A New World

[Tanemon]

I came across an interesting passage that sets out Carl G. Jung's idea about the possibility of a new age...

"Jung, writing in the nineteen fifties, had great fears for the future of western civilization. He saw the modern scientific mind-set as an honouring of the material world but at the cost of separating us from our history and our inner selves. The resulting loss of soul produces a reverting to tribalism, violence and greed – which is continuing apace. He might be encouraged by the rise of the spiritual, the feminine, the global community and all the signs of the age of Aquarius which have come to the fore since his time. There is now some glimmer that we are moving from being fish swimming in the water of the unconscious (the sign of Pisces) to being carriers of the water of consciousness (the sign of Aquarius.)"

The violence aspect is showing up in the news from week to week. I think the "tribalism" referred to could be partly within the societies of the "Christian West" or "modern West", even tribalism in the sense of political/social factions, or religious sects within a region or community. (On the world scale, it could be between the fundamentalists of one religion versus another.)