Firstly, I am going to point out that I have just been through all the posts in my blog to fix all of my spelling mistakes, there were loads.
I did mean to put public hair in the Marina Abramovich Presents review, but I have since changed it, due to my embarrassment in sloppy English. I have my pre-uni lecturer and friend to thank for pointing this out to me, good job my degree wasn’t in English.
Oh damn it was
I’ve been thinking a lot today about history and collective guilt.
Reading Malcolm X writing on white people’s guilt for putting the black people down, has made me start to question race, nationality and think about the “collective unconscious.”
Now I am not somebody who has ever suffered oppression because of Race or Religion, and I don’t know how to feel about the fact that we are all responsible for society’s actions.
Anyway I’m going to finish reading before I return to this,
It made me start thinking of what I refer to as synchronicity, where I think that something is going to happen and therefore it does.
On Sunday for instance Adam and I thought we were going to run into people we knew, but did not know so well and we both did. Is this an instance of synchronicity I ask myself? Baring in mind we were in Manchester on Sunday.
Doing very little research for fun: here is what I have found
Events are synchronous because cause and effect work together, so when you think about something it transfers into reality.
An event not causally related, but related through their occurrence in time, such as thinking about the phone ringing and it ringing.
Jung refers to this as a meaningful coincidence
Jung used the evidence of synchronicity to suggest that the collective unconscious exists;
I then learned of apophenia(would be a good band title) this is when connections are assumed when there isn’t any.
Like a book falling to the floor meaning the library is closing. Or me thinking that apophenia would be a good name for a band and there turning out to be a band with that name and saying “how strange is that?”
Apophenia is controversial!! It may be a sign of a mental disorder
I thought I’d see if there were any funny or lovely stories of synchronous events and I found this
Amazing picture of a bat who hitchhiked a ride on a shuttle into space – mirror.co.uk
funny but not really synchronous
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