Emerson: All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
C.G. Jung writes in “The Undiscovered Self”
If the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot either, for society is the sum total of individuals in need of redemption.
If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and all fisson are due to the splitting of the opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.
What lies within our reach… is the change imm individuals who have, or create for themselves, an opportunity to influence others of like mind. I do not mean by persuading or preaching – I`m thinking rather , of the well-known fact that anyone who has insight into his own actions, and has thus found access to the unconscious, involuntarily exercises an influence on his environment. An inductive influence we might say.
Its not beyond the realm of possibility host just one person might be enough to preserve the world.
Such people are conscious carriers of the opposites. And to the extent that such individuals exist and carry the opposites within themselves, they do not feed the exteriorization of the terrible strife between the opposites. It is to believe that if society is to be redeemed, it will be done through the cumulative effect of such individuals. And when a sufficient number of people carry the consciousness of wholeness, the world itself has a chance to become whole.
I would suggest that you entertain such an idea, and furthermore, consider that perhaps you are the one.
(Jung – The Mysterium Lectures)