The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110187   Message #2310312
Posted By: Little Hawk
08-Apr-08 - 02:16 PM
Thread Name: Bob Dylan Wins Pulitzer prize
Subject: RE: Bob Dylan Wins Pulitzer prize
Synchronicity. There's a whole spiritual theory around that...basically states that archetypal changes and movements happen in spirit first...then are evidenced in multiple similar events in the material world. Imagine a wave of unseen energy passing through a medium. It will produce various waves, patterns, and ripples as it does so. Those patterns are the events as we perceive them. This implies that there are in fact probably NO coincidences, but that everything is intelligently connected to everything else in a meaningful way...as in a hologram. All parts are interconnected, and the One is fully present in all its apparently separate parts at all times.

I like that theory. Materialists usually don't like it. They would rather think things happen by accident and that things are irrevocably separate from one another and on their own...rather than all being part of one great unity.

Those are essentially the two opposing views of reality. One sees relationship in unity. The other sees separation of "things". One sees meaning and purpose in everything. The other sees no meaning in things (other than meanings that are arbitrarily invented through a subjective process...just meaningless processes unfolding according to some kind of immutable laws of nature. One perceives a living soul. The other perceives only a mortal and short-lived body. One thinks it IS that soul. The other thinks it is that body. One lives. The other dies.