Pauli's (Anti-)World-Clock - A PK-Synchronicity

  Pauli's (Anti-)World-Clock - A PK-Synchronicity.

 1. INTRODUCTION: THE ANTI-WORLD-CLOCK SYNCHRONICITY + PK PHENOMENOM

 In late 2012, I experienced a highly anomalous event while I was elaborating my Infinite Spiral Staircase theory (ISST), in an intense creative and inventive state that lasted more than a fortnight. As I was writing at my desk at night on a stack of white pages and totally absorbed in the novel and innovative concepts I was fathoming (along with adhoc drawings of the concepts, hence the work on paper), at one point in the middle of the night, I looked up and saw that a complex sculpture had formed spontaneously out of the melting wax of my candle, in the bowl of my candelabra. The sculpture was clearly showing an elaborate and perfectly symmetrical hand of a clock, set vertically over the horizontal round bowl filled with melted wax. I immediately recognized its similarity with Wolfgang Pauli’s “World Clock” Dream featuring two round clocks interlocked orthogonally, with added materials: a mound whose top was a human head with an intense regard (that I immediately called ‘the Observer’), and the flaming butt of the wick.

This phenomenon is a case of synchronicity – or meaningful coincidence – that depth psychologist Carl Jung fathomed in 1949 and modeled as a new set of phenomena and processes based on acausality, and which had its roots in “a quality essential to [the psyche], that is, its relatively trans-spatial and trans-temporal nature.” (Jung 2014, 413, pg. 813). Moreover, it is a very rare case of a synchronicity with psychokinesis (PK) or mind-over-matter phenomenon, of which I gave another example in a precedent JCER article on “Synchronicities and Nonlocality.” (Hardy 2023). (….)

Pauli’s “World Clock” Dream

This dream was reported by Pauli in the Pauli-Jung Letters (2014), and Jung devoted a chapter to its analysis in Dreams (277-88). It features two round clocks interlocked orthogonally and sharing a unique but void center. There’s one blue vertical clock and one four-colored horizontal one, on which stand 4 children; the whole structure came at first as a gold ring carried by a flying black eagle. Each clock has 32 partitions (4 x 8). The World Clock has three rhythms: when the hand on the vertical clock has advanced thirty-two times (short rhythm), it moves the horizontal clock’s hand 1/32 degree (middle rhythm). The completion of the 32 degrees on the horizontal clock, circled by the gold ring, is the great rhythm. In his letter to Jung describing the dream, Pauli said this vision gave him “an impression of the most sublime harmony” because the 3 rhythms are interlocked in a base-4 fashion [number 3 into 4], and given the name he gave it, he meant a harmony pervading or ordering the universe.

My large wax sculpture: the Anti-World-Clock

My large wax sculpture showed an inch-long hand of a clock in the shape of a keyhole, set vertically at first on the rim of my candelabra (the bowl itself about 2.7 inches large and 0.8 inches deep, and supported by a tall and thin spiraling pole). Then, in a pool of half-melted wax in the bowl stood at center-left a somewhat conic mound of wax on which is set a funny and expressive head on a slim neck with eyes open (whom I dub “the Observer”) and at center-right, a flame on the still burning candle wick, both set like the 2 centers of an ellipsis. Moreover, the tall sculpture evolved dynamically (as the remaining hard wax kept melting), with the vertical clock’s hand slowly moving down for about 20 minutes but, extraordinarily, in an anti-clockwise way (leftward), which made me call it “the Anti-Clock.” (See fig. 1.) The vertical clock hand, standing on the outside rim of a horizontal round is what made it so recognizable as Pauli’s World Clock, with its (second) ‘center’ being the mound-cum-face with observing eyes. 

 

Fig. 1. Pauli’s “World Clock” dream sculpted in wax in my candelabra, and its adhoc interpretation. (© Chris H. Hardy)

 When it appeared suddenly, fully formed (or rather, when I became conscious of it), I scribbled the phenomenal event and the time, on the margin of the page I was writing on, with a crude drawing of its complex shape. And then, as I kept enthusiastically working on my theory, I gave the sculpture some quick glances now and then and added notes in the margin about where the clock hand was at what time, and its global shape. Finally, as I felt I had completed my night work on the model, I gave my whole attention to the sculpture. I took a blank sheet of paper to draw again the whole sculpture and to make a quick interpretation of its symbolism. Only a few weeks back did I miraculously find the interpretation page with the drawing, shown above, while the other page, within the original theory text, remains untraceable. This is what incited me to make a deeper analysis of this PK-synchronicity.

