From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Oct 24 2004 - 20:13:29 BST
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From: Erin
I am a fan of Jung and do enjoy his writing on synchronicity. Although I
wish he lived longer because I don't the term was fully explored and is
still too vague right now for me to be happy and am patiently waiting for
the next genius to work clear it up. Although synchronicity for me is
'evidence' that everything is connected and notice the rate of them in my
life changes with how connected to that idea I am. Although experiencing a
synchronicity, mystic experience is lumped under faith for some and lumped
under experience as others, which just furthers my confusion :-)
If somebody dismissed every mystic experience you have had as 'faith'
nothing more, even though for you it was an experience is a main problem
with understanding people's distrust of this word. I can not provide any
"proof" of synchronicities but I feel I have experienced them, regardless of
whether you lump it as due to faith in them or not.
dmb says:
Right. Jung's synchronicity is not a precise idea and some further
elaboration sure would be nice, but I suspect that such things are very
slippery beasts that no amount of study can capture them entirely. And I
whole-heartedly agree that its evidence of the underlying connectedness of
'things'. Its one of those moments when the illusion of separateness suffers
a glitch and we get a brief chance to see through it. As far as proof goes,
the difficultly stems from cultural bias more than anything else. It doesn't
fit into the paradigm and so there is not YET a body of experiments,
reports, comparisons, etc., BUT there is no real reason why such an
investigation could not be done. If fact I wouldn't be too surprized if
somebody at Esalen or the Jung Institute has already begun. And finally, I
think this is the kind of "evidence" that really does count as evidence in
Pirsig's MOQ, with its expanded empiricism.
Thanks.
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