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This Jungian Life Podcast

DISCOVERING A NEW ARCHETYPE: The Buddhabrot Fractal Bridging Math, Myth, and the Collective Unconscious

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Jungian, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Psychology, Dreams, Jung, Relationships, Selfhelp, Society & Culture, Psychoanalysis

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

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The Buddhabrot pattern springs from a simple algorithm: you take thousands of starting points, run each one through the same formula over and over, and chart only those whose values grow without limit—these “divergent” paths form the spectral Buddha-like silhouette. Once you recognize the pattern, you see it everywhere. It’s visible in the rosette stained glass windows of Notre-Dame de Paris and Chartres, numerous representations of the buddha, as well as in the Vāstu-Puruṣa-Maṇḍala used as blueprints for Indian temples, and in the ancient chakra symbols that are now so common—proof that numbers are universal symbols tying Psyche to the world. This is a newly identified archetype: an algorithmic icon born of computation that reveals an underlying cosmic unity that C.G. Jung called the Unus Mundus. Dr. Harry J. Shirley joins us and provides an amazing initiation into this uncanny discovery.

Learn more about the Buddhabrot and watch the original video from AfterSkool here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to this Jungian life.

0:04.2

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee,

0:09.7

invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.

0:19.4

I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee,

0:24.9

and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst,

0:31.1

and Cape Cod.

0:59.7

Thank you. Today we are very excited to have Dr. Harry Shirley with us to talk about the Eunice Mundus, the idea that somewhere, somehow, there is one world,

1:08.5

one world that stretches out into the cosmos. There's a unifying principle. And this is something that Jung and Wolfgang Polly talked about.

1:13.6

And we are going to explore it from the point of view that Harry Shirley brings to us.

1:20.6

He has a PhD in chemistry and all kinds of research experience at the University of Oxford.

1:28.5

And his research aims to continue Jung's unfinished explorations of the deep unconscious

1:36.5

by considering the relationship of consciousness, matter, and mathematics.

1:44.1

And if that sounds heavy, just wait till you see our short film

1:48.1

that will be coming right up. So he has a peer-reviewed paper, the Budaprat and the Unus Mundus,

1:57.2

and it's already generating waves for its bold blend of math and Jungian psychology,

2:04.5

which is in itself a process of Eunice Mundus. So let's go with Dr. Shirley and an exciting podcast.

2:15.5

So we've been mentioning this on some recent podcasts.

2:19.4

This September, you have a chance to join me and lots of other amazing analysts at the Philadelphia

2:28.1

Young Seminar, which this year is half online and half in person.

2:33.0

It's eight weekends a year.

2:34.6

And it is a wonderful, deep dive into Jung for clinicians, but also for non-clinicians.

2:42.9

And it's where the three of us first met.

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