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The spiritual decline of the earth is so far advanced that people are in danger of losing their last spiritual strength,

the strength that makes it possible even to see the disintegration, and to recognize it as such.

Carl Jung held a pessimistic view of the future of Western civilization.

He believed it was in a state of decline, destined for collapse, and he did not preclude

the possibility of an apocalyptic event ending the lives of billions of people. In this video,

we explore the source of Jung's pessimism and examine a disturbing vision Young had just prior to his

death that paints a bleak picture for the future of the West.

As the end of the second millennium draws near, wrote Jung,

we are again living in an age filled with apocalyptic images of universal destruction.

Jung lived through two world wars, saw the development and use of the atomic bomb,

and witnessed the rise of totalitarianism in Europe and Asia.

With such world-changing events going on around him, it is not surprising that he was pessimistic about the future.

Jung's pessimism, however, was not only rooted in the external horrors of war, totalitarianism, and nuclear destruction,

but also in his diagnosis of the

psychological state of modern men and women. Through clinical work with his patients and an

extensive study of the human psyche, Jung concluded that most people are psychologically sick

and that many are flirting with outright madness. To make matters worse, in the modern day there are a

vanishingly small number of people who possess the wisdom, strength, and courage, needed to keep us

safe in an age where we possess technologies capable of global destruction and mass enslavement.

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