open space and synchronicity

[Phelim McDermott]

I think Jung said that a synchronicity was a coupling between two  
seemingly unlikely events which was felt by the person experiencing  
them to have meaning, so within this debate it is the sense of  
meaning which is important to me and on a certain level the lack of  
meaning which others experience.. "it's just a coincidence" seem to  
weirdly make it more meaningful for me. Further..  the attempt to  
quantify it from a newtonian causal perspective.. ie "How unlikely  
was it? How meaningful is it to you? is to miss the point because  
from that perspective you are analysing from a dualistic worldview.   
If you believe it isn't weird or Spooky.. you are of course right.  
For me the experience is a window into a different worldview which  
perhaps I/we don't  often get the chance to experience (Except in  
Open space? Or impro?) Maybe the less experience we have had of the  
non dualistic world the more meaningful it seems and the more  
experience we have had of the connected world the more everyday or  
normal?

It reminds me of my experience as a child when I had a poltergeist in  
my house which threw things around, played tricks, made objects pass  
through walls and demonstrated things which were outside of  
"Newtonian science." It was at first important for me to convince  
others my experience was real.. Then I realised it was my reality and  
it was not important what others thought and to believe in my  
experience and test its reality for myself.  I was encouraged to not  
talk too loudly about it by my parents...  So of course years later I  
made a show out of it "70 Hill Lane" which took me all round the  
world and won an award Off Broadway and helped create our theatre  
company Improbable. Up until then my world was split because I just  
hadn't been talking about it loudly enough!

Meanwhile time for a quote from Ramsey Dukes:

"Is it  the strength of scientific beliefs that give them their power  
to unify our experience. Is science the safest way of all? ..the  
ability to bend metal is not a "higher power" so much as an atavistic  
failure to maintain metal as solid as we need it to be"

love and

here's a link to details of the show  http://www.improbable.co.uk/ 
show_example.asp?item_id=3





On 29 May 2006, at 06:41, Wendy Farmer-O'Neil wrote:

> A wise and crafty woman told me, not so long ago, that  
> synchronicity is
> Spirit acting anonymously in the world.
>
> I rather liked that.
>
> And for any fans of Douglas Adams out there (Hitchhiker's Guide to the
> Galaxy)...i have been toying with the idea (since the TARDIS  
> thread) that
> Open Space runs on improbability physics.  You remember how it  
> goes...If
> something is a virtual impossibility, then it must be a finite
> improbability. We work out how improbable it is and Presto! it  
> arises fully
> formed before our eyes.  As Zaphod complains about the infinite
> improbability drive, "Is this going to happen every time we use  
> this thing?"
> Anybody for a nice, really hot, cup of tea?
>
> Cheers,
> Wendy
>
> Ps:  how about synkairosity?
>
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