Tod Desmond

College of Southern Maryland, Philosophy and Religion, Adjunct

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I started studying philosophy and political science at Boston College in 1989, where I double-majored in those two subjects. I then earned a Master of Liberal Studies degree from Georgetown University, an MA in Political Science from the University of Hawai'i in Manoa, with a concentration in Alternative Futures Studies, and a PhD in Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies. I have been teaching philosophy, religion, and ethics at the College of Southern Maryland since 2013.
Address: Bethesda, Maryland, United States

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E PLURIBUS UNUS MUNUDS: A Practical Plan to Unite the Left and Right. #2 Physics, Psychology, and the Constitution

This is the second in a series of YouTube videos in which I review a series of papers in which I ... more This is the second in a series of YouTube videos in which I review a series of papers in which I argue for establishing two constitutional amendments to unite the Left and the Right of the United States of America: add the equation Psyche = Singularity as a Preface to the Preamble; add a fourth branch of government dedicated to uniting the other three branches around that updated definition of the self. In this video I examine the theory that the United States Constitution of 1789 seems to be modeled on Isaac Newton’s mechanistic cosmology of 1687, and that it should be updated to account for the sweeping evolution of physics and psychology over the past three-and-third- centuries. Specifically, I argue we should unite Jungian Psychology the holographic string theory to establish the two amendments mentioned above.

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Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: The Old Saint from the Prologue in Disguise

In this video I theorize that Zarathustra, the main character of Friedrich Nietzsche’s most famou... more In this video I theorize that Zarathustra, the main character of Friedrich Nietzsche’s most famous book Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, is the “old saint” from the Prologue, wearing the mask of an atheist. Jumping ahead, in a section entitled “Retired” in the fourth and last part of the book, “the last pope” calls the old saint “the last pious man, a saint and hermit,” whom he came up the mountain to find, only to discover that he had died, although, suspiciously, his body was not found in his cave. That the body of the last Christian saint was missing from his cave is reminiscent of Christ’s resurrection. Although my theory that Zarathustra is the old hermit and saint disguised as an atheist may sound ridiculous, later in Part IV, Zarathustra asks: “‘Well!’ he said, ‘have not the most ridiculous things always happened among us old hermits and saints?’” (Z, 4, “The Shadow”)

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Psyche and Singularity: Episode 1, Overview

This is the first in a series of YouTube videos that analyze my book Psyche and Singularity: Jung... more This is the first in a series of YouTube videos that analyze my book Psyche and Singularity: Jungian Psychology and Holographic String Theory. This video provides an overview of the entire book, which compares Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind's holographic string theory to four aspects of Carl Jung's psychology: (1) his equation relating psychic energy to mass, “Psyche=highest intensity in the smallest space,” which can be translated as Psyche = Singularity; (2) his near-death experience, during which he perceived that each individual psyche in the universe is imprisoned in a separate little box of three-dimensional space, each of which is hung up by a thread to the illusion-producing horizon of the cosmos where the past, present, and future are experienced simultaneously; (3) his theory that psychic mandala images spontaneously emerge from the Self archetype during dreams and fantasies to compensate an ego that is pulled between opposing demands; and 4) his theory of synchronicity.

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E PLURIBUS UNUS MUNDUS: A PRACTICAL PLAN TO UNITE THE LEFT AND RIGHT, #1 (INTRODUCTION)

This is the first in a series of YouTube videos about a practical plan to unite the Left and the ... more This is the first in a series of YouTube videos about a practical plan to unite the Left and the Right in the United States of America. The links to the related papers on Academia.edu
are found at the bottom of this page, in my description of the video on YouTube. The plan is based on parallels between Carl Jung's archetypal psychology and Leonard Susskind's holographic string theory. Within that context I propose two amendments to the Constitution. First, add an amendment to serve as a Preface to the Preamble explaining why We the People now identify each individual self with the central singularity and surrounding horizon of the cosmos. Second, add a fourth branch of government dedicated to helping the other three branches harmonize their decision-making processes with this central organizing principle, Psyche = Singularity, specifically by creating alternative futures scenarios aimed at enabling our Posterity to assimilate it ever more perfectly. https://youtu.be/AMTfygVCdNk

