I watched again Genius of the Ancient World which reports that in the 5th Century BC three individuals contributed significant ideas to World Civilizations – they were Buddha, Confucius, and Socrates. This can be seen as a synchronistic occurrence of significant importance, our challenge is to understand the deep meaning in their lives, which leads us to investigate the topic of depth psychology. To understand ‘depth’, a careful reading of Erich Neumann’s Depth Psychology and a New Ethic? will be addressed. Three forewords to Neumann’s book have been written by James Yandell, Gerhard Adler, and Carl Jung, which are followed by Neumann’s Preface. After re-reading these and Chapter I Introduction I read Chapter IV The New Ethic, Chapter V The aims and values of the new ethic and the Appendix Reflection on the Shadow. We are searching for a common thread in the thoughts of these gentlemen (Romanyshyn, R.D., 2007), which will allow us to examine their thoughts as ‘synchronistic’. Let’s see if we can identify this tread?
Gautama Buddha, popularly known as the Buddha (also known as Siddhattha Gotama or Siddhārtha Gautama[note 3] or Buddha Shakyamuni), was a Śramaṇa who lived in ancient India (c. 5th to 4th century BCE).[5][6][7][note 4] He is regarded as the founder of the world religion of Buddhism, and revered by most Buddhist schools as a savior,[8] the Enlightened One who rediscovered an ancient path to release clinging and craving and escape the cycle of birth and rebirth. He taught for around 45 years and built a large following, both monastic and lay.[9] His teaching is based on his insight into the arising of duḥkha (the unsatisfactoriness of clinging to impermanent states and things) and the ending of duhkha—the state called Nibbāna or Nirvana (extinguishing of the three fires) (Wikipedia).
Socrates (/ˈsɒkrətiːz/;[2] Ancient Greek: Σωκράτης Sōkrátēs [sɔːkrátɛːs]; c. 470 – 399 BC[3][4]) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher[5][6] of the Western ethical tradition of thought.[7][8][9] An enigmatic figure, he authored no texts, and is known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers composing after his lifetime, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. Other sources include the contemporaneous Antisthenes, Aristippus, and Aeschines of Sphettos. Aristophanes, a playwright, is the main contemporary author to have written plays mentioning Socrates during Socrates’ lifetime, although a fragment of Ion of Chios‘ Travel Journal provides important information about Socrates’ youth[10][11] (Wikipedia).
This episode begins stating Socrates ‘says’, he never wrote, that “we are responsible for our own destiny”, which is a major paradigm shift from The Gods above to ourselves within. Socrates defined this responsibility by asking us to consider three questions: Is wealth is a good thing; How do we create a just society; How do we live a good life’. He holds that an “unexamined life is not worth living”. Socrates participated in the birth of Democracy, which unshed in the process of ‘rational debate’ – the Socratic Method on the question of what makes for a truly happy life, placing ethics as the central quest of Soul. Soul is in quest of justice, temperance, courage, piety, and wisdom – all are interlinked and can be explored with the creative method of dialogue – The Beauty Of Mind is Dialectical.
Confucius (/kənˈfjuːʃəs/kən-FEW-shəs; Chinese: 孔夫子; pinyin: Kǒng Fūzǐ, “Master Kǒng”; 551–479 BCE) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who was traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Widely considered one of the most important and influential individuals in human history, Confucius’s teachings and philosophy formed the basis of East Asian culture and society, and continue to remain influential across China and East Asia today[25][26] (Wikipedia).
As we follow these fellow’s ideas, can we identify synchronicities? Note them down. We will study how synchronicity and other mind matter conjectures are being studied.
Dream 07.02.2017: I was giving a talk for the second time on Arvid R. Scherling, my grandfather’s book The Dogma of a Sinful Constitution and its Practical Bearings (1929). There are other possible books and papers of his that most likely are also involved, since some of his books/papers were not donated to the NDSU’s Library Christian Literature Book Collection. I felt I had not prepared well for the first talk and did have better examples to illustrate my talk. I was worried that I would have to wing-it like times past lecturing in class when I was deep into an idea and had simply lost my way. I had started preparing for this talk by imagining how it would go. I then sensed that I was working at a much deeper analytical level of analysis and realized I was prepared!
It seems my talk was going to be in the auditorium of Fargo Central High School and I was at the west side hallway just outside the main floor entrance to the auditorium. I then went to a classroom across the hall, full of adults and students. I then turned and walked out of the school towards Emerson Smith when someone came up to me and said I had to return to get ready. I went back into this room but everyone had left. I realized I had to get this project completed and was not yet ready yet to present it.
Associations: Returning to Fargo Central High School takes me back in time to grandparents Arvid and Sophia, parents Orlando and Billiette all roaming these hallways of our school and sitting in this same auditorium. Robert Romanshyan’s concept in his book The Wounded Researcher: Research with Soul in Mind emphasizes the idea that our ancestors help us with our projects. In fact, they are standing, looking over my shoulder as I am writing this!
Amplification: I am thinking that this dream and others can continue going into the Google Drive Scherling Project area that I started the other day. The Dogma of a Sinful Constitution has to be carefully re-read, analyzed, and written about.
Dream 07.03.2017: I was in south Fargo by Dill Hall Field which was closer to the Red River when I was young. A dike was built and the Red River diverted when I was in grade school and now again work is being done in this area. I and others were getting into a car or van by birthdates. We were going through a certain process that was to advance our understanding of the universe. I was waiting for my turn as others were getting in. It seems to be an individuation process we were going through.
Associations: I am re-reading Ira Progoff’s book Jung, synchronicity and human destiny, that I copied from the UCLA library when visiting uncle Dan Scherling before returning to Taipei and NTU where I was teaching in 1985. During the night before my flight, I finished reading Chapter V Beyond causality and teleology and Chapter VI Leibniz and Tao.
Amplification: The Calculus Controversy is about who discovered calculus, Newton or Leibniz. The interesting point in this clip is that finally, the mathematical community comes to the conclusion that both men independently reached their discoveries of calculus. There were an exchange of letters, however, it was determined that this did not address their work. This suggests that these were synchronistic occurrences. This is the same synchronistic phenomenon underlying Darwin and Walace’s independent discovery work on the Theory of Evolution.
I now realize that the blogging theme here was began before. I suppose that we might define this as a synchronistic event. The idea in The Making of a Theory: Darwin, Wallace, and Natural Selection is that this is a clear example of synchronicity. I then realized that I have already addressed this more extensively in The Mathematical Challenge to Darwin and Wallace
At the end of Progoff’s Chapter VI, I wrote the dates that I had read this chapter: 7.30.1990 5am Beijing, 11.13.1992 9pm Hong Kong, 12.8.2012 1pm Fargo, 11.23.2016 3am Fargo, 7.3.2017 3am Fargo. I ask myself, why have you not transcribed this into my story blog? It has been 29 years since I copied this book while visiting my uncle Dan Scherling in LA. I went to UCLA library to copy this book. I have now yet again re-read these chapters and now this is what I see at this reading. What is yet to be done is to look at the dates of these reading and the Daily and Dream Logs surrounding them – I expect to find unfolding synchronicities and begin to track this all as my life continues unfolding.
Stephen Meyer: Darwin’s Doubt 14:00 – 17:55. A branch of Evolutionary Genetic, Population Genetics when given certain factors can estimate how much evolutionary change can occur in a given about of time – these factors being population size, generation time, mutation rates, estimates that the 5 to 6 million years for this to have occurred is to short for the changes to have occured. However, Meyer makes the suggestion that introducing the idea of Synchronistic Genetics the processes of evolutionary genetics will have the necessary time to occur.