How Synchroneity And Jung Appear In The Creative Process
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- November 25th, 2008 |
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I was editing a passage in my novel CONDUCT IN QUESTION, the first in THE OSGOODE TRILOGY. The villainous Florist was about to march down the steps to kill the adolescent man, Donnie, hiding in the cloakroom. The boy had besotted the support carpet with gasoline and was about to set it on fire. Would that, I debated, cause the impressive explosion of flames I had described? Who could give me advice on pyrotechnics? Moments later, when the doorbell rang, I was stupefied to find cardinal firemen on my doorstep. Once I had convinced them of my innocent intent, they told me the stairwell would certainly “blow up real good.”
And that is synchroneity! Which we’ve all experienced in our lives. Remember the time you were cerebration for days of a long lost friend and so short he appeared at your door? Much experiences accept our breath away and make us believe we are all connected in any change cosmic soup!
But what is synchroneity? Of course, it’s a coincidence, which is meaningful to you, the person whose breath is taken away. It can’t be explained by cause and effect. As far as anyone knows, you [or individual else] didn’t do anything to cause the event. What coincides? My psychic country [wondering how to attempt out the blaze without actually background one] and the event [the arrival of the perfect people to answer my question].
Carl Jung [the Swiss psychiatrist] is the ‘father’ of synchroneity, in that he experienced, affected and developed theories about it. One of his female patients had a highly rationalistic attitude toward life and was consequently resistant to much psychotherapy. As she was recounting a antic dream about receiving a golden scarabaeus [a costly piece of gold jewelry] thither was a persistent tapping on the pane behind Jung. Opening the pane, the doctor reached out and brought in a large scarabaeus beetle. The appearance of the ‘real’ beetle at the real moment she was recounting her dream punctured her rational, intellectual approach to life and permitted her to carry on successfully with her therapy.
Any people believe synchroneity operates end-to-end the collection as a grand ‘cosmic force.’ Have you seen the new movie by Mel Gibson, Apocalypto? In the Mayan culture, it was appreciated that brobdingnagian synchronistic forces governed the collection and were related to the motion of the planets, stars and galaxies. Does this appear far-fetched in our ‘modern’ times? Certainly not! In the book, Cosmos and Psyche, by Richard Tarnas, published in 2006, synchroneity and the influence of the planets are impressively linked.
My experience and fascination with synchroneity caused me to devise cardinal spectacularly ‘coincidental’ events in my novel, FINAL PARADOX, which is the 2nd in THE OSGOODE TRILOGY. Harry Jenkins, the protagonist, is an estates lawyer in Toronto, Canada. For years, Harry and his father have been estranged. When his sister died at the age of XII, Harry’s father, crippled with grief, withdrew almost completely from the family. And Harry, now in his late forties and childless, cannot believe how the loss of his sister could have so horribly affected his father. Now his father lies near death in hospital. Harry is in the Quiet Room of the hospital, mourning the lost years between them and wishing he knew how to pray. Short a Black and her husband enter the room. Hysterical with grief over the murder of her son, the Black screams and curses until, finally, a doctor sedates her. Immediately, Harry understands the painful agony of the loss of a child. At the real moment of his asking, he has the answer. Harry is transformed by the meaning of deep connection to forces he only dimly perceives.
So, how do much events actually happen? A contemplate of quantum physics leads us to believe that our distinction between our inner and outer class is illusory and that we do, in fact, aquatics in a cosmic soup in which thither is no distinction between the soup and us. And so, our psychic energy may really influence or ‘cause’ events in the ‘outer’ class. Consequently, in a moment highly charged with concentrated emotion, Harry Jenkins asks for and receive his answer in a most dramatic fashion.