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22 Mar 2005 07:58:34 PM |
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SuperDuperSynchronicity! The Cosmos are Winking at ME! ME! ME! ME! |
Just how much synchronicity can one girl take?
Recent events the past month in my life would make the stuff Jung wrote
about look like chump change!
Everything is cool tho. It seems all this points to my daughter and is
all GOOD!
It's NOT me! Wheww! <sigh>That's a relief because I'm not too
comfortable with that.
Or maybe I've just imagined all this?
Nah!
I'm documenting proof of it all as I did when my odometer hit 2222 on
Tuesday February 22nd. It was the location where this happened that was
equally important.
It is also the same location that I would get a speeding one week later.
I just looked at my ticket and realized they recorded the address where
the speed trap was and...........it says the 2000 block of ____!
There goes those darn 2's again. ;)
I really do believe now that you can be subconciously lead somewhere
that you didn't even know existed.
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/naiad2.htm
Synchronicity
In 1944, when he was 68 years old, Carl Jung slipped on an icy road and
broke his ankle; this led to a severe heart attack. While hovering
between life and death, Jung experienced curious visions, in one of
which he was hovering above the earth, out in space, then saw a kind of
Hindu temple inside a meteor. "Night after night I floated in a state of
purest bliss." He was convinced that if he recovered his doctor would
have to die -- and in fact the doctor died as Jung started to recover.
The result of these strange experiences was that Jung ceased to be
concerned about whether his contemporaries regarded him as a mystic
rather than a scientist, and he ceased to make a secret of his lifelong
interest in the occult. In 1949 he wrote about the "acausal connecting
principle" called synchronicity. In the following year he wrote his
paper On Synchronicity, later expanded into a book. Unfortunately,
Jung's fundamental premise in both these works is basically nonsensical.
Western science, he says, is based on the principle of causality. But
modern physics is shaking this principle to its foundations; we now know
that natural laws are merely statistical truths and that therefore we
must allow for exceptions.
To explain "synchronistic" events, Jung was inclined to refer to a
phrase of the French psychologist Pierre Janet, abaissement du niveau
mental, "lowering of the mental threshold," by which Janet meant a
certain lowering of the vital forces -- such as we experience when we
are tired or discouraged and which is the precondition for neurosis.
Jung believed that when the mental threshold is lowered "the tone of the
unconscious is heightened, thereby creating a gradient for the
unconscious to flow towards the conscious." the conscious then comes
under the influence of what Jung calls the "archetypes" or "primordial
images." These images belong to the "collective unconscious" and might
be, for example, of a great mother, a hero-god, a devil-figure, or an
image of incarnate wisdom. Jung thought that when the archetype is
activated odd coincidences are likely to happen.
The medieval "magician" Albertus Magnus wrote:
A certain power to alter things indwells in the human soul and
subordinates the other things to her, particularly when she is swept
into a great excess of love of hate or the like. When therefore the
[human soul] falls into a great excess of any passion, it can be proved
by experiment that the [excess] binds things together [magically] and
alters them in the way it wants. Whoever would learn the secret of doing
and undoing these things must know that everyone can influence
everything magically if [s/he] falls into a great excess.
That is to say, a psychological state can somehow affect the physical
world. But Albertus's "great excess" is clearly the opposite of Jung's
"lowering of the mental threshold." One is lowering of vitality, the
other is an intensification of it.
Synchronicity is an explanatory principle; it explains "meaningful
coincidences" such as a beetle flying into Jung's room while a patient
was describing a dream about a scarab. The scarab is an Egyptian symbol
of rebirth, he noted. Therefore, the propitious moment of the flying
beetle indicated that the transcendental meaning of both the scarab in
the dream and the insect in the room was that the patient needed to be
liberated from her excessive rationalism. His notion of synchronicity is
that there is an acausal principle that links events having a similar
meaning by their coincidence in time rather than sequentially. He
claimed that there is a synchrony between the mind and the phenomenal
world of perception.
Synchronicity provides access to the archetypes, which are located in
the collective unconscious and are characterized by being universal
mental predispositions not grounded in experience. Like Plato's Forms
(eidos), the archetypes do not originate in the world of the senses, but
exist independently of that world and are known directly by the mind.
Unlike Plato, however, Jung believed that the archetypes arise
spontaneously in the mind, especially in times of crisis. Just as there
are meaningful coincidences, such as the beetle and the scarab dream,
which open the door to transcendent truths, so too a crisis opens the
door of the collective unconscious and lets out an archetype to reveal
some deep truth hidden from ordinary consciousness.
Mythology, Jung claimed, bases its stories on the archetypes. Mythology
is the reservoir of deep, hidden wondrous truths. Dreams and
psychological crises, fevers and derangement, chance encounters
resonating with "meaningful coincidences," all are gateways to the
collective unconscious, which is ready to restore the individual psyche
to health with its insights. Jung maintained that these metaphysical
notions are scientifically grounded, but they are not empirically
testable in any meaningful way.
