Flipping Earth and Carl Jung

While resting for two days after my Monday's appointment with my dentist, I learned from the Discovery channel that there are time when the magnetic fields of the earth which determine the four directional poles: north, south, east and west lessen their magnetic flux in the evolutionary processes of the globe. In the past it was observed that the magnetic north variates from the true north at significant degrees, although it continues to variates every year. However, the loss of magnetic flux from the western magnetic field may cause the earth to flip, that is the magnetic north may tilt to the east and even further south--or simply the globe is turned sideward and finaly flips upside down.

Scientists believe that this can happen in thousands of years. It may not happen in our life time but as one of them said, by the time it happens humanity has already prepared how to cope with the new situation--those who life in colder countries will live in the tropics, those in the tropics will live in the cold climate. This scientific fact brings us close to the apocalyptic understanding of a new eon or time. Who knows the new eon will be ushered in when the earth flips and that will be the realization of the reversal of values and truly peace will be experienced after chaos--cosmic and social upheavals.

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Every Wednesday since I bought Carl Jung's book on Dreams, I pour my attention to the various dreams and Jung's interpretation mentioned in the book. Inside the crammed sub-way train I read about dreams until my brain is numbed and get a short nap until I reach my destination. I'd like to quote this dream here because it is very brief.

Dream: An actor smashes his hat against the wall, where it looks like a circle divided into eight (8) slices from the black circular center botton.

Jung's interpretation: As certain material not included here shows, the "actor" refers to a definite fact in the dreamer's personal life. Up to now he had maintained a certain fiction about himself which prevented him from taking himself seriously. This fiction has become incompatible with the serious attitude he has now attained. He must give up the actor, for it was the actor in him who rejected the self. The hat refers to the first dream of all, where he put the stranger's hat. The actor throws the hat against the wall, and the hat proves to be a mandala. So the "strange" hat was the self, which at that time--while he was still playing a fictitious role--seemed like a stranger to him (Jung:1974,p.264).

It is very hard to know oneself especially the unconscious part of it. It is only by seeing ourselves from a distance that we get to know who we really are. Our true selves are revealed in how we act out our human will and values. Our true selves are revealed in the way we show agape love to others.