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The Pauli-Jung conjecture brings meaning into the world of matter. This is why synchronicity is foundational for the conjecture, since it involves the meaningful coincidence of events not at all connected through the standard channel of cause and effect.
—Stephan Harding, Gaia Alchemy: The Reuniting of Science, Psyche, and Soul
#pauli #jung #synchronicity
The Pauli-Jung conjecture: “[T]here is a layer of reality deeper than both mind and matter, both of which appear from this deeper layer as twin manifestations of an ancient, underlying, intelligent, teleological whole. This whole is itself beyond time and space, but has divided itself into two halves that must rediscover each other in manifold ways throughout time and space for reasons concerning its own self-realization.”
—Stephan Harding, Gaia Alchemy: The Reuniting of Science, Psyche, and Soul
#pauli #jung
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What is expressed…in the experience of meaning and purpose…was something that he [Pauli] wished to link with a purposeful holistic regulation of life phenomena. … They…express themselves in unique, creative forms. When such forms and systems are observed in external nature, we use words like purposefulness to describe their occurrence. If on the other hand one meets these factors in one’s personal life they are experienced as an intervention from a higher order, often rich in meaning.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#pauli #purpose #meaning
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Towards the end of his life Pauli came increasingly to place feeling in the centre of his view of things. Feeling goes as deep as thought, claimed Pauli, amo, ergo sum is at least as well-founded as cogito, ergo sum.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#pauli #feeling
…Pauli constructs an epistemological theory entirely of his own which we do not find in Jung: at a certain level of abstraction our internal images and the structures of the external objects come into congruence and overlap.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#pauli #jung #epistemology
Pauli divided up science into two distinct parts: on the one side the discovery of laws of nature and the advent of theories, on the other the confirmation or application of them. The greatest gains of science quite often take place in an ‘unscientific’ manner, via feelings, intuitions, impulses and sudden flashes of inspiration – even via dreams and visions. Developing these inspirations by hard work and testing into applicable and fertile instruments is of equal importance.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#pauli #science
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Pauli saw a particularly important turning point in the history of science in the seventeenth century. In the late Classical period and during the Renaissance, matter had still been seen as living and animate. …man’s soul is not separated from the innermost essence of nature – we are connected with the rest of the world.
In the seventeenth century, however… Descartes declared that matter is inanimate and controlled solely by the laws of mechanics. … Everything could be explained on the basis of cause and effect… The culmination of this development was reached when even the soul was declared a mechanistic system of neurological synapses.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#pauli #history of #science
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Pauli sought a unified worldview and outlook on science which could unite the opposing pairs of psyche and matter, thought and feeling, specialist knowledge and holistic view… Above all he wanted to unite the knowledge of the psyche with that of the physical.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
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Masters of rational thinking, they [Pauli, Wittgenstein and Gödel] went to its limits and thus shattered the foundations of the classical worldview. They all came to the same conclusion: it is impossible to exclude the irrational from the worldview, in actual fact it forms a necessary point of reference in every system. Bohr, too, belonged to the group who asserted that the logically clear and precise does not lead to a true picture of reality. The truth requires a view which is directed towards the whole, which limits clarity. Truth dwells in the deeps, said Bohr. Reality is something ‘over and above’, said Wittgenstein. Pauli expressed it in the words: ‘Every truth also contains something partly unknown, only suspected and therefore hidden.’
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#pauli #wittgenstein #gödel #bohr
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I should like to attempt here to make a comparison with the ancient Chinese way of thinking… in order to express what I cannot yet grasp in exact concepts: the two signs of the I Ching, Yang (male) and Yin (female), originally signify a mountain in the sun (south side) and a mountain in the shade (north side). We must learn to realize…that there is only one X (one ‘mountain’, one ‘content’, one ‘real’, one ‘essence’, or whatever one may call the element of a still unknown and invisible reality) that …according to how it appears in our human consciousness (this divides and distinguishes), appears either spiritual or material.
—Pauli to Weizsäcker, 21 Jun. 1954.
#pauli #reality #consciousness
Classical science from Galileo-Kepler-Newton right down to Einstein stands on the other hand for the trinitarian-patriarchal view. Only modern physics has again recognized that in this world actual phenomena of necessity form and remain complementary opposing pairs and that they at the same time allow the observer freedom. It has not yet been officially admitted that the psychic state of an involved observer may also have an influence on the natural process.
—Pauli to Weizsäcker, 21 Jun. 1954
#pauli #science #physics
Pauli thought that by developing the framework of synchronicity it would be possible to arrive at a more satisfactory biological model. … It is neither a matter of determinism in the classical sense nor one of sheer chance as in the case of quantum physics. Instead we may be dealing with a third type of natural law, which is still unknown.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
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The final outcome of the discussions between Pauli and Jung was the hypothesis of a general acausal principle with two extreme ends in the form of two special cases and a sliding scale between them. … Examples of this type of acausal order are…the acausalities of quantum physics, crystal formation in chemical solutions and so on.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#pauli #jung #acausality #synchronicity
Pauli mentions…that among some physicists quantum physics is considered incomplete because it cannot preserve the determinism of classical physics. But quantum physics is only incomplete if one presupposes a determinist framework! One might equally well say that phenomena such as quanta and synchronicity show that the classical worldview is incomplete. Scientifically it is more satisfying to position the acausal correspondence as general principle.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#pauli #jung #synchronicity
“Pauli notes with pleasure that at last one begins to discern the end of the Western tradition which has brought out only one side of reality. This unbalanced ‘either-or’ perspective is now beginning to be replaced by a broader thinking on ‘both-and’ lines.”
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
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“Pauli associates Parmenides’ worldview…with a longing for freedom from conflict. The same is true of the Neoplatonist devaluation of matter as evil: such a conception represents nothing more than rationalized flight from reality.”
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#pauli #parmenides #neoplatonism
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Pauli sees consciousness as the active part in the drama (more so than Jung), while the unconscious is more passive and helpless. It can create a disturbance to be sure, but it cannot have any kind of consciousness or ‘intention’. Pauli may to some extent have changed his mind concerning this question later in life, as he seems to have wanted to make room for the experience that there is something in the unconscious…that demands widening of consciousness.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#pauli #jung #consciousness