PREFACE 1 IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES 7

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1 Table of Contents PREFACE 1 1SOME OF WOLFGANG PAULI'S AND C.G. JUNG'S MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES A selection of Wolfgang Pauli's most important discoveries Some principles of C.G. Jung's depth psychology 14 2WOLFGANG PAULI'S FLUDD/FLOOD SYNCH RON ICITY AND THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOPHYSICAL RESEARCH The Fludd/flood synchronicity Pauli's interpretation of the pouring out of water Wolfgang Pauli's Kepler/Fludd essay of The meaning of the Fludd/flood synchronicity The necessity of the solution to the psychophysical problem Returning to the worldview of the Hermetic alchemist Robert Fludd on a higher scientific level The solution of the problem of the psychokinetic Pauli effect by extending the synchronicity concept The inclusion of the yin/yang bipolarity of the energetic principle Summary and Preview 28 3C.G. JUNG'S QUATERNITY, NEOPLATONIC PHILOSOPHY AND THE POTENTIAL BEING OF ARISTOTLE Wolfgang Pauli's criticism of the newly founded Institute C.G. Jung's quaternities, kept up in heaven Being, rtonbeing and potential beting The Assumptio Mariae and the 'disinfected' matter in Heaven The coniunctio as the constellated archetype behind the Assumption 36

2 VIII Remo F. Roth RETURN OF THE WORLD SOUL The coniunctio and the difference between Jung's and Pauli's individuation process 'To be, or not to be'and the Platonic privatio boni The potential being of Aristotle Complementarity: Particle and wave as potential being Pauli's conflict with Jung: th«3 collective unconscious as potential being Quaternities kept up in heaven and the unsolved psychophysical problem The spirit of matter, the acausal aspect of the divine world soul and potential being C.G. Jung's ambivalence concerning the Trinity and the quaternity and the quantitative-qualitative number archetype Summary 61 4NEOPLATONIC AND HERMETIC ALCHEMY: ETERNAL INFERTILITY VERSUS INCARNATION Wolfgang Pauli's differentiation between Neoplatonic and Hermetic alchemy A short description of the alchemical opus Some differences between Neoplatonic and Hermetic alchemy Neoplatonic alchemy The impossibility of transmutation (Wandlung) in the Neoplatonic opus The reduction of the quaternity to the Trinity by the early medieval Platonist Scotus Eriugena and the Hornberger Schiessen Einstein's objective worldview as a Hornberger Schiessen Hermetic alchemy Robert Fludd's Chymical Wedding, the intermediate world and the infans solaris The symmetry between spirit and matter in Hermetic alchemy, and complementarity Pauli's visual-auditory experience of the dancing Chinese woman, the Seal of Solomon, the quintessence and the square Summary and outlook 95

3 TABLE OF CONTENTS IX 5THE SEAL OF SOLOMON AND THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM OF THE COMPLEMENTARY INCARNATION OF THE PSYCHE Wolfgang Pauli's mirror image of the downwardspointing Assumptio Mariae and the Seal of Solomon Wolfgang Pauli's and C.G. Jung's dispute about the terms psyche, matter and spirit Philosophical cognition as a creation act The symmetry and complementarity of spirit and matter and of the energy principle Psyche as potential being The separation of psyche and spirit and the superiority of psyche over matter and spirit C.G. Jung's dilemma with the Seal of Solomon C.G. Jung's approach: philosophical cognition as a creation act C.G. Jung's antagonistic definitions of the term 'psyche' Summary Quantum physical observation as a creation act The quantum physical collapse of the wave function or quantum leap The ending of the Neoplatonic infertility in the collapse of the wave function C.G. Jung's conflict between a causal and an acausal theory of the psyche Wolfgang Pauli's approach: quantum physical observation as a creation act The Nobel laureate's isolation because of his dreams about Eros and radioactivity Summary Synchronicity, the collapse of the wave function and the future incarnatio The collective psyche as being and as potential being The difference between synchronicity and the collapse of the wave function Wolfgang Pauli's incarnatio synchronicity, the alchemical multiplicatio and psychophysical radioactivity The incarnatio synchronicity Jung's and Pauli's discussion about the future incarnatio 137

4 X Remo F. Roth RETURN OF THE WORLD SOUL Pauli's nocturnal experience with the bursting meteorite after the discussion with Jung The creatio continua out of the unus mundus as the transformation of potential being into actual being The coniunctio as the background of the creatio continua The inclusion of the creatio continua and incarnatio into the description of the cosmic evolutionary processes The bursting meteorite, the alchemical process of multiplicatio and the red tincture Radioactivity and the multiplicatio of the red tincture Complementary versus the psychophysical interpretation of the term 'physical-symbolic radioactivity' Wolfgang Pauli's reduction of the Taoist yin/ yang bipolarity to complementarity C.G. Jung's and Wolfgang Pauli's concept of the complementary relationship between radioactivity and synchronicity Wolfgang Pauli's reduction of multiplicatio to an attribute of synchronicity The dispute of Pauli and Jung about the depth psychological difference between the terms 'field' and 'radioactivity' Wolfgang Pauli's depth psychological interpretation of the radioactive transmutation as a transition of the Self into a more conscious state C.G. Jung's and Wolfgang Pauli's lack of understanding of the acausal transformation in and out of the unus mundus Beta radioactivity as a psychophysical transmutation process in the unus mundus Summary 166 Pauli's incarnatio synchronicity and the 'ingredients' of the incarnation 166 The radioactive nucleus as the lapis on the physical level C.G. Jung's Self as the radioactive nucleus on the spiritual/psychic level The alchemical coniunctio as a psychophysical extension of radioactivity 1 6 8

5 TABLE OF CONTENTS X I Pauli's abandonment of coniunctio because of the complementarity hypothesis Pauli's and Jung's refusal of coniunctio as psychophysical radioactivity 169 Pauli's rejection of the multiplicatio as psychophysical transmutation 169 Pauli's interpretation of multiplicatio as an acausal transformation of the Self 169 Pauli's reduction of multiplicatio to a spiritual/psychic process 170 Pauli's complementary interpretation of multiplicatio^ 170 The observation of synchronicities as the transformation of potential being into actual being 171 The observation of synchronicities as an empirical proof of the transformation of the God-image 171 The lapis as the psychophysical radioactive nucleus 171 The observation of spontaneous transformation processes in the psychophysical lapis as an empirical proof of its existence 172 C.G. Jung's unus mundus as a transcendental hypothesis 172 Pauli's lack of understanding of the observability of the psychophysical reality 173 The observation of spontaneous acausal transmutations out of the psychophysical lapis 173 Psychophysical nonlocality 173 Returning to the Hermetic alchemy of Gerardus Dorneus and Robert Fludd 174 CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK 175 BIBLIOGRAPHY 181 INDEX 185