All synchronistic phenomena can be grouped under three categories:
The coincidence of a psychic state in the observer with a simultaneous
objective, external event that corresponds to the psychic state or
content, (e.g., the scarab), where there is no evidence of a causal
connection between the psychic state and the external event, and where,
considering the psychic relativity of space and time, such a connection
is not even conceivable.
The coincidence of a psychic state with a corresponding (more or less
simultaneous) external even taking place outside the observer's field of
perception; i.e., at a distance, and only verifiable afterward (e.g.,
the Stockholm fire).
The coincidence of a psychic state with a corresponding, not yet
existent future event that is distant in time and can likewise only be
verified afterward.
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22 Mar 2005 10:37:46 PM |
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& THREEE super duper hurricanes are heading your way too, my sweet &
three super duper EQs for Japan this year -- one would think that this
world is well & truly SUPER DUPER superfricked my sweet !!! ;-) ;-)
HOOROO
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| User: "Marvin The Paranoid Android" |
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23 Mar 2005 04:57:01 AM |
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That was a good read, Suzie.
Very interesting and something I've experienced several times in my life
without ever realizing there was an official term to describe it.
I like Jung's 'lowering of the mental threshold'. That describes it
quite well. It's more a lowering of the activity of the mind I think
that allows one to listen to their 'gut' and follow their 'instinct'.
Thanks for posting this ... something now for me to start reading up on.
Cheers!!!!
Su Zanadu wrote:
Synchronicity
To explain "synchronistic" events, Jung was inclined to refer to a
phrase of the French psychologist Pierre Janet, abaissement du niveau
mental, "lowering of the mental threshold," by which Janet meant a
certain lowering of the vital forces -- such as we experience when we
are tired or discouraged and which is the precondition for neurosis.
Jung believed that when the mental threshold is lowered "the tone of the
unconscious is heightened, thereby creating a gradient for the
unconscious to flow towards the conscious." the conscious then comes
under the influence of what Jung calls the "archetypes" or "primordial
images." These images belong to the "collective unconscious" and might
be, for example, of a great mother, a hero-god, a devil-figure, or an
image of incarnate wisdom. Jung thought that when the archetype is
activated odd coincidences are likely to happen.
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| User: "Su Zanadu" |
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23 Mar 2005 09:06:41 AM |
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marvin@galaxy.com
(Marvin=A0The=A0Paranoid=A0Android) wrote:
That was a good read, Suzie.
Thanks Marv! :)
And a thanks to Woods who led me to Jung in the first place over this
"situation".
Very interesting and something I've
experienced several times in my life
without ever realizing there was an
official term to describe it.
And having these experiences only re-enforces your beliefs that there is
*SOMETHING* extraordinary at work here - doesn't it?
I like Jung's 'lowering of the mental
threshold'. That describes it quite well.
It's more a lowering of the activity of the
mind I think that allows one to listen to
their 'gut' and follow their 'instinct'.
I have some trouble with interpretations sometimes. Remember when I
posted something a month or so about being stalked? Well, I had woke up
about 530am all panicky after having a dream. I ran straight downstairs
and posted that because I just wanted it recorded publicly because I
couldn't talk to anyone about it. How would you begin to tell someone
about your psychic dreams, right? In the dream I felt some one was very
close and watching me. I misinterpreted that for stalking and I became
suspicious of EVERYBODY in this group.
I feel bad now for being wrong about that. In actuality I was right
about something being very close....but it is as innocent as can be.
That is about all I can say without revealing too much personal info.
Thanks for posting this ... something now
for me to start reading up on.
You are welcome!....and I FEEL BETTER :)
Cheers!!!!
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| User: "Perseid" |
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24 Mar 2005 12:28:11 AM |
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(Su Zanadu) Spat the Words
marvin@galaxy.com
(Marvin The Paranoid Android) wrote:
That was a good read, Suzie.
Thanks Marv! :)
And a thanks to Woods who led me to Jung in the first place over this
"situation".
Very interesting and something I've
experienced several times in my life
without ever realizing there was an
official term to describe it.
And having these experiences only re-enforces your beliefs that there is
*SOMETHING* extraordinary at work here - doesn't it?
I like Jung's 'lowering of the mental
threshold'. That describes it quite well.
It's more a lowering of the activity of the
mind I think that allows one to listen to
their 'gut' and follow their 'instinct'.
