An acausal principle. Jung said this about "synchronicity", years ago, in a book in which he atempted to penetrate the mysterious ways of...things unexplained. Using examples that include artefacts, figures, weird theories, he brings us new ideas about causes and effects, and most important, effects without visible causes...I was caught and hooked by the material, skimming the pages of this book; it got me looking over my shoulder for nervous reasons. Spooky stuff. Throughout it I saw meaningful coincidences. I discovered new parallels with the classical science of probability. Jung's book changed my life (as have many others, I agree...). It's not every day you can stare things that can't be in real life. Things that can't be observed in the normal laws of physics, time and space stuff, events that are non-caused by each other, yet connected. Not connected but probably that one needs another angle of vision, changing the way our neurochemistry routes and helps oganize this information.
I always ask myself of what drove me to social computing? Progress, modernity ? web opportunities ? I had first and always liked social human relations. Why did I have to go to social computing ? I had friends, was on a cloud with family, used to be a classical, polite and perfect business mate with my team, boss, wherever I worked. So why ?
Maybe, it's like another mystery, as when you live a situation thinking you already lived it before, a kind of deja vu... I know, now, looking back at Jung, there's something else. Invisible, invicible, linked to his theories; I hate coincidences, in the way that they don't exist anymore for me, while this Jung book is running through my mind. It's not easy avoiding another reality, easier perhaps though to give up with fear. Feel too close to the sun? Some of you might seek refuge behind religion, others default to chance, doom...coincidence?
What drives us to social meetups? Links. Just by accident? Mouth-to-ear? Word of mouth? Anybody has ever clicked on something, prowling along web sites, pages, encounters, with no idea where to go? A free association sort of surfing?
I'm convinced other forces drive us, forces of destiny, forces that have no conscience yet we choose them or default to them. And that's new, for me. The notion of being sure that nothing is sure. That I can't take anything for granted. That I can learn, hear, be surprised, without having any idea of how that stuff arrived, without any obsession of how many followers/friends I have. Free flow, free fall... Discovering new fields, new goals. Not living in fear, living in trust, writing ideas and putting them out there for others to examine, having in mind that each thing can take a different path, at any moment. Points not fixed in time. One can be wrong and be proud of it, and learn from others, and win sometimes, like a small mouse, who survives and tricks on the black cat. And loop around to start all over again, begin another story, with new features like aliens, unknown people, or old buddles...I always ask myself how everything works. The earth and god's creations remain mysteries in many ways.
Finally, I didn't remember how I stumbled onto this Jung book, and that's probably one of the reasons why I loved it. There is an inscription in the frontespiece...
"Let's get us on the wave, carried by winds, flows and destiny, and enjoy it"