New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove • May 7, 2024 “How do we tell the truth about something that we’re not designed to talk about?” Perhaps the last place one might find a college course on UFOlogy would be at a conservative, midwestern Catholic school. Dr. James Madden, author of “Unidentified Flying Hyperobject: UFOs, Philosophy, and the End of the World” is a professor of philosophy at Benedictine College in Kansas, discusses “re-thinking UFO/UAP phenomenon” with guest host Christopher Naughton. Madden’s central claim is that understanding the UFO will require a re-thinking of ourselves and our standing in what is revealed as a much wider cosmos. Here, he explores the openness to the odd and the supernatural within Catholicism and what impact UFOs are having on religion and politics. The discussion also examines the potential consequences of disclosure, and the reaction of students to UFO studies, as well as the concept of the “end of the world” and its connection to technology. Chapters 00:00 Welcome and Intro 01:50 Religious background, early UFO interest 04:54 Catholicism’s openness to the odd and supernatural 09:06 UFOlogy as a religion, a new spiritual movement? 13:16 Rethinking the UFO phenomena: myths & symbols 16:42 The death of fundamentalism? 22:40 The impact of UFOs on religion and politics 29:59 Government suppression and political institutions 32:57 The implications of disclosure 38:58 Carl Jung, UFOs and what they represent to the soul 42:01 The reaction of students to UFO studies 49:50 The “end of the world” and the role of technology To order Dr. James Madden’s book “Unidentified Flying Hyperobject: UFOs, Philosophy, and the End of the World” go to https://a.co/d/2hhHWot
Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies
C.G. Jung, R.F.C. Hull (Translator)
While Jung is known mainly for his theories on the nature of the unconscious mind, he did have an interest in the paranormal. In this essay, Jung applies his analytical skills to the UFO phenomenon. Rather than assuming that the modern prevalence of UFO sightings are due to extraterrestrial craft, Jung reserves judgment on their origin & connects UFOs with archetypal imagery, concluding that they have become a “living myth.” This essay is intriguing in its methodology & implications as to the nature of UFOs & their relation to the human psyche.
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C.G. Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf jʊŋ]), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death.
The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development.
Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung’s theory of psychological types.
Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life’s work was spent exploring tangential areas such as Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts. Jung’s interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be seen as a man of science. His influence on popular psychology, the “psychologization of religion”, spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.