FROM MY NOTEBOOK: ON SYNCHRONICITY

 

(Image thanks to pb826 of Pixabay)

took these notes in a class on Synchronicity with Dr, Keiron LeGrice at Pacifica Graduate Institute and I put my own notes, ideas, and spin in my notes.  

On SYNCH:

How did it (the event) seem to be unusual? (A synchronous event seems unusual.)

Impossibility?

Improbability.

Animistic view of world--to me it seems as if the world psyche is speaking to me when it happens

It all speaks as if from "there" (whereever the inner world is, in the air?) to where we are now...

Evolution, where to go next?

Astronomical figure

synchronicty--a meaningful coincidence is the phrase coined by Jung

---personally meaningful plus archetypally meaningful--it will have archetypal meaning to your psyche

PRIMAL--> WORLD--> INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS-->PARTICIPATION MYSTIQUE/ANIMISM: World pervaded by spirit. Sacred. However no clearly distinguishable substance. --> more to Judeo Christian in the West--world seen as God's creation, God as Spirit Creator. Post modern: the focus seems to be the individual consciousness and not the world consciousness anymore. Our own psyche becomes the focus of MEANING too and not the world's meaning, God's meaning, and so there is a lack of the world as seen as meningful. Focus away from animism and participation mystique of our psyches. Participation mystique (see Mircea Eliade) is defined as when yiou are so immersed in the environment and surroundings that you are a natural part of it and not aware of feeling separate from it. That is just one way to define it. So all meaning now that we regard anyways resides within the individual. 

 Friedrich Nietzsche  said, "God is dread!" Meaning that people did not believe anymore, as LeGrice explained it it is when the collective unconscious had its disconnect. The atmosphere changed, a new paradigm came. From Oxford Dictionary:

par·a·digm

/ˈperəˌdīm/

noun

1. 1.

   a typical example or pattern of something; a model.

   "there is a new paradigm for public art in this country"

   Similar:

   model

   pattern

   example

   standard

   prototype

   archetype

   ideal

   gauge

   criterion

   paragon

   exemplar
2. 2.

   Linguistics

   a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles.

   "English determiners form a paradigm: we can say “a book” or “his book” but not “a his book.”"

See, Foundations of Modern Identity--Charles Taylor.

-The modern age and how we move from Christian era into it. 

Our modern self-ego is buffered; we do not live in our enchanted world anymore. I find this sad. I find my escapism from that in books and folklore and film and music and art too. Some of it is so enchanting. We have "pourous boundaries shaping--or not shaping!--our lives" (--LeGrice, Personal Communication, PGI.)

boundary between agents and forces us porous in older enchanted world--the boundary between self and others was porous too as was between self and environment. If one of the tribe, you were operating with the others not seen as "Other: but as One. And now as said above we can compare this to how our focus of meaning is entirely within the individual. So, as LeGrice stated, "SO IN OUR WORLD SYNCHRONICITY IS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!" (Embolden mine.) I see that in the Old World it was something that people experienced as a natural frequent occurance.

This older type of consciousness (I like to call it Old World Consciousness!) is what is called a sort of twilight consciousness. it has a brooding, humming mystique--

--See in Jung's book Four Archetypes, "abaisement du niveau," look up in index. (Originally, in the first place.)  MENTION OF DAVID rows??? GRIFFIN, have to look that up.

Personal ego

Personal unconscious and the collective unconscious

TO BE CONTINUED, SO MUCH MORE TO GO--

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