Reddit mentions of Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld

Lightquest by Andrew Collins pretty much explains 90% of the UFO phenom for me. Add Daimonic Reality by Patrick Harpur and you're almost at 100%.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/LightQuest-Andrew-Collins/dp/0940829495

https://www.amazon.com/Daimonic-Reality-Field-Guide-Otherworld/dp/0937663093

Although there's still a little part of me which wants them to be piloted by actual aliens from outer space.

Some classic young there. Loved this part:

>"But what we have outgrown are only word-ghosts, not the psychic facts which were responsible for the birth of the gods."

While definitely introductory, Patrick Harpur's Daimonic Reality picks up on all these themes via Jung in a really fascinating way.

Really, there is so much to Jung's work that I'm not sure what else I could suggest. You seem to be on a good reading-track. Are you familiar with Jung's lesser-known, and published late-in-life book Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky? That's another good one along the same vein of Daimonic Reality.

You might be interested in Jung's essay on Wotan, and the psychology/archetypal force of this god on the German people precipitating WWII. An interesting, arguably archetypal interpretation of events that happened: Wotan

Lastly, Gary Lachman, a consciousness scholar and researcher, wrote a great biography on Jung that seems up your ally (and many readers here at /r/Psychonaut): Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings.

OK I'll stop pulling books out of my library now. Maybe this was useful. :-)

I think the main problem is that you see yourself as crazy. That is quite extraordinary. If you see things that other people don't, who's to say you are wrong? You have a problem, yes: your problem is that for whatever reason you don't buy into the socially established consensual reality. But is that really a sign of madness?

Our perception is a social construct, acquired through a learning process. For some people, that learning process is going to fail, and they are going to retain a lot more of their primal, unstructured perception of reality than everyone else. People such as yourself will be relegated to the margins of society, but you are no crazier than anyone else.

Maybe take a look at this book to see what I'm talking about.
http://www.amazon.com/Daimonic-Reality-Field-Guide-Otherworld/dp/0937663093