A friend forwarded me a link “A psychiatrists view of of Poetry and Poets”. which got me thinking about Theodore Roethke (who struggled with manic-depression) and his poem “In a Dark Time.” The third stanza opens with a description of synchronicity like state – “a steady stream of correspondences”, that would also match Joyce’s…
Excerpt from the essay Time, Synchronicity and Evolution F. David Peat Yet there are also moments in the life of each one of us when we touch what the Irish writer, James Joyce, termed an epiphany, so that “the soul of the commonest object…. seems to us radiant”. Epiphanies are occasions of benediction when meaning…
From the Philemon Foundation Website: In Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Jung recounted the dream in which Philemon first appeared to him. Jung saw a sea blue sky, covered by brown clods of earth that appeared to be breaking apart. Out of the blue, he saw an old man with kingfisher wings and the horns of a…
Synchronicity and the Tao: Mysticism, Metaphor, Morphic Fields, and the Quest for Meaning Journal article by Jean Shinoda Bolen Re-vision, Vol. 16, 1993 I think that the best way to under-stand what Jung meant by synchronicity is by examples from his own life. In a letter to J. B. Rhine, the father of parapsychology, Jung…
Excerpt from Synchroncity, Quatum Information and the Psyche Journal of Cosmology, Vol 3, pages 580-589. Cosmology, October 8, 2009 In summary, some mental phenomena are not explainable in the framework of what we call “classical” mechanics. Let us cite, among others, the phenomenon of awareness, the correlations at a distance between individuals, and more generally…
In a letter to Freud dated June 12, 1911, Jung wrote: “My evenings are taken up largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth. Some remarkable things have turned up which will certainly appear incredible to you…I dare say that we shall one day…
from Mysterium Coniunctionis There was a great drought where [Richard] Wilhelm lived; for months there had not been a drop of rain and the situation became catastrophic. The Catholics made processions, the Protestants made prayers, and the Chinese burned joss-sticks and shot off guns to frighten away the demons of the drought, but with no…
Triads of gods appear very early, at the primitive level. The archaic triads in the religions of antiquity and of the East are too numerous to be mentioned here. Arrangement in triads is an archetype in the history of religion, which in all probability formed the basis of the Christian Trinity – C G Jung,…