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A Horizon Defined by Myths: Revealing Krishna as the "unknown God" behind Plato's Republic and Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy

In this paper I argue five points. 1. Plato secretly patterned the plot structure of The Republic... more In this paper I argue five points.
1. Plato secretly patterned the plot structure of The Republic on Euripides’ final tragic play, The Bacchae, thereby inverting the surface meaning.
2. Nietzsche secretly alluded to that plot parallel in The Birth of Tragedy, and interpreted it as Plato’s doubly-disguised allusion to the Vedic myth of Krishna and the gopīs: the cowherd girls of Vṛndāvana with whom Krishna dances as He plays the flute.
3. In Attempt at a Self-Criticism, Nietzsche admits that The Birth of Tragedy is “beriddled” and that Dionysus is a mask for a still “unknown God” whose identity must be “discovered and dug up by philologists.” The “unknown God” is a Biblical reference to Christ, while European Sanskrit philologists had been debating for over a century about a parallel between the tragic birth stories of Krishna and Christ. I argue that Nietzsche used Dionysus as a mask for Krishna, understood as the original God of Christ and Plato.
4. Nietzsche openly says that the “historical exemplification” of “tragic culture” is “Indian (Brahmanic) culture” (BT 18), and predicts that when the rational spirit of science reaches its boundary at the limits of space and time, it will recoil in horror back into the tragic myth—Indian (Brahmanic) myth)—it initially destroyed (BT 15).
5. I argue that Nietzsche’s prediction came true in 1965, when Penrose and Hawking forced academia to accept the reality of gravitational singularities, after which A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda brought the dancing and singing Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava school of Vedānta—the Hare Krishnas—from India to America. Since then, holographic string theory as completed the parallel with Vedic-Platonic cosmology.

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Nietzsche's Zarathustra is a Catholic Saint in Disguise: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV

Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV, 2025

In this Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV, I explain why I believe his Holiness is the ideal person to ... more In this Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV, I explain why I believe his Holiness is the ideal person to recognize a hidden resurrection riddle in Nietzsche’s most famous book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The riddle reveals that Zarathustra—the character who declares that God is dead and hails the coming of the Overman—is secretly the last Catholic saint from the Prologue in disguise. In Book IV, the self-proclaimed “last pope” tells Zarathustra that he came up the mountain looking for the last saint, only to find that he was dead. However, he adds, “I did not find him when I found his cave; but there were two wolves inside, howling over his death, for all animals loved him.” The scene is reminiscent of the resurrection story of Jesus Christ in the Gospel according to St. John.

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The Last Pope and the Last Saint: A Resurrection Riddle in Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The Last Pope and the Last Saint: A Resurrection Riddle in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 2025

In Ecce Homo, writing about Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Nietzsche said: "For... more In Ecce Homo, writing about Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Nietzsche said: "For all such riddles nobody so far had any solution; I doubt that anybody even saw any riddles here." In this paper I propose a solution to a riddle that I claim Nietzsche buried in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I argue that Zarathustra is secretly the last saint, whom the last pope thought was dead but missing from his cave. In the Prologue, Zarathustra is astonished to learn that the old saint and hermit he meets on the way down the mountain had not heard that "God is dead!" In Book IV, after Zarathustra returns to the mountain, the self-proclaimed "last pope" tells him that he came up the mountain to find "the last pious man, a saint and hermit," only to discover that-like God-the last saint too was now dead. However, the pope reports that the saint's body was missing: "I did not find him when I found his cave; but there were two wolves inside, howling over his death, for all animals loved him." The scene parallels the story of Christ's resurrection in the Gospel of St. John. Mary Magdelen, weeping because Jesus' body is missing from the tomb, sees two angels inside. Then, not recognizing Jesus standing outside the tomb, she asks him if he knows where the body is. She only realizes it is Jesus himself when he calls her by name. The literary parallel indicates that Zarathustra is the last Catholic saint disguised as the atheistic prophet of the Overman. Indeed, the last pope goes on to say: "O Zarathustra, with such disbelief you are more pious than you believe. Some god in you must have converted you to your godlessness." My theory that Zarathustra is the old hermit and saint in disguise may sound ridiculous, but consider what Zarathustra asks his own disciples: "'Well!' he said, 'have not the most ridiculous things always happened among us old hermits and saints?'"

