Synchronicity as Macroscopic
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 1:56 pm
My own perspective on consciousness is that it somehow is not strictly a product of mechanistic causation. The view that the brain operates mechanically is obviously correct insofar as drugs and physical damage reduce or limit one's temporal capacities, but what does not seem to be correct is the view that consciousness is less fundamental to the totality of the brains physical activity. This means that if you were to get dementia, you are only temporarily unconscious. The totality of your life still relates itself to the non-temporal or non-local, which is why Kierkegaard says:"for God, everything is possible."
This leads us to explore the difference between serendipity and Synchronistic events.
I value this distinction because Serendipity does not distinguish itself sufficiently. The term, as it's defined, is lumped up with conventional notions of consciousness.
What makes Synchronistic events so interesting is the same reason for why humanity loves mirrors, photographs and being on camera. It appeals to our narcissism.
Synchronistic Events are very much a mirror, a direct mirror, and they cause events in the environment to reflect what you already believe. When you have a synchronistic event it's like looking at yourself through a microscope, or better, your are seeing a symbol of yourself that represents a large-scale or general analysis of your behavior, your beliefs and your conduct. This might be flattering, but could just as easily be humiliating.
From this perspective, it would be dangerous and foolish to see synchronicitic events as guideposts or friendly signs of progress. Most of us understand the problems caused by the mirror, the seductive but fruitlessly vain temptation to become overly enchanted by our own reflection.
Humanity has a tendency to make an opiate out of everything, and synchronicitic events seem to be nothing other than a mirror, a way of seeing yourself. Synchronicity then becomes as useful as mirrors themselves are useful - but just as vain!
The universe tends to gauge or measure you, not as an individual person, but as a kind of archetype. We are all archetypes playing out a story that has happened billions of times already. Therefore, it's not difficult to conceive that all of our behavior has a correlated mirror outside of us. Everything we do inside gets reflected back to us someway from the outside, and this can happen because what is happening inside of us is not really all that unique. If what we happen to be is genuinely unique, genuinely on the leading edge, then we occupy the archetype of messenger, christ, angel, god or devil. The universe has you pigeonholed, no matter how unique you are. Everything you do will create a mirror output, giving you a kind of feedback that seems magical, but is really just the nature of consciousness, which is non dual.
"As long as you still experience the stars as something above you, you lack the eye of knowledge." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered." Thomas: 6
This leads us to explore the difference between serendipity and Synchronistic events.
I value this distinction because Serendipity does not distinguish itself sufficiently. The term, as it's defined, is lumped up with conventional notions of consciousness.
What makes Synchronistic events so interesting is the same reason for why humanity loves mirrors, photographs and being on camera. It appeals to our narcissism.
Synchronistic Events are very much a mirror, a direct mirror, and they cause events in the environment to reflect what you already believe. When you have a synchronistic event it's like looking at yourself through a microscope, or better, your are seeing a symbol of yourself that represents a large-scale or general analysis of your behavior, your beliefs and your conduct. This might be flattering, but could just as easily be humiliating.
From this perspective, it would be dangerous and foolish to see synchronicitic events as guideposts or friendly signs of progress. Most of us understand the problems caused by the mirror, the seductive but fruitlessly vain temptation to become overly enchanted by our own reflection.
Humanity has a tendency to make an opiate out of everything, and synchronicitic events seem to be nothing other than a mirror, a way of seeing yourself. Synchronicity then becomes as useful as mirrors themselves are useful - but just as vain!
The universe tends to gauge or measure you, not as an individual person, but as a kind of archetype. We are all archetypes playing out a story that has happened billions of times already. Therefore, it's not difficult to conceive that all of our behavior has a correlated mirror outside of us. Everything we do inside gets reflected back to us someway from the outside, and this can happen because what is happening inside of us is not really all that unique. If what we happen to be is genuinely unique, genuinely on the leading edge, then we occupy the archetype of messenger, christ, angel, god or devil. The universe has you pigeonholed, no matter how unique you are. Everything you do will create a mirror output, giving you a kind of feedback that seems magical, but is really just the nature of consciousness, which is non dual.
"As long as you still experience the stars as something above you, you lack the eye of knowledge." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered." Thomas: 6