Here goes about 3/5^th of my interpretation page (with my added explanatory text in square brackets):

Original adhoc Interpretation on October 27, 2012

The Synchronicity of the Anti-Clock + Observer (in the candle)

(While I conceive of the question: Hypotheses as to the role & presence of consciousness (put into play by the arch-anima) in the universe before the Big-Bang.) [Thus I had just analyzed Pauli’s Dream of the Arch-anima teaching him to play piano.]

A. The Observer. A human is sitting at the Center and observing the clock hand (he/she will not change at all).

B. A hand of a clock­­ – in the shape of a keyhole – is set vertically.

- with a slow continuous (but fluid) movement, it starts sliding toward the left.

- the hand of the clock­­ stops its movement (levogyre) exactly horizontally (its shape has not been altered at all).

C. The candle itself is practically all melted – the tip of the candle wick is displaced to the right, in a pool of half-melted wax. The flame is not at center (but maybe [as the] 2d center of an ellipsis).

D. After a long time horizontal (another equilibrium state), the [clock] hand slides down more until it stays immobile again in a vertical but head down position.

E. When the hand reaches below the horizon, the head of the observer suddenly falls (and disappears).

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Read the whole article: 

2025a. Pauli's (Anti-)World-Clock in my Candelabra: A PK-Synchronicity. (Preprint. Subm. JCER-Feb3)

2025b. Pauli's (Anti-)World-Clock in my Candelabra: A PK-Synchronicity. Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research (JCER), 16(2), 248-284, June 2025.

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Postulating a Deep Layer of Mind-matter Interconnection

Due to its basic indetermination, quantum mechanics is unable to account for meaningful processes—such as, for example, an anomalous event triggered by an intention, as in a conscious psi experiment involving an influence (PK) on biological matter (plants, bacteria…), called bio-PK. And yet we know that meaning is deeply connected to psi, in the form of an intention (as above), of feelings, of interconnections with loved ones, etc. This shouldn’t take us backward into discarding the framework of quantum physics to explain nonlocal consciousness and psi. Due to the fact that only quantum physics can support the kind of space-time anomalies shown by psi events, the way backward is blocked. The only possibility is to move forward, farther into layers where consciousness and energy and matter must be deeply interconnected to the point of merging or fusing. Indeed, if meaning cannot be explained at the quantum physics level (of particles), then we must assume a deeper layer of reality in which mind and matter are so fundamentally intermingled and fused as to become a single substance: consciousness-energy. This deep level of reality, the dimension of consciousness-as-energy, is the semantic dimension, and syg-energy (semantic energy) is the energy of this dimension, having the characteristics of both consciousness and very subtle energy.

The semantic dimension presents a totally new set of properties pertaining both to consciousness and energy. It’s at least a 5-D manifold, with one (or more) dimension of consciousness, one dimension of time, and three dimensions of space (normal 3-D). The semantic dimension is thus as much of a metadimension to space-time as 3-D is to 2-D.

Thus syg-energy is organized by consciousness itself; it is steered by meaning and intention or, more precisely, by the act of creating meaning. This consciousness-energy has nothing whatsoever to do with energy waves carrying information. Here, the syg-energy itself is the embodied meaning.

Hidden Variables?

At this point, a question arises: does adding a dimension of deep reality mean endorsing some sort of hidden variables? The assumption of Albert Einstein, in proposing hidden variables, was that some hidden causal factors are at work in what appear as random events at the quantum level, bending them toward specific effects, and that these factors, presently impossible to assess, could nevertheless be unraveled one day. Hidden variables were supposed to be sets of causes leading to deterministic effects. The idea of Einstein, in proposing hidden variables, was to save the concept of a deterministic universe: “God doesn’t play dice,” he said against the new and formidable concept of pure indetermination proposed by Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, and the “orthodox,” or Copenhagen, school of quantum physics. Physicist David Bohm, in his implicate order theory, is in accordance with the concept of hidden variables.* This implicate order posits a deeper layer, annulling space. Bohm, however, saw physical reality (the explicate order) as totally determined by the implicate order: no free interactions or two-way influences, but rather a deep level of causes from which the physical reality itself unfolds in a deterministic way.

Let’s consider the question anew: does, then, a dimension of deep reality endorse hidden variables? The answer is no. The deep reality layer, as we will see, is neither deterministic nor indeterministic. Its reality lies in a novel framework nearer to synchronistic acausal events proposed by Jung and Pauli than to either of the two schools of quantum physics (the orthodox posing pure indetermination and the hidden variables based on a deterministic framework).

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* David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order.

(Read more on this subject in The Sacred Network, chapter 13.)