"SYNCHRONICITOUS"?????????!!!!!!!??????

[David Morris]

I don't think this opposition (chance vs. cause&effects) is at the heart of 
what Jung's speaking about re. the I Ching.  Synchonicity is about "cosmic 
coincidences" or "significant chance moments" _revealed_ by the oracle.  
This IS more than chance, and IS caused by S O M E T H I N G.  The cause in 
this case is some aspect of the cosmos which is beyond the cause and effect 
that can be rationally understood.  This is nothing less than an acceptance 
of mysticism, or some spiritual force that pervades everything.

>From: "Otto"
>
>I think Jung's main error lies in building up the hierarchical opposition 
>of chance vs. cause&effect.
>>Jung:
>>The hexagram was the exponent of the moment in which it was cast -- even 
>>more so than the hours of the clock or the divisions of the calendar could 
>>be -- inasmuch as the hexagram was understood to be an indicator of the 
>>essential situation prevailing in the moment of its origin.
>>This assumption involves a certain curious principle that I have termed 
>>synchronicity,[2] a concept that formulates a point of view diametrically 
>>opposed to that of causality. (...) synchronicity takes the coincidence of 
>>events in space and time as meaning something more than mere chance."
>>
>-- ja wat denn nun! If it is more then "mere chance" there is causality.


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