Thursday, May 29, 2014

Physics Week Three: Synchronicity

Wow. I really liked this weeks class. I can't stop thinking about all the different fragments of concepts we learned. It almost felt like a form of church for me at times because there was something so spiritually uplifting to learn about the concept of quantum entanglement. I'm sure this theory is no where near the "truth" of the universe and/or life, but none the less, it's something scientists have noticed, therefore it is a truth... and it's contradictory to other ways Westerners' have looked at the world. Amen! We need people to expand their minds! Just thinking of my very western atheist brother-n-law explaining something like synchronicity and connectivity makes me so happy. Even though he's viewing it in a completely different manner than I am, he's acknowledging a concept very skewed from the way he usually looks at things.
Synchronicity is constantly coming up in my life, every day. And to think about this happening on a quantum level is so beautiful!!! The fact that two electrons can stay connected forever, as far a distant we could think, and still be connected!?! This brings such a comforting feeling to me and almost gets me choked up. We are all forever connected and time and space can't really take that away. WOW.

"It was a principle that Jung felt gave conclusive evidence for his concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlies the whole of human experience and history – social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual."

 The thing is, why do we need to label these concepts or feel the need to box up ideas into what "the truth" is. I obviously love learning about these concepts, but at the same time no one will ever really know. And why should we? Is that really the point of experience? Also, although someone put this concept to words and are testing it, a lot of us know this already because we experience it! None the less, it's nice to try and wrap my head around some of the ideas of synchronicity and connectivity.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Emily,
    I agree with you and I have a hard time trying to explain connectivity or relate synchronous things in my life. I also get a spiritual feeling from studying these concepts, they are fascinating and lend themselves to a person (me) feeling connected to everything and held by the universe :)

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  2. There is something awe-inspiring about the connections we experience and synchronous events that happen in our lives. Like a reaffirmation that there truly is something bigger at play, I'm not sure what name to give to it, science or religion, or some union of the two, but it's truly magical.

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