Corey deVos and Ken Wilber - A Post-Metaphysical Interpretation of Synchronicity - a podcast by www.integralnaked.org

A Post-Metaphysical Interpretation of Synchronicity(54:11)

This is a discussion between Ken Wilber and Corey deVos, Managing Editor of Integral Naked and KenWilber.com, as well as Audio Manager for Integral Institute, about an integral interpretation of Synchronicity.

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Corey's question:

Synchronicity has long been an intrinsic part of my own spiritual path, something i have come to regard as a sort of "experiential faith", and i have long desired to find a place for it within the integral model. For me, synchronicity feels almost like a collapse of the four quadrants of my holon into a singular experience of tetra-emergence, in which my UL intention, my UR actions, my LR circumstances, and my LL sense of meaning and context all fall into perfect symmetry with each other. In these moments, there is a sensation that the totality of my subject suddenly becomes object in my awareness, a sort of bird's-eye-view of self--and perhaps more profoundly, there is usually a sense of presence of and sometimes even subtle interaction with an intelligence that is undeniably greater than my own.

In the twenty tenets, there is a wonderful description of the relationship that exists between junior and senior holons, namely that the lower determines the possibilities of the higher, the higher determines the probabilities of the lower--so that of all the things that could possibly happen, certain things become more likely to happen. Could this have something to do with synchronistic experiences? Would this explain why there have been so many different names for this synchronicity throughout history: magenta fate, red destiny, amber miracles and grace, orange luck and coincidence, green "interconnectivity of the web-of-life".... And if there is indeed a higher holon determining the probability fields of my human experience, what/where/who is that higher holon?

Previous interpretations of Synchronicity, according to altitude:

Magenta:fate, omens
Red:destiny
Amber:miracles, divine providence, karma
Orange:coincidence, “statistical anomalies”
Green:web-of-life interconnectivity, Celestince Prophecy version of Synchronicity, Hippie Karma
2nd Tier:symmetrical collapse of intention (UL), behavior (UR), meaning (LL), and circumstance (LR)

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