Synchronicity and Other Mind Matter Conjectures Wednesday, November 5, 2014 8:00 pm Alumni Hall, NYU Langone Medical Center 550 First Avenue, New York, NY Past Event Watch the video » This program, co-sponsored by The Jungian Psychoanalytic Association and The Helix Center is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. For more information, consult the JPA website www.nyjung.org or contact Allison Tuzo at JPA@nyjung.org How are mind and matter related? In the mid-20th century, the psychiatrist and analyst Carl Gustav Jung and the Nobel Laureate physicist Wolfgang Pauli formulated the concept of synchronicity. They sought a philosophical answer to this still unsolved question of how the mental and material, the physical and psychological are related in time. Pauli and Jung’s thesis suggests two types of mind-matter correlations for synchronistic experiences in which meaning is crucial and pivotal. In this second roundtable on The Pauli-Jung Conjecture,” moderated by Beverley Zabriskie, Harald Atmanspacher and Joseph Cambray will further the April 2014 discussion at the Helix Center (video at www.helixcenter.org/videos/#/03Nq6MCh5Rc ). Edgar Choueiri and Farzad Mahootian will argue its central thesis, that the mental and the material are two complementary and intersecting aspects of one underlying reality. Atmanspacher will outline the speculations emerging from the conjecture’s “dual-aspect monism.” Using mental health care data, he will describe relevant psychophysical experiences from clinical settings. Cambray will discuss the significance of Atmanspacher’s research for a re-visioning of contemporary analysis and psychotherapy. Mahootian engages complementarity as an organizing principle in physical and social contexts, specifically in research laboratory settings. Choueiri, whose work focuses on space plasma physics and space exploration, will bring to bear questions which arise from applied science: the potential epiphanic role the theory of synchronicity can play, and the possible degeneration into the apophenia dreaded in experimental physics. Participants: Harald Atmanspacher Physicist, The Collegium Helveticum (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) View Papers / Presentations » Harald Atmanspacher, PhD, is a senior scientist and staff member at Collegium Helveticum, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, since 2007. After his PhD in physics at Munich University (1986), he worked as a research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics at Garching until 1998. Then he served as head of the theory group… read more » Joseph Cambray Jungian Analyst; past President of the International Association of Analytical Psychology Joseph Cambray is a Jungian Analyst, and past President of the International Association of Analytical Psychology. He has been a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Psychiatry Department, and adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the former US Editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology…. read more » Edgar Choueiri Professor of Applied Physics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associated Faculty, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University Professor Edgar Choueiri is Director of Princeton University’s Program in Engineering Physics, and Director of Princeton’s Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory (EPPDyL). He is tenured Full Professor in the Applied Physics Group at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, and associated faculty at the Astrophysical Sciences Department/Program in Plasma Physics at Princeton University. He… read more » Farzad Mahootian Faculty of Liberal Studies, New York University Farzad Mahootian is a Clinical Associate Professor of Global Liberal Studies at New York University since 2010. He has an interdisciplinary background (PhD Philosophy, Fordham; MS Chemistry, Georgetown). His research focuses on interactions between philosophy, science and society within the mythological imagination of technoscience and with guidance from process philosophy, biomimicry, artificial intelligence, and premodern… read more » Beverley Zabriskie Jungian Analyst, a founding faculty member and past President of New York’s Jungian Psychoanalytic Association Beverley Zabriskie is a Jungian Analyst, a founding faculty member and past President of New York’s Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA; associate editor, Journal of Analytical Psychology, (JAP) London; Board Member of The Philemon Foundation which is producing the unpublished works of Jung. Her sixty publications include “Time and Tao in Synchronicity” in The Pauli-Jung Conjecture… read more »
Harald Atmanspacher Physicist, The Collegium Helveticum (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) View Papers / Presentations » Harald Atmanspacher, PhD, is a senior scientist and staff member at Collegium Helveticum, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, since 2007. After his PhD in physics at Munich University (1986), he worked as a research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics at Garching until 1998. Then he served as head of the theory group… read more »
Joseph Cambray Jungian Analyst; past President of the International Association of Analytical Psychology Joseph Cambray is a Jungian Analyst, and past President of the International Association of Analytical Psychology. He has been a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Psychiatry Department, and adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the former US Editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology…. read more »
Edgar Choueiri Professor of Applied Physics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associated Faculty, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University Professor Edgar Choueiri is Director of Princeton University’s Program in Engineering Physics, and Director of Princeton’s Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory (EPPDyL). He is tenured Full Professor in the Applied Physics Group at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, and associated faculty at the Astrophysical Sciences Department/Program in Plasma Physics at Princeton University. He… read more »
Farzad Mahootian Faculty of Liberal Studies, New York University Farzad Mahootian is a Clinical Associate Professor of Global Liberal Studies at New York University since 2010. He has an interdisciplinary background (PhD Philosophy, Fordham; MS Chemistry, Georgetown). His research focuses on interactions between philosophy, science and society within the mythological imagination of technoscience and with guidance from process philosophy, biomimicry, artificial intelligence, and premodern… read more »
Beverley Zabriskie Jungian Analyst, a founding faculty member and past President of New York’s Jungian Psychoanalytic Association Beverley Zabriskie is a Jungian Analyst, a founding faculty member and past President of New York’s Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA; associate editor, Journal of Analytical Psychology, (JAP) London; Board Member of The Philemon Foundation which is producing the unpublished works of Jung. Her sixty publications include “Time and Tao in Synchronicity” in The Pauli-Jung Conjecture… read more »