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Subject: Pushing It

Geotangent

22:38 01/05/2000 

This is in response to a couple of things that Angela said in the horse threads, which were a bit incidental at the time, but which I kept thinking deserved a response on their own separately...

Namely, (quoting Angela) "Is there such a thing as pushing it with synchs.?" E.g. "Couldn't help but notice as the 'equine in origin' tumbled into 'Eugene Onegin'. Am I pushing it? Or, perhaps, 'Pushkin(g)' it?...puns always seem to come out with synchronicities." (Note this is a different issue to synch. addiction discussed 7 or 8 post threads back - that's more like being pulled along into them.)

My own feeling/answer on this one is that 'yes, you can push links out of the realm of synchronicity, but then I would argue it becomes something else.' And that something else I call 'hyperassociating', for want of a better word (and if anyone can suggest a better one for what I'm trying to describe, go ahead). The difference between a synchronicity and a hyperassociation is that with a synchronicity the connecting symbol manifests itself from outside in a seemingly spontaneous way (e.g. the oft-quoted example of Jung's patient discussing her dream of a Scarab beetle and at that moment a Scarab beetle bangs against the window.)

A hyperassociation is more generated from within, making connections in the symbols that you generate for yourself (punny or manic or otherwise). Often I do this when I am wanting some things to be synchronistic, more than it actually are. But subsequently they may have value as part of a cluster effect with genuine synchronicities later (e.g. my thinking about my synch. number 112 evolved out of playing with the date 11 February - 11/2, a significant date for me).

I regard hyperassociating as being the inverse of lateral thinking. Lateral thinking generates new objects to link and 'think' to, hyperassociating generates new (wild and curvy as you like) links out of existing objects.

At this point, I feel like saying 'do ya know what I mean?'. I've found it a useful term anyway, to sort out the wheat from the chaff over time. Gives me some more nuances at least, and some labels to grab hold of the phenomena more...

Bye for now, Geo.

Geotangent (proofreading a bit late)

22:48 01/05/2000 

Re: 'more than it actually are' (above). Oh well, it's a bit harder to proofread on the fixed screen. Listening to my toddler child saying things like 'Me do it' too much, I guess...The 'is' became 'are' but I forgot to change the 'it' to 'they' too.

Hyperassociating from that I'd be saying all synchronicities merge into one...the one in the many, the many in the one (maybe, may be). Geo.

sd

01:22 02/05/2000 

Well geo-tangent what do you call this? I have been"hyper associating" with wheat and chaff for two weeks. Chaff being a word I never heard before...it has personal connotations for me not in the symbolic. I have read my way today through a biblical story where wheat and the gathering of chaff becomes predominate and symbolic for community behaviours: i.e. taking care of the poor,invalids,widows.. all this has been integrated into the new novel I began last month..

Angela

02:59 02/05/2000 

Hi Geo, Sd.

Thanks for all those thoughts. The hyperassociating term makes sense to me. I do feel an absolute difference between a blatant synchronicity and the ones that appear forced.

The 'equine in origin' immediately reformed itself visually for me. And there is also the fact that Jane paused when writing it, leaving it in her posting because 'it would mean something to someone'. So, that may not be a 'word for word' synchronicity, but her thought did connect to mine. And, yes, the 'Eugene Onegin' was brought up in previous threads, so I would be more hyper-aware for sure. However, Liam mentioning 'Eugene Onegin' was the outside connection that made this significant for me again.

Again it seems to be that issue of a 'synch. to follow' or 'a message to be gleaned'. (This came up on the member's forum.) Perhaps this 'cluster' for me was a bit of both?

And I cannot gloss over the 11/2. Sd just made a quote about this number on the member's forum. As well, I remember you mentioning this long ago, Geo, (8, 9 months ago -- so it must be in the archives). I remember being surprised to see that number because it is my birthday number and, thus, holds particular significance for me too. Maybe that is why the 112 became so synchronous for me, i.e. finding the sticker in my waistband, then all the additions. My psyche already knew to watch for the number. But I believe it is still just as important. Is it not what this quest is all about -- to 'bring things to consciousness'?

