New Physics Meets New Psychology: The Pauli-Jung Conjecture of Dual Aspect Monism

Photo by Photos_frompasttofuture on Unsplash. Are mind and matter just two manifestations of the same underlying reality? How did two of the world’s most brilliant scientists –– one in physics and one in psychology –– come to the same revolutionary position?

In 1932 two brilliant scientists came together in a most unusual way. What came out of their friendship and correspondence opened the way to a new understanding of reality. The dual aspect monism of their “conjecture” posits that there is one basic reality from which the mental and the physical appear as two aspects.