1.2 The projection of the Eros consciousness into the accelerator

After the first revolution in physics, the formulation of the special relativity theory by Albert Einstein in the first decade of the 20th century, a second one happened: The theoretical physicists Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Paul A. Dirac and others developed the theory of quantum physics. In the course of some few years, during a breath-taking process these physicists groped their way forward to a theory, which made it necessary to throw many dogmas of classical physics over board. In the year 1927 Niels Bohr presented the new theory in Como, Italy, close to the Swiss border. This theory is since known as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, named after the place of Bohr’s chair. It is the empirically most proven physical theory of today. Further, this theory is the background of many modern inventions, as for example the computer, the laser, the atomic bomb and nuclear plants.

In my book The Quest for God I point out that in quantum theory developed during the roaring twenties of the 20th century, the whole repressed problem of the transformation of the God-image returned at a completely unexpected place, though in a projected form (see also my abstract of Synchronicity Quest or The Quest for God).

Since theories of quantum physics serve to construct atomic bombs and nuclear power plants, and since they stand also behind computer and laser technology, my discussion of the above Trinity and double-Trinity problem seems to be far more than an academic discussion among theologians and depth psychologists. Because as we will see just below, the Seal of Solomon establishes the archetypal background that stands behind the elementary particles of the atomic nucleus and behind nuclear power, as well as behind radioactivity, both being set free in atomic bombs and nuclear power plants.

The fact that I finished my manuscript The Quest for God shortly before the disaster of Chernobyl on April 26th, 1986 (although the German original was only published in 1992) caused me to experience this coincidence as a deeply meaningful and moving historical synchronicity. It showed me the extent of the Selbstvergottung (self-deification) we commit, and what a sacrilege this identification with the deity it is, when we apply this theory for the creation of such a destructive technology. I am therefore convinced that in the first decades of the 21^st century we will have to become conscious of this sacrilege and by this begin to question our will-centered occupation with the today constellated renewed God-image [see also www.psychovision.ch/rfr/roth_e_ufos.htm]. This is only possible when we draw back its projection into the outer world, i.e., into the technological use of the atomic force, and try to confront us with the challenge of the encounter with its inner aspect – the Seal of Solomon seated in the heart.

But now the questions arise, first why and second how such an unconscious vision of the renewed God-image corresponding to the Seal of Solomon could result out of the physicist's theoretical speculations and their empirical confirmations in the appropriate experiments.

In order to answer these questions, I had to submerge myself for the time being in another question: What are the theories and inventions of the physicists actually, when seen from the depth psychological and religios-psychological point of view? Or asked in another way: What archetypal background drives them to invent exactly these theories and tools for their empirical proof?

[Remark of January, 2004: In the year 1996 I began to realize the fact that Wolfgang Pauli was – perhaps already in the year 1935, at least however after the year 1948 - persecuted by dreams that asked the same question. They extended his physical terminology into a "physical-symbolic language"[i], obviously with the intention of showing the Nobel laureate the archetypal background behind physics as well as depth psychology, i.e., the archetype behind what Pauli called the unified psychophysical reality.

In a letter to Marie-Louise von Franz of October 30th, 1953[ii] Pauli realized that these dreams talked of the necessity of including parapsychology into physics (see also Wolfgang Pauli and Parapsychology), and that this task is only possible when we accept the common background of physics and depth psychology, namely the "psychoid archetype" (Carl Jung) or the "psychophysical archetype" (W. Pauli).