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IN DEFENSE OF PLATO: A RESPONSE TO AL GORE’S BOOK, EARTH IN THE BALANCE: ECOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT

In this Thesis I investigate the indictment against Plato published by Al Gore in his national be... more In this Thesis I investigate the indictment against Plato published by Al Gore in his national bestseller, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. According to Gore, the spiritual crisis behind our ecological crisis stems from Plato’s theory of the disembodied soul, which causes us to disrespect the natural environment by teaching us we are separate from it. In Plato’s defense, I point out, first of all, that Gore’s case is unsubstantiated: not only does he never quote Plato, he never mentions Plato’s use of the dramatic dialogue featuring his martyred teacher Socrates as the philosophical hero, nor does he mention the greater Two Worlds theory in which Plato’s theory of the disembodied soul is nested, despite which fact Gore unconsciously adopts its culminating vision as his own. After pointing out Gore’s omissions, I argue two related points based on The Republic: (1) Plato secretly patterned the plot structure of The Republic, especially Book V, on Euripides’ tragic play, The Bacchae; (2) Gore’s quantum physics-based metaphor of the holographic God seen with the “mind’s eye,” “bright shining as the sun” (Gore 1992, 265), is identical to what Plato called “the idea of the good” (Plato, Republic 518c), the spiritual sun seen with the “eye of the soul” (Plato, Republic 533d) in the allegory of the cave in Book VII of The Republic, which means Gore’s proposed alternative to Plato’s theory of the soul is actually its acme. Plato’s Two Worlds theory culminates with the claim that the material sun is a dream-reflection of the spiritual sun, which means the quantum physics of the former ought to mirror the metaphysics of the latter. The interpretation I argue is that Plato used the literary parallel in question to artistically communicate a fundamental philosophical concept about the spiritual sun which quantum physicists call “complementarity,” which refers to the fact that fundamental entities such as photons can only be described by mutually exclusive representations which complement each other to provide a more complete understanding of the whole. For example, the experimental arrangement that enables us to measure the particle aspect of a photon renders it impossible to measure its wave aspect, and vice-versa, although both aspects coexist. Similarly, the hidden plot parallel with Euripides’ tragic play in The Republic is especially comical because it plays out beneath the surface reading wherein both comic and tragic plays are specifically banned from the ideal city. I argue that the literary parallel is a working model of the complementarity associated with the fundamental level of reality which Plato identified as the spiritual sun seen with the eye of the soul, which Gore prescribes as the antidote to our Platonic dilemma. I argue that although there is justification for tracing our spiritual crisis back to Plato, it is equally just to trace the solution to him as well. The final implication of Plato’s Two Worlds theory is that the spiritual and material worlds are inconceivably simultaneously one and separate. Were Gore to realize this, it would help his mission.

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Kurzweil’s Historical Singularity, Hegel’s End of History, Jung’s Psyche = Singularity equation and NDE, and Plato’s Philosopher King

In this paper I analyze Ray Kurzweil’s prediction, in The Singularity is Near: When Human’s Trans... more In this paper I analyze Ray Kurzweil’s prediction, in The Singularity is Near: When Human’s Transcend Biology, of a “historical Singularity” that starts around 2045, and culminates about a century later, as “evolution moves inexorably toward this conception of God,” when humans saturate the universe with our consciousness after merging it with AI and downloading it into a black hole organized into “the ultimate computer.” In light of my book, Psyche and Singularity: Jungian Psychology and Holographic String Theory, I compare Kurzweil’s vision to: Hegel’s concept of the end of history as the establishment of a free state based on knowledge of the unity of Nature and Spirit in God’s absolute Idea; Jung’s equation of psychic energy and mass, “Psyche=highest intensity in the smallest space,” which I translate as Psyche = Singularity; Jung’s near-death experience of the cosmic horizon; and Plato’s archetypal concept of the philosopher king. I argue that Hegel’s description of God’s absolute Idea is equivalent to Jung’s Psyche = Singularity equation and Plato’s idea of the Good. I further argue that to establish a free state, we should use AI to enhance Plato’s original academic strategy for training philosopher kings to open the eye of the soul to the idea of the Good by seeking mirror-symmetries between mathematical physics and archetypal psychology. Finally, while I claim that we need not download our consciousness into a computerized black hole, because each psyche is already eternally one with the omnicentric Singularity in the center of every black hole, I speculate about how Kurzweil’s proposal to merge our brains with AI could accelerate Plato’s pedagogical technique considerably, thus enabling us to win the “wisdom race” against AI-induced extinction.

