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  | Guestbook |  | ![[Offline]](images/icon_mic_red.gif) | blueyez says: | I just read Sunshine and I have to say... that was lovely and superb! It can be interpreted in so many ways. It was love penned from the heart in any case! A wonderful read that made me warm inside! thank you for sharing your talent with us, and thank you for reading and commenting as well :)
Peace and Love Queen
 11/18/2008 |  |  |  | ![[Offline]](images/icon_mic_red.gif) | csmkaj says: | ThaQueen...Thanks for reading my poem! Men dream...of Days to Day Dream..about romance! Many men don't take advantage of the awesome opportunity to dive in head first....to explore this exciting world that is not selfish.....but full of unity, satisfaction, and harmony. Many are affraid to just give in....to love and not just lust. The combination of Love & Lust....well...is the dynamics of romance!. I am so romantic that it pours out of my words and dance between my ears....in my dreams...that I get so full.....that I have to let it go...daydreams are a fantasy...yet not dreamed by night....but captured in a Matrix Moment: Pause......."Come and Dream With Me" ....Dance with me in the cluster of words that speak....beyond the daydream....we are poets...let's create a daydream....together....through our words that dance between our ears......join me....for a creative challence.....
 07/30/2008 |  |  |  | ![[Offline]](images/icon_mic_red.gif) | blue20 says: | your writings express a queens voice, confident, powerful, encourging, a get right or get out'ness about it, i enjoyed my stay i must say, and shall return, take care and be blessed ms. lady till next time i cross your path, one!!!
 07/24/2008 |  |  |  | ![[Offline]](images/icon_mic_red.gif) | SOS_DY says: | nice to see you in...take great care Queen
 07/22/2008 |  |  |  | ![[Offline]](images/icon_mic_red.gif) | sunsweet says: | nice to see you on the mic hope that you are well...? is it hot enough for you yet....Be Blessed, sunsweet~~~
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 Synchronicity: the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality —used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung.
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 Gustav Jung.[citation needed]
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 [2], in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlay the whole of human experience and history — social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Events that happen which appear at first to be coincidence, but are later found to be causally related are termed as "incoincident".
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. [3]
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". [4]
Scientific reasoning
According to Occam's razor, positing an underlying mechanism for meaningfully interpreted correlations is an unsupported explanation for a "meaningful coincidence" if the correlations may alternatively be explained by simple coincidence. The amount of meaningful coincidence which one expects by random chance is higher than most people's intuition would lead them to believe, an observation known as Littlewood's Law. Jung and followers believe that synchronous events such as simultaneous discovery happen far more often than random chance would allow, even after accounting for the sampling bias inherent in the fact that meaningful coincidences are noticeable while meaningless coincidences are not.
In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is the tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and avoids information and interpretations which contradict prior beliefs [5]. Many critics believe that any evidence for synchronicity is due to confirmation bias, and nothing else.
Wolfgang Pauli, a scientist who in his professional life was severely critical of confirmation bias, lent his scientific credibility to support the theory, coauthoring a paper with Jung on the subject. Some of the evidence that Pauli cited was that ideas which occurred in his dreams would have synchronous analogs in later correspondence with distant collaborators
Telepathy: The supposed communication of thoughts and ideas otherwise than the known senses. |
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