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Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind

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All of us at sometime have had the experience of a "coincidence" which seems to odd to be random. This conjunction of co-incident encounter is explored brilliantly by the author from the early collaboration of Pauli and Jung to modern day expositions of quantum theory the non-physicist can understand. For anyone seeking the origin of currents surrounding our intuitive rock in the River, this book is a must read. Or, as Mark Victor Hansen warns, "Whatever you want, wants you;" This book helps explain, Why. MR

Synchronicity shatters causality as being capable of applying to the entire macrocosm. It demands that we progress on from the Newtonian worldview. Though the explanations for synchronicity might seem just as incomprehensible, with this book synchronicity won't seem as impossible. We get the bridge between an artistic and mechanistic universe. Linearity and Nonlinearity, mind and matter, Acausality and causality are to be complimentary, not isolated dualities. With synchronicity we will variegate, but not transmogrify, the mechanistic Kosmos. He thoroughly examines two valuable sources of synchronicity work: Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli. Perhaps as Pauli believed, an integration will occur with synchronicity by bringing the objective into pyschology and the subjective into physics. In our universe, which is more of an organism than a machine, "everything is the cause of everything." We cannot observe phenomena without disturbing it, by being an integral participator in phenomena itself. With the development of the illusions of our distinct selfs and our Newtonian strict mindsets, a synchronicity can be the only moment in which we can see transcendant eternity. But if we are willing to break down these walls, we will be submerged in eternal creativity, and stop seeing life as linear in time and causality. Another thing, at some points in this book, it almost seems as if Peat was directly writing about God. I don't mean an anthropomorphised jealous demiurge, but rather, as I quote from his own words, "an eternally creative source that lies beyond the orders of time." pp. 195 Or how about pp. 88 "What if the laws of nature---the ones that really fly---are not simply abstractions of experience but are realization, within the world of mind, of something that is creative, generative, and formative, of something that lies beyond mathematics, language, and thought?" If he realizes this, I cannot say. But later he does speak of how the ancients described this same thing as the Tao. So I think he does, but that using a word with such a negative connotation as G-d would be misleading. But when I hear him say "objective intelligence" it seems like nothing less than being politically correct talking about the Supreme Personality of the Godhead.

Or perhaps he was expecting a white beard.

I bought this book many years ago and it opened up my inner vision.
Many years later, and several moves and major changes later, I found myself wondering about personal introductions and synchronicity.
This book bridged the gap, and simplified the riddles.
The subject of Synchronicity was presented to me through the early years.
Pondering's of personal Psychic senses gave way to a different level of speculation on the natural world around, then this book entered into my path.
Synchronicity- The Bridge Between Matter and Mind for me is a re-purchase.

Experience a reunion.

~V.

I first read this book years ago and refer to it often. Peat brought together the latest scientific theories with an indepth exploration of Jung's notion of synchronicity. I am moved to write this review to comment in particular upon the author's suggestion in Chapter 7 that the Universe behaves more like a creative, living organism than as a machine. This struck me in particular in light of a point raised in my new book The Synchronicity Code that suggests that synchronicities occur across time in a manner suggesting that all of life acts as one Being. I would love to know Mr. Peat's view of cycles of synchronicity unfolding across time.The Synchronicity Code: How to Follow Coincidence and (sometimes even) Predict the Future

I have this strange compulsion: once I start a book, I must finish it. Even if the book drones on and on, I have no choice but to read every word. Sometimes this compulsion pushes me into a quite uncomfortable corner. This book put me there quite early, and kept me pinned for a couple of weeks. If I were extremely masochistic, I would read it again and highlight identical themes. Never in my life have I read anything more redundant. It seemed as if, at the onset, the author outlined his major points, and then thought of ten ways to say each point. Then, each of the ten variations for each point were repeated two or three times. I won't go on and on about this book. It was somewhat interesting, but it was entirely subjective, every point that the author was trying to disprove could very easily be seen from other points of view, and it was about 100 pages too long. The editor on this one really fell asleep on the job.

This was a great book extending Jung's "An Acausal Connecting Principle" into a wider context. Peat discusses how synchronicity is window to an infinite creative source, and how societies that are used to thinking in terms of linear time and causality often miss the bigger picture. He also provides a number of different physics/quantum mechanics theories related to this idea of an underlying intelligence. Some of the ways he describes time and the universe and their relation to the mind and matter are truly fascinating. I had to put the book down very often to contemplate the new ideas.

The one downside is that the writing seemed unnecessarily dense. It took me a long time to get through the material. I found myself reading some paragraphs over and over due to non-cohesive writing. But the content far outweighs any lack in the writing, and this is a great book if you're looking for a scientific and spiritual take on synchronicity, or new ways to view your relationship to the universe.

As a layman who loves Quantum Physics and the mysteries of life, I found this book fascinating. David Peat explains in simple language how the universe might work. I say might because the more we know the more we discover new mysteries.

Or, better yet, why was it ever written? Was there a point to be made? Was there an opinion or conclusion belonging to F. David Peat? If the answer is yes I couldn't find it. What I found was a treatise on Carl Jung interspersed with totally unreleated quotes from Sheldrake, Pauli etc. on QM. Peat's examples of synchronicity offer no commonality with the word at all: a candle burning out at a dinner party at the time someone's father died, or a picture falling from the wall on the day of someone's funeral don't relate to synchronicity. That's the way of the entire book. It gave me a feeling of, "Huh? What was that again? I must have missed something." But there was nothing to miss!

Peat defines synchronicity as a meaningful relationship between personal psychic processes and events in the objective world. From such experiences, he develops a theory of a creative ground common to both mind and matter where relationships between the two can be forged. A mind limited by societal conditioning can be uplifted under the influence of synchronicity. The meaning and operations of all magick and mysticism may be derived from Peat's ideas.

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