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ALCHEMY CLASS III Alchemy, Modern Physics, and Depth Psychology
I. QUESTIONS
What do we mean by  “Alchemical”?
What makes Pauli a “modern day alchemist” according to Lindorff?
What is a symbol?
Where is the Unconscious?
Does Subatomic Matter Indicate a Psychic State?
What is the Two-Thousand-Year Old Problem at the Heart of all Western Alchemy?
II. The Problem of Modern Science
The Evil Backside of the Natural Sciences: “Knowledge is Power” (Francis Bacon, 1561-1626)   Francis Bacon and Robert Oppenheimer ,[object Object]
Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) ,[object Object]
Isaac Newton (1643-1727): “The Last Sorcerer” ,[object Object]
Coleridge’s  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798-1817) :  “With my crossbow / I shot the Albatross”
Goethe’s  Faust (1808-1832) ,[object Object],[object Object]
Pauli’s Personal Crisis ,[object Object]
III. Addressing the Problem of Modern Science
Rational Science has an Emotional (Archetypal/Psychological) Background ,[object Object]
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ,[object Object],[object Object]
Pauli ,[object Object],[object Object]
IV. Psyche and Matter
Ernst Chladni (1756-1827): Archetypal Patterns in Sound
Masaru Emoto (1943-): “Messages from Water”
The Alchemical  Albedo  : Hillman’s “Silver and the White Earth II”
Splendor Solis , 1582: “We are Seeking the Nature of the Four Elements” ( Prima Materia )
George Gamow (Responsible for the Theory of the Big Bang, mid 1930’s): “We are Seeking the Nature of the [92] Elements.” ,[object Object]
Jung’s Initial - Dualistic - Hypothesis ,[object Object]
Is the Real Nature of Matter Known Today? ,[object Object]
What is Matter at the Microphysical Level? ,[object Object]
A Rereading of Jung’s Alchemcial Hypothesis in the Context of Modern Physics ,[object Object]
Do Images of our Inner Self Lie at the Heart of Matter? ,[object Object]
Quantum Physics as Modern Alchemy? ,[object Object]
The Rutherford or Planetary Model of the Atom (c. 1911)
The Radioactive Nucleus as Symbol: Towards a “Neutral Language” and “Background Physics” ,[object Object]
A Strange Footprint on the Shores of the Unknown ,[object Object]
Jung’s New - Nondualistic - Hypothesis ,[object Object]
A New Vision of Dreams ,[object Object]
A New Vision of the Perceptual World: Coleridge’s “Primary Imagination” ,[object Object]
V. Social and Political Dimensions of Alchemical Process
Vaclav Havel (1936-) ,[object Object]
“ What Can I Do?”: A Holistic Vision of Social/Political Activism ,[object Object]
VI. Conclusion
“ Alchemical”  What does that Mean?
Some Aspects of Alchemy ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What makes Pauli a “modern day alchemist”?
Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) ,[object Object]
What is the Main Message of Alchemy?
Theodor Abt (1947-) ,[object Object]
What is the Two Thousand Year Old Problem at the Heart of all Western Alchemy?
How to Get From 3 to 4 : The Fourth as Matter/Body, as Devil, as Feminine
Union of Sun and Moon ,[object Object]
Alchemy as the Myth of Our Time? ,[object Object]

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