Comments on: Wrestling with Synchronicity

By: Ripples — Stepping Stone Partners

Ripples — Stepping Stone Partners — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:46:27 +0000

[...] Wrestling with Synchronicity [...]

By: ccseed

ccseed — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:54:21 +0000

Thanks, and I look forward to reading the tales you've collected.

By: Teapots Happen

Teapots Happen — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:51:05 +0000

"The difficulty for me is to see Jung’s point about acausality. "

- I struggle with it as well, and generally I don't get too hung up on framing my understanding of synchronicity within a strict Jungian framework. However, I do like his nod to nature ... I was launched onto my synchronautical path by a mystical experience in nature, and rarely find the presence of the unified divine as clear as I do when out away from social human contexts and constructs. I also believe that synchronicity, causal or not (I don't think we can ever know), reveals that everything is profoundly interconnected, far beyond what we can perceive normally.

I cannot rationally support this belief, and am well aware of how it sounds ... but I must admit when synchronicity strikes, it is almost impossible to deny the feeling that the universe is alive, conscious, and ... winking at me. Laughing with me. And wishing me happiness, with love.

As an atheist and longtime hardcore rationalist skeptic type, it's not been easy to swallow that!

Anyway, I enjoyed your several synchronicity blog posts, thanks - and feel free to swing by my blog if you enjoy reading "true tales of synchronicity" as I do.

By: ccseed

ccseed — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:37:45 +0000

Oh yes, especially sirens. It's as if the unconscious just integrates the
sensory details the brain is processing through the ears into the fabric of
the dream.

By: Richard Reeve

Richard Reeve — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:32:26 +0000

Oh yes, especially sirens. It’s as if the unconscious just integrates the sensory details the brain is processing through the ears into the fabric of the dream.

By: jamenta

jamenta — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:32:59 +0000

It's a well know dream phenomena of which Jung and others were aware of. Not so unusual. Not really considered a synchronistic event.

By: RyanSenator

RyanSenator — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:50:39 +0000

Have you ever had a dream in which something occurs but in your dream it becomes part of the dream? For example, I have had dreams where I hear a loud, sudden sound, e.g. thunder, which can be later corroborated as being heard by others in the area and the contents of my dream incorporated the sound, i.e. they lead up to the sound or it was predicted/expected.

Maybe not the standard material for synchronicity and I am admittedly out of my depth here since I have not read much on the subject. I am intrigued, nonetheless, thanks.

By: jamenta

jamenta — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:17:44 +0000

I would guess some events are more meaningful to us than others, and more applicable. When I think of synchronicity, I tend to think of the real numinous events in our lives, very powerful psychic forces that create large sea changes for our ego, that is only a small but important part of our psyche.

By: jamenta

jamenta — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:11:19 +0000

I think you enter a logical conundrum if you even consider a single event/action to be purely "accidental". Once you accept that some events are purposive & teleological (beyond the causal), you eventually I believe have to conclude all actions/events as purposive.

An analogy would be reality as a hologram. Destroy everything but one piece of it, all can be recreated from that one piece. If all there is ceased to be, except for you, your own existence would imply EVERYTHING that ever existed, every event, every leaf that fell etc. "God is not only aware of each sparrow that falls, God is each sparrow that falls." Don't particularly like using word God here but the quote is a powerful one.

Everything connected in an unfathomable (from ego perspective) meaningful fashion.

Reality is probably like our dreams, some events play a much larger role in meaningfulness than other events. There are the big dreams and then the every day normal dreams. Big events and every day normal events. But nothing is an accident. It all comes from the same source, our dreams and the events we experience. All of it, down to the ant you see crawling across your kitchen sink, is meaningfully connected.

By: ccseed

ccseed — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:49:04 +0000

It's clearly hard to attribute accidental to the meaningful, and my synchronistic experiences, while clearly not causal, certainly did not have anything accidental about them. That the items “fell together” in time could be linked to the attention they were given, but the attention itself was not a causal factor either. It was “just so.”