Long before Carl Jung described the Collective Unconscious of human kind the Egyptians found there to be a similar concept.  To them it was the Ma’at Consciousness.  It not only connected everyone to everything in the Cosmos it was a form of justice.  Long before Lao Tzu spoke of the Dao, the Egyptians had their Ma’at Consciousness as their path to peace.  This consciousness was a way of life for them.  It was the alignment of One’s own personal Will with that of the Cosmic.
    Ma’at is the Neterit of Justice.  She is the penultimate judge.  Upon One’s death One goes through the “Hall of Ma’atti”, or the Hall of the two Ma’ats.  There One is judged, by the Heart of the deceased being weighed on a scale against an ostrage plume by Anpu.  This feather was a symbol of Ma’at.  If the heart was in balance with Ma’at, if it was not laden down with falsehoods, then One is “Wserified”.  This means that One is allowed to pass on the path of Wser and live in the Elysian Fields, travel in the Sun Bark with the Neteru or Return to the physical plane.  If one’s heart is to heavy from divergence form One’s own true will, one is consumed by the Devourer, an animal depicted as having the head of a crocodile the fore parts of a lion and the hind quarters of a hippopotamus.  A composition of three animals which the Egyptians associated with death, decomposition, and birth.
    The alignment of Oneself with the Ma’at consciousness was imperative to the continuance of Oneself beyond this plane.  Most all acts and rituals and celebrations in Egypt held some part devoted to the maintenance of this alignment.  In this paradigm to be true it to be eternal.