I have some trouble with interpretations sometimes. Remember when I
posted something a month or so about being stalked? Well, I had woke up
about 530am all panicky after having a dream. I ran straight downstairs
and posted that because I just wanted it recorded publicly because I
couldn't talk to anyone about it. How would you begin to tell someone
about your psychic dreams, right? In the dream I felt some one was very
close and watching me. I misinterpreted that for stalking and I became
suspicious of EVERYBODY in this group.
I feel bad now for being wrong about that. In actuality I was right
about something being very close....but it is as innocent as can be.
That is about all I can say without revealing too much personal info.
Thanks for posting this ... something now
for me to start reading up on.
You are welcome!....and I FEEL BETTER :)
Cheers!!!!
Su Zanadu wrote:
Synchronicity
To explain "synchronistic" events, Jung was inclined to refer to a
phrase of the French psychologist Pierre Janet, abaissement du niveau
mental, "lowering of the mental threshold," by which Janet meant a
certain lowering of the vital forces -- such as we experience when we
are tired or discouraged and which is the precondition for neurosis.
Jung believed that when the mental threshold is lowered "the tone of the
unconscious is heightened, thereby creating a gradient for the
unconscious to flow towards the conscious." the conscious then comes
under the influence of what Jung calls the "archetypes" or "primordial
images." These images belong to the "collective unconscious" and might
be, for example, of a great mother, a hero-god, a devil-figure, or an
image of incarnate wisdom. Jung thought that when the archetype is
activated odd coincidences are likely to happen.
Jung had some wild ideas. I remember seeing a biographical
movie about him in my college days. People from all over the
world would be magnetically drawn toward his place of residence
just to be near him and try to derive some wisdom from his words.
His home was usually filled with strangers... sort of like a
religious commune of people dwelling with 'the master'... but
it was really more meta-physical than religious.
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| User: "Su Zanadu" |
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25 Mar 2005 12:15:56 AM |
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Perseid wrote:
Jung had some wild ideas. I remember
seeing a biographical movie about him
in my college days. People from all over
the world would be magnetically drawn
toward his place of residence just to be
near him and try to derive some wisdom
from his words. His home was usually
filled with strangers...
That would get a little weird!
sort of like a
religious commune of people dwelling
with 'the master'... but it was really
more meta-physical than religious.
I'm going to the library *real* soon and check out some books.
SuZanne
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| User: "Perseid" |
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26 Mar 2005 06:07:09 AM |
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(Su Zanadu) Spat the Words
Perseid wrote:
Jung had some wild ideas. I remember
seeing a biographical movie about him
in my college days. People from all over
the world would be magnetically drawn
toward his place of residence just to be
near him and try to derive some wisdom
from his words. His home was usually
filled with strangers...
That would get a little weird!
sort of like a
religious commune of people dwelling
with 'the master'... but it was really
more meta-physical than religious.
I'm going to the library *real* soon and check out some books.
Be careful. You could read for years about his stuff as well
as stuff that others have written about Jung's ideas. Jung
wrote about everything from metaphysics, philosophy, and
the social and psychological nature of man (you remember the
line from Stanley Kubrik's 'Full Metal Jacket' where Joker
talks about "The Duality of Man, The Jungian Thing" ?). Do
a google search on 'Jung Duality of Man' and you'll find some
interesting articles.
SuZanne
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| User: "Su Zanadu" |
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26 Mar 2005 11:03:44 AM |
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Perseid wrote:
Be careful.
I will!
It's a total waste of a day here with thunderstorms and torrential
downpours.
All the drunken bums seek shelter in........you guessed it! The
LIBRARY!! :-O
You could read for years about his stuff
as well as stuff that others have written
about Jung's ideas. Jung wrote about
everything from metaphysics,
philosophy, and the social and
psychological nature of man (you
remember the line from Stanley Kubrik's
'Full Metal Jacket' where Joker talks
about "The Duality of Man, The Jungian
Thing" ?). Do a google search on 'Jung
Duality of Man' and you'll find some
interesting articles.
Hey thanks, I will.
If I find something really interesting I'll post it.
SuZanne
p.s.
for some reason, when I see your user name I think of eidpers! ;)
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25 Mar 2005 08:12:03 AM |
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Perseid wrote:
Jung had some wild ideas. I remember
seeing a biographical movie about him
in my college days. People from all over
the world would be magnetically drawn
toward his place of residence just to be
near him and try to derive some wisdom
from his words. His home was usually
filled with strangers...
Sounds like Charlie Manson.
That would get a little weird!
sort of like a
religious commune of people dwelling
with 'the master'... but it was really
more meta-physical than religious.
Yep, sure sounds like a Manson type.
Tony
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| User: "Su Zanadu" |
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25 Mar 2005 09:06:52 AM |
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Tony wrote:
SuZanne wrote:
Perseid wrote:
Jung had some wild ideas. I
remember seeing a biographical >>>movie about him in my college
days.
