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Sorry for the delay in posting...missed last week's class so excuse me if I repeat something!

The conversation is very interesting. I am currently reading a book called Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious. The author, Gerd Gigerenzer, interviews a judge on the subject of intuition or "gut feelings, hunches" and the judge responds by acknowledging that he will follow his own intuition but that he does not find the unconscious knowledge of others legitimate. I find this nteresting as we will trust our own thoughts, reality but not those of others, which led me to think about defining a mental "health" "illness" definition. Is it actually even possible to define when we cannot trust what others offer from their unconcsious thought such as intuition? And then I thought about certain mental "illnesses" already defined, such as the disorders involving delusions or hallucinations. How do we know these are simply not intuitions manifesting themselves?

Anyway, I did not go to the site on collective conscious yet, but the first thing my mind jumps to when I hear the term "collective conscious" is Hitler or Hiroshima...not sure why.

 Missed you all last week and look forward to seeing you tonight..

Meredith