Deciphering Cosmic Number Cl

by Miller,Arthur I.

• ISBN13: 9780393065329
• ISBN10: 0393065324
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-17
• Publisher: W W NORTON

Summary

The extraordinary story of psychoanalyst Carl Jung and physicist Wolfgang Pauli and their struggle to quantify the unconscious.In 1932, the groundbreaking physicist Wolfgang Pauli met the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Pauli was fascinated by the inner reaches of his own psyche and not afraid to dabble in the occult, while Jung looked to science for answers to the psychological questions that tormented him. Their rich friendship led them, in Jung's words, into "the no-man's land between physics and the psychology of the unconscious ... the most fascinating yet the darkest hunting ground of our times." Both were obsessed with the far-reaching significance of the number "137" -- a primal number that seemed to hint at the origins of the universe itself. Their quest to solve its enigma led them on a lifelong journey into the ancient secrets of alchemy, the work of Johannes Kepler, and the Chinese Book of Changes. This is the captivating story of an extraordinary and fruitful collaboration between two of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Prologue	p. xvii
Dangerously Famous	p. 3
Early Successes, Early Failures	p. 18
The Philosopher's Stone	p. 44
	p. 51
Intermezzo-Three versus Four: Alchemy, Mysticism, and the Dawn of Modern Science	p. 64
Pauli, Heisenberg, and the Great Quantum Breakthrough	p. 89
Mephistopheles	p. 107
The Dark Hunting Ground of the Mind	p. 124
Mandalas	p. 148
The Superior Man Sets His Life in Order	p. 158
Synchronicity	p. 183
Dreams of Primal Numbers	p. 208
Second Intermezzo-Road to Yesterday	p. 227
Through the Looking Glass	p. 233
The Mysterious Number 137	p. 247
Epilogue: The Legacy of Pauli and Jung	p. 273
Notes	p. 277
Bibliography	p. 311
Illustration Credits	p. 321
Index	p. 325
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