The microbes and the antibiotics - I sympathise with you, Neil. I recently spent three weeks daily swallowing a not insignificant dose of doxycycline to deal with an incipient borelliosis (Lyme disease) - damned ticks! There's something quite stressful about feeling out of sorts and not even being sure if its the illness itself or the antibiotic treatment for it that's causing the discomfort. I wish you a speedy recovery ...
Francis On 22 Aug., 17:11, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > The concept of self, or more specifically the sense of unity of self, > has both synchronic ('I seem to be a unified self at any given > moment') and diachronic ('I seem to be the same self as I was a few > minutes/hours/months/years ago') aspects. Currently, I am feeling > rather broken - like my watch with the dud battery, but with the added > knowledge (Slip was right) that my kinetic watch was stolen. I'd be > intuiting Orn but am otherwise engaged in a war against a microbe > horde in need of eviction from my glandular system and, unlike my > watch, am on tickover until the antibiotics triumph. Before Slip > points out electronic watches don't tick, let me say that this watch > has a very annoying, non-syncopating tick option, and my other > (stolen) watch may well be ticking to someone else's tune. I am so > ill I have developed an interest in Willard Quine again and have > somewhat naturalised my philosophy so as not to be too exposed to the > risk of theoretical truth. All this at a time I haven't had a drink > for two weeks Francis! - no doubt causing my current delusive state in > which England are regaining the Ashes. Test Match Special will set > you free ... > > On 22 Aug, 15:24, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I am not expert of Jung, but have enjoyed his writing and work now and > > then. I think what this means is that there is something more than > > what we think of as cause and effect at play here. That while, as > > Slip suggests, sychronistic events for us are responsive to our > > individual thoughts and feelings, we do not cause them to come about > > like we cause a stone to roll by kicking it. Synchronicity is, I > > think, always at play in our lives, but our awareness of it increases > > as our perception of the more subtle levels of being changes. We > > don't cause it, we become aware of it by tuning into it. > > > On Aug 22, 7:37 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I would wonder the same thing about it all being acausal. I remember > > > when my mother in law died my wife, a life long devout catholic, > > > mentioned something about a sign, a butterfly that would appear. I > > > always thought that to be coincidence but at the cemetery, there it > > > was, a large white butterfly that landed and stay for several minutes > > > then casually flew off. I guess there is some synchronicity there, > > > in the death, the mention of and appearance of the butterfly. > > > > On Aug 22, 12:33 am, Alan Wostenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Great question. As a believer I wonder why Jung calls synchronicity > > > > 'acausal' in that essay "Synchronicity, An Acausal Connecting > > > > Principle". Does he embrace a Humean notion of causality as constant > > > > conjunction in which causes precede effects temporally? > > > > > Yet I do find myself reluctant to jump in with both feet and call > > > > something a meaningful coincidence. This is no doubt my inner atheist > > > > whispering. As a believer I know synchronicity under a different name: > > > > providence. God always meets our real needs. Sometimes I see the > > > > pattern and call it providence. Usually I do not, perhaps because it > > > > is to bright for my minds eye. > > > > > On Aug 21, 5:08 am, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Synchronicity is a word that has come up now and then in these > > > > > discussions and is, I think, becoming more a part of our scientific > > > > > and philosophic paradigms. Webster defines it as: the quality or > > > > > state of being synchronous or simultaneous : concurrence of acts, > > > > > events, or developments in time : coincident movement or existence; > > > > > chronological arrangement of historical events and personages so as to > > > > > indicate coincidence or coexistence; a representation in the same > > > > > picture of two or more events which occurred at different times. > > > > > > Jung required a larger framework for his idea of synchronicity, a > > > > > framework that reveals an underlying pattern for what he called > > > > > "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events." > > > > > > What does synchronicity mean to you? What role does it play in your > > > > > life? What do YOU think? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
