The Best of Science Fiction 12

... In English the word 'supernatural' must do service as both adjective and noun; there is 'nature' but no 'supernature' Perhaps this is a real, and not merely a linguistic truth, ... By the supernatural we mean those instincts and perceptions about the universe that make no sense in rational terms but that, ewer many centuries and in many countries, have never been lost or eradicated. ...

Jung saw the unconscious as composed of several 'levels': the barely subliminal level of unconscious memories ... temporarily forgotten or ignored, which could as easily become conscious; the level of the personal complexes and repressed wishes, fears and so on; and finally ... on the collective level, common to the entire race throughout history, exist the deep instinctual tendencies, that produced in primeval man (probably through dreams, among other means) his concrete belief in the supernatural. And these same unconscious collective tendencies, which Jung called the archetypes, exist in us today, (Douglas Hill and Pat Williams, The Supernatural, Hawthorne, 1966)