“What entanglement (and quantum theory in general) does do is remind us is that the real world is much stranger than we imagine.” Brian Clegg The Strange World of Quantum Entanglement by Paul Comstock March 30th, 2007 California Literary Review Interview with Brian Clegg Brian Clegg received a physics degree from Cambridge University and is…
One of the best writers about the world of Jungian thought is Murray Stein. He has written a number of excellent books: The Principle of Individuation Jung’s Map of the Soul Jungian Analysis Jung’s Treatment of Christianity In Midlife Practicing Wholeness Transformation Emergence of the Self Solar Conscience Lunar Conscience In the biography section of…
A few years later Wilhelm was staying as a guest in my house, and came down with an attack of amoebic dysentery. It was a disease he had had twenty years before. His condition grew worse during the following months, and then I heard that Wilhelm was in the hospital. I went to Frankfurt to…
From the Wikipedia entry on synchronicity One of Jung’s favorite quotes on synchronicity was from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, in which the White Queen says to Alice: “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”. ‘It’s very good jam,’ said the Queen. ‘Well, I don’t want any TO-DAY, at any rate.’…
The 1983 album Synchronicity was inspired by Arthur Koestler’s The Roots of Coincidence , which has substantial material about Jung’s idea of synchronicity.Koestler (1905-1983) wrote numerous essays, novels, and autobiographies. In this later years, he developed Parkinsons disease; he and his wife eventually deliberately overdosed on barbituates and alcohol. The passage below is part of…
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…