Analysis of Jung-Einstein Conjunction

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A haiku poem functions effectively as a nutshell spark that, when ignited and elaborated on, becomes a “Big Bang” explosion. In 1909, the Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Gustav Jung, began to initiate a series of lengthy dinner conversations (I call them “Table-Supper” Conversations, because of their revelations, and because they likely extended well into the late evenings) ; while he was in Zurich, Switzerland, and having collegial meetings with the theoretical physicist, and with his new friend and physicist colleague, Albert Einstein. Here is a partial reporting of those auspicious dinner-supper meetings that shed valuable insight into the developing intellectual thought process of Carl Jung, as he waxed in great detail about having discussions in particular relation to his research and development of the psychological concept of synchronicity, recorded by Jung, in his ‘Letters of C. G. Jung, Volume Two, 1951-1961.’ Carl Gustav Jung writes enthusiastically, and with much detail:“I got to know Albert Einstein through one of his pupils , a Dr. Hopf if I remember correctly. Professor Einstein was one of my guests on several occasions at dinner, when, as you have heard, Adolf Keller was present on one of them and on others Professor Eugen Bleuler, a psychiatrist and my former chief. These were very early days [between 1909 and 1913] when Einstein was developing his first theory of relativity …. It was Einstein who first started me off thinking about a possible relativity of time as well as space, and their psychic conditionality [the Jungian a-causal principle of synchronicity]. More than thirty years later this stimulus [Einstein’s space-time continuum theory] led to my relation with the physicist Professor W. Pauli and to my thesis of psychic synchronicity.” Examined together and jointly, we can discern Einstein’s Relativity of Time and Space Theory and Jung’s steadily emerging synchronicity proposal, collectively, as the Psychical Conditionality of Space and Time. Furthermore, we can now determine that synchronicity, as a hypothesized psychological phenomenon proposed by Jung, is that which is described by Jung himself as the “gravitational refraction dimple” of a space-time continuum. Given this information, I propose that Carl Jung’s a-causal theory of synchronicity, dependent as it is on, and bound to, Albert Einstein’s theory of a space-time continuum of relativity, should be, and ought to be considered and recognized, scientifically and humanistically, as “The Jung-Einstein Space-Time Conjunction.” more »