Unus mundus

Unus mundus, Latin for "One world," is a term which refers to the concept of an underlying unified reality from which everything emerges and returns to. It was popularized by Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, though the term was used as early as the sixteenth century by Gerhard Dorn, a student of the famous alchemist Paracelsus.

Jung's concepts of the archetype and synchronicity are related to the unus mundus, the archetype being an expression of unus mundus; synchronicity, or "meaningful coincidence," being made possible by the fact that both the observer and connected event ultimately stem from the same source, the unus mundus.

See also

• Sufi metaphysics

References

• Jung, C. G., (1934–1954). The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious. (1981 2nd ed. Collected Works Vol.9 Part 1), Princeton, N.J.: Bollingen. ISBN 0-691-01833-2.
• Jung, C. G. (1955–56). From "The Conjunction," Mysterium Coniunctionis, Collected Works, XIV, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Roth, Remo, F., Return of the World Soul, Wolfgang Pauli, C.G. Jung and the Challenge of Psychophysical Reality [unus mundus] (Pari Publishing, 2011)