People from all over the world would
be magnetically drawn toward his
place of residence just to be near him
and try to derive some wisdom
from his words. His home was usually
filled with strangers...
Sounds like Charlie Manson.
Or Jesus, Mohammed and Buddha.
Tony views the world thru his "World Nut Daily Glasses".
That would get a little weird!
sort of like a religious commune of
people dwelling with 'the master'...
but it was really more meta-physical
than religious.
Yep, sure sounds like a Manson type.
Or Jesus....
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| User: "Absolute Zero" |
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25 Mar 2005 10:33:30 AM |
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Su Zanadu wrote:
marvin@galaxy.com
(Marvin The Paranoid Android) wrote:
That was a good read, Suzie.
Thanks Marv! :)
And a thanks to Woods who led me to Jung in the first place over this
"situation".
Ah, that's the oft serendipitous nature of synchronicity for yer.
Here's some more... you probably recall that I'm into the "I Ching"?
Well, Jung thought that synchronicity was the "force" behind its
workings. He wrote the following as a foreword to the the foremost
translation back in 1949.
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.. . .
I do not know Chinese and have never been in China. I can assure my
reader that it is not altogether easy to find the right access to this
monument of Chinese thought, which departs so completely from our ways
of thinking. In order to understand what such a book is all about, it is
imperative to cast off certain prejudices of the Western mind. It is a
curious fact that such a gifted and intelligent people as the Chinese
has never developed what we call science. Our science, however, is based
upon the principle of causality, and causality is considered to be an
axiomatic truth. But a great change in our standpoint is setting in.
What Kant's Critique of Pure Reason failed to do, is being accomplished
by modern physics. The axioms of causality are being shaken to their
foundations: we know now that what we term natural laws are merely
statistical truths and thus must necessarily allow for exceptions. We
have not sufficiently taken into account as yet that we need the
laboratory with its incisive restrictions in order to demonstrate the
invariable validity of natural law. If we leave things to nature, we see
a very different picture: every process is partially or totally
interfered with by chance, so much so that under natural circumstances a
course of events absolutely conforming to specific laws is almost an
exception.
The Chinese mind, as I see it at work in the I Ching, seems to be
exclusively preoccupied with the chance aspect of events. What we call
coincidence seems to be the chief concern of this peculiar mind, and
what we worship as causality passes almost unnoticed. We must admit that
there is something to be said for the immense importance of chance. An
incalculable amount of human effort is directed to combating and
restricting the nuisance or danger represented by chance. Theoretical
considerations of cause and effect often look pale and dusty in
comparison to the practical results of chance. It is all very well to
say that the crystal of quartz is a hexagonal prism. The statement is
quite true in so far as an ideal crystal is envisaged. But in nature one
finds no two crystals exactly alike, although all are unmistakably
hexagonal. The actual form, however, seems to appeal more to the Chinese
sage than the ideal one. The jumble of natural laws constituting
empirical reality holds more significance for him than a causal
explanation of events that, moreover, must usually be separated from one
another in order to be properly dealt with.
The manner in which the I Ching tends to look upon reality seems to
disfavor our causalistic procedures. The moment under actual observation
appears to the ancient Chinese view more of a chance hit than a clearly
defined result of concurring causal chain processes. The matter of
interest seems to be the configuration formed by chance events in the
moment of observation, and not at all the hypothetical reasons that
seemingly account for the coincidence. While the Western mind carefully
sifts, weighs, selects, classifies, isolates, the Chinese picture of the
moment encompasses everything down to the minutest nonsensical detail,
because all of the ingredients make up the observed moment.
Thus it happens that when one throws the three coins, or counts
through the forty-nine yarrow stalks, these chance details enter into
the picture of the moment of observation and form a part of it--a part
that is insignificant to us, yet most meaningful to the Chinese mind.
With us it would be a banal and almost meaningless statement (at least
on the face of it) to say that whatever happens in a given moment
possesses inevitably the quality peculiar to that moment. This is not an
abstract argument but a very practical one. There are certain
connoisseurs who can tell you merely from the appearance, taste, and
behavior of a wine the site of its vineyard and the year of its origin.
There are antiquarians who with almost uncanny accuracy will name the
time and place of origin and the maker of an objet d'art or piece of
furniture on merely looking at it. And there are even astrologers who
can tell you, without any previous knowledge of your nativity, what the
position of sun and moon was and what zodiacal sign rose above the
horizon in the moment of your birth. In the face of such facts, it must
be admitted that moments can leave long-lasting traces.
In other words, whoever invented the I Ching was convinced that the
hexagram worked out in a certain moment coincided with the latter in
quality no less than in time. To him the hexagram was the exponent of
the moment in which it was cast--even more so than the hours of the
clock or the divisions of the calendar could be--inasmuch as the
hexagram was understood to be an indicator of the essential situation
prevailing in the moment of its origin.