Some days after this letter Pauli experienced – in the context of a dream of Marie-Louise von Franz, in which she was given the task of finding the psychological equivalent to the atomic bomb (!) - a deeply moving vision/audition, in which a Chinese woman talked about the importance of the Seal of Solomon in his life[iii][see also The Seal of Solomon and psyche's complementary incarnation.] Although Pauli associated the Taoist Tai Gi tu – the circular mandala combining yang and yin (see image on the right) - to this vision/audition[iv], he was not able to see that it meant the challenge of questioning the matter/antimatter concept invented by Paul A. Dirac and the replacing of it by a bipolar energy term instead of the unipolar approach of physics. (See also section 2 in part 3)]

The physicist’s technological tools for empirically proving the theories of quantum physics, their epistemological instruments, are the so-called accelerator and the bubble chamber (which are replaced today by the accumulation rings and their detectors). In the accelerator, in which a nearly total vacuum prevails, elementary particles are accelerated and like this provided with an extremely high amount of energy. These accelerated elementary particles are then steered into the bubble chamber. The bubble chamber contains liquid oxygen, which is kept at a temperature a little under its boiling point. Therein the accelerated particles now collide with a proton or a neutron of an oxygen atom. The high energy exchange causes these particles to mutually destroy themselves and by this to create new ones containing higher mass.

The accelerator is therefore a necessary condition for the production of new elementary particles of higher mass, and can thus simulate the natural processes in nature happening closer to the creation of the universe in the supposed big bang, i.e., in the very youth of it some billion years ago. However, this technical masterpiece is characterized by the fact that it will never again release those particles once locked in it into the external world. If it were a human we would say that such an accelerator has cut off totally from the relationship with the outside and is concentrated one hundred percent on his inside.

When we look at this fact with the help of depth psychology’s definitions, we can say that the accelerator symbolizes an extreme introversion. On the other hand we have seen that physics and natural science in general detract from the inner world of the scientist, i.e., represses it. Therefore, symbolically seen the missing introverted consciousness of the physicist reappears in the external world as the accelerator, i.e., the former is projected onto the idea of constructing this epistemological tool.

Further, the accelerator contains a nearly one hundred percent vacuum. Such a vacuum we can symbolically interpret as some sort of an "empty consciousness." Because today’s scientific consciousness is identified with the Logos, i.e., with the psychological functions of extraverted sensation and thinking (Carl Jung), the psychological interpretation of the vacuum leads to the necessity of finding an introverted procedure for emptying the Logos consciousness.

But what could, in a psychological language, such an "inner vacuum" be? Carl Jung’s typology of the consciousness can help us here again in finding the solution. If in a human conscious thinking and sensation are absent, it must – after Carl Jung - be based on the respectively complementary functions feeling and intuition. Further, because this "inner vacuum" can only exist in an enclosure, these complementary functions have to be introverted. Therefore, the looked for consciousness, which corresponds to the physical accelerator is based on introverted feeling and intuition.

The task we have to fulfill is therefore to transform the Logos consciousness into the "vacuum." This creation of some sort of an "inner hole" is in fact possible with the help of an imaginative procedure. During this procedure the consciousness reaches a "dimmed state." This "dimmed state" I call the Eros consciousness, which is of course comparable with the inner concentration on the feeling and the intuitive function.

By this procedure we have drawn back one aspect of the projection of the vacuum onto the external world. Without proving it here, I state further that it is however not only the Eros consciousness that is projected onto the accelerator, but also some deeper aspect of the collective unconscious. When we remember the Paracelsian healing principle simila similibus curantur, the principle that diseases are caused by the similar and cured by the application of the similar, we can hypothetically conclude that the "dimmed consciousness" has now the task to find a yet deeper introverted vacuum, in other words: the "conscious hole" should find a method of observing the "hole in the collective unconscious."

The result of such a procedure is the fact that in a spontaneous act, independent of the conscious will, inner images or even a series of them (the "inner movie") are liberated. My experience shows that the application of such a method has a synthetical and constructive tendency and by this can balance on the one hand a deeply stirred psychic state, and on the other can help in the healing of the physically sick body. In the case of its application on psychic troubles I call this method the Body Centered Imagination. When applied on the symptoms of a physical or psychosomatic disease, I use the term Symptom Symbol Transformation [An example of this method the reader will find in A Body Centered Visualization for Arrhythmias of the Heart].

