-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Lesson From A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky by Carl Jung As we know from ancient Egyptian history, there are symptoms of psychic changes that always appear at the end of one Platonic month and at the beginning of another. They are, it seems, changes in the constellation of psychic dominants, of the archetypes, or "gods" as they used to be called, which bring about, or accompany, long-lasting transformations of the collective psyche. This transformation started within the historical tradition and left traces behind it, first in the transition from the age to Taurus to that of Ares, and then from Ares to Pisces, whose beginning coincides with the rise of Christianity. We are now nearing that great change which may be expected when the spring-point enters Aquarius. . . . . . . a story that is told all over the world, but differs from an ordinary rumour in that it is expressed in the form of visions, or perhaps owed its existence to them in the first place and is now kept alive by them. I would call this comparatively rare variation a visionary rumour. It is closely akin to the collective visions of, say, the crusaders during the siege of Jerusalem, the troops at Mons in the first World War, the faithful followers of the Pope at Fatima, Portugal, etc. . . . The first requisite for a visionary rumour, as distinct from an ordinary rumour, for whose dissemination nothing more is needed than popular curiosity and sensation-mongering, is always an unusual emotion. Its intensification into a vision and delusion of the senses, however, springs from a stronger excitation and therefore from a deeper source. ===== Fin-de-siecle I Mean, Totally Outbursts of lunacy around the world AUTOROUTE DE NORMANDIE, France - Precisely one earth's turn before the moon's shadow darkens this patch of ground, the first waves of coastbound eclipse-bound traffic came to a full stop Tuesday in the Normandy countryside near milepost 66. For a long while, three ribbons of vehicles nudged forward barely at all: an accident far ahead. After 10 minutes, forward movement became intermittent. Suddenly out of one sorry-looking old Citroen AX jumped the driver, a wild-eyed young man in shorts and boots. He ran around the back and began pushing the little car with its cargo of two friends squeezed among sleeping bags, tarps, slickers and coolers for a night of waiting. The man panted, he grunted, he pushed the car down the highway as his friends mercilessly laughed inside. A driver in the other lane finally called out to offer help. The breathless man stopped pushing, threw up his hands. ''It's a joke! It's a joke! This is not a breakdown,'' he shouted, then jumped back behind the wheel of his car, stage-weeping into his hands, and let his girlfriend steer. Merry pranksters are breaking out all over as the last solar eclipse of the millennium prepares to march across the skies, still forecast to be cloudy during the midday eclipse in this part of the world. What the man on the autoroute said could be said of the eclipse itself: It's a false emergency, only a cosmic joke implying no real breakdown in the heavens. Its mockery of heavenly clockwork and earthly predictability gives it its appeal, and encourages antic behavior like the car-pusher's. A solar eclipse is a kind of one-off Halloween, a wild if very short night on the town. There's almost no creature on earth that doesn't know what nighttime is like. But one well-advertised ripple in the schedule sends everyone into paroxysms of anxiety and exhilaration and brutalizing traffic. Selected manifestations from a waiting world: - In the forest of Candor, in France's belt of maximum darkness, 20 people (including an astrophysicist) are spending the night in a tent 18 meters (60 feet) high in a tree - for a better view and a closer look at how feathered tree-dwellers experience the eclipse. - In Britain, a workshop that employees mentally handicapped people is working overtime to produce expensive, custom-made protective glasses for dogs who might not know about the extreme hazards to eyesight from directly viewing the eclipse. The glasses are paw-proof. ''The dogs don't always understand what's good for them,'' the project coordinator, Alison James-Hart, told Agence France-Presse. - The Dalai Lama, perhaps pulling a leg, recommended at a Geneva news conference that eclipse watchers pay close attention not to their eyes but to their nostrils. He explained that once he had felt his breathing change during the night, and later learned a lunar eclipse had happened. ''So let us try to experiment,'' the spiritual leader said, by keeping the mouth closed and senses attuned to the nostrils. - Apocalyptic visions of the eclipse ended in tragedy in Cali, Colombia, when a man decided to kill his wife, and then himself, rather than face the end of the world Wednesday. No part of the eclipse will be visible in Colombia. - In Naples, hundreds of people flocked to buy lottery tickets using the numbers one, six and 71. According to centuries-old codes of numerology, one stands for the sun, six for the moon and 71 for the earth. Eight represents darkening and 27 means eclipse. - Communists in Bulgaria are planning a march during the eclipse because they believe the phenomenon heralds the collapse of capitalism. ''The world will be covered with darkness and then the sun will rise again - to bring back to life the idea of communism, the most human system,'' the Bulgarian Communist Party leader, Vladimir Spasov, told Reuters. - In Germany, the concerns aren't about what's in the sky, but what's on the road. Across this car-obsessed country, debates have been raging about whether to turn streetlights on during the eclipse to avoid possible accidents and insurance liability - or turn them off so observers can see the full effect