Our African Unconscious

Our African Unconscious reveals how spirituality and the collective unconscious of all of humanity originated in Africa.

Reveals:

• How spirituality and the collective unconscious of all of humanity originated in Africa.
• The Oldawan, the Ancient Soul of Africa, and its correlation with what modern psychologists have defined as the collective unconscious.
• Insights from archaeology, DNA research, history, and depth psychology to show how the biological and spiritual roots of religion and science emerged from Africa.
• Reflections of our African unconscious in the present confrontation in the Americas, in the work of the Founding Fathers, and in modern psychospirituality.

The fossil record confirms that humanity originated in Africa. Yet, we have often overlooked that Africa is also at the root of all that makes us human—our spirituality, civilisation, arts, sciences, philosophy, and our conscious and unconscious minds.

In this extensive exploration of human history and culture, Edward Bruce Bynum unveils how our collective unconscious is intrinsically African. By drawing on archaeology, DNA research, depth psychology, as well as the biological and spiritual origins of religion and science, he illustrates how all modern humans, irrespective of ethnic or racial categorisations, share a common deeper identity—both psychically and genetically—a primordial African unconscious.

He explores the inception of early religions and mysticism in Africa, examining the Egyptian Nubian contributions to the rise of civilisation, the emergence of Kemetic Egypt, and the Oldawan, the Ancient Soul, and its relationship to the collective unconscious as defined by modern psychologists. The book reveals the spiritual and psychological implications of our shared African ancestry, examining its presence in contemporary confrontations in the Americas, the work of the Founding Fathers, and modern Black spirituality, which stems from African diaspora religion and philosophy.

By recognising our shared African unconscious—the matrix forming the deepest luminous core of human identity—we learn that the differences between individuals are merely surface-level, indicating that there is ultimately no real separation between the material and the spiritual.