Tales from the Island of Serendip 4 4

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Carl Jung was fascinated - and mystified - by the UFO phenomenon. It was significant to Jung that the shape of the flying saucers was round, the shape of the ancient Mandala, symbol of wholeness throughout history.

 

 

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He felt that modern man projected his inner state into the heavens in a similar manner that the medieval alchemists projected their psyche into matter. In this sense, the UFOs became modern symbols for the ancient gods which came to humanity's assistance in time of need.

 

 

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As early as 1946 he started collecting data on UFOs and reading every book on the subject. In a 1951 letter to an American friend he wrote, "I'm puzzled to death about these phenomena, because I haven't been able yet to make out with sufficient certainty whether the whole thing is a rumor with concomitant singular and mass hallucination, or a downright fact."

 

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Jung concluded that it was more desirable for people to believe UFOs exist than to believe they don't exist. One of his final works, Flying Saucers, was an attempt to answer why it was more desirable to believe in their existence.

 

 

 

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Jung came to the conclusion that UFOs were examples of the phenomena of synchronicity where external events mirror internal psychic states. For Jung the UFO images had much to do with the ending of an era in history and the beginning of a new one.

 

 

 

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The need perhaps was for wholeness again out of the increasing fragmentation of the modern world. In the early 50s and the beginning of the Cold War, when UFOs began to infiltrate popular culture, there was a great fragmentation in the world.

 

 

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It has been argued that in order to live with the threat of thermonuclear destruction, society as a whole must by definition be psychotic. The "reason" for such behavior is protection of one's own group, even if it means destroying it in the process.

 

 

 

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When Oppenheimer observed the first atomic explosion, he famously reported that his first thought was the quote from the Bhagavad Gita describing the god, Krishna:

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One ...

 

I am become Death The shatterer of worlds."

 

[sartre]

really interesting.. found this on line

 

http://www.openculture.com/2013/05/carl_jungs_1957_letter_on_the_fascinating_modern_myth_of_ufos.html

 

 

The 50's were full of fear... probably the most interesting decade yet... as fear manifests our nightmares

Edited June 1, 2014 by sartre

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The Roper Report

"The Roper Organization's research on behalf of Bigelow Holding Company produced results that were unexpected by Bigelow Holding Company; chiefly because the number of people reporting occurrences of items on the list far exceeded what was anticipated, and also because the answers cut across most demographic subgroups... It is clear that significant numbers of people do report that these unusual events occurred, independent of any factors in the survey that might increase responses."

 

 

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When a big company, like Coca-Cola or Proctor and Gamble, decides to market a new product, the company seeks the views of the "average American" and designs its product and marketing strategies to have the widest popular appeal. A random survey is not reliable enough when millions, or billions, of dollars hang on the success of accurately reading the minds of the American populous. That's why large companies often look to The Roper Organization.

 

Based in New York City, The Roper Organization spends more time deciding from whom they will solicit opinions than they do asking the questions on their nation wide Limobus survey. Their demographics go far beyond the random selections based on age and gender. Roper's sample populations contain the precise percentages of each ethnic group, political affiliation and education level as is reflected in the most recent census data. From a relatively small sample, The Roper Organization can determine the preferences of hundreds of millions of American individuals. Also, their data base can often reveal subtle psychological factors that not only tell a marketer not if his product has appeal, but why.

 

In 1973, the Roper Organization instituted the Roper Reports, nation-wide opinion surveys that were issued 10 times a year and were subscribed to by over 50 organizations including leading firms in business, advertising, and professional and trade associations, and governmental agencies.

 

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A poll done in 1992 by the Roper Organization for the hotel and aerospace mogul and U.F.O. advocate Robert T. Bigelow sought for the first time to quantify alien abduction in America. Because few were likely to admit to being an abductee, the pollsters asked the 5,947 respondents if they had ever experienced any of the key abduction-type symptoms:

 

Do you remember ever seeing a ghost?

 

 

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Do you remember feeling as if you left your body?

 

 

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Do you remember seeing a UFO?

 

 

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Do you remember waking up paralyzed with a sense of a strange person or presence or something else in the room?

 

 

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Do you remember feeling that you were actually flying through the air although you didn't know how or why?

 

 

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Do you remember having seen unusual lights or balls of light in a room without knowing what was causing them?

 

 

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Do you remember having seen, either as a child or adult, a terrifying figure-- which might have been a monster, a witch, a devil, or some other evil figure-- in your bedroom or closet or somewhere else?

 

 

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Do you remember experiencing a period of time, an hour or more, in which you were lost, but could not remember why or where?

 

 

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Do you remember having vivid dreams about UFO?