Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1 Dangerously Famous

2 Early Successes, Early Failures

3 The Philosopher’s Stone

4 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

5 Intermezzo—Three versus Four: Alchemy, Mysticism, and the Dawn of Modern Science

6 Pauli, Heisenberg, and the Great Quantum Breakthrough

7 Mephistopheles

8 The Dark Hunting Ground of the Mind

9 Mandalas

10 The Superior Man Sets His Life in Order

11 Synchronicity

12 Dreams of Primal Numbers

13 Second Intermezzo—Road to Yesterday

14 Through the Looking Glass

15 The Mysterious Number 137

Epilogue: The Legacy of Pauli and Jung

Notes

Bibliography

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