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January 13, 2011
Hi Synch Group,
Just wanted to introduce myself. I am glad to be a part of this group. I also wanted to invite you to read a recent blog entry on synchronicity in my life. It's called:
"Cosmic Adventures in Synchronic Time"
Steve Urban 1-12-11
Please leave me comments and let me know what you think. Thanks!
Sincerely, Steve Urban
http://www.evolver.net/user/steveu/blog/cosmic_adventures_synchronic_tim...
P.S. Here is a story on Jung & Synchronicity you might enjoy:
What is Synchronicity?
The term synchronicity is coined by Jung to express a concept that belongs to him. It is about acausal connection of two or more psycho-physic phenomena. This concept was inspired to him by a patient's case that was in situation of impasse in treatment. Her exaggerate rationalism (animus inflation) was holding her back from assimilating unconscious materials. One night, the patient dreamt a golden scarab - cetonia aurata. The next day, during the psychotherapy session, a real insect this time, hit against the Jung's cabinet window. Jung caught it and discovered surprisingly that it was a golden scarab; a very rare presence for that climate.
Cetonia Aurata or the Golden Scarab
So, the idea is all about coincidence: in this case, between the scarab dreamt by the patient and its appearance in reality, in the psychotherapy cabinet.
But this coincidence is not senseless, a simple coincidence. By using the amplification method, Jung associates in connection with the scarab and comes to the concept of death and rebirth from the esoteric philosophy of antiquity, a process that, in a symbolic way, the patient should experience for a renewal and vitalization of her unilateral personality, the cause of the neurosis she was suffering from.
Thus, a significant coincidence of physical and psychological phenomena that are acausal connected.
Jung's book on synchronicity
Behind all these phenomena Jung places the archetype or the constellation of an archetype, which, in his view, is a process that engages equally objective manifestations, in the physical world, and subjective ones, in the psychological universe.
Jung writes a book on synchronicity together with Nobel laureate W. Pauli, a book we invite you to read (learn more).
Synchronicity, as an explicative theory, applies to phenomena from the area of parapsychology, prevision and premonition, to I Ching (specific method of consulting the Oracle of Changes), to astrology and many other borderline fields.
It is also present in psychotherapy, as we have already shown. Several psychoanalysts noted certain strange coincidences in which their patients received information about them by extra-sensorial ways, information that was not accessible to the general public.
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Cosmic Adventures re Synchronicities
— Apr 15, 2011
I have been investigating the perplexities of meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) for the past 50 years. I initially experienced these odd events as my participating in what you refer to as a cosmic adventure. However my fifty year trip has led me to view these awesome occurrences as not cosmic but remarkably mundane events. The evolution of my thinking is the subject matter of my book: DEMYSTIFYING MEANINGFUL COINCIDENCES(SYNCHRONICITIES): The Evolving Self, The Personal Unconscious, and The Creative Process.
Essentially: alternative primary assumptions about the nature and knowledge of reality as viewed from alternative knowledge bases [ for example: speculative philosophy, depth psychology, aspects of the esoteric occult, science, and spirituality) yield alternative organizing concepts for ordering personal chaos. Utilizing alternative organizing concepts as filters of the raw data of experience lead to a revision of the meanings of core concepts associated with understanding synchronicities. Included are such concepts as the meaning of meaning, the nature of spirituality, alternative conceptions of causality and its relations to meaning.
These revisions generate a purely naturalistic theory of synchronicities as a viable alternative to Jung's half psychodynamic and half magical/mystical/spiritual theory of synchronicities. I conclude that these seemingly transcendent events are actually self generated 'messages' potentially used as 'answers' to what initially is experienced as an unsolvable psychological problem. They are byproducts of a person actively using his /her unique creative process.
You might find my workshop: The Nature and Use of Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities) While Working with Patients in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, of interest. See events
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