29-01-2011, 04:24 PM
Charlie, he corresponded extensively with Donald Keyhoe, then the top dog of NICAP. With some caveating, he wrote about the subject in his book "Flying Saucers - A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky".
It's been a very long time since I read that, but as I recall he reserved judgement on their physical reality and set about analyzing them from the perspective of Analytical Psychology, hypothesizing that they were compensatory projections from the Collective Unconscious of the Self or Wholeness - primarily because the explosion of the first atomic bomb sent shudders through the psyche of mankind. For the first time man was able to annihilate himself. Splitting the atom was, according to my Analyst, equivalent to a Collective schizophrenia - a split personality.
As you know we both value Vallee's books,particularly Passport to Magonia. And we are both aware that the setting of Aleister Crowley's sketch of his inner master "Lam" is of considerable significance.
It's been a very long time since I read that, but as I recall he reserved judgement on their physical reality and set about analyzing them from the perspective of Analytical Psychology, hypothesizing that they were compensatory projections from the Collective Unconscious of the Self or Wholeness - primarily because the explosion of the first atomic bomb sent shudders through the psyche of mankind. For the first time man was able to annihilate himself. Splitting the atom was, according to my Analyst, equivalent to a Collective schizophrenia - a split personality.
As you know we both value Vallee's books,particularly Passport to Magonia. And we are both aware that the setting of Aleister Crowley's sketch of his inner master "Lam" is of considerable significance.
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