RE: MD acausal (for Glenn)

From: Erin N. (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 07 2002 - 03:29:28 GMT

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    It came a long time ago. I can't remember
    the context to be honest but for some reason I think
    it was discussing dharmakaya light thread.
    Glenn had never heard the word acausal....I think
    he said he thought i made it up or something.
    Can't remember.
    The issue is basically I don't think he believes things can be acausally
    related.

    erin

    >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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