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The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

— Marie-Louise von Franz Psyche and Matter (1992)

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The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth.

As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

Psyche and Matter (1992)

Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit.

Psyche and Matter (1992)

Nevertheless, this individual aspect [just-so-ness] of number appears to contain the mysterious factor that enables it to organize psyche and matter jointly.

Number and Time (1974)

Always at bottom there is a divine revelation, a divine act, and man has only had the bright idea of copying it.

Creation Myths (1972)

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