Essence Quality

One's inherent, true nature—the core of what we are born with.

Everything acquired—learned behaviors, ideas, social manners, and reactions that overlay our essence.

The regulating center of the psyche that encompasses both conscious and unconscious—the goal of individuation, often symbolized by the divine child or mandala.

An artificial construct of traits, pretensions, and borrowed ideas that a person identifies as 'I.' The mask or façade formed from vanity, imagination, and imitation.

The mask or social face one presents to the world—a necessary adaptation that becomes problematic when mistaken for the whole self.

Universal symbolic patterns that structure the collective unconscious, recurring across cultures, mythologies, dreams, and art in recognizable forms.

Nature-Ego-Self

Three bodies

Shadow union

Remembrance