Jung Society Lecture on Sept. 19 - Registration now open
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Exciting news! Registration is now open for my September 19 lecture through the C.G. Jung Society of Atlanta. You can reserve your spot at this link.
I am both honored and excited for this talk. The deeper I go into the UFO field, the more my speculation tends toward Jung's thinking. This talk offers an opportunity to synthesize multiple disparate threads in one place.
Here's all the details, in case you missed them.
Joshua Cutchin — Psyche in the Sky: Thresholds, Death, and the Symbolic Reality of UFO Disclosure
Zoom online lecture, Saturday, September 19th, 2026 7:30 PM - 9:45 PM EDT
This event will be recorded. If your schedule does not allow you to attend the lecture, you can still reserve a ticket and a recording will be emailed out to you to watch at your convenience within 60 days of the lecture. Access to the recording cannot be extended past 60 days for any reason. No refunds will be given if you are unable to watch the recording within 60 days.
Cost: members: $20; non-members: $30; students $10
Description:
Historically, the UFO/UAP phenomenon has been treated by citizens and governments as primarily a question of objective reality. What are people seeing in the sky? From where is it coming? And, above all else, does it pose a threat? For experiencers, however, close encounters frequently resist such simple framing. These interactions unfold less like observations and more like moments of revelation in which perception, meaning, and symbolism become tightly interwoven. This was precisely why Carl Jung himself found the issue worthy of consideration, despite the stigma attached to the topic for the better part of a century.
The cultural landscape has changed in 2026. Conversations are now more often approached with cautious curiosity than ridicule. Scholars — particularly in the humanities — devote sober analysis to these experiences. Perhaps most alarmingly, American administration officials have begun advocating for unprecedented transparency. This shift, however, threatens to stifle what may be the most pressing question: the possible impact of UFO contact on each of us as individuals. Now, more than ever, it is important to engage with the transpersonal implications posed by this remarkable moment in history. Close encounters, whether subjective or objective, consistently shatter all expectations of consensus reality, forcing us to acknowledge the symbolic truth undergirding existence.
Using Jung's own interest in the topic as an entry point, we will navigate a range of perspectives involving archetypes, folklore, firsthand testimony, metaphysics, narratology, and indigenous and ancient cosmologies. These dimensions reveal what might be the UFO’s most profound psychological consequence: its ability to transgress and transcend boundaries, including death itself. By pursuing a symbolic interpretation rather than solely focusing on documents, footage, and disclosure, we may obtain a deeper understanding of our “modern myth of things seen in the skies.”
Joshua Cutchin, a full-time author and musician, has appeared on hundreds of paranormal programs such as Coast to Coast AM. He is regularly invited to speak at conferences about his work, including Contact in the Desert, the world’s largest UFO convention.
He is the author of ten books, including 2022’s critically acclaimed two-part series Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal. That year, it was included in Rice University’s independent study for first-year PhD candidates in religion. His latest book, The Inverted Path: Supernatural Disorientation and Interruptions in Travel, was released in June 2026.
In addition to his own books, Joshua also frequently contributes to essay collections, most recently Dr. Jack Hunter’s Deep Weird (2023) and Dr. Simon Young’s The Cottingley Fairies (2024). He has appeared on the hit History Channel television series Ancient Aliens, is a recurring guest on the Where Did the Road Go? podcast, and maintains an online presence at JoshuaCutchin.com.
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