>>13354785In part because he was more of a scientist than freud ever was, he threw shit at the wall until some of it stuck, freud was vocal about the veracity of his claims despite having little to back them up with.
Jung went on a spiritual journey and explored the mind-body duality in his writings, the mind lives on a space that's adyacet to our material world and interacts with other minds as well as the world around us via some sort of mechanism that seems to be strongly related to the intensity and number of thoughts these minds produce, the collective unconcious could easily explain a lot of social phenomena as well as recent developments in parapsychology.
I believe i did mention in another thread a couple of months back that I'm conducting a series of experiments involving rngs with a psychology prof this winter, I'm currently trying to develop a model for these interactions, the results will (hopefully) prove that they are very much real.