An excerpt from the GTA Member Webinar on August 8, 2025.
Transcript edited for print.
Now I’m going to go into one example, and then we’ll talk about what the future implies. The Saturn-Neptune alignment on the world point suggests that everything I’m discussing is going to happen to all of us collectively, in ways that go beyond my conscious understanding of how it will unfold.
Carl Jung’s 1944 Near-Death Experience
Let’s talk about Carl Jung, because we have his chart and the date of his near-death experience (NDE). Carl Jung’s NDE occurred on February 20, 1944, in Zurich. At that time, Jung’s theories collided with direct experience. He was hospitalized for a fractured leg from a fall when he suffered a massive heart attack while in his hospital bed.
He was in his mid-to-late sixties then, and back in those days they didn’t just send you home. They kept you under observation to make sure your leg healed. A few days into his stay, he had the heart attack. He was resuscitated, but his condition was critical for weeks, drifting between life and death. His wife was told he probably wouldn’t make it.
The Celestial Signature of Ego Death and Rebirth
Now, during that experience—let’s look at the transits. Pluto had just crossed his Sun and was retrograding back over it. Pluto in Leo, within three degrees of his Sun. His South Node was on his Ascendant, and his North Node was crossing his Descendant. Uranus had just crossed over his IC—the point that represents the end, the final resting place. So Uranus crossing the IC and Pluto crossing the Sun together is a powerful configuration.
When you see transiting Pluto at seven degrees retrograding back onto the Sun, that’s a classic symbol of ego death and rebirth—a profound confrontation with mortality and the deeper, truer self. Not the ego, but the real self behind the persona one presents in life. This powerful transit symbolizes the dissolution of ego boundaries and the encounter with the transpersonal dimension of the psyche—exactly what Jung experienced during his NDE.
The alignment reflected his inner psychological transformation, revealing a synchronistic relationship between celestial movement and profound spiritual experience.
The Vision Beyond the Physical World
In this liminal state, Jung entered a visionary experience very similar to what modern NDE research describes. He had an out-of-body experience. He felt himself rise above his bed, float out of the hospital, and ascend high above the Earth, seeing the planet below bathed in a soft, ineffable blue light, so he was clearly in orbit.
He then encountered an archetypal realm. He approached a colossal stone temple suspended in space and sensed it held the full truth of his life—a reunion with his spiritual kin. Just before he could enter, he was pulled back by the image of his doctor. The spirit of his doctor appeared, telling him he couldn’t cross that line, that his work on Earth was not yet complete. Jung returned reluctantly, grieving the peace and belonging he had just experienced.
Transformation and a New Relationship With Death
That 1944 NDE transformed him. It eradicated his fear of death, intensified his conviction that consciousness survives the body, and deepened his interest in mystical traditions, alchemy, and the symbolic structure of the soul. From then on, Jung’s work reflected the view that life is part of a vast, purposeful order beyond the physical.
He described that out-of-body moment—floating above Earth, reaching a boundary he couldn’t cross, encountering the archetypal realm, what some would call heaven or source. When he returned, like many NDE experiencers, he felt homesick for that realm.
Astrological Reflections of a Spiritual Rebirth
Afterward, Jung experienced a radical shift in values. Like many NDE survivors, he became less concerned with material pursuits and more attuned to service, love, and spiritual meaning. Astrologically, this mirrored not only Pluto’s transit but also the Moon’s movement through the 12th house—archetypes of ego death and spiritual rebirth. We don’t have his exact birth time, but it’s likely that during this NDE the Moon entered the 12th house.
After 1944, Jung’s writings took on a new depth. He spoke more openly about consciousness beyond death, the symbolic architecture of the afterlife, and the integration of mystical traditions into depth psychology.
The Mystical Works That Followed: Aion and Flying Saucers
His NDE convinced him that the psyche is an ontologically real field—that death is not an end but a transition into another mode of conscious existence.
He later wrote Aion, published in 1951, during his recovery years. It’s arguably his most esoteric and symbolic work, exploring the archetype of the self, the symbolism of Christ, the Age of Pisces, and the evolution of human consciousness through cosmic cycles. He also discussed the transition from the Age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius. His vision of the stone temple in space and reunion with his spiritual kin parallels the book’s themes of archetypal patterns and integration of opposites. Aion reads like a philosophical elaboration of the threshold he approached in 1944.
Years later, Jung wrote Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. In it, he interpreted the post–World War II UFO phenomenon not as a purely physical mystery but as a manifestation of the collective psyche. He linked UFOs to mandalas—archetypes of wholeness and integration—suggesting they were projections of humanity’s collective self during a time of global crisis.
Jung’s Vision of Humanity’s Collective Transformation
Jung believed UFOs were both physically real and psychologically symbolic—representing humanity’s collective transformation as we transitioned from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. His NDE reinforced his conviction that psychic reality is as real as physical reality—the central idea in his UFO work. That visionary, cosmic quality from 1944 predisposed him to take the UFO phenomenon seriously as a psychic and symbolic event.
If you look at his pre-1944 writings, they’re spiritually rich but grounded in clinical psychology. His post-1944 works, however, are more mystical, cosmic, and deeply concerned with humanity’s destiny within archetypal patterns. In both Aion and Flying Saucers, Jung makes predictions about the future of humanity. He sounds almost like an astrologer at times.
The Birth of a Mystic Mind
These are complex books—you can find Aion on Scribd and have ChatGPT summarize it for you. His NDE freed him from the fear of death and made him more willing to speak openly about esoteric subjects. He expanded his time horizon, writing about millennia and the evolution of human consciousness in a greater cosmic context. It deepened his integration of myth, religion, and archetype—seeing them as keys to our collective journey.
Most people don’t know this side of Jung. I’ve studied him deeply, and it wasn’t until I began researching NDEs that I made this connection. Jung truly became a mystic—a medical doctor and depth psychologist who transformed into a mystic with a viable metaphysical framework.
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