In the framework of the International Conference of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, this talk encourages a reflection on how the destruction of the ecosystem is the result of a collective loss of awareness of the dynamics of the human mind in relation to the ecosystem. Through the Mesoamerican mythologies of the jaguar as a sacred guide through the realms of consciousness, I make the point that psychic dynamics direct and respond to the behavior, social relations, and cultural conditions that originate them. The ecological crisis evidence a broken relationship of humans with their inner self, others, and nature. Unacknowledged personal characteristics, instincts, abilities, and moral qualities that the ego has repressed or never recognized can be experienced by projecting them onto others. Narratives are vessels to pour those projections. However, if these vessels are lost, so are lost the channels of communication with the unconscious aspects of behavior. The result of this limited understanding provokes a psychological imbalance of a fragmented and dissociated identity that is unable to recognize itself as part of a system thus projecting its predatory and destructive behaviors onto its environment. To restore this tendency, a path for self and social transformation would come from the recovery and re-visioning of cultural narratives that dialogue with the unconscious conditionings that permeate our ideas and actions.