From The Science of Chaos:

“There is another way of framing strange attractors. In Jungian psychology one of the chief goals of the psychotherapeutic process is to help constellate and make known what are known as archetypes. Archetypes are hidden, implicit, structures of energy which organize external events in very powerful ways. An example would be ‘The Great Mother’. This archetype is found throughout history and is powerfully present in our own lives. The archetype is the implicit pattern out of which mothers are guided in all the ways they manifest. This may take on biological, cultural and personal trappings but the theory of archetypes states that their is a hidden attractor which organizes the universe along lines of ‘mothering’ which is independent of any mother telling us to pick up our room, or be sure to get to bed on time. This realm of archetypes was known by the Egyptians as the Neters, was labeled by the Greeks as gods and described by some philosophers as a category of numbers. The concept of strange attractors may help us moderns understand how hidden basins of influence may exert influence over us in our everyday life. During times of accelerating change the archetypes, or hidden attractors, can emerge into the world in powerful ways. Nazi Germany was an example of a hidden attractor with the potential to inflict endless spiritual and physical suffering on the world. Ghandi is an example of someone who was able to access an attractor which was in the service of good. “