ABSTRACT

The transformation of the spirit into religious institutions was required in order to meet some of mankind’s basic psychological needs, such as the craving for certainty, the tangible, the nameable, the personal. The Nuer of Africa seem to have conceived religious concepts that are acutely sensitive, refined, and highly complex. With the further exploration of depth psychology, of deeper clinical work, of psychopathology, the advances in psychobiology and in the chemistry and functioning of the brain—all this has led to new understandings of the relationship of psyche and soma. In other words Spirit, being essentially abstract and ineffable, deintegrates into smaller or simpler pieces of Itself. One of the men who swam in this strange new quantum milieu was the brilliant mathematician and physicist, Wolfgang Pauli. This new quantum-physical version of the caveman artist’s animism ushered in the new age of indeterminacy and connectedness.