During my years as an undergraduate university student, I became acquainted with Jung’s concept of Synchronicity, which fascinated me and became popularized (at least the term, if not its meaning) in 1983 by the then universally known band “The Police”, whose frontman Sting composed two compelling songs on the topic of Synchronicity, with a picture of him reading a book written by Jung on this eerie phenomena. Subsequently, your new essay caught my attention.
While I tend to be of the considered opinion that mathematical concepts are mainly of human invention, the subject matter is one worth exploring by inquiring minds. Your treatment is appreciated and valued.
Hello, thank you for your comment, but above all for sharing that valuable information. I had no idea that a famous music band had composed songs about it.
You are most welcome. Coincidentally, one of my monikers is also “the Alchemist.” Clever minds tend to have something significant in common I find, or could it just be a case of Synchronicity?
The final commercial album for The Police during that era proved to be that of, believe it or not, Synchronicity. The sadness of finding oneself born in a particular era or time is that we tend to be unaware of almost all that came before us, as though all were washed away by the incessant waves of another human invention - time.
What we really need to recognize in discussions like this is the following: everything we call “truth,” “symbolism,” “meaning,” or even “depth” is filtered through the structure of our own mind. And the human mind, as we know, evolved over millions of years as a survival-oriented mechanism. This means that the way we interpret the world is shaped not by some direct access to absolute reality, but by the biological software that helped our ancestors stay alive.
That is why certain ideas feel “sacred,” others feel “dangerous,” and others feel “mysterious.” Even the sense of depth we perceive in numbers or symbols doesn’t arise from the things themselves, but from the ancient cognitive templates through which we view them.
So perhaps the issue is not in the texts, the symbols, or the theories at all —
but in our ability to step outside these survival-driven mental patterns and look again with a clearer mind.
Only then might we begin to see a much simpler, much different face of truth than the one our evolutionary wiring has conditioned us to perceive.
It is interesting to me that the appearance of specific numbers, which seem to repeat — 333, 1010, 1111 — at times in my life when I feel "connected," so to speak. Other times, lately, when I am feeling 'disconnected,' they do not appear. Could it be, as you say, that I have not heard from Joe in a while, and a few days later, you do? Perhaps, when you feel "connected," you are willing the numbers to appear, justifying that you are on the right path?
During my years as an undergraduate university student, I became acquainted with Jung’s concept of Synchronicity, which fascinated me and became popularized (at least the term, if not its meaning) in 1983 by the then universally known band “The Police”, whose frontman Sting composed two compelling songs on the topic of Synchronicity, with a picture of him reading a book written by Jung on this eerie phenomena. Subsequently, your new essay caught my attention.
While I tend to be of the considered opinion that mathematical concepts are mainly of human invention, the subject matter is one worth exploring by inquiring minds. Your treatment is appreciated and valued.
Hello, thank you for your comment, but above all for sharing that valuable information. I had no idea that a famous music band had composed songs about it.
You are most welcome. Coincidentally, one of my monikers is also “the Alchemist.” Clever minds tend to have something significant in common I find, or could it just be a case of Synchronicity?
The final commercial album for The Police during that era proved to be that of, believe it or not, Synchronicity. The sadness of finding oneself born in a particular era or time is that we tend to be unaware of almost all that came before us, as though all were washed away by the incessant waves of another human invention - time.
You can find some interesting information about The Police’s Synchronicity Tour here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity_Tour
You did it again, first the scarab, now the numbers things.
What we really need to recognize in discussions like this is the following: everything we call “truth,” “symbolism,” “meaning,” or even “depth” is filtered through the structure of our own mind. And the human mind, as we know, evolved over millions of years as a survival-oriented mechanism. This means that the way we interpret the world is shaped not by some direct access to absolute reality, but by the biological software that helped our ancestors stay alive.
That is why certain ideas feel “sacred,” others feel “dangerous,” and others feel “mysterious.” Even the sense of depth we perceive in numbers or symbols doesn’t arise from the things themselves, but from the ancient cognitive templates through which we view them.
So perhaps the issue is not in the texts, the symbols, or the theories at all —
but in our ability to step outside these survival-driven mental patterns and look again with a clearer mind.
Only then might we begin to see a much simpler, much different face of truth than the one our evolutionary wiring has conditioned us to perceive.
It is interesting to me that the appearance of specific numbers, which seem to repeat — 333, 1010, 1111 — at times in my life when I feel "connected," so to speak. Other times, lately, when I am feeling 'disconnected,' they do not appear. Could it be, as you say, that I have not heard from Joe in a while, and a few days later, you do? Perhaps, when you feel "connected," you are willing the numbers to appear, justifying that you are on the right path?
Interesting