Harald Atmanspacher. Photo courtesy of The New Institute.
Harald Atmanspacher, Ph.D. is a physicist at the ETH Zürich and a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht, Switzerland.
He earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Munich in 1985 and spent two years as a Reimar Lüst fellow. He then worked for 13 years as a research scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and spent a year on habilitation in theoretical physics (nonlinear dynamics and complex systems) at the University of Potsdam.
From 1998 to 2013, he served as head of the department of theory and data analysis at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, and from 2002 to 2005 was an associate member of the Max-Planck Centre for Interdisciplinary Plasma Science.
Dr. Atmanspacher has been on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich since 2004, and a faculty member of the Parmenides Foundation since 2005. In 2007, he became an associate fellow of the Collegium Helveticum at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) and the University of Zürich, joined their staff in 2014, and is now an emeritus member of the Turing Center.
He currently serves as president of the Society for Mind-Matter Research and is editor-in-chief of their interdisciplinary international journal Mind & Matter. He is a fellow of The New Institute’s “The Human Condition in the 21st Century,” and is an elected honorary member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP).
His publications include The Pauli-Jung Conjecture & Its Impact Today (with Christopher Fuchs), his review of Quantum Approaches to Consciousness in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and his latest book, Dual-Aspect Monism & the Deep Structure of Meaning (with Dean Rickles), published this year by Routledge.
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SHOW NOTES
Speaking of Jung, Ep. 85 with Jungian analyst Beverley Zabriskie
The Helix Center Dr. Atmanspacher’s page
(Video) Synchronicity: On the Spectrum of Mind & Matter Roundtable discussion with Harald Atmanspacher, Joseph Cambray, Edgar Choueiri, Farzad Mahootian, and Beverley Zabriskie, The Helix Center, Apr. 12, 2014
(Video) Synchronicity & Other Mind Matter Conjectures Roundtable discussion with Harald Atmanspacher, Joseph Cambray, Edgar Choueiri, Farzad Mahootian, and Beverley Zabriskie, The Helix Center, Nov. 5, 2014
The Pauli-Jung Conjecture & Its Impact Today Edited by Harald Atmanspacher & Christopher Fuchs; includes essays by Speaking of Jung guests Harald Atmanspacher (Ep. 116), George Hogenson (Ep. 14), and Beverley Zabriskie (Ep. 85), and future guest Roderick Main (Ep. 117)
The Interpretation of Nature & the Psyche Includes “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle” by C.G. Jung and “The Influence of Archetypal Ideas on the Scientific Theories of Kepler” by Wolfgang Pauli
Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study Stellenbosch, South Africa
What is Synchronicity? A film by David Strabala
Psychosomatic medicine from the Jungian point of view by C.A. Meier, Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 8, Issue 2, July 1963, pp. 103-122
Society for Mind-Matter Research and its journal Mind & Matter
(Video) Mind-Body Dual-Aspect Theory from Spinoza to Quantum-Entanglement A Conversation between Harald Atmanspacher and Godehard Brüntrup at the 2022 Science of Consciousness Conference in Tucson, Arizona
(Video) Dual-Aspect Thinking Workshop Dr. Atmanspacher at the Science of Consciousness Conference in Tucson, Arizona, April 18-22, 2022
The 2023 Science of Consciousness Conference Taormina, Sicily, Italy, May 22-28, 2023
Stuart Hameroff, M.D. The University of Arizona
David Chalmers, Ph.D. Official website
Roger Penrose, Ph.D. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
(Full text) What is it like to be a bat? by Thomas Nagel, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 83, No. 4, October 1974, pp. 435–450
The Lex Files Ep. 48 with Harald Atmanspacher, Jun. 14, 2021
Center for Consciousness Studies The University of Arizona
(Full text) What are Eccles’ Psychons all about? by Dr. Hans-Joachim Rudolph
The Self & Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism by Karl Popper and John C. Eccles
Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege Edited by Peter Geach and Max Black; includes Frege’s essay, “On Sense & Reference”
Mysterium Coniunctionis Vol. 14 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza by Gilles Deleuze
The New Institute The Human Condition in the 21st Century
(Full text) The Selected Works of Arne Naess: Deep Ecology of Wisdom Explorations in Unities of Nature and Cultures, Selected Papers; Edited by Harold Glasser and Alan Drengson in Cooperation with the Author and with Assistance from Bill Devall and George Sessions; includes “Spinoza and the Deep Ecology Movement”
ADDITIONAL LINKS
Parmenides Foundation Pöcking, Germany
Collegium Helveticum ETH Zürich
BOOKS
Dual-Aspect Monism & the Deep Structure of Meaning (with Dean Rickles)
The Pauli-Jung Conjecture & Its Impact Today (with Christopher A. Fuchs)
Between Chance & Choice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Determinism (with Robert Bishop)
Time, Temporality, Now: Experiencing Time & Concepts of Time in an Interdisciplinary Perspective (with Eva Ruhnau)
Recasting Reality: Wolfgang Pauli’s Philosophical Ideas & Contemporary Science (with Hans Primas)
Reproducibility: Principles, Problems, Practices, & Prospects (with Sabine Maasen)
Knowledge & Time by Hans Primas, edited by Harald Atmanspacher
From Chemistry to Consciousness: The Legacy of Hans Primas (with Ulrich Müller-Herold)
On Quanta, Mind & Matter: Hans Primas in Context (with Anton Amann and Ulrich Müller-Herold)
Quantum Interaction: 9th International Conference QI 2015, Filzbach, Switzerland, July 15-17, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (with Thomas Filk & Emmanuel Pothos)
Information Dynamics NATO ASI Series; Series B: Physics, Vol. 256 (with Herbert Scheingraber)
Inside Versus Outside: Endo- & Exo-Concepts of Observation & Knowledge in Physics, Philosophy & Cognitive Science (with Gerhard J. Dalenoort)
ARTICLES
(Full text) Quantum Approaches to Consciousness Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Levels of unconsciousness and their formal structure Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 59, Issue 3, June 2014, pp. 391-409
Roles of causation and meaning for interpreting correlations Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 59, Issue 3, June 2014, pp. 429-434
Psychophysical correlations, synchronicity and meaning Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 59, Issue 2, April 2014, pp. 181-188