Bridging the abyss: The sacred geometry of collective individuation.
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the tectonic pressure of seismic cultural shifts threatens destruction and challenges reconstruction of the economic, political, and social building blocks of human civilization. This dissertation offers a mythological method of organizational development that transforms catastrophic cultural change with the ageless wisdom of individuation. The apodictic philosophy of individuation proposes that everything in the universe from the smallest cell to the most complex living organism, the human community, is on an evolutionary course of Self-realization. The vision of collective individuation offered in this study crosses the abyss of cultural transformation with the provocative geometry of myth, laying the foundation for a new theory of organization development. Set between C. G. Jungs twentieth-century psychoanalytic philosophy of personal individuation and this reimagined proposal of collective individuation, one citys history provides a case study to demonstrate a four-stage model of the organizational individuation process. Stage 1, Conception, symbolized by the citys mountain, identifies the DNA of mythic origins inherent in initial conditions. Stage 2, Maturation, symbolized by the citys rivers, uncovers mythic motifs and archetypal patterns just beneath the flow of historic turning points. Stage 3, Transformation, epitomized by the citys forest, describes midlife patterns of initiation that ignite collective awakening to mythopoiesis. Stage 4, Restoration, symbolized by the citys rose, describes the collective as initiate returning with an elixir of consciousness to restore not only itself, but also the world. Utilizing the discipline of archetypal pattern analysis, the four-stage method of organization development opens a mythical passageway to see through the temporal surface of history to the eternal motifs and morphic fields that comprise a collective mythos. Organizational participation in collective individuation constructs a sacred geometry that transcends oppositions in periods of change, transforming the crisis of contradiction into an innovative threshold to the future.