On this episode of the Symbolic World Podcast, I will play for you a discussion of the symbolism of aliens.

Now, usually I don't put my movie interpretations in podcast form.

So if you want to see those movie interpretations, you have to go watch the videos on my YouTube channel.

They're so image dependent that it's difficult for me to put them in podcast form,

but this one is not a discussion only on the movie Alien or the aliens in those movies,

but it is also a discussion of extraterrestrials in general and how they relate to the outsider,

to the foreigner, and to all the symbolism of the

periphery. Don't forget that this podcast and my videos and everything I do online is really done

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So hope you enjoy this discussion and I'll talk to you soon.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

In the ancient world, we find a universal pattern, the image of a center, an anchor, by which we interpret the world, our home, our family, our tribe, our temple, but also our own center of consciousness, our heart.

As one moves further and further from this center, one finds all that is not aligned with our identity.

The neighbor, that which we can still recognize first, but soon we find the stranger,

the foreigner, and ultimately the barbarian, and even animality itself, the beast and the fantastical monster.

As soon as we move away from that which we know,

we fall into a space where things don't quite have identities yet,

are not accounted for within ourselves.

And these possibilities will appear to us both in their positive or negative form,

either as a dangerous, destructive chaos,

or else as the promise of something more.

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