So, because the stichomancy poetry reading held huge sychronous words, such as 'Pushkin' and 'rails' (trails to follow in future?), I was drawn to pay particularly close attention to the message in the poem and how it applied to me. There absolutely was a message. And it applied so cleanly I found myself very moved at a very transitional time.

So, perhaps, 'In my beginning is my end... /In my end is my beginning.' TS Eliot

Angela.

Angela

03:03 02/05/2000 

Oh, and of course Sd!

Chaff... It seems there are words and links for everyone. How delightful!

Angela

Geotangent

01:14 27/05/2000 

Thinking about this a bit more, I'm reminded of a play by Billy Marshall-Stoneking called 'Sixteen Words for Water', the title refering to an indigenious people having 16 words for water - relating more 'fluidly' with an aspect of the world by having more symbols by which to describe it and therefore relate to it (e.g. witness all the juicy financial terms in our language for money, liquidity and equity and dividend etc.).

So I'm a bit greedy - I want 16 words for synchronicity. I want juicy words for: synchs. with numbers; synchs. involving names; microsynchs. over a little bit of time; deeply profound synchs; synchs. with animals (zoolosynchs, Jane?); synchs. with nature; synchs. around births; & around deaths; literary synchs.; number plate synchs. (autosynchs?); cosmic convergences & coincidences of physics & what else, I've lost count, go back to school for a while, just use one word until it sinks in as a mantra..."nonlocal, nonlocal, nonlocal" to now counterpoint a life of daily cravings until the pendulum comes back to the centreless centre.

"...quantum nonlocality is clearly of fundamental importance and it will bear fruit in helping us develop new attitudes that will permit a healthier adaptation to our nuclear environment. ... Nonlocality and synchronicity fit snugly within emptiness, which positively stated implies a deep form of interconnectedness or codependency of all entities. Perhaps the greatest blessing for the larger world that has come from the genocide practised upon the Tibetans has been our exposure to their companion ideas of emptiness and universal compassion. Maybe this is an example of how the seeds of new development are found within the slime of psychic regression." (from 'Synchronicity, Science and Soul-Making' by Victor Mansfield (Open Court, 1995)).

...and that's my bedtime story. Goodnight, Geo. [brush my teeth before lights out on the circles of pastel-block scrolls]

WHAT IS
SYNCHRONICITY?

Jane Teresa's Explanation

Jane Teresa Anderson

WHAT IS SYNCHRONICITY?

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Synchronicity occurs when you experience a coincidence, or several coincidences, that seem so bizarre that you feel they must be meaningful in some way.

Some people believe that synchronicities are signs to follow, to lead you to where you are 'meant' to be. My understanding, however, is that not all synchronicities are to be followed, because ...

Synchronicities are SYMBOLS of where you're at, not signs to follow.

Synchronicities speak the same symbolic language as dreams.

When you experience a synchronicity, you are witnessing a change within yourself, an insight, a birth of something that has been unconscious bubbling up into consciousness.

At such times of change we see, all around us, symbols that reflect our shift in perception and self-understanding. This is synchronicity.

To understand this fully, and to see why it is not always appropriate to follow synchronicity, you can read my book, THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. This way you can also discover how to read the synchronicities in your life and how to act on them in positive, life-enhancing ways.

Reality may never feel the same again!

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P.S.

In Jungian terms all synchronicities begin with a dream.

The dream comes first, then the symbol from the dream appears in waking life in ways that seem incredibly meaningful - though, classically, it is hard to understand, consciously, what that meaning is.

This is because the dream is painted by your unconscious mind in advance of your conscious mind 'catching up'. When the insight (unconscious shift) is big, synchronicities follow.

What happens is that your incredibly powerful unconscious mind (far more powerful than your conscious mind) manifests its insight physically into your waking life. (You have changed - the world, as you experience it, changes in accordance.)

It usually takes up to a couple of weeks before your conscious mind understands the symbolic dream manifesting in your waking life as synchronicity.

Being human, as we all are, we often forget the original dream but still experience the synchronicities.

There are many excellent reference sources on Jungian synchronicity.

My approach is largely Jungian, but slightly shifted.

Again, if you are seriously in-depth interested, I suggest you read my book "THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME" to understand where I am coming from.

Quite simply, synchronicity is a waking dream and interpreting it as such is immensely enriching.

Jane Teresa Anderson