Quote:
ARCHETYPES: REEMERGENCE IN TODAY'S EVENTS
The reappearance of the mythic archetypal image is often psychic premonition of a larger, unforeseen future event.
In May of 2001 numerous residences of old Delhi, India encountered an primitive beast with steel fingers--LEFT image--in the form of a monkey like monster leaping effortlessly from roof tops. In some cases residences described terrifying personal encounters with the beast:
According to 18 year old local Deepak Sharma, "It was a strange kind of black shadow, a strange kind of animal no one has ever seen before."
In another interesting case, Vimlesh Verma encountered the hand of the monkey reaching through a iron-grate above the door of her bedroom. She screamed, "The monkey has come!"
Archetypes often make their entrance through the back door of the cultural underbelly--those groups closer to the instinctual layer and hence with less rational defenses to dismiss an archetypal event as nonsense.
India has only one Hindu god that sychronistically relates to this event: the half-human, half monkey Hanuman--CENTER image. In India he is viewed as a figure of power and strength. Also as a healer and peacemaker. In the epic poem Ramayana he has the ability to not only leap from continent to continent, but also to fly--perhaps symbolic of surface-to-air-missiles?
From an Jungian perspective, we could see this as a collective archetypal forewarning of a dangerous crisis in the making. A year later--in May of 2002--India and an it's shadow side--Pakistan, were on the verge of nuclear war with Delhi to be Pakistan's first targeted sight. Below CENTER RIGHT is Pakistan's Ghuri missile, named after Mohammed Ghauri, the 12th century mogul leader who conquered India and FAR RIGHT is India's Prithvi or nuclear cow missile.
