Workshops and Seminars
The C.G. Jung Foundation presents
Jung, Pauli, Bohm
and the Search for Wholeness
a daylong seminar led by
F. David Peat
Saturday, November 10, 2007
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Wholeness, the integration of opposites within the depths of the psyche, is a central concept of Jungs psychology. In this connection, Jung also referred to the unus mundus, a state of being prior to the differentiation of matter and psyche. The search for wholeness and the notion of unus mundus informed the theories of physicists Wolfgang Pauli and David Bohm, as well.
Pauli, a leading physicist of the 20th century, was deeply influenced by Jung. He believed that the physicists search for wholeness in nature was motivated by the search for wholeness within. Bohm, for his part, sought to develop a new order in physics, which posited the physical world as a manifestation of a deeper, invisible and implicate order, where mind and matter were but two aspects of a single reality. Bohm was in dialogue with J. Krishnamurti, much as Pauli collaborated with Jung. All were concerned with the transformation of human consciousness.
David Peat will explore the concepts that influenced the lives and work of Pauli and Bohm, including synchronicity, symmetry and anti-symmetry. The degree to which the two physicists felt they ultimately succeeded or failed in their efforts might well be indicative of the limits of rational, scientific inquiry in general.
F. David Peat conducted research in theoretical physics and became a friend of David Bohm. Together they wrote Science, Order and Creativity and were working on a second book at the time of Bohms death. Peat is the author of twenty books, including Synchronicity: The Bridge between Matter and Mind. In 1996 he moved to the medieval hilltop village of Pari in Tuscany where he runs the Pari Center.