Intuition and the Collective Unconscious

"You are special, and not like anybody else," we are told when we are young. However, as we grow older, we realize that "every man is created equal," that sharing is caring, and that everyone is part of a community. These two ideas of individuality and community seem to contradict each other. But, as part of the collective unconscious--the universal energy that brings everything together as a whole--each of us has a unique channel that our Intuition tunes in to to inspire us. We are part of the whole, yet each different from one another. So now that there is a distinction that the individual exists as part of the whole, what is the "gatekeeper", or filter, to the access of the universal essence?

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