This assumption involves a certain curious principle that I have
termed synchronicity, a concept that formulates a point of view
diametrically opposed to that of causality. Since the latter is a merely
statistical truth and not absolute, it is a sort of working hypothesis
of how events evolve one out of another, whereas synchronicity takes the
coincidence of events in space and time as meaning something more than
mere chance, namely, a peculiar interdependence of objective events
among themselves as well as with the subjective (psychic) states of the
observer or observers.
The ancient Chinese mind contemplates the cosmos in a way comparable
to that of the modern physicist, who cannot deny that his model of the
world is a decidedly psychophysical structure. The microphysical event
includes the observer just as much as the reality underlying the I Ching
comprises subjective, i.e., psychic conditions in the totality of the
momentary situation. Just as causality describes the sequence of events,
so synchronicity to the Chinese mind deals with the coincidence of
events. The causal point of view tells us a dramatic story about how D
came into existence: it took its origin from C, which existed before D,
and C in its turn had a father, B, etc. The synchronistic view on the
other hand tries to produce an equally meaningful picture of
coincidence. How does it happen that A', B', C', D', etc., appear all in
the same moment and in the same place? It happens in the first place
because the physical events A' and B' are of the same quality as the
psychic events C' and D', and further because all are the exponents of
one and the same momentary situation. The situation is assumed to
represent a legible or understandable picture.
Now the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching are the instrument by
which the meaning of sixty-four different yet typical situations can be
determined. These interpretations are equivalent to causal explanations.
Causal connection is statistically necessary and can therefore be
subjected to experiment. Inasmuch as situations are unique and cannot be
repeated, experimenting with synchronicity seems to be impossible under
ordinary conditions. In the I Ching, the only criterion of the validity
of synchronicity is the observer's opinion that the text of the hexagram
amounts to a true rendering of his psychic condition. It is assumed that
the fall of the coins or the result of the division of the bundle of
yarrow stalks is what it necessarily must be in a given "situation,"
inasmuch as anything happening in that moment belongs to it as an
indispensable part of the picture. If a handful of matches is thrown to
the floor, they form the pattern characteristic of that moment. But such
an obvious truth as this reveals its meaningful nature only if it is
possible to read the pattern and to verify its interpretation, partly by
the observer's knowledge of the subjective and objective situation,
partly by the character of subsequent events. It is obviously not a
procedure that appeals to a critical mind used to experimental
verification of facts or to factual evidence. But for someone who likes
to look at the world at the angle from which ancient China saw it, the I
Ching may have some attraction.
My argument as outlined above has of course never entered a Chinese
mind. On the contrary, according to the old tradition, it is "spiritual
agencies," acting in a mysterious way, that make the yarrow stalks give
a meaningful answer. These powers form, as it were, the living soul of
the book. As the latter is thus a sort of animated being, the tradition
assumes that one can put questions to the I Ching and expect to receive
intelligent answers. Thus it occurred to me that it might interest the
uninitiated reader to see the I Ching at work. For this purpose I made
an experiment strictly in accordance with the Chinese conception: I
personified the book in a sense, asking its judgment about its present
situation, i.e., my intention to present it to the Western mind.
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Heavy going. When he states: "the axioms of causality are being shaken
to their foundations", he's referring to the "lunacy" of quantum
mechanics... which proves that everything is about chance. Your
underwear *might* vanish and re-materialise 6ft to the right. It's not
very likely but a remote, calculable possibility. Related to which; I
must go and make a nice hot cup of tea for my infinite improbability drive.
(that's a bunch of Hitchhiker's references to a space-drive that
precisely models what I'm jabbering about, chance. I'm just trying to
stoke up the synchronicity quotient here... IOW, it doesn't matter if
you haven't the foggiest what I'm babbling on about, something
synchronistic may happen... Don't Panic!).
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25 Mar 2005 01:03:48 PM |
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Amy wrote:
Ah, that's the oft serendipitous nature of
synchronicity for yer.
Here's some more... you probably recall
that I'm into the "I Ching"?
Yes, I recall but don't know too much about that.
Well, Jung thought that synchronicity
was the "force" behind its workings. He
wrote the following as a foreword to the
the foremost translation back in 1949.
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=A0.=A0.
I do not know Chinese and have never
been in China. I can assure my reader that it is not altogether easy to
find the right access to this monument of Chinese thought, which departs
so completely from our ways of thinking. In order to understand what
such a book is all about, it is imperative to cast off certain
prejudices of the Western mind. It is a curious fact that such a gifted
and intelligent people as the Chinese has never developed what we call
science. <snip>.=A0.=A0.
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Heavy going. When he states: "the
axioms of causality are being shaken to
their foundations", he's referring to the
"lunacy" of quantum mechanics... which
proves that everything is about chance.
