From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat Dec 07 2002 - 20:07:39 GMT
Steve, Erin and all MOQists:
Steve asked:
According to Jung, what is recognition of such a connecting principle
supposed to do for us? I don't see how it could be considered an
"explanatory principle."
Steve said:
For some it is evidence of a mysterious force in the universe that wants to
make itself known through improbable occurrences. I find that many people's
spirituality is based in large part on proving God through coincidences. If
the lottery is a tax on the people who are bad at math, then synchronicity,
astrology, and the like may be religion for the same people.
DMB says:
Its one of those things that are filtered out by the cultural immune system.
We live a cause and effect kind of world. Anything that defies the rules is
considered a miracle or a parlor trick. A sychronicity is one of those
events that we don't see because we're told it doesn't exist, that belief in
such a thing is a delusion or worse. But what if our way of looking at
things was the illusion? What if the universe is far different than we think
it is? What if the mystics and the physicists are right. What if the
universe is one big living thing? Surely they are and surely it is. In that
view, sychronous events would be perfectly normal and even commonplace.
Capra:
"The word maya - one of the most important terms in Indian philosophy - came
to signify the psychological state of anybody under the spell of the magic
play.
As long as we confuse the myriad forms of the divine "lila" with reality,
without
perceiving the unity of Brahman "underlying all these forms, we are under
the spell of maya. Maya, therefore, does not mean that the world is an
illusion, as is often wrongly stated. The illusion merely lies in our point
of view,..."
A Wink From the Cosmos by Meg Lundstrom:
"... 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."
The Power of Flow: Practical Ways to Transform Your Life with Meaningful
Coincidence, by Charlene Belitz and Meg Lundstrom:
"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."
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