Bio
Dr. Harry Shirley was born in Essex, UK in 1988. With a PhD in chemistry, he has research experience abroad and at The University of Oxford. Since leaving academia in 2018, he works as a consultant. Yet, his main passion is Jungian psychology, publishing his first peer-reviewed paper on this topic in 2025 “The Buddhabrot and The Unus Mundus”. His research sits at the weird boundary of math, depth psychology and spirituality.
Aims
Too long have we forgotten the symbolic nature of numbers. Harry’s goal is to revolutionise humanities relationship to number, by reawakening an awareness of their symbolic character. This project holds the view that complex numbers can act as archetypal expressions of the Self.
The Buddhabrot, being the first archetypal form in reality, will be the means through which this revolution unfolds.
