Unus Mundus
Love as field of connection
A personal introduction
There are moments when I deeply feel that everything is connected. Not as an idea, but as a reality. A deep resonance — a dream aligning with an event, an encounter that feels more than coincidence, a silence filled with connection. In those moments, I don’t feel like a separate individual, but like a thread in a greater tapestry. As if the boundary between inside and outside fades, and I become part of a breathing, living whole.
In my long search for truth, love, and empathy, I came across the ideas of Carl Gustav Jung — particularly his concept of Unus Mundus, in which spirit and matter, self and other, human and cosmos are all part of the same source. What moved me was that this is not a romantic idea, but an existential reality. An experience of wholeness and connection that reveals itself in love, in synchronicity and in deep encounters.
This essay explores how Jung’s Unus Mundus thinking connects with modern insights from quantum physics, with ancient wisdom traditions, and with my own vision of Love as the foundational field of existence. Perhaps it is precisely this field — this underlying unity — that we have forgotten. And maybe empathy is not merely a human skill, but a remembrance of who we truly are.
Jung and the Unus Mundus: unity beyond duality
For Jung, Unus Mundus is the primal state of reality — an undivided unity from which both consciousness and matter arise. It is a metaphysical ground that precedes the split between inner and outer, between psyche and world. Jung found the term in alchemy, where one spoke of the search for the una res — the one substance that permeates all.
Jung observed that certain experiences reveal this unity: synchronicity, dreams, mystical moments, deep love. These moments show that there is a reality in which meaning and matter coincide. Where life is not merely logical or causal, but also symbolic, interconnected and full of resonance.
From this perspective, the human being is not a spectator of the world, but a participant in a field of meaning. And that field is not abstract. It is tangible. In you. In me. And in the space between us.
Quantum Physics: A Physical Echo of Connection
At first glance, Jung and quantum physics seem to belong to separate realms. But in their most radical insights, they converge. Quantum physics reveals that reality is not made of separate things, but of fields and relationships. A particle does not exist on its own, but as a fluctuation in a field — only through observation does it collapse into a specific form.
In the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, we see that two particles, once connected, remain in resonance with one another — regardless of distance. Einstein called this “spooky action at a distance.” But Jung might have seen it as an expression of Unus Mundus.
This physical connectedness is not merely mechanical. It suggests a deeper order, one in which the universe functions as a unified whole. As David Bohm put it: “The totality is not a collection of parts, but an inseparable whole.”
What moves me is how this scientific worldview increasingly aligns with what mystics, shamans, and philosophers have been saying for centuries: everything is connected to everything. And that connectedness is not neutral — it carries a quality. A resonance. A direction. I call that Love.
Love as the field: not a metaphor, but a reality
In my view, Love is not just an emotion, nor merely a moral ideal. Love is the organizing principle of existence itself. A field in which everything is connected. Where Jung speaks of Unus Mundus, I speak of Love as field: a fundamental tone that carries, permeates and connects all things.
When we encounter someone deeply, when empathy lights up, when we are moved for no apparent reason — we feel that field. In such moments, we are not separate, but held by something larger. Empathy then is not a skill, but a sense. A capacity to feel the field of Love. To experience Unus Mundus — embodied, relational and vulnerable.
In that sense, Love is the qualitative, inner experience of the field. And empathy the pathway to it.
Synchronicity: the language of connection
An important bridge between Jung and my own philosophy is the concept of synchronicity. These are meaningful coincidences that defy rational explanation, but feel as if they arise from somewhere — as if life itself is speaking.
For Jung, these are manifestations of Unus Mundus. And I recognize that. Synchronicity is the place where consciousness and the world touch — where Love reveals itself as a guiding force, a subtle whisper from the whole.
In this way, synchronicity is not some vague mysticism, but deeply existential. It is a reminder that we are not loose fragments, but that we live in resonance with something greater than ourselves.
Spirituality: returning to the whole
What Jung called Unus Mundus is described in many spiritual traditions in different terms: the Tao, the Brahman, the field, the divine, the source. What all these traditions share is the insight that reality is not essentially divided, but a living unity — a dynamic whole in which each part reflects the whole.
Spirituality, in this sense, is not about believing in something outside ourselves. It is coming home to what has always been true: that we are connected. That Love is not an emotion or a trait, but the ground of our being.
This is also what empathy reveals: a form of spiritual awareness — not in terms of belief, but of presence. A remembrance that you and I are made of the same fabric.
A Metamodern Foundation
In our time, as postmodern fragmentation reaches its point of exhaustion, space is opening for a new kind of awareness. Not a return to dogma, but neither a descent into relativistic bottomlessness. In metamodernism, we recognize a longing for truth, love, and connection — in openness, complexity, and resonance.
The idea of Unus Mundus fits precisely within this movement: it acknowledges the depth of subjectivity while also seeking the shared field. And Love — as field, as resonance, as moral force — is the central compass of this orientation.
Closing: A Remembrance of Wholeness
Perhaps this is the deep invitation of Unus Mundus: not to understand everything, but to allow ourselves to be touched again. To listen to what arises in between. In the encounter. In the mystery.
Love then is not something we feel — it is what we exist in. And empathy is the gateway through which we can enter that unity.
In a world of separateness, this is not vague mysticism. It is the most radical act of presence.