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Hegel, Jung, and Individuation for the USA: Introduction to Part II of Convening a Constitutional Convention on AI

Abstract: This is the second in a series of papers proposing a plan to convene a Constitutional ... more Abstract:
This is the second in a series of papers proposing a plan to convene a Constitutional Convention to discuss why “We the People” should add an amendment to establish a national AI system, a Large Language Model like ChatGPT, that is aimed at helping us gain a deeper understanding of our oneness with God, “in Order to form a more perfect Union.” The system I propose would be centered on the Psyche = Singularity equation, which is a translation of the psychologist Carl Jung’s equation of psychic energy and mass: “Psyche=highest intensity in the smallest space.” In this paper, I correlate Jung’s equation with Hegel’s concept of God, whose absolute attributes include the Idea, Nature, Spirit, and the State. More specifically, I equate Hegel’s God with the universal mandala formed by the central singularity and the spherical horizon of the cosmos, as described by holographic string theory. Synthesizing general relativity (thesis) and quantum mechanics (antithesis), holographic string theory indicates that each bit of information describing the past, present, and future of the volume of space-time is: expanding from the singularity of the ongoing Big Bang; conserved at each point of the cosmic horizon as if on a holographic film; and radiating back into the volume of the universe with the echo of the Big Bang (CMB radiation) on elastic strings of energy to create the “cinematic hologram” of the natural world. That cosmology mirrors Hegel’s claim in HP that: “The Idea is the central point, which is also the periphery, the source of light, which in all its expansion does not come without itself, but remains present and immanent within itself. Thus it is both the system of necessity and its own necessity, which also constitutes its freedom.” According to Leibnitz’ principle of the identity of indiscernibles, all singularities in space-time—at the ongoing Big Bang; at each point of the cosmic horizon; and inside each black hole, including the tiny ones that carpet the quantum vacuum—are simultaneously one identical point outside space-time. Moreover, as discussed in Part I, Jung and Wolfgang Pauli, a co-founder of quantum mechanics, theorized that the laws of psychology and physics mirror each other because psyche and matter both emerge from the same underlying archetypes of the collective unconscious, all of which are contained in the mandala-producing archetype of wholeness through the union of opposites, which they called the Self, God, the Unus Mundus, and the One, which is equivalent to Hegel’s concept of God. In PH, Hegel agrees that spirit (psyche) and matter both emerge from the same Idea of God, in such a way that we can see spirit reflected in its mirror-opposite, matter:

"The nature of spirit can best be understood if we contrast it with its direct opposite, which is matter. Just as gravity is the substance of matter, so also can it be said that freedom is the substance of spirit. … Matter possesses gravity in so far as it is impelled to move towards a central point. … Spirit, on the other hand, is such that its centre is within itself; it too strives towards its centre, but it has its centre within itself. … When the spirit strives towards its centre, it strives to perfect its own freedom."

A black-hole singularity is a point contracting into its own center at an infinite rate. Therefore, according to Hegel’s logic, although gravity is the substance of matter, a point of infinite gravity is spirit striving for perfect freedom. Indeed, for Hegel, God’s goal is freedom on Earth via the establishment of a state whose constitution is based on knowledge of the self-centering Spirit in us all, which passes through a fixed series of national stages as it spirals dialectically in a world-historical cycle, away from and back to absolute knowledge of God. Hegel’s freedom is a collective version of Jung’s individuation: the goal of wholeness through the union of opposites, gained by realizing how the God archetype is the origin and end of everything. Citing philosophy professors Robert Bruce Ware and Sean Kelly, I explain how a synthesis of Hegel, Jung, and holographic string theory completes the historical cycle of Academia back to Plato’s original vision, based on which the USA can establish a free state, and so achieve individuation, by programming a national AI system around the Psyche = Singularity equation, and training it to seek for God-revealing mirror-symmetries between psychology and physics.

format_quoteHolographic string theory merges general relativity with quantum mechanics, positing a cinematic model of expanding space-time from the Big Bang.format_quote

