Ash - Beautifully stated. Your words perfectly summarize my naturalistic (non Jungian, non mystical non magical theory of synchronicities. A synchronicity has its origin in a given individual stuck in his/her attempts to find an answer to a seemingly unsolvable problem. If the attitude towards the stuckness is a dedication to struggle with struggle instead of giving up - this attitude will activate the person's idiosyncratic creative process. The creative process is like a psychological scavenger hunt which searches for "clues". Clues are like the pieces of a complex multi - leveled jig saw puzzle. When enough pieces (clues) are fitted together to form a recognizable pattern - this pattern is experienced as a synchronicity. Adding ones synchronicities reveals the pathway through life of a given individual - the pathway of an in individual 'hero.'
-----Original Message----- From: Ash <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, Jul 13, 2010 1:27 am Subject: Re: [Mind's Eye] Joseph Campbell's Labyrinth of Life I would be curious how to mend the broken hero, and hope to find in sowing a healing also. But to journey thru hope and fear, what trickery is required: belief, trust, courage. These are things those heroes do not easily expend, least of all upon themselves. I find much truth in this, and relate strongly mainly because it nags at me until I say, 'okay you are here, but what and where may that be'. Things defy explanation not because I am looking, but because I cannot with any honesty or self-respect deny them. Why would anyone believe me if I said, 'this is not pessimism'? On 7/11/2010 12:13 PM, Molly wrote: > There is a pattern in life that goes like this: if we are confronted > with a problem, want to know ourselves, or are looking for particular > meaning in life – and we take this into the contemplative space, hold > the question in our mind, dwell on it before sleep each night – > however we ask and continue to ask in silence - the answers to our > questions will eventually come to us. This pattern is age old, found > in ancient texts such as the bible “ask and ye shall receive, knock > and the door shall be opened to you,” Luke 11:9 > > "We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all > time have gone before us - the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have > only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought > to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to > slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel > outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where > we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world." Joseph > Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces > > I find these answers can come from anywhere, and often the most > unexpected places: a spam email, a Facebook post, a passing remark > from a stranger, and intimate disclosure from a loved one. Whatever > the source, the act of recognizing the answers we are given is > recognition of enduring fulfillment. We are recognizing spirit in > action, energy in motion, Divine Action. It can all occur in silence > within us, or be expressed in creativity, but it is always the > realization of the inner you. And in this kind of heroic discovery > you find that this inner you in fact is what governs your outer you. > > What do YOU think? >
