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In this essay the author treats the Jungian concept of the unus mundus - the unitary world which postulates that matter and psyche form the two aspects of our empirical reality, and he gives evidence of the existence of this state throughout history and science. As an image this concept was used by Jung to suggest that each layer of experience is intimately linked to all other layers. Body and psyche are interrelated and also psyche and matter. This is a view which is essentially at odds with causal explanations, and therefore the author draws on the concepts of synchronicity and alchemy to make his point. He cites the story of the white parrot from Marie-Louise von Franz's ‘Psyche and Matter’.
We are concerned here with another type of knowledge, namely the absolute, immediate knowledge of the unconscious. To allow this, so says the author, to recognize and consider it, is what the alchemists demanded as the inner attitude for their opus and is fundamental for the creation of the whole human being. As Oneness is created in the vas, the unus mundus is perceived outside in the macrocosm. In the microcosm, i.e. in the psyche of the adept, the vir unus begins to be realized. Alchemy therefore straddles the intrapersonal/intrapsychic divide.
Further examples which compare intrapsychic activity with mathematical theories are given - the quantum theory and its non-local character and Goldbach's Assumption - which point to other links beyond the rules of logic.
The author argues convincingly for the concept of the unus mundus and ends by saying that the individual must get in touch with the unitary character of his nature which - deo concedente - will be reflected in the world view of the unus mundus.