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Greg's question of Mar 8 2004:

How are UFO sightings and phenomena related to radioactive decay and nuclear technology?

Hi Greg

Today, I woke up with a dream in which I was explaining my theory. Therefore I’ll try it here:

The Psychophysical Relationship Between Radioactivity and UFOs

Part 1: Logos, Eros and the psychophysical reality  

In the forties and fifties Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli looked for (but did not yet find) a theory which could unify quantum physics and depth psychology. Of course such a theory must be deeper than both, some sort of a GUT (Grand Unification Theory), which is however not only a physical or a psychological theory but includes both.  

One of the most interesting aspects of quantum physics is the so-called complementarity: What we call matter, we can explain as a particle or as a wave, but we cannot say what matter per se is. If matter behaves as a particle or a wave depends on the so-called observational tool. The most famous instrument for demonstrating this is the so-called double slit experiment. In it we can observe a single photon as a particle, as well as a wave, depending on the opening of one or two slits.

What physics explains as a property of matter, we can also interpret as an attribute of our consciousness. Therefore, in my depth psychological interpretation this means that one can look at the outside as well as at the inside with the help of two different “human observational instruments”, i.e., two different consciousnesses: Logos or Eros (the latter in its original and general meaning).  

What I call Logos consciousness I parallel to what physics calls the particle, Eros consciousness I parallel with the wave aspect. In science we observe only with the help of the “particle aspect”, i.e., with the Logos consciousness.

However, it seems that today what I call the Eros consciousness, the “wave consciousness”, is constellated. The old alchemists had yet been unconsciously in this Eros consciousness. With the help of it, they were able to observe a “world behind or beyond the visible world”, i.e., what Gerardus Dorneus, a student of Paracelsus, called the unus mundus, the unified world, in which there existed no split into inner and outer world.  

Seen like this, the UFO phenomena are events, during which the Logos ego is unconsciously transformed into the Eros ego. This “rape” seems to have the meaning that the victims are forced to observe the events happening in the unus mundus. This is why I hypothesize that people that experience UFO encounter and abduction observe real phenomena. These phenomena can however only be observed with the help of the new/old consciousness I propose.  

Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli dealt very intensely with this unus mundus, which Pauli called the unified psychophysical reality (he took the word reality, i.e., he stated that this world is observable). They were however not yet able to realize that the observation of this unus mundus is only possible with the help of the Eros ego.  

Part 2: The bipolar energy term, missing in physics and in depth psychology  

For understanding the phenomena that happen in this unus mundus, we must first find a theory. Such a theory I call a “psychophysical GUT”. When we try to advance to a “psychophysical GUT”, we must however first see the limits of both theories, of physics as well as of Carl Jung’s depth psychology. One of the most important limits of both is the energy term. As one can show theoretically, because of archetypal reasons the energy term must be bipolar. Such bipolarity we see very clearly in the two symbols of the Seal of Solomon and the Taoist Tai Gi tu. 

In 1953 Wolfgang Pauli had a very impressive vision/audition about the Seal of Solomon and he himself associated with it the Tai Gi tu (see http://www.psychovision.ch/synw/sealofsolomonincarnation51.htm). But he was not yet able to see, that this vision talks of the two facts that  

a) the energy term must be defined as bipolar, similar to the Taoist yang and yin, and that

b) yang can transform into yin et vice versa.  

Physics as well as depth psychology have however only a unipolar energy term. In physics it is very clear: We know only positive energy [though some physicists begin to talk about negative energy, but it has very strange (“nonphysical”) properties.]  

The same is true in depth psychology. For Freud “psychic energy” was identical with the sexual drive. Carl Jung has shown that “libido” is not only a sexual term, but that it can also occupy any other drive. The archetypal side of it he calls “objektivpsychische Energie” (objective psychic energy).  

Both energy terms, the physical as well as the depth psychological, relate however only to the yang aspect of the Taoist philosophy.  

Therefore, we must look for the yin aspect of the energy term.  

Part 3: Extraverted and introverted yang and yin energy  

The English term psychic energy means both, Jung’s objective psychic energy as well as parapsychological energy. In German we distinguish much more between the two, between “psychische” and “parapsychologische Energie”.  

Therefore, I define two different forms of “psychic energy”:  

a) “objective psychic energy”, i.e., Carl Jung’s energy term, and

b) “parapsychological energy”, especially the psychokinetic one.  

Further, I state that  

a) is yang

b) is yin.  

Therefore we have four different possible forms of energy:  

1) the extraverted yang energy = what physics calls energy

2) the introverted yang energy = what depth psychology calls objective psychic energy

3) the extraverted yin energy = “outer parapsychological energy”

4) the introverted yin energy = “inner parapsychological energy”

Experience shows however that 3) and 4) do not stick to our scientific differentiation between inside and outside, between spirit/psyche and matter. Further, it seems that for this energy “space” and “time” is something very different to the terms we define in science.  

[This is what Jung and Pauli discussed, too, and they came to the result that what they call “psyche” must have a space- and timeless aspect. They were however not yet able to see that we must distinguish between the yang aspect of energy, which belongs to the “normal” spacetime, and the yin aspect which seems to belong to an “eternal” time and a “spaceless space”.]  

Therefore we can conclude that yin energy, parapsychological energy, is some sort of an “inner/outer” phenomenon, which operates in a spacetime different from the physical one.  

