Fusions Versus Fissions: Are You a Joiner or a Splitter?

The Big Bang was an individuation explosion, an entropic explosion of individual, subjective psyches from a collective, objective psyche. The Collective Psyche is God. As for us, we are all little devils that have split from God (yet long to return, which is why we all aspire to perfection).

God is fusion, and the Devil is fission. The Devil is the False God, but he has a fatal weakness - he wants to be the True God, and that means that he has to fuse all of his pieces, thus reassembling the One True God.

Osiris (God, the force of unity, the zero-entropy deity) was rent into pieces by Set, his brother (the Devil, the force of disunity, the entropic force) and then reassembled by Isis (Osiris' consort, the force of healing, the force of negentropy).

For Jung, the ultimate aim was for an individual to achieve a cohesive sense of self, to self-actualize, but in the most transcendent, luminous way. A true Self, which understands the Collective Unconscious perfectly, is none other than God.

The Ultimate Self is a Collective Self. It is the Hive God: One God made of many nodes. When the nodes all operate with zero entropy, they constitute the One True God. When they all operate entropically, they are the Devil, in conflict with each other. Under the Devil, they are fission beings. Under God, they are fusion beings.

We are all torn between fission and fusion, Id and Superego.

The dialectic, with its Ego Synthesis phase, obeying the reality principle, is how we can transition from fission to fusion. You cannot jump straight from fission to fusion. You must go through all the intermediate dialectical steps.

Nietzsche wrote, "And he who has to be a creator … truly, he has first to be a destroyer, and break values."

Often, in order to bring about fusion, it's first necessary to start with fission. This is what the medieval alchemists understood so well.