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In many ways, the twentieth century was the century of interpretation—or, to give it its technical name, hermeneutics. This session will examine the question of interpretation for Wolfgang Pauli and C.G. Jung alike, discussing (a) Pauli’s interest in the Grail myth as reflected in his correspondence with Emma Jung and (b) Jung’s interpretation of Pauli’s dreams in relation to his own pursuit of alchemical themes in Goethe’s Faust.

Two intellectual giants, the Nobel Laureate quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli, although 25 years younger, and the Swiss psychiatrist and analyst, C.G. Jung, exchanged thoughts and feelings about the nature of realities through vibrant letters and their thesis of synchronicity.

Beyond Jung: Jung and Pauli 4/6 The Personal Pauli: Topics in the Correspondence with Aniela Jaffé and Marie-Louise von Franzwith Suzanne Gieser Sunday November 22, 20269:00 am PST | 12:00 […]

Plato’s metaphor of the cave, an underground vault where back-lit humans observe life’s goings on as a play of shadows on a wall, has long held a fascination for thinkers. It suggests that the world we experience in our day-to-day business is not all that there is. Rather it arises from structures that are less substantial to our senses, but equally real, existing in a layer of reality beneath the commonplace. Philosophically, the mainstream has moved away from Neo-Platonism, but suggestions from quantum mechanics, mathematics and other aspects of science, along with the philosophy of mind and some modern thinking on aesthetics, ethics and morality, suggest that Plato’s ideas are worth revisiting.

An accessible introduction to the physics of Wolfgang Pauli, his contributions to the subject and a little about Pauli the man.

Most physicists are adamant that they don’t make discoveries while dreaming. Wolfgang Pauli was different because from Carl Jung he learned the power of dreams. This enabled him to discover CPT symmetry, a higher form of mirror symmetry, a key factor in Jung’s work. Pauli and Jung believed that physics and psychology were mirror images. I will develop Pauli’s important discovery and more.

In a time riven by fragmentation, dislocation and conflicting narratives, this programme invites a collaborative enquiry into ways of knowing and thinking that will delve deeply into the field where land, body and consciousness meet.

Inscendence proposes an opportunity for re-orientation by attending to participative awareness, heightened sensory perception and the wisdom of the body-mind.  

In resonance with Pari, its landscape, history, and community, we will engage with many of the Center’s core themes seeking to open up a creative ground from which new forms of insight, relationship and action can emerge.