The Red Book

The Red Book

Carl Jung was an influential psychiatrist considered to be the founder of analytical psychology. Jung collaborated with Sigmund Freud for years and was noted for his work with schizophrenic patients. In 1913, Jung’s professional relationship with Freud dissolved and he began to develop serious mental health issues of his own, admitting to both auditory and visual hallucinations in what he described as a “confrontation with the unconscious.”

During this period, Jung scribed a book he titled Liber Novus, Latin for “New Book,” but which has since been deemed “The Red Book.” Scrawled with hand-drawn devils, conversations with deities, depictions of incest, and travels through the underworld, it has been alternately called a work of “infinite wisdom” and the ramblings of a psychotic. He worked on the book for 16 years, locking it away until his death in 1961.

When describing the book, he cryptically revealed: “The years . . . when I pursued the inner images, were the most important times of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then.”

After his death, the Jung family locked the Red Book away for nearly 50 years. Only a handful of people had ever seen it until it was published in October of 2009. The original has since been shown in Manhattan’s Rubin Museum of Art. What devils drove Carl Jung’s hand, what he was truly attempting to express in “The Red Book,” and precisely why his family attempted to keep the work hidden for so many decades remains quite mysterious.

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

The World's Greatest Unsolved Murder Mystery

Jack the Ripper, undoubtedly the most famous serial killer in the world, spread terror throughout London in the last years of the 19th century.

Why is Jack the Ripper so Famous?

One of the things that puzzles many people about this particular long ago murder spree is quite why the crimes are still so famous, even though over a hundred and twenty years have elapsed since they occurred.

If, as is generally believed, Jack the ripper had only five victims then he wasn't a particularly prolific murderer compared to many who have come since, and the fact that his so-called reign of terror lasted a mere twelve or so weeks means that he wasn't at large for a particularly long period of time. Yet there is little doubt that he is the world's most famous serial killer. Why should this be?

Several factors combined to help make this series of crimes famous all over the world. Not least amongst them was the fact that the newspapers of the day gave a huge amount of coverage to the crimes and provided their readers with daily updates on them with the result that Jack the Ripper effectively became a menacing media figure.



Secondly, the area in which the killings occurred was perceived as being a hotbed of vice and villainy, and a breeding ground for social unrest, squalor and disease. The Whitechapel Murderer, in the eyes of the wider Victorian society, came to be seen as the personification of all the evils with which the East End of London was associated.

Finally, there was, of course, the name by which the killer came to be known Jack the Ripper. It was this name, which was probably the invention of a journalist, that had the effect of turning five sordid East End murders into an international phenomenon and of catapulting the unknown miscreant responsible into the realm of legend.

How many victims were there?

It is generally believed that there were five victims of Jack the Ripper. They were:

• Mary Nichols, murdered on 31st August 1888.
• Annie Chapman, murdered on 8th September 1888.
• Elizabeth Stride, murdered on 30th September 1888.
• Catherine Eddowes, also murdered on 30th September 1888.
• Mary Kelly, murdered on 9th November 1888.
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Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is an area of water in the North Atlantic Ocean in which a large number of planes and boats have gone missing in mysterious circumstances. This legend probably started some time around 1945, when a squadron of five Navy Avenger airplanes disappeared in training flight out of Fort Lauderdake,Fla. One explanation for the mysterious disappearance of entire ships could be large pockets of gas, commmon in the seabed of the area. When the gas rises to the surface dissolves in the water, drcreasing the buoyancy and causing the boat to sink. 


Long before the legend of the Bermuda Triangle Became popular, Bermuda han already earned a reputation as an echanted island. It was nicknamed "Devils Islands" by early sea travelers, frightened by the calls of cahow birds and the squeals of wild pigs that could be heard on shore. But perhaps the most damning tales were told by sailors terrified of shipwreck on Bermudas treacherous strech of reefs.   Unsual features of the area had been noted since Christopher Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to New World, in wich he reported a great flame of fire crashed into to the sea one night and that strange light apperead in the distance a few weeks later. He also write about inconsistent compas readings, in wich later belived as natural phenomen happens in places where True North and Magnetic Nort line up, the two north are in fact have different scientific implications. 



In the past 500 years at least 50 ships and 20 aircraft have reportdly vanished in the Triangle most without a trace no wreckage, nobodies, nothing. There have also been so many theories trying to explain the legend, including one suggesting that the lost city Atlantis may lie at the bottom of the sea and he using its reputed crystal energies to sink ships and planes. A lot of people have deaded there.But despite all the reports by authors aroound the globe regarding the untraceable missing planes and ships, its there really any mystery to explain?

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