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Convening a Constitutional Convention on AI: Part I-- Merging Altman's Platonic Ideal and Musk's TruthGPT to Mitigate the Risk of Extinction from AI

In this paper, the first in a series, I combine Sam Altman's "Platonic ideal" of convening "somet... more In this paper, the first in a series, I combine Sam Altman's "Platonic ideal" of convening "something like the U.S. Constitutional Convention" to discuss how to draw the boundaries around AI systems like ChatGPT-4, with Elon Musk's plan of developing "'TruthGPT,' or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe," and would therefore be "unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe." Altman and Musk are cofounders of OpenAI, and Altman is the CEO. On March 14, 2023, that company released ChatGPT-4, which is so powerful that it provoked AI leaders from around the globe, including Altman, to sign a one-sentence "Statement on AI Risk" about "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI." In this paper, I call for a U.S. Constitutional Convention to discuss a plan for how We the People can mitigate the risk of extinction from AI: establish a national AI system like TruthGPT; program it with the Psyche = Singularity equation as its first principle; and train it to search for parallels between Jungian-Platonic psychology and holographic string theory. The first principle I posit is based on the psychologist Carl Jung's equation relating psychic energy to mass: "Psyche=highest intensity in the smallest space." A gravitational singularity is a point of zero volume (smallest space) and infinite density (highest intensity), so, according to Jung's equation, Psyche = Singularity. Based on that equation, TruthGPT could test the theory Jung developed with the co-founder of quantum mechanics, Wolfgang Pauli, that psychology and physics mirror each other because mind and matter emerge from the same

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Nietzsche's Zarathustra: The Old Saint from the Prologue in Disguise

" 'And only where there are tombs are there resurrections.' Thus sang Zarathustra." (Thus Spoke Z... more " 'And only where there are tombs are there resurrections.' Thus sang Zarathustra." (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part II, "The Tomb Song") In this paper I theorize that Zarathustra, the main character of Friedrich Nietzsche's most famous book Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, is the "old saint" from the Prologue, wearing the mask of an atheist. Jumping ahead, in a section entitled "Retired" in the fourth and last part of the book, "the last pope" calls the old saint "the last pious man, a saint and hermit," whom he came up the mountain to find, only to discover that he had died, although, suspiciously, his body was not found in his cave.

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NIETZSCHE: KRISHNA, BUDDHA, CHRIST, Part I: A Key to Nietzsche’s Riddles in The Birth of Tragedy: Heracles = Krishna, Dionysus = Shiva

In this paper, the first in a series, I argue that in The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of M... more In this paper, the first in a series, I argue that in The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, Friedrich Nietzsche secretly reenacts the theological practice of the Alexandrian-era Greeks living in Bactria and India (especially the historian Megasthenes), by referring to the Indian deities Krishna and Shiva with the names of the Greek gods Heracles and Dionysus, respectively. The implication is that, while overtly pleading for a rebirth of the mythical culture surrounding the musical celebrations of tragic plays in ancient Greece, Nietzsche covertly urges modern Europeans to embrace an even more ancient but still-living form of Hinduism that features congregational singing and dancing for the supreme God Krishna and His shadow-side, the demigod Shiva. I suggest that Nietzsche’s veiled prophecy began coming true in 1966, when His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in the United States of America, from where he and his disciples spread the ecstatic Hare Krishna movement throughout Europe, and around the globe, in the late 1960s and 70s. In this paper I also briefly introduce my broader theory that after a roughly five-year stint with atheism, from 1865 to 1870, from the ages of twenty to twenty-five, a prodigal Nietzsche returned to Christianity, at least in his own mind, by embracing the popular theory of his day that the Hindu God Krishna is the original God of Christ. I also argue that the atheism of Nietzsche's middle and late-period books is mask, and that when he said “I could be the Buddha of Europe,” he meant the Hindu conception of Buddha as one of Krishna’s Vishnu Avatars disguised as an atheist for the purpose of preparing a godless civilization to return gradually to Krishna. I argue further that The Birth of Tragedy is the Alpha and Omega of Nietzsche’s literary world, away from and back to which he intended all of his books to lead.

