Psyche and Singularity: Jungian Psychology and Holographic String Theory

by Timothy Desmond

“The most original and important contribution to the integration of Jungian psychology and physics since the original collaboration between Jung and Pauli.” Sean Kelly, Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies “Timothy Desmond’s theory that the psyche is a gravitational singularity would drive both Isaac Newton and Sigmund Freud crazy. But any theory that doesn't is a waste of time. Desmond articulates a vision that just might be wild enough to take us home.” Brian Thomas Swimme, Author of Journey of the Universe “Psyche and Singularity is one of the most profoundly significant books I’ve had the pleasure to read. Tracing striking parallels between string theory and Jungian thought, Desmond provides the most compelling explanation for how synchronicities work that I’ve encountered.” Grant Maxwell, Author of The Dynamics of Tracing an Emerging World View “The discussion may sound like insane science fiction, but Desmond offers a refreshingly accurate picture, a synthesis of psyche and quantum physics that becomes the key to unlock a map of consciousness and synchronicity backed by the central ideas of Pauli, Susskind, and Jung.” Shelli Joye, Author of Tuning the Holonomic Brain Theory and the Implicate Order According to Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind, our three-dimensional universe is essentially a holographic “movie,” an illusion projected by one-dimensional threads of energy from the spherical horizon of the cosmos, where the past, present, and future are eternally superimposed. Psyche and Singularity shows how Susskind’s string theory of holographic information conservation corroborates some of psychologist Carl Jung’s most profound ideas. Timothy Desmond suggests that Susskind’s inside-out black hole model of the universe forms a geometrically perfect a central singularity encompassed by a two-dimensional sphere which serves as a universal memory bank. In precise fulfillment of Jung’s theory about the unifying quality of the mandala image as the “archetype of wholeness,” Susskind’s model of the universe reconciles the notoriously incommensurable paradigms of general relativity and quantum mechanics, providing a mathematically plausible explanation for Jung’s near-death experience of his past, present, and future life simultaneously at the cosmic horizon. Susskind’s theory also provides a plausible cosmological model to explain Jung’s theory of synchronicity— meaningful coincidences may be tied together by strings at the cosmic horizon, from which they radiate inward.

390 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 22, 2018

Reviews

[Alexandre Teles · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a challenging book. It deals with the hard link between exoteric concepts, psyche and how this links with the singularity, in this case the big bang with the psyche concepts from Jung. The book is a little repetitive in the basic concept, that can be boring but in the same time is to reinforce the foundation about the theory from the author. But I confess that I gave 3 stars cause this repetition ends in not expanding the idea in more examples. But that's ok, it's already a real difficult subject, but it makes a lot of sense the idea of the author that some physic theories about the universe can be linked with the concepts of soul, eternity and string theory. He reinforced his theories with the Jung and Pauli process. However, he explore a lot in repetitions about the Jung almost dead experience, which could not be used in my opinion as successive prove of his ideas.

In general, it's a great book if you want to try to find the boundaries between the universe and our souls.

[Hardcover Hustler · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Self explains itself to itself.

[Theresa Jump · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thoughtful and interesting. Nice work!

[Nikola · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome fusion of "spirituality" and science.

Highly recommended to curious individuals, he also has a youtube review if people are more into that, check out his channel lots of wisdom there!

[Felix Delong · Rating 1 out of 5]

Imoh this is more of the "Quantum Spiritualism" mumbo-jumbo. Author most of the time lists physical discoveries to sound scientific only to base some wild, unhinged theory on top of it.
I mean, yeah, sure, black holes totally are God. Why not.

[Ben Greer]

It took me a LONG time to work through this and definitely still have a lot to chew on. Very much feels like another puzzle piece and glad I read but also not sure it was worth quite the amount of time I spent on it.