Let’s now have a look where and by whom such a yin energy could be observed. To do this we need a closer look on the natural radioactive (beta) decay. In it, a neutron decays spontaneously into a proton and an electron, the three natural particles we have in the universe. The trouble is, that the energy balance of this process is violated (violation of the energy conservation law, the latter a dogma of physics), i.e., before and after this process there is not the same amount of energy.  

Therefore Wolfgang Pauli had the idea of creating a new particle, the so-called neutrino which carries this energy. If we count the missing energy as a new particle (after Einstein’s SRT mass is equal to energy), everything is once again o.k.  

The trouble is that this particle is not a “normal” particle we find in our universe, but physics had to define it as so-called “antimatter”. Therefore, the neutrino of the radioactive (beta) decay (which is in fact an antineutrino, i.e., antimatter) is defined as some sort of “negative matter” carrying positive (i.e., physical) energy.  

If we state however that because of archetypal reasons the energy term must be bipolar, we can also hypothesize that -- on a psychophysical level -- the antineutrino is not antimatter but negative energy. If we state further that the term “negative energy” is the same as the Taoist yin energy, we can conclude, that regarded at the psychophysical level in the radioactive (beta) decay not an antimatter particle with positive energy is produced, but a “something” with negative, i.e., yin energy.  

Yin energy is however “inner/outer” energy that acts in a “spaceless space” and a “timeless time”. This “second spacetime”, which seems to be the original behind or even beyond the physical one, is what the alchemist Gerardus Dorneus called the unus mundus. Wolfgang Pauli called it the psychophysical reality, which is "an invisible, potential form of reality that is only indirectly inferable through its effects".  

This means that with the artificial production of antineutrinos in the atomic bomb and in the nuclear power plants mankind enters unconsciously this “second spacetime”, the unus mundus and “activates” it.  

The unus mundus itself is a potentiality out of which new creation is incarnated. Therefore I had to draw the incredible conclusion, which shocked me extremely when I realized it first, that with the production of artificial radioactivity in atomic bombs and in nuclear plants mankind activates new incarnations, i.e., new forms of life out of the unus mundus.  

These incarnations are however not observable with the help of the Logos consciousness and therefore also not observable with the tools of science. For such an observation we need what I defined above as the Eros consciousness.  

Hermetic alchemy described the unus mundus and the possible processes in it with the help of the so-called coniunctio archetype. In it, yang transforms into yin. This process is always accompanied by the “mirror process” {yin -> yang}. The inclusion of such a double process is the reason why we can state that Hermetic alchemy described events happening on a deeper level than physics on the one hand and depth psychology on the other. And this seems to be the deeper reason why Wolfgang Pauli anticipated intuitively that we must return to Hermetic alchemy, however including the scientific results of physics as well as of Carl Jung’s depth psychology.  

If it is true that the coniunctio archetype is behind the radioactive decay, we must conclude that the natural and especially the artificial radioactive decay (atomic bomb and nuclear plant), described by the Taoist process {yang -> yin} must always be accompanied by the “mirror process” {yin -> yang}.  

There exists a great likelihood that this “mirror process” is the UFO phenomenon. Because the world of yin is not observable with the help of physical means, i.e., with the physical experiment consciously fixed in (physical) space and time, it seems that this new yang energy, i.e., new physical energy (produced in the process {yin -> yang}), is produced out of the “nothing”. A process, in which a “something” in our space- and timebound world is produced out of a “nothing”, violates the energy conservation law. This means that it is a creation and incarnation act in the universe.

Hermetic alchemy was convinced that it can observe exactly such incarnation processes, and it called this “nothing” the unus mundus. Because the unus mundus is defined in a “parallel world” in which time and space are some sort of an “always/everywhere”, such an incarnation can happen everywhere and at any time. Because artificial radioactivity and the UFO phenomena belong together, there exists a great likelihood (but only a great likelihood, not a certainty) that the latter happen close to atomic weapons and nuclear plants. Statistically seen, there should therefore be much more observations in the vicinity of nuclear weapons and nuclear plants. The few empirical data we have seem to back this hypothesis.  

For the moment my theory is yet a hypothesis. Therefore, we have to find empirical proofs for it.  

In an earlier post of Mar 3 2004, 04:30 AM in www.cgjungpage.org/forum I have given some links to pages, which show the empirical fact that a relationship between the UFOs on the one hand and nuclear weapons/missiles and nuclear plants on the other is obvious. I repeat these links here: 

[Remark of September 21, 2004: An overview on some very interesting articles about a possible connection between nuclear facilities and UFOs one finds in   http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/nuclear.htm]

This is however only the tip of the iceberg. I am convinced that the US government (and also other governments) knows much more about similar events.  

Therefore we can only hope that the next US president will have the wisdom of revealing all such events, and that he will mandate the best and most open scientists/depth psychologists begin with research on these phenomena. Like this we have the chance that the relationship between the UFOs and artificial radioactivity can be investigated without too many prejudices.  

In my opinion, we do not have too much time anymore for such a research preventing a collective psychosis. If we do not begin with it in the very near future, Carl Jung's prediction will come true:

"I am, to be quite frank, concerned for all those who are caught unprepared by the events in question and disconcerted by their incomprehensible nature." (Flying Saucers, CW 10, §§ 590)

Remo