of day turning into night. In cities across Germany many officials say they plan to turn all the traffic lights to red so no one can drive, The Associated Press reported. - Tens of millions of cardboard glasses need not go to waste. The charity Glasses for Africa and other humanitarian groups are collecting them for distribution to Africans, who will witness the first solar eclipse of the new millennium in Madagascar, Mozambique and Angola on June 21, 2001. International Herald Tribune, August 11, 1999 Japanese Economy Japanese Bank Lending Continues to Contract A depression without end Japanese bank lending has recorded its largest decline ever, indicating that demand for funds from Japanese corporations remains weak in spite of government efforts to boost the economy. Outstanding loans by Japanese banks fell 6.1 per cent year-on-year in July, according to figures released by the Bank of Japan. It was the 19th consecutive month of declining bank lending, highlighting the still fragile state of Japan's economy. The fall in bank lending comes in spite of the government's decision earlier this year to inject public funds into banks in part to prevent a credit crunch from stifling the Japanese economy. "Business investment continues to collapse," said Robert Feldman, chief economist at Morgan Stanley in Tokyo. While there had been recent signs of improvement in the Japanese economy, Japanese corporations, which were stepping up their restructuring measures, were refraining from new investment, he said. Until Japanese corporations eliminated excess capacity, business demand for funds was unlikely to return sufficiently in order to bring about a self-sustaining recovery. That would be "a very long and difficult process," he said. A Bank of Japan official said Japanese banks might have become more sensitive to credit risk but weak demand for funds on the capital markets indicated the lending fall was more likely to have been caused by weak corporate demand for funds. Other data released yesterday showed that manufacturers expect private sector machinery orders to rise 4 per cent in the third quarter compared with the April to June period, when machinery orders registered a 6.9 per cent decline. The figures, in a survey by the Economic Planning Agency (EPA), helped sustain the benchmark Nikkei 225, which closed yesterday up 11.6 points at 17,202.09. But the EPA emphasised that the overall trend was negative. "Despite the June figure and the July-September forecast, core machinery orders are basically still on a declining trend. Manufacturers still have excess capacity and that blocks capital spending," an EPA official said. Analysts said the numbers reflected an uneven recovery limited to certain sectors. "The forecast seems to be computer-related," said Brain Rose, economist at Warburg Dillon Read, noting that demand for information technology and communications products had bottomed out in recent months. "Machinery orders are still very weak." The Financial Times, August 11, 1999 Aluminium Market Three Firms Merge to Create Rival to Alcoa Can Canada's Alcan, France's Pechiney, and Switzerland's Algroup work together? Alcan Aluminium of Canada, Pechiney of France and Algroup of Switzerland will today announce a three-way intercontinental merger creating an aluminium company to rival Alcoa, the world's biggest producer. If it goes ahead, the merger would advance consolidation in an industry that has long suffered from overcapacity and low prices. Last year Alcoa acquired Alumax, another large US group, and Algroup attempted unsuccessfully to merge its Alusuisse aluminium interests with Viag of Germany. The merger would be accomplished through agreed all-share offers by Alcan for Pechiney and Algroup. The deal would give Alcan shareholders 44 per cent of the new company, with 29 per cent for Pechiney and 27 per cent for Algroup. The merged group - to be known temporarily as Alcan-Pechiney-Algroup (APA) - will be headed by Jacques Bougie, Alcan chief executive, with Pechiney chief executive Jean-Pierre Rodier as chief operating officer. The partners will tell a London press conference that the group will have its primary stock exchange listing in New York, with subsidiary listings in Canada, France, Switzerland and possibly London. The group's headquarters will be in Montreal, with a regional headquarters in Europe, and it will use Canadian accounting standards. However, it will report in US dollars, and Mr Bougie's office will be in New York. The merged group would have a market capitalisation of E18.2bn ($19.5bn) based on last night's closing prices - compared with Alcoa's E22.2bn. APA's notional market capitalisation also includes the speciality chemicals operations of Algroup, thought to be worth E1.5bn to E2bn, which will be spun off tax free to shareholders. Analysts said APA would have aluminium smelting capacity of about 3.2m tonnes a year after taking account of plant that is idle or under construction, compared with 3.1m tonnes for Alcoa. Alcan and Algroup are understood to have entered a definitive two-way agreement. The three-way deal is contingent on approval by Pechiney's board, which was meeting last night, and its workers' council. The merged group would need regulatory approval in Canada, Switzerland, France and the European Union, and possibly also in the US. The partners met European Commission officials last week, and some indications of likely approval are thought to have been given. The companies will say they are not planning to close capacity, but about 5 per cent of their total workforce of about 95,000 will lose their jobs as part of a cost-saving programme expected to generate $600m. The partners had combined sales and operating revenues of $21.6bn in 1998, of which about $17.4bn was accounted for by aluminium sales. 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