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In chapter 2, “Interconnectedness: Visions and Science of Field Theory,” Cambray explores how holism is critical to understanding synchronicity. In the holographic model the part leads to the whole. In Jung’s view, we must integrate the shadow in order to move toward completeness, that is, individuation is a process toward wholeness. In Leibniz’s monads, each one is like a mirror reflecting itself and others, as well as the whole universe. Cambray discusses Indra’s Net from Indian and Chinese Buddhist philosophy as being similar in that each jewel reflects all jewels and the heavens. This parallels the individual ego glimpsing the Self (imago Dei) as the divine center and totality of the whole. There is a return to holism in chapter 3 and a rebirth of a science of “Complexity, Emergence, and Symmetry.” Cambray reveals how selforganization and emergence evolve out of complex adaptive systems. The role of symmetry and the need to break it to allow something new and asymmetric to emerge is discussed and illustrated clinically. He discusses Pauli’s “mirror complex” and how Jung and Pauli saw parts of the whole in symmetric relationship with each other and how this helped them to break it and understand synchronicity. The concepts of mirroring and resonance are explained in chapter 4, “Empathy and the Analytic Field,” from a neuroscience level to a clinical one. Cambray brings up sympathy and relates it to a synchronistic dimension of empathy, which John Beebe, in his original and creative essay, describes as “objective sympathy.” 3 Also in this chapter, Cambray discusses moral and ethical concerns about studying mirror neurons and imitative capacities. In chapter 5, “Cultural Synchronicities,” Cambray links previous concepts to the collective in an innovative manner. He discusses the emergence of democracy and Cortez’s conquest of Mexico as collective and mythic examples of synchronicity. He also uses the discoveries of phosphorus and penicillin as historical and scientific instances of synchronicity and serendipity. Finally, in his “Afterword,” Cambray circles back to his “Introduction” as a moment in time and to what is emerging on the individual, clinical, social, and global levels. He bridges nature and psyche and emphasizes how critical it is for all of us to be interconnected with the universe in personal and transpersonal ways. Series Editor's Foreword ( XIII )
It is noteworthy that Dr. Joseph Kerwin (the first physician astronaut in space and the science pilot of Skylab 2) was in attendance and even said a few words at the opening ceremony of Cambray’s Fay Lecture Series on Synchronicity. Dr. Kerwin had his own moment of synchronicity while in space, “What struck me—during our space walk, when we spent the orbital ‘night’ just hanging on and watching the beautiful complexity of our world and the stars—was that I was seeing God’s creation from a place few humans had seen it from. I was off the earth, in space: and it came home that this space filled the universe. I remembered reading C. S. Lewis’s science fiction trilogy, in which ‘Oyarsa’ (close to our ‘angel’) ruled each planet but lived in space and had to dive into our atmosphere and hover there to talk to a human. When God became man he made a similar descent from here in space. That was a new thought, and a confirmation of my faith.” 4 In sum, this book is an accessible, thought provoking, and balanced scholarly treatise on synchronicity, and throughout this text it is possible to see synchronicity emerging in all its complexity. David H. Rosen College Station, Texas ( XIV ) Series Editor's Foreword
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phenomena in chemistry, biology, an
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analytic theory. The interactive pa
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synchronistic kairoi more accuratel
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enhanced capacity for creative resp
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of synchronicity is the first step
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Leibniz had written to Robert Hooke
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free of bacteria (known as a “hal
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Afterword To better grasp the idea
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somatic events, and unconscious com
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Notes Foreword 1. D. Rosen and J. W
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Science, Myth, and the Trickster; E
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