EPISODE 296
Tod Desmond: Psyche and Singularity
Are you eager to take a trip into the greater universe?
Join Paul and his very special guest, Tod Desmond, author of Psyche and Singularity: Jungian Psychology and Holographic String Theory, as they explore black holes, singularities, the horizon of the cosmos, God and the rest of multiverse in this interstellar Living 4D conversation.
Take Tod’s online class — Immortality and the Unreality of Death: A Hero’s Journey Through Philosophy, Psychology and Physics — on his website and his YouTube channel playlist. Find him via social media on Facebook.
SHOW NOTES
- A keen interest in Catholicism. (9:25)
- Tod’s theory about Nietzsche. (15:18)
- Defining terms. (22:47)
- Did Carl Jung surpass Sigmund Freud? (34:55)
- A gravitational singularity. (44:48)
- The horizon of the cosmos. (51:54)
- “Information doesn’t need a body.” (1:00:35)
- A spinning singularity. (1:11:30)
- Jung’s near-death experience. (1:18:50)
- “Imprisoned in our own little box of illusion…” (1:23:11)
- Black holes = geometrically perfect mandalas. (1:30:05)
- “Each of us is a singularity.” (1:37:04)
- Imperfect temporary projections from an archetype. (1:46:00)
- The theodicy argument. (1:52:46)
- “A literal interpretation of scripture will get you in trouble.” (2:07:36)
- God: The singularity who sees through every other singularity simultaneously. (2:11:31)
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
- Tod’s recent appearance on Jeffrey Mishlove’s New Thinking Allowed on YouTube
- The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra
- Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman Season 1, Episode 2 (free)
- The Black Hole War and The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design by Leonard Susskind
- Cosmic DNA at the Origin: A Hyperdimension Before the Big Bang. The Infinite Spiral Staircase by Chris Hardy
- Black holes
- The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature by Heinz Pagels
- Jung’s psychoid archetype
- Renormalization
- Coniunctionis
- The Principle of Individuation: Toward the Development of Human Consciousness by Murray Stein
- Hegel: The Logic of Self-Consciousness and the Legacy of Subjective Freedom by Robert B. Ware
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
- Calabi-Yau manifolds
- Shiva-Bindu
- The Unknown Spirit by Jean Charon
- The Monadology by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility and The Religious Case Against Belief by James Carse
- Vivekachudamani — The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination by Adi Shankara
- Paul’s Living 4D conversations with Jeffrey Mishlove, James Carse and JP Sears
- The work of Wolfgang Pauli, Reinhard Genzel, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Gerard ‘t Hooft, Roy Kerr, Brian Greene, Blaise Pascal, Alfred North Whitehead, Richard Feynman, Richard Dawkins and Adi Shankara
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