Description
Analyzing key takeaways from Carl Jung’s essay on Synchronicity.
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Psychology
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Essay
- Jung references how modern science has had to bend the reliance on true causality since the emergence of the quantum movement. Now, things at a macroscopic scale would need to adhere to chance and statistics.
- If things we infer to still be “causal” are done so under the guise of science, knowing chance is beneath it, we could say that there lies a nonzero value for the instances in which we cannot explain some instance pertaining to the causal conclusion. Said differently, if it’s not 100% accurate, then we can say the small exception to the rule should force us to question whether there is a science for acausality.
- Jung suggests since we can’t observe every instance to identify the moment of acausality, we can approach this by instead asking ourselves what would be inconceivable to deduce a causal relationship from?
- In discussing the cross-section of causality, Arthur Schopenhauer gives a wonderful analogy in “On the Apparent Design in the Fate of the Individual” — that we can picture two parallel lines that are the cross-connection between the meridians.
- Schopenhauer claims there are two types of connections:
- Objective: This is causal and agreed on globally.
- Subjective: This is acausal and only perceived relative to the individual; local.
- Schopenhauer claims that this can be adhered to only if we believe in the prima cause — the initial cause, the transcendental Will. This would imply there is an initial unity that then emanates into multiplicity.
- In reference to magic, Jung quotes a passage from Albertus Magnus:
- “I discovered an instructive account [of magic] in Avicenna's Liber sextus naturalium, which says that a certain power to alter things indwells in the human soul and subordinates the other things to her, particularly when she is swept into a great excess of love or hate or the like. When therefore the soul of a man falls into a great excess of any passion, it can be proved by experiment that it (the excess] binds things [magically] and alters them in the way it wants,18 and for a long time I did not believe it, but after I had read the nigromantic books and others of the kind on signs and magic, I found that the emotionality of the human soul is the chief cause of all these things, whether because, on account of her great emotion, she alters her bodily substance and the other things towards which she strives, or because, on account of her dignity, the other, lower things are subject to her, or because the appropriate hour or astrological situation or another power coincides with so inordinate an emotion, and we [in consequence] believe that what this power does is then done by the soul... Whoever would learn the secret of doing and undoing these things must know that everyone can influence everything magically if he falls into a great excess ... and he must do it at that hour when the excess befalls him, and operate with the things which the soul prescribes. For the soul is then so desirous of the matter she would accomplish that of her own accord she seizes on the more significant and better astrological hour which also rules over the things suited to that matter.... Thus it is the soul who desires a thing more intensely, who makes things more effective and more like what comes forth. ... Such is the manner of production with everything the soul intensely desires. Everything she does with that aim in view possesses motive power and efficacy for what the soul desires."
💡 This makes me think about how space and time is actually warped and not straight — done so due to the heavy mass that exists throughout the universe. Could it be that if we adhere to Itzhak Bentov’s work, that the warping of space-time is causing these seemingly disparate lines to cross each other? And is there a deepening factor here that causes them to spiral amongst each other, until this serial cross-connection amplifies and gains meaning?
💡 Within the gaps of probability, lies the opportunity for God, Spirit, or Unity.