Yes, "lunacy" is a good description! I have had to shake my head and ask
myself "This can't be *really* happening - can it?...what are the odds
of this?"
Your underwear *might* vanish and
re-materialise 6ft to the right. It's not
very likely but a remote, calculable
possibility. Related to which; I must go
and make a nice hot cup of tea for my
infinite improbability drive.
(that's a bunch of Hitchhiker's references
to a space-drive that precisely models
what I'm jabbering about, chance. I'm
just trying to stoke up the synchronicity
quotient here... IOW, it doesn't matter if
you haven't the foggiest what I'm
babbling on about, something
synchronistic may happen... Don't
Panic!).
I'll try not to panic. It does make the heart race though! :)
SuZanne
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The YING and the YANG preaches that when you reach a point where "All Is =
Perfect", then you have reached the 'PEAK' of the cycle, and change is =
inevitable.
The reverse is also TRUE. When you reach "Rock Bottom", change is also =
inevitable. (Thankfully, at that point, it can only get better).
--=20
Just A Thought.
Have A Nice Day !!! :-[)
"Su Zanadu" <tugbertswife@webtv.net> wrote in message =
news:5171-4240CD4A-664@storefull-3213.bay.webtv.net...
Just how much synchronicity can one girl take?
Recent events the past month in my life would make the stuff Jung =
wrote
about look like chump change!
Everything is cool tho. It seems all this points to my daughter and is
all GOOD!
It's NOT me! Wheww! <sigh>That's a relief because I'm not too
comfortable with that.
Or maybe I've just imagined all this?=20
Nah!=20
I'm documenting proof of it all as I did when my odometer hit 2222 on
Tuesday February 22nd. It was the location where this happened that =
was
equally important.=20
It is also the same location that I would get a speeding one week =
later.
I just looked at my ticket and realized they recorded the address =
where
the speed trap was and...........it says the 2000 block of ____!=20
There goes those darn 2's again. ;)
I really do believe now that you can be subconciously lead somewhere
that you didn't even know existed.
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/naiad2.htm
Synchronicity
In 1944, when he was 68 years old, Carl Jung slipped on an icy road =
and
broke his ankle; this led to a severe heart attack. While hovering
between life and death, Jung experienced curious visions, in one of
which he was hovering above the earth, out in space, then saw a kind =
of
Hindu temple inside a meteor. "Night after night I floated in a state =
of
purest bliss." He was convinced that if he recovered his doctor would
have to die -- and in fact the doctor died as Jung started to recover.
The result of these strange experiences was that Jung ceased to be
concerned about whether his contemporaries regarded him as a mystic
rather than a scientist, and he ceased to make a secret of his =
lifelong
interest in the occult. In 1949 he wrote about the "acausal connecting
principle" called synchronicity. In the following year he wrote his
paper On Synchronicity, later expanded into a book. Unfortunately,
Jung's fundamental premise in both these works is basically =
nonsensical.
Western science, he says, is based on the principle of causality. But
modern physics is shaking this principle to its foundations; we now =
know
that natural laws are merely statistical truths and that therefore we
must allow for exceptions.=20
To explain "synchronistic" events, Jung was inclined to refer to a
phrase of the French psychologist Pierre Janet, abaissement du niveau
mental, "lowering of the mental threshold," by which Janet meant a
certain lowering of the vital forces -- such as we experience when we
are tired or discouraged and which is the precondition for neurosis.
Jung believed that when the mental threshold is lowered "the tone of =
the
unconscious is heightened, thereby creating a gradient for the
unconscious to flow towards the conscious." the conscious then comes
under the influence of what Jung calls the "archetypes" or "primordial
images." These images belong to the "collective unconscious" and might
be, for example, of a great mother, a hero-god, a devil-figure, or an
image of incarnate wisdom. Jung thought that when the archetype is
activated odd coincidences are likely to happen.=20
The medieval "magician" Albertus Magnus wrote:=20
A certain power to alter things indwells in the human soul and
subordinates the other things to her, particularly when she is swept
into a great excess of love of hate or the like. When therefore the
[human soul] falls into a great excess of any passion, it can be =
proved
by experiment that the [excess] binds things together [magically] and
alters them in the way it wants. Whoever would learn the secret of =
doing
and undoing these things must know that everyone can influence
everything magically if [s/he] falls into a great excess.=20
That is to say, a psychological state can somehow affect the physical
world. But Albertus's "great excess" is clearly the opposite of Jung's
"lowering of the mental threshold." One is lowering of vitality, the
other is an intensification of it.=20
Synchronicity is an explanatory principle; it explains "meaningful
coincidences" such as a beetle flying into Jung's room while a patient
was describing a dream about a scarab. The scarab is an Egyptian =
symbol
of rebirth, he noted. Therefore, the propitious moment of the flying
beetle indicated that the transcendental meaning of both the scarab in
the dream and the insect in the room was that the patient needed to be
liberated from her excessive rationalism. His notion of synchronicity =
is
that there is an acausal principle that links events having a similar
meaning by their coincidence in time rather than sequentially. He
claimed that there is a synchrony between the mind and the phenomenal
world of perception.=20
Synchronicity provides access to the archetypes, which are located in
the collective unconscious and are characterized by being universal
mental predispositions not grounded in experience. Like Plato's Forms
(eidos), the archetypes do not originate in the world of the senses, =
but
exist independently of that world and are known directly by the mind.
