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SUMMARY:The Union of the Imaginary and the Real:  the Ring i
DESCRIPTION:The Union of the Imaginary and the Real:\n\nthe Ring i\n\nPrese
 nted by Robert Matthews\, PhD\n\nThis program will not be recorded.\n\nSun
 day\, June 20\, 2021\, 4:00 - 6:00 pm PDT (UTC -7)\n\nThe ring i is a math
 ematical function\, the complex exponential\, which sits at the heart of q
 uantum mechanical calculations. It appears at the end of an active fantasy
  by Wolfgang Pauli (who worked closely with C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise von
  Franz) entitled Die Klavierstunde (The Piano Lesson)\; perhaps you have h
 eard of this often mentioned fantasy. What is less often discussed is an e
 arlier dream of Pauli’s that was also concluded with the ring i. (This c
 an be found in an appendix to the Jung-Pauli letters Atom and Archetype ed
 ited by C. A. Meier.)\n\nThe image of the ring i has the appearance of a m
 andala. But appearance does not make it a symbol\, it is the reaction of t
 he observer.\n\nAs a physicist\, the ring i was well known to me\, but alt
 hough it is a function with quite remarkable properties\, it had little me
 aning beyond its mathematical utility. So I was quite surprised when it ap
 peared in my dreams\, even more surprised when I found it had also arisen 
 in Pauli’s dreams. Curiously\, the ring i always seems to arise as the c
 onclusion of a cosmic viewpoint.\n\nI have pondered its meaning for some t
 hree years now\, a meaning that is deeply complex (pardon the wordplay) an
 d brings us into that nexus between physics and psyche that was so richly 
 discussed in the letters between Jung and Pauli. The ring i appears to car
 ry\, in mathematical form\, a paradoxical world view\, not only of the out
 er world\, but of the inner world too – the real and the imaginary. It m
 ay be one of those images that appears synchronistically to help heal the 
 split we are all subject to in this time of rational materialism.\n\nLearn
 ing objectives:\n\nGive an example of how an image becomes a symbol.\n\nEx
 plore if a symbol can simultaneously carry a world view of both the outer 
 and inner world\, the real and the imaginary.\n\nLearn about the nexus bet
 ween physics and psyche that fascinated Jung and the physicist Wolfang Pau
 li.\n\nRobert Matthews\, PhD\, is a senior lecturer in the School of Educa
 tion\, University of Adelaide\, Australia\, where he prepares beginning te
 achers for classroom practice and their interactions\; teaches post-gradua
 te studies in neuroscience and psychology of education\; and supervises at
  the post-graduate level. Prior to this\, Dr. Matthews was a post-doctoral
  theoretical physicist at Flinders University. He is near completion in hi
 s training as a Jungian analyst at the Zentrum für Tiefenpsychologie\, Sw
 itzerland. This diverse background offers fascinating insights into the ar
 eas of education\, depth psychology and quantum physics\, the nexus of whi
 ch forms his research interests.
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