| 749 <fc green>Footnote</fc> <fc red><sup>15.</sup></fc><sub>Strictly speaking, the experience of synchronistic events is not based on the coincidence of inner and outer events but, as Jung says, "on the //simultaneous occurrence of two different psychic stats.//" (More precisely, it is by no means the case that we comprehend an event of the outer world "in itself," since it is also, in the final analysis, perceived via the filter of our psyche." The two conditions are 1) the normal, probable (i.e., causally explainable), <fc green>(so what we see) </fc>and 2) another which is not causally deducible from the first state, namely, the critical occurrence which, as it were, "breaks into" the first state. In the latter case "an unexpected content which is directly or indirectly connected with some external objective objective event coincides with the ordinary psychic state" ("Synchronicity," //The Structure and Dynamics of the Psychi, CW//, Vol. VIII, §855). </sub> | 749 <fc green>Footnote</fc> <fc red><sup>15.</sup></fc><sub>Strictly speaking, the experience of synchronistic events is not based on the coincidence of inner and outer events but, as Jung says, "on the //simultaneous occurrence of two different psychic stats.//" (More precisely, it is by no means the case that we comprehend an event of the outer world "in itself," since it is also, in the final analysis, perceived via the filter of our psyche." The two conditions are 1) the normal, probable (i.e., causally explainable), <fc green>(so what we see) </fc>and 2) another which is not causally deducible from the first state, namely, the critical occurrence which, as it were, "breaks into" the first state. In the latter case "an unexpected content which is directly or indirectly connected with some external objective objective event coincides with the ordinary psychic state" ("Synchronicity," //The Structure and Dynamics of the Psychi, CW//, Vol. VIII, §855). </sub> |
| | p304 "Since the concept of the //unus mundus// transcends consciousness, it is represented in mankind's historical //Weltanschauungen// by //symbols//, which most frequently consist of double mandala portraying both the timeless and time-bound order of existence. While the timeless order seems to relate to the general concept of acausal orderedness in the physical and psychic realms, the time-bound order refers more to peripheral phenomena, such as synchronistic happenings, that are creative acts in time. \\ The timeless acausal orderedness lies at the base of all transmittable information and cognition processes operating in man, and the time-bound synchronistic phenomena underlie those individually experienced messages of the unconscious which can only be adequately interpreted by the individual. The two systems are incommensurable, and because of this they form a fitting symbol for the ultimate unity of existence as a //coincidentia oppositorum//. In their mirrored images, as one reality reflects off the other, lies the mystery of their experienceability <fc green>(sic)</fc> by the individual." |