| Time, Synchronicity and Evolution F. David Peat |
It is the condition of life in a modern, industrial world that we so often experience a sense of isolation and dislocation from the natural world and those around us....
Yet there are also moments in the life of each one of us when we touch what the Irish writer, James Joyce, termed an epiphany, so that "the soul of the commonest object.... seems to us radiant"...
This experience of epiphany is the essential feature of what the psychologist Carl Jung termed a synchronicity. In turn, synchronicities reveal the larger patterns of the cosmos, including those movements of growth, realization and renewal we call evolution. ...
A sense of numiniousness meaning is the key to recognizing the occurrence of a synchronicity. ...
Synchronicities provide us with into the inner structures of both nature and mind but with this proviso - synchronicities do not operate in linear, didactic ways but through metaphor, image and allusion. ...
It opens the door to the suggestion that one may be able to participate, in a direct way, with the inner workings of matter. Or suggests the possibility for the individual, and society as a whole, to enter into a cooperative relationship with the movements of nature and the cosmos. ...
The use of a linear time as the ultimate arbiter of progress is an aberration within the world's cultures. Creativity lies outside time. It embraces both the emergence of new, the unconditioned, and the renewal of the familiar ...
Modern science pictures life in terms of stable eco-systems, and eco-systems interacting through patterns of cooperation and self-organization. In this sense it is the responsibility of each individual to engage and renew their subtle, yet vital connections with the whole. ...
Synchronicities are connections between the internal patterns of the organism and its environment. They can occur both as acts of renewal and in order to catalyze necessary change, or as parts of a person's creativity. ...
Times of crisis occur in the life of an individual, and of a society or species. When old forms of behavior are insufficient to meet a new challenge, the boundaries between inner and outer, individual and collective consciousness, external pattern and internal behavior, dissolve. This may lead to a period of numinous dreaming, collective social fantasies and desires, and great artistic expression - and finally, a sudden surge within "the spirit of the age". ...
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