open space and synchronicity
Phelim McDermott
phelim at mac.com
Mon May 29 02:18:49 PDT 2006
Oh by the way..
At a recent processwork seminar I was on run by Max Schupach and his
partner Ellen they said.. " We have an exercise here.". and they
were about to give out the exercise on sheets of paper.. before they
could, we heard the sound of a caretaker/janitor going by.. he was
whistling.. "Wait... my god.. What's thats song?" Said Ellen... we
all listened to his whistling and someone said it's: "Someone to
watch over me" They then gave out the exercise sheet which was
printed and entitled: "Someone to watch over me." it was an exercise
about having the sense of something.. whatever it is.. looking after
you and guiding you.
I forgot to ask how much they had paid him!
Love
Phelim
On 29 May 2006, at 09:48, Phelim McDermott wrote:
> 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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