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Plato’s theory that all living things strive for immortality, culminating in the human desire to win eternal fame by serving the god of love
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Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death
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Joseph Campbell’s theory of the hero’s journey
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Carl Jung’s theory of the archetypes of the collective unconscious
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Jung’s theory of the mandala-producing Self archetype, or God archetype
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Plato’s cosmology of eternal forms at the cosmic horizon
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The Vishnu-worshiping, Vedanta cosmology featuring Krishna as God
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The Psyche = Singularity equation, based on Jung’s equation “Psyche=highest intensity in the highest space.”
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How Psyche = Singularity neutralizes the Munchausen trilemma
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The partnership between Jung and quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli
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The evolution of physic from Newton through relativity theory and quantum theory to holographic string theory
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Jung’s concept of individuation
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The Black Hole War between Stephen Hawking and Leonard Susskind
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Parallels between holographic string theory and Near-Death Experiences, including Jung’s own
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Stanislav Grof’s observation of parallels between psychedelic experiences and NDEs
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The history of Western philosophy, from Plato through St. Augustine, Dante, Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Hegel
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Hegel’s philosophy of God’s eternal Self-awareness unfolding through the history of nations
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My theory that the Psyche = Singularity equation brings the history of Western philosophy full-circle back to Plato
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Jung’s theory of synchronicity, or meaningful coincidences
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Astrological synchronicity
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