![]() When we see numbers recurring in religions, it suggests that these are universal symbols that have accessed the deep recesses of our collective unconscious from time immemorial. He referred to something called the collective unconscious, which is humanity itself as a universal unconscious mind. The unconscious is the deeper parts of ourselves that cannot speak through language and so speak through symbols. Jung came up with the concept based on his own personal study that all human beings have a conscious state of mind and an unconscious state of mind. To experience a number is what Jung would call synchronicity. He considered the numbers one through nine to be the first primitive symbols of order that act as the basis of thought for humankind. He went beyond the world of psychology that he had learned from his teacher Sigmund Freud and found there were universal images, concepts, and symbols that resonated with all religions and schools of thought. ![]() The twentieth-century psychoanalyst Carl Jung was fascinated by numbers. ![]() The Hebrews did the same thing through a practice called gematria. Words that reduce to the same digit are then compared and analyzed for deeper meaning. In ancient Greece, this led to a practice called isopsephy, in which the numeric values of the letters in a word are added together and then reduced to a single digit. We use the Arabic numeral system now, but ancient languages, like Greek and Hebrew, used the letters from their alphabets as numbers. And certain numbers have always been held sacred, universally, by religions, churches, and traditions. In early human history, we began understanding the seasons and the heavens, then understanding the cyclical nature of the sun, moon, and stars.
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