Coniunction Of Opposites (Iain McGilchrist)

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Grasping and AmbiguityPsyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainPresentation at IGAP seminarLondon, March 28-29th 2015Iain McGilchristwww.iainmcgilchrist.comHans van den Hooffwww.vandenhooff.com

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015Friday evening:Basics of the Hemisphere Hypothesis (Iain McGilchrist)Ambiguity and grasping in Quantum Mechanics (Hans van den Hooff)Saturday morning: lectureConiunction of Opposites (Iain McGilchrist)Paradoxes, Opposites in Alchemy (Hans van den Hooff)Saturday afternoon:Panel discussion, question and answer session (Participants, Iain, Hans)Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015Jung’s central hypothesis about Alchemy is that its texts and images are projections from thecollective unconsciousAlchemy is not only proto chemistry but also proto psychologyParticipation Mystique unspoiled by Cartesian EnlightmentThe imagery represents a catalogue of the structure and dynamics of the collective unconsciousJung suddenly stopped his work on The Red book when he learned about AlchemyFragment of last page of the Red Book(C.G. Jung, Norton)Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015The factors in Alchemy which come together in the coniunctio form a dualismMysterium Coniunctiones“The factors which come together in the coniunctio are conceived as opposites, either confrontingeachother in enmity or attracting one another in love .”humidum siccumfrigidum calidumsuperiora inferioraspiritus/ anima corpusterra coelumaqua ignisagens patienspraetiosum vilebonum malummanifestum occultamoriens occidensvivum mortuummasculus foeminasol lunaDr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015The main motifs in alchemy correspond to the main hemisphere polaritiesHemisphere ghtparadoxicalinterconnectedembodieddynamicAbraham Eleazer, Uraltes chymischesWerk, Leipzig 1760Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015The main motifs in alchemy correspond to the main hemisphere polarities (cont’d)Hemisphere ghtparadoxicalinterconnectedembodieddynamicPia Desiseria, Hugo, Herman. (Antwerp:Vulguait Boëtius aBolswert, Typis Henrici Aertssenii, 1624).Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015To what extent is the paradoxical in Alchemy be understood as manifestations of RightHemisphere material?Hemisphere PolarityHermetic ArtLeft Rightunequivocal paradoxicalPrima Materiaisolated interconnecteddisembodied embodiedstatic dynamicLapis“I am the true green and Golden Lion without cares,In me all the secrets of the Philosophers are hidden.”Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015Paradox is important motif in Alchemy corresponding to right hemisphere functionality; e.g.the Rebis (two-thing)paradoxicalMichael Maier, Symbola Aureae Mensae (1617)The Rebis in the Rosarium PhilosophorumDr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainHermes: the holder of opposites, the beginning and endLondon, March 2015Hermetic ArtHermes as prima materia as well as the Lapis; holder of opposites; thebeginning and endHermes -Senex who is like Hermes trimegistus, Hermes the saviour,Hermes as archetype of the unconscious,Hermes as bringer of dreams, messenger God, metaphor for thetranscedent function.Mercurius is the Cosmic Child, the Filius Macrocosmi (which is also thePhilosopher’s Stone and the inner man);Resurrection of the United Eternal Body,Rosarium Philisophorum, 1550Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015The right hemisphere functionality corresponds in several ways with motif of the primamateriaPrima MateriaPrima Materia is the increatum , the chaos prior to the operation of theworld-creating logosPrima Materia (Maier, Atalanta Fugiens 1618, plate 43)The matter lies before the eyes of all; everybody sees it, touches it,loves it, but knows it not. It is glorious and vile, precious and of smallaccount, and is found everywhere. But, to be brief, our Matter has asmany names as there are things in this world; that is why the foolishknow it not. Waite. trans The hermetic Museum 1:13The prima materia is undifferentiated, without definite boundaries,limits or form. This corresponds to a certain experience of theunconscious that exposes the ego to the infinite, the απειρον (theundetermined), it may invoke the terror of diddolution or the awe ofeternity. It provides a glimpse of the πλήρωμα (the all, the totality ofdivine powers)Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015prima materia cont’dPrima MateriaExaminandus says:I make known to you, ye sons of the doctrine, that thebeginning of all creatures is a certain primary everlasting andinfinite nature whoch cooks and rules everything, and whoseactive and passive [aspects] are known and recognized only bythose on whom the knowledge of the sacred art has beenbestowedArt. aurif. 1, p66. Eximindus is a corruption of Anaximenes or Anaximanderthe Prima Materia as Chaos (Marolles, Tableaux du temple des muses. 1655.London, British Museum. Reprinted in Jung, Psychology and Alchemy)Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015The main motifs in alchemy correspond to the main hemisphere polaritiesUnus MundusHemisphere PolaritySeparatioLeft RightConiunctiounequivocal paradoxicalisolated interconnecteddisembodied embodiedstatic dynamicHermes Trismegistus and the creative fire which brings polarities together(D. Stolcius von Stolcenberg,Viridarium chymicum, Frankfurt, 1624).Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015Measurement, numbering, weighing and quantitative consciousness in general belong to theoperation of SeparatioSeparatiothe Alchemist as Geometer, (Maier, Atalanta Fugiens 1618)Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015Separatio as a first step towards the formation of Self .Separatioçthe Awakening of the Sleeping King as a judgement of Paris (Thomas Aquinas [pseud.],“de Alchemia”, Code Vossianus, Univ LeidenDr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015Individuation: a process of differentiation in Analytical PsychologySeparatioIndividuationIn general, it is the process by which individual beings are formed and differentiated; inparticular, it is the development of the psychological individual as a being distinct fromthe general, collective psychology. Individuation is therefore a process of differentiationhaving for its goal the development of the individual personalitycw 6 §757Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015The factors in Alchemy which come together in the coniunctio form a dualism in love orenmity (cont’d)SeparatioConiunctioLions in Enmity (Book of Lambspring , North Germany 16th century)Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015The factors in Alchemy which come together in the coniunctio form a dualism in love orenmityConiunctioThe Sun and the Moon fighting, riding a Lion and a Griffin, the symbols chosen by the Marxbrüderand the Freyfechter. – From a Renaissance Rosicrucian Compendium on AlchemyDr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015Clinically it is important to distinguish between the lesser and the greater coniunctiothe lesser coniunctiothe lesser coniunctio is a union of substances that are not yet thoroughly separatedit occurs whenever the ego identifies with contents emerging from the unconsciousit is always followed by the Morteficatio and further Separatiothe greater coniunctiois the goal of the opusthe supreme accomplishmentthe experience of the coniunctio is almost always a mixture of the lesser and greater aspects(Circulatio)ConiunctioDr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015Oedipal dynamics are one example of the lesser coniunctioLesser ConiunctioThe dragon kills the woman and she kills it (Maier, Atalanta Fugiens 1618)Abraham Eleazer, Donum Dei, Erfurt 1735Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015The perfect coniunctio is the gold and the elixer, the goal of alchemyConiunctioSolutio Perfecta, Dounum Dei, 17th CenturyDr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015Separatio as a first step can spark specific meaning .Separatioa:b (a b):aGolden Sectionthe Golden Section is a very interesting separatio symbol: it expresses the idea that there is a particular way to separate theopposites that will create a third thing (the proportion or mean between them) of valueDr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015The main motifs in alchemy correspond to the main hemisphere polaritiesUnus MundusUnio MentalisHemisphere PolarityIncarnatioPutrefactioLeft Rightunequivocal paradoxicalisolated interconnecteddisembodied embodiedstatic dynamicDr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015The factors in Alchemy which come together in the coniunctio form a dualism in love orenmityUnio MentalisUnus MundusStag and Unicorn in the clearing (Book of Lambspring , North Germany 16th century)EmbodiedDr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015The factors in Alchemy which come together in the coniunctio form a dualism in love orenmity (cont’d)EmbodiedThe Sages will tell youThat two fishes are in our seaWithout any flesh or bones.Let them be cooked in their own water;Then they also will become a vast sea,The vastness of which no man can describe.Moreover, the Sages sayThat the two fishes are only one, not two;They are two, and nevertheless they are one,Body, Spirit, and Soul.Now, I tell you most truly,Cook these three together,That there may be a very large sea.Cook the sulphur well with the sulphur,And hold your tongue about it:Conceal your knowledge to your own advantage,And you shall be free from poverty.Only let your discovery remain a close secret.Two Fishes in the Sea (Book of Lambspring , North Germany 16th century)Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015The main motifs in alchemy correspond to the main hemisphere polaritiesPutrefactioEarthHemisphere PolarityLeft RightMorteficatioSublimatiounequivocal paradoxicalisolated interconnectedSkydisembodied embodiedstatic dynamicHermes Trismegistus with Eagle and the Toad (D. Stolciusvon Stolcenberg,Viridarium chymicum, Frankfurt, 1624)).Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

IGAP seminarGrasping and Ambiguity Psyche, Quantum Mechanics, Alchemy and the BrainLondon, March 2015Hemisphere functionality can be linked to to the collective unconscious via AlchemyHemisphere FunctionalityAmbiguity vs. GraspingParadoxesOppositesAlchemyCollective Unconscious DynamicsHermes Trismegistus and the creative fire which brings polarities together(D. Stolcius von Stolcenberg,Viridarium chymicum, Frankfurt, 1624).Dr Hans van den HooffLeadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP)

Jung suddenly stopped his work on The Red book when he learned about Alchemy Fragment of last page of the Red Book (C.G. Jung, Norton) IGAP seminar London, March 2015 Dr Hans van den Hooff Leadership Coach, Analytical Psychologist (IGAP, NAAP) Grasping and A

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