Hi All, For several months I've been keeping a daily record of seeming coincidences that I call miracles in that they have benefited me in one way or another but have no apparent cause.
Examples: May 27 -- Happened to find just what I needed to repair back stay on model boat May 30 -- Discovered a way to strip small speaker wire for mini-radio June 2 -- Soaking rain began today after morning paper reported we were in a drought June 4 -- Accidentally ran across reference to keyboard note finder I had been looking for. Ordered June 12 -- While flipping through files in bottom drawer found perfect envelope to send grandfather's medal to museum on Long Island June 17 -- Burnished white tape with edge of rule to prevent leakage when painting a straight layer, like a shadow, over a previously painted area None of these incidents by themselves will turn any heads in the telling, but since beginning to note them I have found they occur almost daily as long as I remind myself to expect them. I realize this may be just be an example of the truism that you will find what you are looking for, or will see what you want to see. On the other hand this may be an example of Carl Jung's synchronicities. When I looked up "synchronicity" in Wikipedia, I noted this paragraph: "It was a principle Jung felt encompassed his concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious [2], in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlay the whole of human experience and history social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual." Immediately I translated this passage into MOQese: "Quality was a principle Pirsig felt encompassed his concepts of reality in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic (DQ) that underlay the whole of human experience and history -- inorganic, biological, social, intellectual, and artistic. " So these little incidents I've noted may also be little examples of DQ at work. After all, Pirsig says DQ comes as a surprise and appears as a wondrous occurrence, an apt description of how I felt when presented with even minor synchronous events such as described above. I wonder if any of you have connected Jung's synchronicity with Pirsig's DQ? Have you experienced miracles of one sort or another that appear to have no basis in natural science?. Or, have you experienced DQ in some other way? Thanks, Platt moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
