by metatron 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Why should it be "either-or"?
Christian theology can easily connect the notion of synchronicity with the Holy Spirit, provided they do not limit the latter too exclusively. I remember a 70's book by John V. Taylor, The Go-Between God, which was just along these lines.
Why separate or subtract the Source of the universe from anything? The special somethings or the nothings?
Perhaps it is only our mind's imagination which gives more divine significance to one moment more than another.
j
You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to.
What they are describing may actually be holy spirit. Just because Jung slaps a label he likes better onto a phenomenon that actually occurs doesn't mean that other labels affixed to the same phenomenon are incorrect. (Did I use "actually" enough?)
Unless you believe that until a scientist (even of a soft science) discovers and labels a phenomenon that it doesn't exist and can never have been labeled already by someone else.
In case kid-A comes through this thread, here is a good example of what I was talking about.
Respectfully,
AuldSoul
HI Learn to swim, welcome to the forum!
Or it could simply be the result of statistical probability and the outgoing nature of those involved. Its not hard to understand how this happens. Two people sit next to each other. About 1 in 4 Americans believe in NewAge mysticsm in some form. That means the chance of sitting next to another believer is about 1 in 8. How many times have you sat next to someone? Hundreds of times I'm sure. If you started a conversation with everyone you sit next to my bet is that you'd have another "syncronicity" episode in 8 conversations or less.
Rather than mystical or mysterious it is quite statistically predictable. That you took note of it an attribute it to something else is due to selective perception. You forgot/dismiss the other 7 conversations that did not reveal shared beliefs to emphasize the one that did.
I have no trouble seeing synchronicity as the handiwork of the Divine as long as no one injects
NARROW SECTARIANISM into the picture. - "Wow, this must be the 'true religion' because I met this person who was seeking
the truth about Jehovah/Mormonism/Islam/Jesus/the Catholic Church/Scientology....................
metatron
So do you believe that the process of synchronicity is real that it puts in touch people without the medium of the senses and while they may be thousands of miles apart?
I believe the process works between humans and between humans and the invisible intelligent world. I experienced it many times with people that I know, not a chance that it was coincidence every time.
my feeling is that far from being just a statistical probability, there is a universal intelligence, that people put much more meaning to than is actually there. what i mean is,people of all different faiths pray to their particular deity, and get their prayers answered. this to them is proof that the god they prayed to is real, and they build a "relationship" with them thru this. it would seem that as long as you believe that the person you are praying to is listening, and have faith that they will repond, thats when things will happen. my point is that "faiths" put a name or idea onto this universal intelligence, which is possibly the biggest mistake anyone could make! as it cements the idea in their own mind that their way is right!
thats what i've concluded based on my observations anyway. i might be wrong!
Didier / James / AuldSoul:
Wow JT! Another great photo!
