synchronicity nom what's with all the plum pudding these days? 060416 ... nom i dunno but it's funny sometimes 060814 ... c r 0 w l plum pudding is delicious, and if you were making it right now... all the better it would taste...because, you see, you're in vancouver i think, and i'm @ robin_hill so somehow we connect...i laugh...it's funny how serious we are when everything is so simple. 080109 ... c r 0 w l Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally unrelated. In order to be synchronous, the events must be related to one another conceptually, and the chance that they would occur together by random chance must be very small. The concept of synchronicity The idea of synchronicity is that the conceptual relationship of minds, defined by the relationship between ideas, is intricately structured in its own logical way and gives rise to relationships which have nothing to do with causal relationships in which a cause precedes an effect. Instead, causal relationships are understood as simultaneous — that is, the cause and effect occur at the same time. Synchronous events reveal an underlying pattern, a conceptual framework which encompasses, but is larger than, any of the systems which display the synchronicity. The suggestion of a larger framework is essential in order to satisfy the definition of synchronicity as originally developed by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. Jung coined the word to describe what he called "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events." Jung variously described synchronicity as an "'acausal connecting principle'" (i.e., a pattern of connection that cannot be explained by conventional, efficient causality), "meaningful coincidence" and "acausal parallelism". Jung introduced the concept as early as the 1920s but only gave a full statement of it in 1951 in an Eranos lecture, then in 1952 published a paper "Synchronicity — An Acausal Connecting Principle" in a volume with a related study by the physicist (and Nobel winner) Wolfgang Pauli.[1] It was a principle that Jung felt gave conclusive evidence for his concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious], in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlay the whole of human experience and history — social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Jung believed that many experiences perceived as coincidence were not merely due to chance but, instead, suggested the manifestation of parallel events or circumstances reflecting this governing dynamic. One of Jung's favourite quotes on synchronicity was from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, in which the White Queen says to Alice: "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards". Events that happen which appear at first to be coincidence, but are later found to be causally related are termed as "incoincident". Examples ? A well-known example of synchronicity is the true story of the French writer Émile Deschamps who in 1805 was treated to some plum pudding by the stranger Monsieur de Fortgibu. Ten years later, he encountered plum pudding on the menu of a Paris restaurant, and wanted to order some, but the waiter told him the last dish had already been served to another customer, who turned out to be de Fortgibu. Many years later, in 1832, Émile Deschamps was at a diner, and was once again offered plum pudding. He recalled the earlier incident and told his friends that only de Fortgibu was missing to make the setting complete — and in the same instant the now senile de Fortgibu entered the room.[5] ? Another well-known example is the story of Lincoln's dream, in which Lincoln related a dream of his own funeral, in which he found he died by assassination, shortly before he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. ? Simultaneous discovery, the creation of the same new idea at causally disconnected places by two persons at approximately the same time. It is very difficult to account for simultaneous discovery by random chance.[ If for example an American and a British musician, having never had anything to do with one another, arrived at the same musical concept, chord sequence, feel or lyrics at the same time in different places, this is an example of synchronicity. This is explained by reasons such as global culture, which is the larger framework required to fit the definition of synchronicity. ? During production of The Wizard of Oz, a coat bought from a second-hand store for the costume of Professor Marvel was later found to have belonged to L. Frank Baum, author of the children's book upon which the film is based. ? The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd are part of the alleged Dark Side of the Rainbow synchronicity. ? It is interesting to note that Syd Barrett, the former lead singer of Pink Floyd walked in unannounced on the recordings of a song inspired by him 7 years after losing contact with other members of the band, Rick Wright spoke about the session, saying: "One thing that really stands out in my mind, that I'll never forget; I was going in to the "Shine On" sessions. I went in the studio and I saw this guy sitting at the back of the studio, he was only as far away as you are from me. And I didn't recognize him. I said, 'Who's that guy behind you?' 'That's Syd'. And I just cracked up, I couldn't believe it... he had shaven all his hair off... I mean, his eyebrows, everything... he was jumping up and down brushing his teeth, it was awful. And, uh, I was in, I mean Roger was in tears, I think I was; we were both in tears. It was very shocking... seven years of no contact and then to walk in while we're actually doing that particular track. I don't know – coincidence, karma, fate, who knows? But it was very, very, very powerful" ? Theodor Geisel (a/k/a, Dr. Seuss) was frequently confused, by the US Postal Service among others, with Dr Hans Suess who also lived in La Jolla, CA. Interesting enough, the personal papers of Hans Suess are now housed in the Geisel Library at UCSD 080109 ... lostgirl not accidental. not a twist of fate. just an intricate and complex quilt, each square filled with the color and texture of infinite possibilities, circumstances and coincidences, sewn securely by the invisible silent hugs of connected souls. 100425 ... tender_square i was clearing away the old emails you sent me twelve years ago, before i moved to the states, before we had found our first apartment together. you were taking pictures of the spaces visited on your own, reporting back findings without words. i walked the diag at lunch, toward the west hall tunnel, squinting behind sunglasses, my red blazer held in hand, scowling past students i am double the age of, when i saw you cycling through. your salt and pepper hair was tucked under a helmet and you pedaled with focus. “that can’t be…” i thought. but it was. i stopped and turned, caught you spiraling back to your route after slowing to see if i’d spin. and i waited there for a second, but you were around the corner and you weren’t coming back. the_ghost_of_you_lingers, days before i plan to leave my second union and set off back home. 220908 what's it to you? who go blather from