Pynchon synchronicity learned today
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 03:41:06 CST 2014
Morris knows Jung, so follow his words. My use was lax, or almost a joke if I want to defend myself. The Wikipedia article on it seems good, detailed.
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> On Dec 4, 2014, at 8:52 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Synchronicity doesn't primarily mean an occurrence of extreme coincidence. To my mind it means more a noticing significant chance occurances that are the normal, unnoticed status quo. They seem uncanny when we notice them, but they are actually the constant unnoticed norm.
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> David Morris
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>> On Thursday, December 4, 2014, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Read Jung's introduction to Richard Wilhelm's translation of the I Ching in which he describes the significance of the chance throwing of the yarrow stick to get a read on one's fortune.
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>>> On Thursday, December 4, 2014, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Goes back to Jung, as far as I know. ( which means if it goes back further, I don't know where).
>>> Essay In his Collected Works somewhere.
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>>> Sent from my iPad
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>>>> On Dec 4, 2014, at 4:16 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> A friend gave me a copy of Celestine Prophecy to read not too long ago. Never knew anything about it until I read it. She said it is one of her favorite books. It isn't very long so I just read it. No comment on that. Anyhooz, I decided I'd give her Lot 49 for Xmas and tell her it's a similar book and that she might like it; see what happens.
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>>>> Does anyone have any suggestions or links to a monograph, essay, or a book somewhere on paranoia and synchronicity?
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>>>> On Dec 4, 2014 2:07 PM, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> His time in the Navy overlapped with Bill Cosby's.
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