (i.e., activated) unconscious contents are, so far as we know, always projected; that is, they are either discovered in external objects, or are said to exist outside one’s own psyche — Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)
Unconscious contents, for Jung, meant repressed conflicts, but why not merely crisis in general, either within or without an individual. It is then that our senses are heightened, our thoughts are quick, and we notice qualia we might never have noticed before, constellated before us. And, constellated qualia need not just be projected outward, but it broadcasts inward as well — for the truth is, we don’t project it, it projects itself.
And qualia doesn’t have to be big, like an archetype. Qualia can be little, like a baby. Qualia must survive, too – so it attracts matter or other qualia, and grows up. It attracts us, we move toward it, ritual with it, and it is manifested — projected into reality. A bee is attracted to a flower’s redness; he rituals with it, develops a qualiadelic relationship with it; the flower, over the generations, projects more redness — and the bee sees redness better. Pretty soon the whole landscape looks red! Evolution is the result of qualiadelic relationships.
Why do we focus so tenaciously upon our human projections? We should be looking always for qualiadelic constellations; they only seem human at first because we see our reflection in everything; but the longer we look the less human, and the more beautiful, and universal, they become, until one day we realize we have discovered ecosystems…