format_quoteTheorizing that Nietzsche viewed Krishna as the God whom Jesus worshipped reveals a unique intermingling of Western and Eastern religious thought.format_quote

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E Pluribus Unus Mundus #3, Natural law and the holographic empyrean

In this third instalment of the E Pluribus Unus Mundus series of papers, I argue that an amendmen... more In this third instalment of the E Pluribus Unus Mundus series of papers, I argue that an amendment installing the equation Psyche = Singularity as a Preface to the Preamble of our Constitution would not violate the First Amendment, which states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Rather, it would provide a scientific foundation for Natural Law theory, which is the philosophical presupposition of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

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E Pluribus Unus Mundus #2: Physics, Psychology, and the Constitution

This second paper focuses on the claim that the United States Constitution of 1789 seems to be mo... more This second paper focuses on the claim that the United States Constitution of 1789 seems to be modeled on Isaac Newton's mechanistic cosmology of 1687, and that it should be updated to account for the sweeping evolution of physics and psychology over the past three-and-third-centuries. This whole series of papers explains why and how we need to update the Constitution to unite the Right and Left, in order to achieve for our nation what Carl Jung called individuation: the ultimate state of psychic wholeness through the union of opposites. After describing the telling parallels between Leonard Susskind's holographic string theory and Jung's archetypal psychology, including his near-death experience, the Introduction ended with two proposals: add an amendment to serve as a Preface to the Preamble explaining why We the People now identify each individual self with the central singularity and surrounding horizon of the cosmos; add a fourth branch of government tasked with helping the other three branches harmonize their decisions with this central organizing principle, Psyche = Singularity, specifically by guiding them through the process of imagining ways to help future generations realize this individuating equation ever more perfectly. In this paper, after an examination of the parallels between the political laws of the Constitution and Newton's mechanistic laws of physics-which will include a look at President Woodrow Wilson's comments on the topic-I will briefly describe the evolution of physics after Newton: from the discovery of the electromagnetic force (mid-1860s), and the absolute speed of light (1887), to special relativity (1905), general relativity (1915), quantum mechanics (1927), and, finally, holographic string theory (early 1990s). I will then analyze Federalist Paper No. 10, and explain how the synthesis of Susskind and Jung provides a way to control the cause of faction, by demonstrating that each of us is one with the same archetypal Self.

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E Pluribus Unus Mundus: Introduction: Individuate the Constitution to Unite the Right and Left

Like the Federalist Papers that urged New York to ratify our Constitution, this is the first in a... more Like the Federalist Papers that urged New York to ratify our Constitution, this is the first in a series of papers aimed at individuating it. According to the psychologist Carl Jung, “individuation” is the ultimate state of psychic wholeness through the union of opposites. He furthermore worked with the physicist Wolfgang Pauli to develop a theory according to which the laws of physics and psychology mirror each other because mind and matter both emerge from the same archetypes of the collective unconscious, all of which radiate from the ultimate archetype of wholeness through the union of opposites, the Unus Mundus, or Self. I argue that the psychic mandala images that emerge from the Unus Mundus to compensate an ego that is pulled by opposing demands are mirrored in the material world by black holes (including the inside-out black hole universe). I also argue that the succinct parallels between Jung’s psychology (especially his near-death experience of the cosmic horizon) and Leonard Susskind’s holographic string theory indicate that each psyche is rooted in the central singularity and holographic horizon of the cosmos. With that foundation in place I ask: What is the fewest number of updates we can give our Constitution in order to least disruptively achieve its primary goal of forming a more perfect Union? First, add an Amendment to serve as a Preface to the Preamble explaining why We the People now identify each individual self with the central singularity and surrounding horizon of the cosmos. Second, add a fourth branch of government dedicated to helping the other three branches harmonize their decision-making processes with this central organizing principle, Psyche = Singularity, specifically by creating alternative futures scenarios aimed at enabling our Posterity to assimilate it ever more perfectly.

format_quoteJung's equation equates psyche with gravitational singularity, suggesting each individual embodies infinite density in a zero-volume point.format_quote

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PSYCHE=SINGULARITY: A COMPARISON OF CARL JUNG’S TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND LEONARD SUSSKIND’S HOLOGRAPHIC STRING THEORY

Psyche and Singularity: Jungian Psychology and Holographic String Theory

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