You will find Synchronicity
by Bob on January 15, 2007
Dr. C.G. Jung looked, as we know, at the collective sub-conscious or even collective consciousness. Hence a good working definition of "Gaia" I should imagine.
Jung's work on Synchronicity (the basis for the song "Synchronicity" by The Police!) which took over fifty years to write, and he wrote it with the cooperation of the famous physicist Dr. Wolfgang Pauli, shows us that cosmic myopeia is likely a fault of modern technological mankind.
One of Dr. Jung's favourite quotes on Synchronicity was from "Through the Looking Glass" by the great mathematician and logician, Lewis Carroll. In Chapter 5, "Wool and Water", the White Queen says to Alice that "it's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards". ;) (*)
Inferentially, then we realise that "Distance = Rate x Time" which we use in the West (the East doesn't quite think this way: cf. India, Tibet, etc.) is a model upon which we concur. But Einstein knew it could and would break down. Trains do still have to run, so we keep it.
Like also "Death" itself is a purely legal definition and yet, as Freidrich Nietzsche pointed out, so is a "Moment" wobbily defined.
Food for thought.
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(*) Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll, Ch. 5, Wool and Water.
It's very good jam,' said the Queen.
'Well, I don't want any TO-DAY, at any rate.'
'You couldn't have it if you DID want it,' the Queen said. 'The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday--but never jam to-day.'
'It MUST come sometimes to "jam to-day,"' Alice objected.
'No, it can't,' said the Queen. 'It's jam every OTHER day: to-day isn't any OTHER day, you know.'
'I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully confusing!'
'That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first--'
'Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I never heard of such a thing!'
'--but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.'
'I'm sure MINE only works one way,' Alice remarked. 'I can't remember things before they happen.'
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.