[Remark of January 2004: When I developed this method in the late eighties of the last century, I did not yet realize that it is some sort of an inner synchronistic procedure. The difference to Jung’s synchronicity consists in the fact that in it the two events, the "physical" (the symptom) and the "physical-symbolic" (the inner image), happen in a synchronous manner (exactly at the same time) and at the same place, namely in ones own body. The non-simultaneousity of the two events in Carl Jung’s synchronicity was in fact a problem Wolfgang Pauli dealt with very intensely. He felt that there must exist even deeper events than Carl Jung’s synchronicity.

His dreams told him that he should replace this term by one of his physical terminology, namely with radioactivity (however explained on a deeper, psychoid or psychophysical level). His tragedy consists in the fact that he was however not able to find the solution, namely the application of the synchronicity theory on one’s own body, because he insisted on the energy conservation law.

As my research of the last years has shown, the conservation law seems in fact to be true in the limited world of Newton’s and quantum physics, is however not valid in the unified psychophysical reality the Nobel laureate and the depth psychologist were looking for. ]

If one considers that the nuclear research center CERN in the proximity of Geneva already before the start-up of the enormous LEP accumulation ring needed an amount of electricity in the range of the city of Geneva, one sees that the drawing back of the projection of the introverted consciousness into the external world would represent a practical contribution to an ecological management of the natural resources.

  

1.3 The renewed God-image appears in the bubble chamber

One of the most important theoretical results of the empirical observation of the destruction and new creation processes in the accelerator and its associated bubble chamber was the formulation of the so-called quark model of Murray Gell-Mann in the year 1964.

Gell-Mann recognized - by the way simultaneously with, however independently of George Zweig - that very many of the so-called elementary particles, the hadrons, can be seen as a combination of still smaller particles. He called them quarks, belonging to the world of matter and antiquarks consisting of antimatter. In the most basic model, which explains the stable and relatively long-lasting particles, there exist three quarks called "up," "down" and "strange," and three antiquarks "anti-up," "anti-down" and "anti-strange." The world of antimatter replaces the negative energy term, and we will return to it later (see picture below). Shortened the physicists write u, d and s for the quarks, and u^-, d^- and s^- for the antiquarks.

[Remark of January 2004: Physicists again and again counter my emphasizing of the basic quark model with the argument that this model is old-fashioned and replaced by one of six quarks and antiquarks. However, seen from the standpoint of a qualitative research, it is first for historical reasons important to distinguish between the original and the later model. Second, the first two quarks and antiquarks explain the normal matter around and in us, i.e., protons and neutrons, which are stable matter and contain only "up" and "down" quarks.  

Already the third quark, called "strange" respectively "antistrange," needs much more energy for its production in an accelerator, for example as a part of the elementary particle Lambda, which is created by the combination of "up," "down" and "strange". This is even more true for the further three quarks of the extended model. The last has even a mass (i.e., energy) which is bigger than the one of a proton or of a neutron. Therefore these three quarks do not exist in normal matter.  

The importance of the qualitative aspect is also shown in the fact that the "strange" behaves in a very different manner than "up" and "down." Elementary particles that contain the third quark can only be produced together with another one, i.e. they are always created as the twins, the one containing "strange", the other "antistrange". Further, these strange particles live a million times a million (10¹²) times longer than predicted by the theoretical physicists. The physicists felt that these two qualitative properties of the third quark were so strange, that they gave them the respective name. Further, they had even to accept a new conservation law, the so-called strangeness, which is a property of the third quark.

It were these qualitatively different properties of the twin production and the "long life" (the Paracelsian vita longa? See Paracelsus…) of the strange and antistrange quark which brought me to the idea of comparing their production with Carl Jung’s synchronicity principle. As I show in I Cercatori di Dio [The Quest for God], there are in fact good reasons for the hypothesis that phenomenologically seen, the strangeness quality of quantum physics corresponds to the synchronicity principle.

