Coincidance - Principia Discordia

154 COINCIDANCE
and telekinesis, there might just be one ACOP—acausal coincidental
principle—appearing to us in many forms to which we give those names.
Another angle on the problem comes from Dr. David Bohm's hiddenvariable
theory, developed from some ideas of Einstein's. According to
Bohm, below the quantum level there is a subquantum world of hidden
variables. This is a metaphor. Bohm does not mean below in the ordinary
sense but, in a logical sense, what Bohm means is that the space-time world
observed in physics is an epiphenomenon, a phenomenon caused by
another phenomenon; underlying it is a spaceless, timeless realm from
which the events of ordinary reality emerge. Bohm uses this theory to
explain, or transcend, the notorious indeterminacy of the quantum realm
(where ordinary causality breaks down), but it could also explain the acausal
coincidences we are discussing.
Whether we take Bell's interpretation of quantum mechanics or Bohm's,
we seem to arrive at a world in wich all things are very intimately connected,
no matter how far apart and seemingly unconnected they may appear in
ordinary space and ordinary time. This may sound like Buddhism or other
mystic teachings, but other quantum theorists have come to similar
conclusions by other avenues. Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger decided, as
early as 1945, that the only sane explanation of quantum wave mechanics
was that "The mind... is something we simply cannot conceive of as plural."
Barbara Honegger has a model that united all these approaches with
current neurology. The brain, in a general, way has two hemispheres. The
left hemisphere seemingly does all the talking (except in dreams and
schizophrenia); it is the seat of the conscious ego. The right hemisphere is
often called the silent hemisphere because it talks much less. It is also very
active in hypoexcitation (deep yogic trance), in hyperexcitation (LSD trips,
wild dancing, etc.) and while listening to music.
Honegger believes that the right hemisphere ego consciousness is
continually trying to assert its existence and communicate with the left
hemisphere ego, which Western adults think is their only ego. The rightside
ego usually communicates via dreams, as noted by Freud and Jung, but
if the left-sided ego remains deaf to these messages, the right hemisphere
creates Freudian slips or hysterical symptoms to get the ego's attention.
And, if nothing else works, it produces an ACOP. It does this, Honegger
suggests, by means of connecting principles such as those suggested by Bell
and Bohm. According to Honegger, we should analyze such ACOPs the
way Freud and Jung analyzed dreams to see what unconscious messages
they contain.