Jung, Flying Saucers, and the Modern Myth: Psychology, Belief, and the Cold War

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Jung argued in a 1957 reply to Gilbert A. Harrison that flying saucers are a modern myth that can be real as objects and as symbols of the psyche, especially in the Cold War era, and that belief and observation together shape what counts as evidence.

Carl Jung’s Fascinating 1957 Letter on UFOs
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Carl Jung’s Fascinating 1957 Letter on UFOs

Deities, conspiracies, politics, space aliens: you dont actually have to believe in these to find them interesting. Just focus your attention not on the things themselves, but in how other people regard them, what they say when they talk about them, and why they think about them the way they do.