What does Chris Bache say about Archetypal And Collective Realities?
How Bache frames the collective psyche and archetypal domains: from META-COEX healing to an ontologically prior “bridge” that seeds space-time, with evolving archetypes and participatory disclosure.
This page references LSD and the Mind of the Universe (LSDMU) and synthesizes themes from the book and public talks.
LSD and the Mind of the Universe is primarily a cosmological narrative, not a therapeutic narrative. […] It is when one moves beyond the shoals of the personal psyche and enters the ocean of the deep psyche that the larger and more philosophically interesting story begins to emerge.
— LSDMU ch.1 §8 ¶7
Bache shifts the center of gravity from private healing to the deep psyche. At depth, personal dynamics mirror species dynamics.
The collective psyche appears to organize its memories […] into giant memory clusters. […] I call these collective memory clusters META-COEX systems.
— LSDMU ch.4 §2 ¶6This interpretation proposes that the working of the collective psyche parallels the working of the personal psyche […]. […] In this setting, an individual seems to be able to tap into and directly facilitate a healing of some portion of the collective psyche.
— LSDMU ch.6 §1 ¶5
Mechanism: as COEX systems structure the personal unconscious, META-COEX structures the collective; high-energy sessions can catalyze species-level clearing. What domain are we in?
I experienced archetypal reality to be a bridge between the physical universe and the source of existence […] the seed reality of space-time. […] The archetypal domain is actually a cluster of levels.
— LSDMU ch.7 §0 ¶8
At this bridge, archetypes aren’t static molds.
[I] use the term in a quasi-Jungian sense […] patterns in the collective unconscious […]. […] I see the collective psyche as itself learning and evolving over time, and therefore I see archetypes at this level as evolving over time.
— LSDMU ch.7 §10 ¶4
Participation matters.
All psychedelic disclosure is interactive. […] Our being evokes the portion of the universe we experience […].
— LSDMU ch.1 §9 ¶2
Taken together: a participatory passage from personal COEX to collective META-COEX, through a living, evolving archetypal bridge that informs—and learns from—our species-mind.
LSDMU ch.4 §2 ¶6
The collective psyche appears to organize its memories in ways that parallel how the personal unconscious organizes its memories. […] It appears to gather the memories of humanity into giant memory clusters […] I call these collective memory clusters META-COEX systems. […]
LSDMU ch.6 §1 ¶5
This interpretation proposes that the working of the collective psyche parallels the working of the personal psyche in key respects. […] In this setting, an individual seems to be able to tap into and directly facilitate a healing of some portion of the collective psyche. […]
LSDMU ch.7 §0 ¶8
I experienced archetypal reality to be a bridge between the physical universe and the source of existence. […] Being ontologically prior to space-time in the Great Chain of Being, it is the seed reality of space-time. […]
LSDMU ch.7 §10 ¶4
Second, I use the term in a quasi-Jungian sense to describe patterns in the collective unconscious of humanity—patterns of collective memory, collective thought, collective learning, and even collective physiology. […] I see the collective psyche as itself learning and evolving over time, and therefore I see archetypes at this level as evolving over time. […]
LSDMU ch.1 §9 ¶2
All psychedelic disclosure is interactive. […] Our being evokes the portion of the universe we experience in these states, and the more conditioning we have let go of […] the more open-ended and far-reaching are the experiences that present themselves.
(Optional, contextual) LSDMU ch.7 §7 ¶9
Experiencing human existence as a completely unified field made everything much easier to understand. […] I was now experiencing as a centralized decision to incarnate entire generations to cleanse the human mind-field of its collective karmic legacy. […]
In my experience, there were two archetypal levels: a high subtle level and a low subtle level. At the high subtle level—what I think of as Platonic—I encountered living forms responsible for creating spacetime […]. At the lower subtle, more Jungian level, I entered into the living tissue of the collective psyche. […] As we heal ourselves, we contribute to healing the collective psyche.
00:22:04 — Diamonds from Heaven – Lecture at TimeWaver Summer World 2018 (2018-08-30) • 00:22:04Where I went next was into the greater realm of archetypal reality. […] I entered a state of awareness beyond the collective psyche, and at that level I was being worked with, taught how reality functions.
00:34:12 — Mapping of Transcendence (2019-09-26) • 00:34:12At a lower level of archetypal reality—call it a Jungian level—I repeatedly experienced the human psyche and the human species as a single integrated organism […]. The individual is real; the collective is real. They operate on different scales and are mutually implicated.
00:42:39 — Exploring LSD and the Mind of the Universe (2023-01-05) • 00:42:39My focus wasn’t on groups but on all of humanity. […] Each of our minds is like a fractal spark within a species mind; each of our bodies a cell within an integrated body of humanity. […] Very similar to Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic fields theory.
00:31:25 — 73 Trips: Inside the Psychedelic Universe (2023-11-06) • 00:31:25Why isn’t this just echoes of my personal unconscious […]? […] The cosmology that emerges in psychedelic states is echoed in the work of other psychedelicists […] There is a convergence of experience at deep levels.
00:23:53 — Psychedelics and Cosmological Exploration – Reach Truth Podcast (2022-08-30) • 00:23:53As one goes deeper, the granular quality of many individual beings yields to levels that are less granular […] and then opens into vast tracts of consciousness that are less individual and less entity-like.
00:03:14 — Understanding DMT Entity Encounters (2022-02-16) • 00:03:14When I entered into archetypal reality and died as a human being—died to my species identity—[…] I moved into increasingly clear, contentless states of consciousness […] beyond archetypal reality.
01:10:11 — LSD & the Mind of the Universe (SMN webinar) (2022-12-07) • 01:10:11
Book passages establish the ontology (archetypal as seed/bridge) and mechanism (COEX → META-COEX; participatory disclosure). Transcripts confirm two archetypal tiers (high/Platonic vs low/Jungian), add species-organism imagery, and clarify that entities/thought-forms thin out with depth. Together they depict evolving archetypes within a learning species-mind.
Cite as: Bache Archive — Educational Docs Edition (2025). Based on the works of Christopher M. Bache, including LSD and the Mind of the Universe (2019) and public talks (2009–2025).
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