Week 3- SYNCHRONICITY

What evidence can you find for synchronicity?

-As  a  psychoanalyst, we are taught that Carl Jung - stated, " Synchronicities occur more often when a person is psychically in an absissement du niveau mental- a lower level of conscious awareness akin to reverie. As a result the unconscious is more energized than consciousness and complexes and archetypes are aroused into a more activated state and can push over the threshold into consciousness" Adapted from Murray, Stein Jung's Map of the soul ( 1998)


I found that Jung has a holistic character that focused on the collective archetypes and supported his orientation. Synchronistic events- lead an an understanding between mind and body.

- As a Native American person of origin we are taught by the elders and healers that the "Web of life is interconnected and one will influence the other, many outcomes, to be assured that Mother Earth was taking care of her children." From a young age, I grew in the Yurok reservation and Mount Shasta is our temple and we would perform ceremonies to honor the elements and Creator, for the multiple gifts and for answering prayers. My synchronicity experiences are through the lens of our spiritual training and teachings.

Synchronicity events:

-when I am in in my own element- and nature captures my spirit- I feel free- when we want to acquire knowledge  from the elements- I can recall my elders when I was five years old - guiding me to the woods- they said, " You will come back with medicine." and " CROW, Blue Jay and Fox will lead you back home.".sure enough- they came as I walked through the red woods- and they were loving- I was humbled.- When you have a blue Jay and Humming birds right in front of you and ravens- you smile back and thank them.
-Last week I was gardening in my back yard and again two humming birds and a Blue Jay flew around me and I stopped and thanked them.


-Growing up in this society made me realize  how sensitive I was to sound and chaos when relocating to the city.My mind was overstimulated and was able to adapt for the most part. However, I started to experience pre-cognition-/ synchroncity events- that were fast paced when I attended UC Berkeley.I saw in advance - many young students abusing drugs - they were dehydrated- ending in the ER, using too much x ( ecstasy) or LSD,- Through networking-these students ended up my apartment and I was taking care of them. I would cook for them as if they were my my sisters and brothers- one day I asked one of them " and who are you?" he stated, " Jim-someone that did not go hungry and I have a test tomorrow." although I was a Pre-med major I felt that I was being guided to study nursing- and ended up receiving a nurse practitioner license, and I also felt that through the experience of helping these students that many suffered from anxiety- and mild psychotic breaks, so then I also became a clinical psychologist.

- One day driving to LA I ran out of gas and I had forgotten my wallet- a lady out of nowhere came over and said, " just take the dollar bills I will show you how to get back home and the freeway entrance"- I was grateful I offered to pay her bill when I arrived to Berkeley, she nodded " no," its a gift.

-On another occasion when I had limited income- I prayed for food, and there was a pizza on the table. I asked Creator if that was a joke or something- but I had no roomates. The pizza was hot. I eat it all. I did not question the gift.

- When I resided in Hilo- Hawaii one morning I had a dream I was under the lava in the deepest caves and I noticed the rocks rumbling- when I woke up at 6 am- I informed my husband " we need to get up  and get ready, my husband said for what? and then there was a Earthquake.

-I had a dream that my golden retriever  had cancer, when I woke up I went to check on her and noticed she had purple spots on her tongue - I immediately rushed her to the Vet and she was diagnosed with lung cancer.

-As the years passed -many synchronicity events have transpired, and continue in frequency.-I am grateful.

CONNECTIVITY_ From a Native American perspective-  Indigenous connectivity- has taught our ancestors that " all our relations, all plants, and animals, from the smallest to the strongest are our ancestors." In other words, all humans are family and we are interconnected through the Web of mother earth.  The advanced teachings of the Nature Philosophy were usually taught by the Medicine people to their sons and daughters- the teachings of the Natural way included the arts of healing an  and special mental training including what is referred to today as psychic perceptions. Healers and Shamans were skilled in connecting with the nature forces including those that were not in the physical realm.  We are taught to maintain a sense of humility because Mother Earth is an active observer and would take care of all beings that respect her.

                           " Every seed is awakened and so is all animal life, it is through this mysterious power that we too have our being and we therefore yield to our animal neighbors the same right as ourselves, to inhabit this land." Sitting Bull--







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How do you explain connectivity?

WEEK 2- Quantum Mechanics

Weekly reflections: On Uncertainty and Causality:

The uncertainty principle ( wave particle duality) has implications for the notion of causality/determinism. As one proceeds downward in size at the atomic dimensions-eventually one cannot measure/determine ,both the position and momentum of a particle- and upon attempting to measure a variable, the outcome(s) are influenced by our own observation.

- So what is wrong with this law of nature " Whats wrong with uncertainty? For some professions, and cultural paradigms that rely on utilizing power and control -( needing precise deterministic and quick results), a sense of uncertainty about the future for example- generates a " threat or alert response,"in the limbic system, i.e.- a need to operate from an illusion of control hologram. Lets observe how the economy works and how selling the perception of more certainty creates the illusion of safety- for example some parts of accounting and consulting generate their income by helping executives experience a perception of increasing certainty through strategic planning and forecasting their timeline for profit outcomes. Which creates a burst of dopamine and the brain circuit " feels good,"and has a sense  of safety " net."

I will argue that operating from a " all or nothing," deterministic/causality framework -(principle-that everything that has happened was the only possible thing that could happened at that point in time and space and that choice is an illusion-) could make it difficult for that person to practice mindfulness skills, and I wonder if they can build insight of self in relation to others and the world without experiencing a sense of threat or danger. However, if one does not operate in an absolute system of causality, and there is a balance between certainty and uncertainty approach to living- this would create less anxious drives in the limbic system.

Hence accepting the reality of choice amid multiple possibilities seems a more useful basis for living-for the sake of our own mental and physical health.

Is the Universe Weird?
It depends who you are asking----and how one defines this word.
I feel the more eccentric the better.... who wants to be normal? is there such a phenomena? and who gets to defines what is normal......

THE MEANING OF TIME

The Meaning Of Time- 

-The Newtonian concept of time as a continuous parameter is so deeply ingrained that one does not question how time can be measured- using the clock system for example- in a Western Monochronic Time- M - that influences a paradigm system. Consequently, the time measured in a clock in my opinion is just a parameter  identical to the parametric time appearing in the time-dependent Schrodinger equation.-which used to find energy levels such as atoms or transistors at a certain position. 
-One of the implications of quantum mechanics is that certain aspects/properties of the universe are quantized- made of little particles of quanta. In other words the electrons orbiting an atom are found in specific fixed orbits and do not slide nearer or further from the nucleus as their energy levels change but are able to jump from one quantum state to another.Even light for example is a type of electromagnetic radiation which moves in waves composed of quanta/photons and carries both waves and particles and can behave as a wave or a particle. According to recent findings in quantum mechanics time cannot be divided up into discrete quanta and appears to operate in a smooth and continuous. There has been speculation that if time was quantized it would be at the level of Plank time. However, I find it helpful to think about each observer of himself being a quantum system which interacts with other quantum systems with different possible versions- which are proposed as being a parallel universe-  and that the wave functions does not collapse but rather splits into alternative versions of reality which are equally real.

 -My final thoughts focus on the geospatial ontologies where place and time are deeply linked to different cultures operating from a Polychronic _ P time- specifically the indigenous context are typically described as emphasizing relationships between concepts, processes and actions,cycles of activities, and involving abstract concepts of spirituality, sacredness, wisdom, morality and well being. 
-Concepts of space and time are specific to context and that corresponding to the local view of the world.