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… Experience is subject to the law of gravity with one great exception: the psyche, which as we experience it, is weightlessness itself. The psychic ‘object’ and gravity are, to the best of our knowledge, incommensurable. They seem to be different in principle. The psyche represents the only opposite of gravity… It is anti-gravity.
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I was going down the Champs Elysées in a bus with many other people, when suddenly the air-raid warning sounded. The bus stopped and all the passengers jumped out, and the next moment they had disappeared into the nearest houses, banging the doors behind them. I was the last to leave the bus. I tried to get into a house, but all the doors with their polished brass knobs were tightly shut, and the whole Champs Elysées was empty. I pressed against the wall of a house and looked up at the sky: instead of the expected bombers I saw a sort of Flying Saucer...
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A metallic sphere shaped like a drop. It was flying along quite slowly from north to east, and I had the impression that I was being observed. In the silence I heard the high heels of a woman who was walking alone on the empty sidewalk down the Champs Elysées. The atmosphere was most uncanny.
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I was walking, at night, in the streets of a city. Interplanetary machines appeared in the sky, and everyone fled. The machines looked like large steel cigars. I did not flee. One of the machines spotted me at an oblique angle. I think, Professor Jung says that one should not run away, so I stand still and look at the machine. From the front, seen close to, it looked like a circular eye, half blue, half white.
A room in a hospital: my two chiefs come in, very worried, and ask my sister how it was going. My sister replied that the mere sight of the machine had burnt my whole face. Only then did I realize that they were talking about me, and that my whole head was bandaged, although I could not see it.
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She dreamt she was standing in a garden,
when suddenly the humming of an engine became audible overhead.
She sat down on the garden wall in order to see what was going on.
A black metallic spider appeared and circled over her.
It was a huge flying spider made of metal with great dark eyes.
It was round in shape and was a new and unique aeroplane.
From the body of the spider there issued a solemn voice, loud and distinct;
It uttered a prayer that was intended as an admonition and a warning to everybody,
for those on earth as well as for the occupants of the spider.
The gist of the prayer was:
Lead us downwards
And keep us safe below
Carry us up to the height.
Adjoining the garden was a large administrative building where international decisions were being taken. Flying incredibly low, the spider passed along the window of the building,
for the obvious purpose of letting the voice influence the people inside, and point out the way to peace, which was the way to the inner secret world.
Lead us downwards
Keep us safe below
and carry us up to the height
They were to take reconciling decisions. There were several other spectators in the garden. She felt somewhat embarrassed because she was not fully clothed.
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Lyrics for songs in Interplanetary Machines describe a number of dreams which were told to Carl Jung by his patients in the process of psychoanalysis, and later detailed in Jung's pivotal book Flying Saucers: a modern myth of things seen in the skies (1959). Jung considers sightings of UFOs, whether in dreams or in waking life, to be a psychic phenomena, “visionary rumors”, a techno-utopian desire that manifests in visions, and a fantastic projection of salvation and meaning onto the unknown.