Having lived for almost five years in the United States of America, where I was studying, doing research and working, in 1996 I decided, with my family, to return to Venezuela. I found a different country: one where its people do not believe in the institutions and where, the parties and government turn their backs and dissociate themselves to the people's reality.

Since I am not a politician nor a sociologist, I tried to understand what was happening with the people and what they were doing to survive in this climate of disenchantment, powerlessness and deception. My interest, I must emphasize, is a psychological one and, within psychology, I include myself within Jung's theory. My conception of the human being is that of one made of archaic psychic contents where Humanity's instincts, archetypes and phylogenetic experience link. A Collective stratum where we are all One, the "Unus Mundus", the Collective Unconscious where all the wisdom of evolution is stored. There we find paradigms making us know and foresee Man's (and Woman's) developments, as an entity and a social being. The Collective Unconscious, at times of crisis, provides us with a limitless source of knowledge and experience; we may pick the tool from it allowing us to overcome the adverse conditions we face.

By shading and enriching this fundamental nucleus one finds several image raising strata. These re the metaphors that will shape our actions and will provide the people and persons with the answer they need to solve their conflicts. These arise by means of inspiration, they flow from an apparent lack of reason; they must be, however, filtered and structured by volitive, rational and conscious work.

I could illustrate the former with the personage of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", with Mr. Scrooge. He is visited during his dream by three specters: the spirits of Christmas past, present and future. The miser's thoughts are affected by them and he puts his rational conscious to work in harmony with the messages of the unconscious and things work better. In another context, Kekulé, one of the fathers of organic chemistry, discover the nucleus of benzene when, after deep studies, the solution come to him in a dream; he dreams of a snake biting its tongue. The same occurs with Einstein who often got the problems' solutions from his dreams.

All this is well fixed into a popular and ancestral wisdom. Primitive peoples used to meet at the center f the village to listen to a Shaman's dreams, or of those who at some time channel the community's unconscious. The group is oriented by the discussion of these dreams.

It seems as if we would now have lost contact with our dreams. Or that those who promote their study and deepening, fall into stupid superficiality, believing that everything is subjective idealism, without understanding that the image, the metaphor, inspires, but that it is to reason and will to structure the dream. The subsequent work must be conscious, planned and effort minded, in order to make realty of inspiration.

In the world we live we are faced with two types of thought, a symbolic and a rational one. The first is oriented by the image, the metaphor; it appears as an answer to needs and problems. The second is rational, longitude-wise oriented to the reaching of goals and achievements. The first is led by the conscious psyche, by the Self's ancestral wisdom. The second pulls us to the chaotic world, to folly.

We propose a third form: in it the Ego leans on the image, meditates, reflects on it, thinks of it and plans it in order to put it at the service of development, be it personal or of the community. Simón Bolívar inspires himself in his "Delirium on the Chimborazo" to plan, act and achieve the exploit of Independence.

It looks as if when persons and/or institutions loose their dreaming ability, when they no longer are able to create images, they become things, they crystallize and paralyze, they lose their creativity, the richness of their imagination; they turn into a most serious yet dead thing, symbols are signified. It is then that there is a break in the transcending sense of existence and, in politics, governments turn their backs to the people. There is a tremendous dissociation between the fundamental and the immanent. Individuals, then, lacking guidance, will look for it in their own self being. Lack of leadership conditions Chaos.

I believe in chaos, in primigenial load, in the alchemic "Prima Materia", from which dreams, metaphors and images needed for contest and life will flow.

It was this last certainty that made me return; I want to be in and witness the developing process, the birth of images and their structuring in a full and fruit bearing form of life, I grew tired of a raw and overgrown in planning world's sterile security; I grew tired of Ford's world. I must say, however, that was for me a catalyst of thought , that in the Bostonian winter helped me to hibernate, to enter the creative softness of "not doing anything", the nothing physical that fosters the soul's birth. In the winter, at 4 p.m. it is dark, boredom becomes digestion. The tropic's luminosity becomes a teleprocessed image. This is why, when my American friends asked me why I had chosen Boston as a residence, I answered: "because of the climate!".

We came back, my family and I, and in doing so we found ourselves with a divinely anarchic country. After the North American excessive planning, this is breathing a another air.

I conceive anarchy as the " institutional no government". As government arising from the bottom, from the individual's fundamental needs s related to the others. As the process whereby individuals may cohabit thanks to the respect imposed by affective cohabitation. Where mutuality is exercised thanks to the other's acknowledgment and of its consistency. Where the laws arise from the Eros and not from tyrannical imposition. I believe that two issues are being imposed on Venezuela: One, that of the military coup with the enthroning of a strong regime or another, more psychic one, as is the self management process. It seems as if the second is being born. This is a process that flows from depression and deception. The institutions and parties have lost (and I don't know if they ever had one) their ability to respond; the traditional leaders have utterly failed and have proven their inability and mediocrity.

Once a country of chieftains, we are now becoming a conglomerate of men and women who do not want to invent. In order to prove my point, let us just go to the development poles, there we see how professional from different disciplines thrive in achieving their own self being, their security and their freedom. Lawyers managing hotels, architects becoming chefs, humble peasants creating small food and tourism businesses, housewives becoming construction entrepreneurs, communities of neighbors relying on self protection when those who should protect them no longer are trusted, etc.

In Venezuela, a live people, divorced from the "what-to-do" of the traditional chieftains' groups. Men and women seeking in, and through, anarchy and creative questioning of institutions , a road leading to their identity.

Self management and decentralization seemed to be continued processes in the creation of a true democracy. Let us remember that democracy arises from the needs of groups of persons interested in the enthroning of a series of standards allowing cohabitation, and not the other way around, as it has been tried to institute in Venezuela, by selling us the idea of a representative democracy, something that is only an abstract name without true repercussion in the way people feel.

When a US citizen is asked about his country and its system, he is aware of his civic duty as a citizen. A friend used to tell me "Here (in the USA), it makes sense to pay taxes, they turn to your benefit and that of your neighbors, there are better policemen , schools, public transportation systems, etc.." In disappearing Venezuela the payment of taxes was left to the silly, not because it was silly, because there is no way of knowing where the money goes. Governments is something foreign; here we, Venezuelans, are used to see those who are in government, to see public officers, not as servants and representatives, but as strange, far away , absent and opportunistic beings.

The former is changing, people, municipalities, communities of neighbors, men's and women's individual development in our country are beginning to show some light of hope at the end.

It is possible that this paper is inspired on my irreducible optimism, on the spirit of Christmas modifying Dickens' personage into my belief in the country thaw saw me born and grow.

I do not believe, however, that this is reduced to a mere idealistic speculation. I believe that there are historical and psychological grounds vouching for my thesis and this is the reason for my last quotation, coming from one of the most important soul knowledge bearing books, the Bible:

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon he face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."

Genesis: 1;2;3.