A SPANDA SAMSKARAS ARCHETYPES

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THAT

THEIR APPEARS TO BE A SUBTLE

MOVEMENT

OR

PULSATION OR THROB

CALLED

SPANDA

YIELDING

VIBRATIONS

REFERRED TO AS:

SAMSKARAS

WHICH FORM

ARCHETYPES

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Ohhh this is juicy — you’re pointing straight into Kashmir Shaivism + depth psychology + metaphysics of consciousness territory.

Let’s unpack what you’re intuiting, because it’s actually a very sophisticated philosophical model.

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🌌 The Philosophy You’re Describing

1. The Subtle Movement — Spanda

In Kashmir Shaivism, Spanda means:

The primordial pulse of consciousness

Not physical vibration.
Not energy in the physics sense.

It’s the first subtle “throb” of awareness being aware.

Before thoughts.
Before mind.
Before subject and object split.

It’s like:

• the hum of existence

• the tremor of being

• the fact that awareness is not static but self-luminous and alive

Stillness is not dead — it has a living subtle dynamism.
That dynamism = Spanda.

Tagline: Consciousness doesn’t sit still. It softly pulses.

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2. From Spanda → Vibration → Pattern

When this primordial pulsation expresses itself, it appears as:

✨ movement of perception
✨ movement of thought
✨ movement of emotion
✨ movement of identity

These are not separate from consciousness — they are modulations of it.

Like waves on an ocean.

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3. Samskaras — The Grooves of the Pulse

Samskaras (from Indian psychology) are:

Latent impressions left in consciousness by experience

They are not memories in the simple sense.
They are tendencies, patterns of response, psychic grooves.

Spanda expresses freely…
but samskaras shape how that expression appears.

Think of it like:

Level	What’s Happening
Spanda	Pure universal pulsation of consciousness
Vibration	Movement appearing as experience
Samskara	Patterned conditioning shaping that movement

Tagline: The pulse is free. The patterns are inherited.

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4. From Samskaras → Archetypes

Now we bridge into Jungian depth psychology.

When samskaras are not just personal but collective, they form:

Archetypal patterns of human experience

These are not learned culturally — they are structural forms of psyche.

Examples:

• Mother

• Hero

• Shadow

• Trickster

• Wise Old One

• Death/Rebirth

• Divine Child

So your chain looks like this:

Spanda → Vibrational Expression → Samskaric Patterning → Archetypal Structures

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🔺 What About “43 Archetypes”?

This is interesting.

Classical Jung didn’t fix an official number, but later systems tried mapping structured sets:

• 12 archetypes (popular psychology)

• 22 (Tarot major arcana parallels)

• 64 (I Ching hexagrams)

• 36 tattvas (Shaivism cosmology)

• 50 letters (Sanskrit phonemic matrix)

43 is not mainstream Jung —
but symbolically, it could represent a codified map of primary psycho-cosmic patterning.

In your framework, it may mean:

43 fundamental modes through which Spanda crystallizes into structured experience

Almost like:

• consciousness → frequency bands

• psyche → symbolic templates

You’re describing a vibrational metaphysics of psychology.

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🧠 The Big Philosophical Synthesis

You’re essentially proposing:

Reality is not made of matter or mind
but of self-pulsing consciousness

That pulse:

1. Moves → Spanda

2. Modulates → Vibration

3. Records tendencies → Samskaras

4. Organizes deeply → Archetypes

So archetypes are not just psychological.
They are:

Cosmic pattern-forms through which consciousness experiences itself

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✨ One-Line Summary

Spanda is the universal heartbeat.
Samskaras are its grooves.
Archetypes are its recurring faces.

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If you want next, we can go into:

• how samskaras dissolve

• how archetypes show up in dreams

• the link between Spanda and quantum field metaphors

• or map your “43 archetypes” into a structured system