C.G. Jung's 1958 study of flying saucer reports — Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies — arguing that UFO reports, whether or not they describe physical phenomena, express a psychological truth: the mandala symbol of wholeness projected onto the skies in a time of global anxiety.
Applies Jungian archetypal analysis to UFO phenomena — the circular shape of flying saucers mirrors the mandala (a symbol of psychic wholeness and the Self) — and whether or not UFOs are physical, their eruption into collective consciousness in the nuclear age expresses a genuine psychological need for transcendent order.
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