You need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists, is man him self. He is the great danger and we are pitifully unaware of it. You know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied, because we are the origin of all coming here. - Carl Jung
Jung had a vision at the end of his life of a catastrophe it was a world catastrophe?
I don't want to speak much about it. One of his daughters took notes and after his death, there is a drawing with a line going down up and down and underneath is the last 50 years of humanity and in some remarks about the final catastrophe being ahead, but I have only those notes.
What is your own feeling about it?
Ones whole feeling revolts against this idea, but since I have those notes in the drawer, I don't allow myself to be too optimistic. I think which we have always had wars an enormous catastrophes and I have no more personal fear much about that I mean at my age, you have anyhow soon to go, so also well so, egocentrically spoken. But the beauty of all the life to think that the billions and billions and billions of years of evolution to build up the plants and the animals in the whole beauty of nature and that man would go out of sheer shadow foolishness and destroy though, I mean that our life might go from the planet, and we don't know on Mars and Venus there's no life, we don't know if there's any life experiment else where in the galaxies. We go and destroy this, I think it's so abominable. I try to pray that it may not happen, that a miracle happens.
Do you find that young people that you see now are aware of that it's in their consciousness?
Yes, it's partly in their unconsciousness and partly in their consciousness and I think in every dangerous way, namely in a way of giving up and running away into a fantasy world. You know , when you study science fiction, you see there's always the fantasy of escaping to some other planet and begin anew again, which means give up the battle on this earth, considering it hopeless and futile.
I think one shouldn't give up, because if you think of answer to Job: if man would wrestle with God, if man would tell God that he shouldn't do it, if we would reflect more. That's why the reflection comes in.
Jung never thought that we might do better than just possibly sneak around the corner with not too big a catastrophe. When I saw him last, he had also a vision while I was with him, but there he said: "I see the stretches devastated, enormous stretches of the earth, but thank God is not the whole land." I think that if not more people try to reflect to take back their projections and take the opposites within them selves, there will be a total destruction.
