Reddit reviews Flying Saucers : A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies

Have you read Jung's Flying Saucers? You should.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYJqhMAgOcs

CS Jung's book
https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucers-Modern-Things-Skies/dp/0691018227
Where the apparitions are real in a sense but also spiritual. Manifestations of the planet's collective psyche that are warning us about the destruction to the planet

Jacques Vallee has written numerous books on the topic. His focus is less on where they might be from but more on the effect it's having on society. He is of the school of thought that they are interdimensional beings of some sort

Not saying that ET's can't exist, but there is no evidence aliens are coming on a nuts and bolts spacecraft visiting our planet. It's possible that aliens exist, but there is no physical evidence of extra-terrestrial spacecraft with aliens inside visiting our planet.

• Research is starting to show that we actually live in a multiverse. Eminent scientist Michio Kaku elaborates as well.
  
  
• The research into spirits, and UFOs, has many UFOlogists stating that UFOs are actually 'inter-dimensional' entities that phase in and out of our planet, and that they are indigenous to this planet. In essence, the IDH theory (inter-dimensional hypothesis) proposes that these cosmic entities have been around on planet Earth for a very long, long time.
  
  
• Ancient man has been aware of these cosmic entities. If one looks at ancient cave drawings on a global scale, many of these drawings show 'hybrid' entities. One can be in an altered state of consciousness and see these 'hybrid' entities. This is similar to the reptilian phenomenon. What the victim is seeing is actually real, but in their minds. Just because it is in their mind's does not mean that these entities are mere hallucinations. The ingestion of certain synthetic chemicals or natural entheogens (mushrooms, for instance) allows the user to meet entities. Ancient man was highly involved with spirit worship. Today this topic is considered 'fringe' or 'conspiracy.'
  
  Sources
  
  Jacques Vallee (Stanford Research Institute)
  
  Carl Jung
  
  Dr. Rick Strassman (University of New Mexico) [DMT: The Spirit Molecule]
  
  Benny Shanon (Hebrew University) [Antipodes of the Mind]
  
  

https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Abductions-Creating-Modern-Phenomenon/dp/1573922447

https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucers-Modern-Things-Skies/dp/0691018227

Granted I am a believer in the Psycho-Social Theory. So I'm bracing for downvotes.

But give it a chance because it is equally as interesting.

It is not mere debunking as it treats the subject with the respect it deserves but the conclusions are vastly different then the extraterrestrial hypothesis.

And if you want to debate its merits just send me a PM or something and we can talk about it.

Some classic young there. Loved this part:

>"But what we have outgrown are only word-ghosts, not the psychic facts which were responsible for the birth of the gods."

While definitely introductory, Patrick Harpur's Daimonic Reality picks up on all these themes via Jung in a really fascinating way.

Really, there is so much to Jung's work that I'm not sure what else I could suggest. You seem to be on a good reading-track. Are you familiar with Jung's lesser-known, and published late-in-life book Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky? That's another good one along the same vein of Daimonic Reality.

You might be interested in Jung's essay on Wotan, and the psychology/archetypal force of this god on the German people precipitating WWII. An interesting, arguably archetypal interpretation of events that happened: Wotan

Lastly, Gary Lachman, a consciousness scholar and researcher, wrote a great biography on Jung that seems up your ally (and many readers here at /r/Psychonaut): Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings.

OK I'll stop pulling books out of my library now. Maybe this was useful. :-)

>The study found these paranormal beliefs about aliens were at least partially motivated by the need for meaning.

Pretty much.

Even my own belief in UFOs is partially rooted in a desire for our species to find a uniting narrative. The cosmic perspective supercedes tribalism.

Further, that could be one reason for the "management" of the myth by the IC.

Based on what I've read in this thread and some of your other comments on this subreddit, I don't think you really understand what you believe or what "the occult" entails, and you come off as an uneducated hypocrite. Like it or not, there's a strong metaphysical current associated with UFO and Alien phenomena, from the Ascended Masters of theosophy to Jung's writings on the subject, from the New Age and contactee movement all the way to present-day channelers of "extraterrestrial intelligences."

Educate yourself about the continuation of esoteric thought beyond victorian era occultism, there's a whole world of metaphysics and mysticism that has evolved since the 19th century, and the only way the occult is going to be left behind is if people like you refuse to pay attention.

You mean imaginary like demons, fairies and dragons? How do you mean, "manifest"?

There is a whole section of UFO studies that tries to understand UFOs as a psychological phenomena, starting with Carl Jung's Flying Saucers book.