What I was however not yet clear about when I wrote the book, were the qualities of the further three quarks "charm," "bottom" and "top," and their partners "anticharm," "antibottom" and "antitop," respectively. Today I assume that the fourth quark and its antiquark are not without any reason called "charm" and "anticharm." Their discovery is imbedded in an historical synchronicity: More or less at the same time, in November 1974, but independently, they were empirically verified by two different teams [Sam Ting in Brookhaven and Burton Richter in Stanford (SPEAR)] in a new particle. This simultaneous occurrence is documented by the fact that the two articles of the respective teams, which showed the empirical proof of this new particle, were published one after the other in the same physical review. It is a combination of charm and anticharm, i.e. (c,c^-). Further, and even more incredible is the fact that one team called it J ("Jey"), the other one Psi. Shortly after this "Jey-Psi" mutated to the today well-known particle with the name "Gipsy." Everyone knows however, that gipsies are thought of having a good relationship to the magical powers (charm!) in ourselves…!

When telling physicists the argument that such "baptisms" of their small children could perhaps have to do with a preconscious but repressed knowledge of the psychophysical background of these elementary particles about the respective properties - in our examples strangeness meaning synchronicity and charm magics -, I always raise a roaring laughter. Nonetheless I dare here the assumption, that there exist good reasons for guessing that it is the psychophysical equivalent to the physical Gipsy [the J/Psi or Charmonium with the structure (c,c^-)], which is responsible for the Pauli-Effect, i.e., in general, for the parapsychological phenomena of macro-psychokinesis. If this hypothesis could be shown as true, it will sustain the above idea of an even deeper energetic principle behind Carl Jung’s synchronicity. It is this Gipsy – of course explained not on a physical but on a psychophysical level – which could therefore be the "missing link" for the explanations of nonlocal psychokinetic phenomena that happen in the unified psychophysical reality looked for by Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung[v].

If we look in a qualitative way at the production of "strange" and "charm," we see again a difference in the respective production. While particles, which contain the "strange" and the "antistrange" quark, can be produced still with accelerators, this is not possible anymore for the "charm" particles, because the energy accelerators can produce is not sufficient any longer. The physicists invented therefore the so-called accumulation rings, which replace today the accelerators. In them so-called elementary particles are first accelerated in circles moving in opposite directions, then however not shot on a target in the bubble chamber, but on each other. Of course, in such a manner many much higher energies can be reached, with the help of which the higher quarks "charm," "bottom" and "top" can be produced.

A further, substantial qualitative difference consists of the fact that for the production of "strange" only "usual" elementary particles are needed - such a particle is shot into the bubble chamber, where it collides with another particle of "normal matter", a proton or a neutron -, while in the accumulation rings matter collides with antimatter, e.g., an electron with its antiparticle, the positron, or a proton with an antiproton. Qualitatively seen the difference between "strange" and "charm" thus consists in the fact that in the former case normal matter is sufficient for its production, while in the latter the artificially produced and only in the accelerators survivable antimatter is needed.

Of course, also the qualitative attribute that in these processes matter and antimatter must be collided for the production of the remaining quarks, could be interpreted on a psychophysical level. It seems to me, however, that we do not yet have enough respective empirical material for their proof. I am however convinced that mankind will experience in the near future events, which will provide these necessary empirical proofs for my theory, events Carl Jung predicted already in his book Flying Saucers in the year 1958 (See CW 10, §§ 598-590). ]

On the background of two so-called quantum numbers, the isospin I₃ (more exactly: its 3^rd component) and the hypercharge Y, these three quarks and antiquarks together form exactly the well-known Seal of Solomon or Star of David (see figure to the right). As previously mentioned, both the protons and neutrons, the particles of the atomic nucleus, as well as the so-called Pions and Kaons, i.e., the carriers of the atomic force, consist of these quarks and antiquarks. Further, the Pions and the Kaons can be visualized in the figure as a combination of a quark with an antiquark. For example, K⁰, the so-called neutral Kaon above left, is composed by the adjacent quark d and antiquark s^-.

