It does not surprise me that Jung would make mention of Greek mythology, and these particular energies. I must pursue Jung – perhaps you could point me to a good basic overview, and I could go from there.

From what little I know of Jung, he pursued like-minded paths as I do, but never followed the thread as far as I would go. I have learned much in my 65 years on this old rock, and I am a ferocious advocate of knowledge seeking. I would love to sit and pick your brain some time. I am working my way around your manner of presentation, and it sometimes leads me on paths that I do not go on. Thanks for the thoughtful comment on Jung.

Peace,

Alden~

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In a recent conversation with my wife, we discussed the theory of myths, particularly Greek mythology. The conversation took place because we had just finished viewing The Chronicles of Narnia – Prince Caspian. I know you are a voracious reader, and have surely read Lewis’ works. We discussed the presence of centaurs and minotaurs in the world. My wife has a very rational, logic mind and dismisses this off hand. I told her I felt that there was more to this than we believe. I have long held a belief in vampires and werewolves because I feel that these are not just something that someone woke up in the morning and decided to invent. Every myth, I believe, is based on fact.

I grew up in a world of faeries, dragons and elven folk. I have yet to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but have had some interesting experiences with the elven folks as early as late last summer. My mind is always open to this. Seth’s works help me get there.

Regards,

Alden~

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At the same time.. its pretty easy to see that the unconscious is always compensating for consciousness… and always expressing its self on us… and, in sometimes strange ways, contextualizing experience.. And as super groovy as detached objectivity, with its God’s eye quests might be.. reality is never actually experienced that way… well accept, perhaps, to the degree to which we are all God..

So in comes the roll for magickal thinking, and what not.. but I feel like this is a tricky pace.. and maybe I’m just not sure how to think of it myself… like,… you can find a kind of escapism here that Freud would have rightly criticized.. but at the same time I think you can make a very serious philosophical argument that allows someone who’s… well skeptical…. to travel down these paths.

I suppose this is the power of Jung… to bridge, as they say, the rational and “irrational minds.” But in terms of the popular imagination of what synchronicity is… I feel like what is kind of needed is that deeper discussion.

Or that’s my thought of the day anyway

Regarding inherent meaning: perhaps, but just as all dreams do not have the energy to pass over into consciousness, if we force the recognitions, the analogy would be having a person in a relationship that never stopped asking “is everything ok, are you alright, …” My point is relaxing into a posture that eill allow the appropriate disclosures to surface, with an implicit trust that they indeed will…
Peace.

Nice article on synchronicity, by the way. Would you say that there is always an ‘inherent meaning’, more than simply ‘look, things connect’?

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