Unlike Plato, however, Jung believed that the archetypes arise
spontaneously in the mind, especially in times of crisis. Just as =
there
are meaningful coincidences, such as the beetle and the scarab dream,
which open the door to transcendent truths, so too a crisis opens the
door of the collective unconscious and lets out an archetype to reveal
some deep truth hidden from ordinary consciousness.=20
Mythology, Jung claimed, bases its stories on the archetypes. =
Mythology
is the reservoir of deep, hidden wondrous truths. Dreams and
psychological crises, fevers and derangement, chance encounters
resonating with "meaningful coincidences," all are gateways to the
collective unconscious, which is ready to restore the individual =
psyche
to health with its insights. Jung maintained that these metaphysical
notions are scientifically grounded, but they are not empirically
testable in any meaningful way.=20
All synchronistic phenomena can be grouped under three categories:=20
The coincidence of a psychic state in the observer with a simultaneous
objective, external event that corresponds to the psychic state or
content, (e.g., the scarab), where there is no evidence of a causal
connection between the psychic state and the external event, and =
where,
considering the psychic relativity of space and time, such a =
connection
is not even conceivable.=20
The coincidence of a psychic state with a corresponding (more or less
simultaneous) external even taking place outside the observer's field =
of
perception; i.e., at a distance, and only verifiable afterward (e.g.,
the Stockholm fire).=20
The coincidence of a psychic state with a corresponding, not yet
existent future event that is distant in time and can likewise only be
verified afterward.
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<DIV><FONT face=3DTahoma size=3D2>The YING and the YANG preaches that =
when you reach=20
a point where "All Is Perfect", then you have reached the 'PEAK' of the =
cycle,=20
and change is inevitable.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DTahoma size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DTahoma size=3D2>The reverse is also TRUE. When you =
reach "Rock=20
Bottom", change is also inevitable. (Thankfully, at that point, it =
can only=20
get better).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DTahoma size=3D2><BR>-- </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Just A Thought.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Have A Nice Day !!! :-[)<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>"Su Zanadu" <<A=20
href=3D"mailto:tugbertswife@webtv.net">tugbertswife@webtv.net</A>> =
wrote in=20
message <A=20
=
href=3D"news:5171-4240CD4A-664@storefull-3213.bay.webtv.net">news:5171-42=
40CD4A-664@storefull-3213.bay.webtv.net</A>...</DIV>Just=20
how much synchronicity can one girl take?<BR><BR>Recent events the =
past month=20
in my life would make the stuff Jung wrote<BR>about look like chump=20
change!<BR><BR>Everything is cool tho. It seems all this points to my =
daughter=20
and is<BR>all GOOD!<BR>It's NOT me! Wheww! <sigh>That's a relief =
because=20
I'm not too<BR>comfortable with that.<BR><BR>Or maybe I've just =
imagined all=20
this? <BR>Nah! <BR>I'm documenting proof of it all as I did when my =
odometer=20
hit 2222 on<BR>Tuesday February 22nd. It was the location where this =
happened=20
that was<BR>equally important. <BR><BR>It is also the same location =
that I=20
would get a speeding one week later.<BR>I just looked at my ticket and =
realized they recorded the address where<BR>the speed trap was=20
and...........it says the 2000 block of ____! <BR>There goes those =
darn 2's=20
again. ;)<BR><BR>I really do believe now that you can be subconciously =
lead=20
somewhere<BR>that you didn't even know existed.<BR><BR><A=20
=
href=3D"http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/naiad2.htm">http://www.dreamsca=
pe.com/morgana/naiad2.htm</A><BR><BR>Synchronicity<BR><BR>In=20
1944, when he was 68 years old, Carl Jung slipped on an icy road =
and<BR>broke=20
his ankle; this led to a severe heart attack. While =
hovering<BR>between life=20
and death, Jung experienced curious visions, in one of<BR>which he was =
hovering above the earth, out in space, then saw a kind of<BR>Hindu =
temple=20
inside a meteor. "Night after night I floated in a state of<BR>purest =
bliss."=20
He was convinced that if he recovered his doctor would<BR>have to die =
-- and=20
in fact the doctor died as Jung started to recover.<BR>The result of =
these=20
strange experiences was that Jung ceased to be<BR>concerned about =
whether his=20
contemporaries regarded him as a mystic<BR>rather than a scientist, =
and he=20
ceased to make a secret of his lifelong<BR>interest in the occult. In =