We can therefore conclude that as result of the procedures in the accelerator and in the bubble chamber, the new God-image, postulated by me due to preconscious or archetypal facts, shows up in quantum physics as the background of the particles of the nucleus as well as of the nuclear force. Therefore a discussion about this deeply archetypal background of the atomic bomb and the nuclear energy plants, which includes the depth psychological/theological arguments in my book should begin as early as possible.

Let us now have a closer look on the bubble chamber. As I mentioned above, it is filled with unstable transparent, superheated liquid oxygen held at a temperature just below its boiling point. In the moment before the accelerated particles collide with it and by this create new ones, the pressure is lowered. Like this the energy given off by the new particles in motion cause the surrounding liquid oxygen to  boil. This is the reason why the bubbles are created which gave this physical tool its name. These bubbles create traces along the trajectory of these newly created elementary particles. These traces are then photographed. The results are images of the destruction and new creation processes, as for example in the picture on the left.

When we consider this example of such a procedure in the bubble chamber represented in the photography and the graph on the left, we see a negative Pion coming from the right: In point A it collides with a proton of the oxygen, and like this a creation of two strange particles, a neutral Kaon [K⁰, i.e., the quark/antiquark combination (d, s^-)] and a Lambda⁰ [i.e., the quark combination (u,d,s)] happens. Such a production of the strange particles is always shown by the typical bifurcation of the traces in the bubble chamber as in Point A, which shows the fact that the strange production creates always twins[vi].

After the decrease of the pressure it must immediately be increased again for holding the oxygen in a liquid state. A further astonishing fact is now the circumstance that as a consequence of this alternate increasing and decreasing the pressure, the bubble chamber pulsates like the human heart. Even more astonishing is the fact that like this the bubble chamber follows a rhythm of 60 pulses per minute (or one per second). Such a frequency agrees however with the frequency of the heart’s pulsation during meditation, i.e., of a deeply introverted state of the consciousness we look for.

Symbolically seen we can therefore compare the bubble chamber with the human heart during a deep meditation state. Further, we have seen that the observed processes in this "heart" of elementary particle physics led to Murray Gell-Mann's quark/antiquark sextette, shown in the first figure above. The quark/antiquark sextett corresponds to the Seal of Solomon. Therefore, we can conclude that the Seal of Solomon, the today constellated renewed God-image, has become visible in the "heart" projected into the outer world, i.e., in the bubble chamber. Further, this projected God-image even establishes the archetypal background of these elementary particles. 

The symbolism of the Seal of Solomon seated in the human heart, i.e., the introverted relationship with the expressions of the renew God-image, corresponds however exactly to one of the most important goals of the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist mysticism [for more information see The New Mysticism and the Life after Death]. It means the inner union with God – more exactly: with His feminine aspect, the World Soul – or expressed in a depth psychological language: the relationship with the Eros Self, situated behind or even beyond the Logos Self discovered by Carl G. Jung.

I hope that I was able to show you in this short overview the fact that quantum physics unconsciously extracts the main components of the today constellated transformation of the God-image as supposed attributes of matter. Therefore, I would like to call this most important invention of the 20^th century the projected mysticism of the unitary World religion of the future.

As Carl Jung has shown, projections lead always to a limited world view and must therefore be drawn back. A first attempt in this direction I have therefore tried at the end of my book I Cercatori di Dio [The Quest for God]. As I show there, it is very likely that further contents which are related to the psychophysical background of the new God-image appear in the theories of quantum physics as a projection onto outer matter. What physics calls nuclear force (or strong interaction) seems to correspond to what Carl Jung called the "acausal orderedness" (see GW 8, § 949 and § 955; CW 8, § 959, § 965), and physical strangeness is a projection of the synchronicity principle into matter. In the conservation law of the strangeness, modern science finds therefore the synchronicity principle as a projection.

Today, I am convinced that it will be one of the most important challenges of the 21^st century, to draw back this projection, striving like this for the goal of finding the deeper, psychophysical background of this universal manifestation in the individual human soul.

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