Synchronicity & Creativity

Synchronicity* is the intellect (ego) recognizing the transcendent in our empirical existence—it’s two or more events that are apparently unrelated by cause and effect—or unlikely to occur together by chance—that are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner. To recognize synchronicity indicates we find our identity in not only intellect, but in the transcendent as well—a partnership of ego and soul.

It’s when I recognize synchronicity that my creativity emerges. Synchronicity is the fertilization of creativity—the muse. The muse doesn’t give us anything—it just allows the creativity to be perceived and acted upon if we choose.

While writing this post, I happened to read a poem by William Stafford (1914-1993)**. On a lark, I did some research and found a 1971 interview with Stafford*** that includes the following three statements.

“…I don't know what I'm trying to achieve. I just write and find out what happens.”

“…what unfolds from time cannot be anticipated and the naive stance toward it is the only realistic stance to take.”

“I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along. So I inhale and exhale.”

My creative expression involves discovering and cleaning remnants—then combining them into Mysticks. Discovering the remnants is synchronistic. Cleaning and refining the remnants is my work. Their coming together is synchronistic, my pleasure, and my sustenance.

My approach to creative expression is described well by William Stafford—I don’t know what I’m trying to achieve. I just bring together remnants and find out what happens. I keep following the hidden river of my life. I follow it along trustingly. It just goes steadily along. So I inhale and exhale.

Resources

*Synchronicity – definition – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

**You Reading This, Be Ready, William Stafford – http://www.williamstafford.org/spoems/pages/youreading.html

***William Stafford 1971 interview – http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/stafford/interview.htm

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Synchronicity

We humans are sustained or devastated by our free will—by the choices we make each moment of our lives. Perceiving synchronicity is, perhaps, an affirmation of our being sustained—rather than being devastated, which we’ve learned to accept as the norm.

The concept of synchronicity was first described by Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung in the 1920s. Succinctly, it means experiencing two or more events that are apparently unrelated by cause and effect—or unlikely to occur together by chance—that are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner.¹

Skeptics believe synchronistic events are coincidental—unexpected, accidental, and, perhaps, uncanny. Some fifty years after Jung’s final published work on synchronicity it is now widely recognized—and typical patterns have emerged in recognizing synchronistic events and responses.¹

Perhaps synchronicity is more dynamic than Jung imagined. Perhaps the subconscious mind is the portal between the empirical and the soul—where the observable and the transcendent come together. Perhaps when we meditate—which intentionally minimizes ego—and we experience positive physical effects—e.g., lower blood pressure and respiration, reduction of existing stress levels, increased immunity—we’re inadvertently choosing to identify with soul?

                

Perhaps ego—which inherently identifies with separateness and self—creates devastation, while soul—the essence of life—creates and sustains life? The assumption is that ego and soul are indeed dualistic. If this is so, the union (marriage) of ego and soul would collapse the ego/soul duality. The offspring of this intercourse would be transcendence of the empirical. The sexual act is creative expression.

Synchronicity is observing and participating in the manifesting of transcendence in our empirical reality. Synchronicity is recognized when our identity with ego and soul are united. Creative expression is the penetration into the holy of holies.

Resources:

¹Synchronicity – Definition – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

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