Carl Jung called his notion of synchronicity an acausal connecting principle.
It is easy for me to fall into the trap of thinking that the constellation
causes an outcome. Rather it is an opportunity for one piece of experience to
tune into another, especially where pertinent correspondences exist. In the
manner of as above, so below. As here, so there? And the metaphor of a dance is
apt.
I need to keep reminding my ego that it isn't as clever as it would like to
think!
On 30/1/07 drjmpirone wrote:
Perhaps the work taps into what some call the akashic residues, the outer
rings of the earthian Collective Unconscious, in which timelessness can non
dualistically brush up against time, so that in time and out of time blend
and that which is in the timeless space communes in an "everything belongs
manner" with the "in time", thus synchronous is acausal in that this did not
create that but rather this and that are alligned...when one waltzes with a
beloved, a does not cause b to be in relation to the other...rather and and b
for time are held in an undefined union of what Goethe called elective
affinities...in the movement of the soul toward the higher levels of essence,
we are joined in the essential, in the intersect between Clarkean Thomistic
metaphysics and Lublin school phenomenology, where the ego defenses melt and
potency and act,agency and receptivity melt ino the all in all....
