27-04-2010, 08:25 AM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:While we like to see ourselves as 'evolved' and 'intelligent', most alien societies have had to survive and surpass the kinds of horrors [selfishness, war, oligarchy, greed, hate, environmental lack-of-awareness, et al.] we now face. They would look at us like evil cockroaches, most likely and might bring their intergalactic cans of 'Raid' spray. I took a course by Sagan and Shlosky in Intelligent Life in the Universe, and the most amazing two facts I came out of that course with were: 1] there are over one million intelligent civilizations in the 'visible/known' universe [getting larger all the time] and 2] the average age of an intelligent race that didn't self-destruct [like ours seems to be on course to!] was well over a million years PAST technology. We are barely 2.000 years beyond the beginnings of technology; 200 years from real technology. To them, we are dangerous, low-life, UN-evolved, un-proven and likely now un-democratic and civil [in the Galactic sense]!
I'm incline to agree Pete. When I read this article I thought it acurately reflected the somewhat restricted state of mind of the interviewee, Hawking, rather than the probabilities of how other intelligent life in the Cosmos may have evolved.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14