#existential-concerns

#existential-concerns

been ignored, neglected, minimized, or dismissed by mainstream psychology but can no longer be denied or avoided without serious consequences. As C.G. Jung (1961) presciently put it, "Today we need psychology for reasons that involve our very existence. . . . We stand face to face with the terrible question of evil and do not even know what is before us let alone what to pit against it."

The psychological significance of the UFO phenomenon encompasses humanity's ultimate concern of existential alienation, arising from the question: Are we alone in the universe?