On Synchronicity

Recording Location
Phoenix, Ariz.
Recording Date
15 October 1974
Recording Information

Franklin Merrell-Wolff presents an extemporaneous discourse on the subject of synchronicity. He comments upon the need to maintain an attitude of spontaneous delight in the thought process to be open to the wisdom of the transcendental function. Wolff contrasts the empirical approach to the concept of synchronicity taken by Jung to an approach in the mathematical spirit as exemplified by Riemann’s development of non-Euclidean geometry. He goes on to explore the meaning of synchronicity by positing the existence of a macrocosmic Monad from which microcosmic Monads are derived and by analyzing the properties of infinite sets. He submits that in addition to the inner order of monadic relationships, there could also be an external order of relationships that arises by the “colliding” of the microcosmic Monads experiencing the painful consciousness of sangsaric existence. Wolff asserts that it is from this experience that the law of karma or causality is derived and that by turning sufficiently inward we can transcend the law of karma and come back under the law of parallelism or synchronicity.

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Recording Duration
39 min
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