I think Jung said that a synchronicity was a coupling between two
seemingly unlikely events which was felt by the person experiencing
them to have meaning, so within this debate it is the sense of
meaning which is important to me and on a certain level the lack of
meaning which others experience.. "it's just a coincidence" seem to
weirdly make it more meaningful for me. Further.. the attempt to
quantify it from a newtonian causal perspective.. ie "How unlikely
was it? How meaningful is it to you? is to miss the point because
from that perspective you are analysing from a dualistic worldview.
If you believe it isn't weird or Spooky.. you are of course right.
For me the experience is a window into a different worldview which
perhaps I/we don't often get the chance to experience (Except in
Open space? Or impro?) Maybe the less experience we have had of the
non dualistic world the more meaningful it seems and the more
experience we have had of the connected world the more everyday or
normal?
It reminds me of my experience as a child when I had a poltergeist in
my house which threw things around, played tricks, made objects pass
through walls and demonstrated things which were outside of
"Newtonian science." It was at first important for me to convince
others my experience was real.. Then I realised it was my reality and
it was not important what others thought and to believe in my
experience and test its reality for myself. I was encouraged to not
talk too loudly about it by my parents... So of course years later I
made a show out of it "70 Hill Lane" which took me all round the
world and won an award Off Broadway and helped create our theatre
company Improbable. Up until then my world was split because I just
hadn't been talking about it loudly enough!
Meanwhile time for a quote from Ramsey Dukes:
"Is it the strength of scientific beliefs that give them their power
to unify our experience. Is science the safest way of all? ..the
ability to bend metal is not a "higher power" so much as an atavistic
failure to maintain metal as solid as we need it to be"
love and
here's a link to details of the show http://www.improbable.co.uk/
show_example.asp?item_id=3
On 29 May 2006, at 06:41, Wendy Farmer-O'Neil wrote:
A wise and crafty woman told me, not so long ago, that
synchronicity is
Spirit acting anonymously in the world.
I rather liked that.
And for any fans of Douglas Adams out there (Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy)...i have been toying with the idea (since the TARDIS
thread) that
Open Space runs on improbability physics. You remember how it
goes...If
something is a virtual impossibility, then it must be a finite
improbability. We work out how improbable it is and Presto! it
arises fully
formed before our eyes. As Zaphod complains about the infinite
improbability drive, "Is this going to happen every time we use
this thing?"
Anybody for a nice, really hot, cup of tea?
Cheers,
Wendy
Ps: how about synkairosity?
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