Synchronicity
Astrology in my understanding is based on an acausal (in a strictly materialistic-scientific sense), yet synchronous connection between macrocosmic and microcosmic planes (See introductory article "Why Astrology").
The following quotes have been collected by Dr. Michael Picard, PhD. for the weekly "Cafe Philosophy" gatherings in Victoria BC.
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I selected quotes relevant to the
astrology theme.
"A term coined by Carl
Jung to denote meaningful coincidence. Events bound by synchronicity are connected
by similarity, by meaning, by resonance, rather than by causality. Synchronicity
is an acausal connecting principle. Since it goes beyond causation, it goes
beyond time and space, and is not limited by such relations."
The First Insight Theory:
Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery
that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.
James Redfield. 1993.
The Celestine Prophecy
They demonstrate the
unity of psyche and matter, forcing us to transcend our rational, scientific,
materialistic attitudes.
Mansfield, 1995. Synchronicity,
Science, and Soul-making.
Synchronistic events
offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual
growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have
meaning.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD,
The Tao of Psychology, p.7
The intellect has little
to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call
it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know
how or why.
Albert Einstein
Coincidences are spiritual
puns.
G.K. Chesterton (1874
- 1936)
Chance favors the prepared
mind.
Louis Pasteur
There is no such thing
as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source
of destiny.
Friedrich Schiller (1759
- 1805)
Did blind chance know
that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all
creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other
suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind,
to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in
his power, and who is therefore to be feared.
Isaac Newton
The entire universe is a great theater of mirrors, a set of hieroglyphs to decipher; everything is a sign, everything harbors and manifests mystery. The principles of contradiction, of excluded middle, and of linear causality are supplanted by those of resolution, of included middle, and of synchronicity. ~
Alice
A. Bailey, Esoteric Psychology II
And some quotes by the
man himself, Carl G. Jung:
Synchronicity reveals
the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.
Carl G. Jung (1875 –
1961)
Synchronistic events
provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory
patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.
C. G. Jung
The connection between cause and effect turns out to be only statistically valid and only relatively true. ... I define synchronicity as a psychically conditioned relativity of time and space. ~ C. G. Jung
Though synchronistic phenomena occur in time and space they manifest a remarkable independence of both these indispensable determinants of physical existence and hence do not conform to the law of causality. ~ C. G. Jung, Collected Works
By far the greatest number of spontaneous synchronistic phenomena that I have had occasion to observe and analyze can easily be shown to have a direct connection with an archetype. ~ C. G. Jung, Synchronicity, An Acausal Principle
Synchronicity…means a ‘meaningful coincidence’ of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word ‘meaningful’. ~ Marie Louise von Franz, ‘The Process of Individuation’ Man and His Symbols (Carl G. Jung)
Synchronicity takes the coincidence of events in space and time as meaning something more than mere chance, namely, a peculiar interdependence of objective events among themselves as well as with the subjective (psychic) states of the observer or observers. ~ C. G. Jung, I Ching or The Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm, translator)
The characteristic feature of…synchronistic occurrences is meaningful coincidence, and as such I have defined the synchronistic principle. This principle suggests that there is an inter-connection or unity of causally unrelated events, and thus postulates a unitary aspect of being which can very well be described as the ‘unus mundus’ [one world]. ~ C. G. Jung, Collected Works
Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irreprehensible, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing. The synchronicity phenomena point, it seems to me, in this direction, for they show that the nonpsychic can behave like the psychic, and vice versa, without there being any causal connection between them. ~ Carl Jung, On the Nature of the Psyche, Collected Works
Everything that irritates
us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
C. G. Jung
Nobody, as long as he
moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
C. G. Jung
Where love rules, there
is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one
is the shadow of the other.
C. G. Jung, "On the Psychology
of the Unconciousness", 1917
As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of
mere being.
C. G. Jung, "Memories,
Dreams, Reflections", 1962
The meeting of two personalities
is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction,
both are transformed.
C. G. Jung
It all depends on how
we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.
C. G. Jung
In studying the history
of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth
of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step
forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost
say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of
his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!
C. G. Jung
All the works of man
have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate
imagination?
C. G. Jung
There can be no transforming
of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
C. G. Jung
I could not say I believe.
I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger
than myself, something that people call God.
C. G. Jung
The pendulum of the mind
alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
C. G. Jung
Religion is a defense
against the experience of God.
C. G. Jung
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