Jung, C. G. - Undiscovered Self, The (Routledge, 2002)

What will the future bring? From time immemorial this question

has occupied men’s minds, though not always to the

same degree. Historically, it is chiefly in times of physical,

political, economic and spiritual distress that men’s eyes turn

with anxious hope to the future, and when anticipations,

utopias and apocalyptic visions multiply. One thinks, for

instance, of the chiliastic expectations of the Augustan age at

the beginning of the Christian Era, or of the changes in the

spirit of the West which accompanied the end of the first

millennium. Today, as the end of the second millennium

draws near, we are again living in an age filled with apocalyptic

images of universal destruction.