Aslan

Hope through the wardrobe
I used to pray for space ships
if not me then who?



The fantasies that we grew up with as children were written by adults. All of them. From Alice to Hansel and Gretyl to Pinnochio, Jack and all the others. That says a lot.

There are themes in almost all of the fantasies I know about overcoming darkness, breaking through a bad situation and finding some magical gift or secret or help that makes the process more attainable. Carl Jung's most popular book ever written is going to surprise you. It was not his autobiography, not his treatise on the unconscious or on myths. It was his book on the UFO phenomenon in the US. The folks at the Jung Institute coughed and shuffled their feet when they said it, however, I think it speaks to something much bigger. Jung wrote the book describing the collective escapism behind the sightings, and that the flying discs were essentially mandalas in the sky, even a transference of Divinity lost.

I believe that few if any one, knows the answers to such things. Still, myself like many others continue to search for truth and meaning. I do know that the books and stories about children overcoming evil and adversity were my lifeblood as a boy. Has that changed much?