From: Steve Peterson (speterson@fast.net)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 21:55:18 GMT
Erin,
I can't find the post where the "acausal" or "synchronicity" came up. Can
you get me up to speed? What is the issue?
Steve
> "The unifying principle behind meaningful coincidences. Psychiatrist Carl G.
> Jung termed Synchronicity ‘an acausal connecting principle’ that links
> seemingly unrelated and unconnected events. The concept is integral to Eastern
> thought, but in Western thought runs contrary to cause and effect. In the
> West, ‘coincidences’ are popularly discounted as ‘chance happenings.’ The
> concept of synchronicity was developed largely by Carl G. Jung, who credited
> Albert Einstein as his inspiration." 3
>
> "...Jung reveals the roots of his idea of synchronicity as being in a series
> of dinners with the redoubtable Albert Einstein in Zurich, Switzerland,
> between the years 1909 and 1913... For many years Jung couldn’t get these
> beguiling exchanges with Einstein out of his mind, nor the intriguing
> implications they had for the numerous stories of baffling coincidences that
> his clients were revealing to him in his consultation room, his arcane
> studies, and most troubling of all, in his life." 4
>
> What is Jung’s view of synchronicity?
>
> Jung’s own explanation of the concept of synchronicity is as follows:
>
> " As its etymology shows, this term has something to do with time, or to be
> more accurate, with a kind of simultaneity. Instead of simultaneity we could
> use the concept of a meaningful coincidence of two or more events, where
> something other than the probability of chance is involved." (Synchronicity,
> An Acausal Connecting Principle, by C G Jung, from the article "On
> Synchronicity", Appendix, pg. 104)
>
> What did Jung state about the chance occurrence of coincidences?
>
> Jung had been studying synchronicity since the middle twenties, when he was
> investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming
> across connections which he simply could not explain: "as chance groupings or
> ‘runs.’ What I found were ‘coincidences’ which were connected so meaningfully
> that their ‘chance’ concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that
> would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure." Synchronicity, An
> Acausal Connecting Principle, by C G Jung, pg. 21.
>
>
>
> The principle of synchronicity is based on the concept that everything in the
> universe has some kind of correspondence one to the other. There is a
> "classical idea of the sympathy of all things." 5 There is a link, there is a
> bond, so to speak, and even so-called inanimate objects have a form of
> communication. In other words the whole universe is a living breathing entity
> and its various life forms, in all the kingdoms (animal, plant, mineral,
> human, etc.) are not as removed from each other as previously thought. In
> support of Hippocrates (** see introductory quote on Page 1 of this article )
> Carl Jung said: "The universal principle is found even in the smallest
> particle, which therefore corresponds to the whole." Synchronicity, An Acausal
> Connecting Principle, by C G Jung, pg. 74.
>
> Is there a scientific theory to support synchronicity?
>
> "... They are finding that the isolation and separation of objects from each
> other is more apparent than real; at deeper levels, everything —atoms, cells,
> molecules, plants, animals, people — participates in a sensitive, flowing web
> of information. Physicists have shown, for example, that if two photons are
> separated, no matter by how far, a change in one creates a simultaneous change
> in the other." From: A Wink From the Cosmos by Meg Lundstrom ,Is everyone
> seeking harmony?
>
> Many Eastern philosophies have had a concept of SYNCHRONICITY before the
> western mind set fully accepted it.
>
> "These coincidences, which Jung termed synchronicity, are sure signs you are
> in the flow; Flow is a harmony of being that has been sought after through the
> centuries in the spiritual traditions of the world. In the West, flow has been
> linked to trust, surrender, unconditional love, the grace of God. In the East,
> it has been linked to the Tao, the underlying interconnectedness of the
> Universe. In our lives, flow is obvious in those times when things happen
> effortlessly, everything falls into place, obstacles melt away, and our timing
> is perfect. In those times, we feel a deep sense of harmony and underlying
> order. We know we are in the right place, at the right time, doing exactly the
> right thing." The Power of Flow: Practical Ways to Transform Your Life with
> Meaningful Coincidence, by Charlene Belitz and Meg Lundstrom.
>
>
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