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M Winther
Oct 14, 2012, 11:06:10 AM10/14/12
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"Critique of Synchronicity"
Abstract: Unlike his dream theory and theory of archetypes, Carl Jung's
notion of synchronicity hasn't met with success. The metaphysical system
surrounding the hypothesis includes notions of supernaturalism
(transcendence). This is a religio-philosophical viewpoint, rather than
a scientific. The deleterious consequences are obvious. It undermines
scientific respectability, promotes superstition, and has kindled
obsolete polytheistic ideas in the post-Jungians. There is to date no
scientific evidence to support synchronicity. But the strongest argument
against the synchronistic notion is the fact that it hasn't proved
helpful in any respect. Jung's unitarian model of the human self is
criticized. The self really consists of two complementary aspects, a
worldly and a spiritual.
Keywords: meaningful coincidence, archetype, unus mundus, psychoid,
transcendental, polytheism, Hegel, Platonism, complementarian self.
Read my new article here:
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/synchronicity.htm
Mats Winther
Abstract: Unlike his dream theory and theory of archetypes, Carl Jung's
notion of synchronicity hasn't met with success. The metaphysical system
surrounding the hypothesis includes notions of supernaturalism
(transcendence). This is a religio-philosophical viewpoint, rather than
a scientific. The deleterious consequences are obvious. It undermines
scientific respectability, promotes superstition, and has kindled
obsolete polytheistic ideas in the post-Jungians. There is to date no
scientific evidence to support synchronicity. But the strongest argument
against the synchronistic notion is the fact that it hasn't proved
helpful in any respect. Jung's unitarian model of the human self is
criticized. The self really consists of two complementary aspects, a
worldly and a spiritual.
Keywords: meaningful coincidence, archetype, unus mundus, psychoid,
transcendental, polytheism, Hegel, Platonism, complementarian self.
Read my new article here:
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/synchronicity.htm
Mats Winther
M Winther
Oct 15, 2012, 4:47:00 AM10/15/12
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Humans beings are endowed with a self that is a two-unity. Adjustment to
the spiritual path necessitates that we absorb the spiritual worldview
of faith and reclusiveness that is already present inside us as the
trinitarian aspect of self (the 'ternarius', using a medieval term).
This spiritual pattern of personality is already inside us, from the
beginning. It grows in the moonlight, while we are busy in the world.
Jung's critical argument is really predicated on his own self model. His
position is that the self is quaternarian, that is, committed to worldly
realization of wholeness and completeness. The trinitarian self of
religious tradition, and the spiritual practices surrounding it, are
incompatible with Jung's model and are therefore rejected. It has been
argued that Jung's argumentation depends on a misreading of the Eastern
traditions. Leon Schlamm says:
"Welwood insists that meditation is a royal road to non-dualistic
experience, rather than to a subterranean unconscious mind, revealing
awareness of a unified field where divisions between subject and object,
the inner world and outer reality, and consciousness and the
unconscious, are recognised as possessing only conventional
significance, but from the perspective of a higher order of truth of
Buddhism simply do not exist. Such divisions, including Jung's division
between ego and unconscious, are, for Welwood, symptomatic of the
confused state of mind known in Buddhism as samsara [...]
Mark Epstein, for example, has argued that, from the Buddhist
perspective, it is mistake to view egolessness as a developmental stage
beyond the ego. During transpersonal states of consciousness the ego is
not abandoned, nor completely transcended; rather, the spiritual
practitioner realises that the ego lacks concrete existence. It is not
the ego that disappears; rather the belief in the ego's solidity, the
identification with the ego's representations, is abandoned in the
realisation of egolessness during states of ordinary waking
consciousness" (Schlamm, 2010).
It is evident that the trinitarian self brings with it a quite
different, "non-dualistic", way of seeing reality. From a
complementarian standpoint this is unobjectionable, since its
quaternarian complementary is retained, anyway. According to the
quaternarian standpoint the "dualistic" perspective does not at all
represent a "confused state of mind". We can accept both views although
they are mutually exclusive. Thusly, we can solve this endless schism.
But Jung's model is unitarian, i.e., there cannot be two wholenesses in
one self, but only one, so the trinitarian interpretation is rejected as
erroneous. On the other hand, the teachers of the East regard Jung's
worldview as a confused state of mind known as samsara. This is equally
wrong.
Mats Winther
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the spiritual path necessitates that we absorb the spiritual worldview
of faith and reclusiveness that is already present inside us as the
trinitarian aspect of self (the 'ternarius', using a medieval term).
This spiritual pattern of personality is already inside us, from the
beginning. It grows in the moonlight, while we are busy in the world.
Jung's critical argument is really predicated on his own self model. His
position is that the self is quaternarian, that is, committed to worldly
realization of wholeness and completeness. The trinitarian self of
religious tradition, and the spiritual practices surrounding it, are
incompatible with Jung's model and are therefore rejected. It has been
argued that Jung's argumentation depends on a misreading of the Eastern
traditions. Leon Schlamm says:
"Welwood insists that meditation is a royal road to non-dualistic
experience, rather than to a subterranean unconscious mind, revealing
awareness of a unified field where divisions between subject and object,
the inner world and outer reality, and consciousness and the
unconscious, are recognised as possessing only conventional
significance, but from the perspective of a higher order of truth of
Buddhism simply do not exist. Such divisions, including Jung's division
between ego and unconscious, are, for Welwood, symptomatic of the
confused state of mind known in Buddhism as samsara [...]
Mark Epstein, for example, has argued that, from the Buddhist
perspective, it is mistake to view egolessness as a developmental stage
beyond the ego. During transpersonal states of consciousness the ego is
not abandoned, nor completely transcended; rather, the spiritual
practitioner realises that the ego lacks concrete existence. It is not
the ego that disappears; rather the belief in the ego's solidity, the
identification with the ego's representations, is abandoned in the
realisation of egolessness during states of ordinary waking
consciousness" (Schlamm, 2010).
It is evident that the trinitarian self brings with it a quite
different, "non-dualistic", way of seeing reality. From a
complementarian standpoint this is unobjectionable, since its
quaternarian complementary is retained, anyway. According to the
quaternarian standpoint the "dualistic" perspective does not at all
represent a "confused state of mind". We can accept both views although
they are mutually exclusive. Thusly, we can solve this endless schism.
But Jung's model is unitarian, i.e., there cannot be two wholenesses in
one self, but only one, so the trinitarian interpretation is rejected as
erroneous. On the other hand, the teachers of the East regard Jung's
worldview as a confused state of mind known as samsara. This is equally
wrong.
Mats Winther
"M Winther" <ml...@swipnet.se> skrev i meddelandet
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M Winther
Oct 15, 2012, 4:57:24 AM10/15/12
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There is *One* self consisting of *Two* complementary wholenesses
symbolized by the numbers *Three* and *Four*.
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symbolized by the numbers *Three* and *Four*.
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