1949 he=20
wrote about the "acausal connecting<BR>principle" called =
synchronicity. In the=20
following year he wrote his<BR>paper On Synchronicity, later expanded =
into a=20
book. Unfortunately,<BR>Jung's fundamental premise in both these works =
is=20
basically nonsensical.<BR>Western science, he says, is based on the =
principle=20
of causality. But<BR>modern physics is shaking this principle to its=20
foundations; we now know<BR>that natural laws are merely statistical =
truths=20
and that therefore we<BR>must allow for exceptions. <BR><BR>To explain =
"synchronistic" events, Jung was inclined to refer to a<BR>phrase of =
the=20
French psychologist Pierre Janet, abaissement du niveau<BR>mental, =
"lowering=20
of the mental threshold," by which Janet meant a<BR>certain lowering =
of the=20
vital forces -- such as we experience when we<BR>are tired or =
discouraged and=20
which is the precondition for neurosis.<BR>Jung believed that when the =
mental=20
threshold is lowered "the tone of the<BR>unconscious is heightened, =
thereby=20
creating a gradient for the<BR>unconscious to flow towards the =
conscious." the=20
conscious then comes<BR>under the influence of what Jung calls the=20
"archetypes" or "primordial<BR>images." These images belong to the =
"collective=20
unconscious" and might<BR>be, for example, of a great mother, a =
hero-god, a=20
devil-figure, or an<BR>image of incarnate wisdom. Jung thought that =
when the=20
archetype is<BR>activated odd coincidences are likely to happen. =
<BR><BR>The=20
medieval "magician" Albertus Magnus wrote: <BR>A certain power to =
alter things=20
indwells in the human soul and<BR>subordinates the other things to =
her,=20
particularly when she is swept<BR>into a great excess of love of hate =
or the=20
like. When therefore the<BR>[human soul] falls into a great excess of =
any=20
passion, it can be proved<BR>by experiment that the [excess] binds =
things=20
together [magically] and<BR>alters them in the way it wants. Whoever =
would=20
learn the secret of doing<BR>and undoing these things must know that =
everyone=20
can influence<BR>everything magically if [s/he] falls into a great =
excess.=20
<BR><BR>That is to say, a psychological state can somehow affect the=20
physical<BR>world. But Albertus's "great excess" is clearly the =
opposite of=20
Jung's<BR>"lowering of the mental threshold." One is lowering of =
vitality,=20
the<BR>other is an intensification of it. <BR><BR>Synchronicity is an=20
explanatory principle; it explains "meaningful<BR>coincidences" such =
as a=20
beetle flying into Jung's room while a patient<BR>was describing a =
dream about=20
a scarab. The scarab is an Egyptian symbol<BR>of rebirth, he noted. =
Therefore,=20
the propitious moment of the flying<BR>beetle indicated that the=20
transcendental meaning of both the scarab in<BR>the dream and the =
insect in=20
the room was that the patient needed to be<BR>liberated from her =
excessive=20
rationalism. His notion of synchronicity is<BR>that there is an =
acausal=20
principle that links events having a similar<BR>meaning by their =
coincidence=20
in time rather than sequentially. He<BR>claimed that there is a =
synchrony=20
between the mind and the phenomenal<BR>world of perception.=20
<BR><BR>Synchronicity provides access to the archetypes, which are =
located=20
in<BR>the collective unconscious and are characterized by being=20
universal<BR>mental predispositions not grounded in experience. Like =
Plato's=20
Forms<BR>(eidos), the archetypes do not originate in the world of the =
senses,=20
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mind.<BR>Unlike Plato, however, Jung believed that the archetypes=20
arise<BR>spontaneously in the mind, especially in times of crisis. =
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scarab=20
dream,<BR>which open the door to transcendent truths, so too a crisis =
opens=20
the<BR>door of the collective unconscious and lets out an archetype to =
reveal<BR>some deep truth hidden from ordinary consciousness.=20
<BR><BR>Mythology, Jung claimed, bases its stories on the archetypes.=20
Mythology<BR>is the reservoir of deep, hidden wondrous truths. Dreams=20
and<BR>psychological crises, fevers and derangement, chance=20
encounters<BR>resonating with "meaningful coincidences," all are =
gateways to=20
the<BR>collective unconscious, which is ready to restore the =
individual=20
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metaphysical<BR>notions are scientifically grounded, but they are not=20
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synchronistic=20
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coincidence of a=20
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