Hi Platt, You bet I've made that connection. Blogged about it several (5 or 6 ?) years ago after meeting two Cambridge University professors in a bar (The Pickerell, no ordinary bar - adjacent to their college, Magdelene) discussing ZMM & Lila, whilst I was sitting within earshot, reading Lila. Turned out one of the two had previously also been a lecturer at Berkeley and had "taught" ZMM (though I never did work out what context.)
The real synchronicity, was not the conversational coincidence, but the fact that one of them suggested I should follow-up synchronicity (and Alexander) as related subjects. Apart from the idea that synchronicity "suggests" underlying invsible "causal" connections, the line leads to Jungian psychological typing, Malsow and evolutionary psychology - the latter of course being the source of those connections (provide we can overcome the knee-jerk prejudice against the whole evo-psych subject as a dirty word.) (My blog is full of mentions synchonicities, people often poke fun at them, and there are references to synchronicity in my 2005 conference paper, and on my Pirsig-Pages.) Ian On 6/23/07, Platt Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/ > 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/
