Russell Lockhart

Synchronic Coalescence

While working on an essay about dream words, an unbidden phrase comes into my experience: synchronic coalescence. Like imageless voice dreams, I take such experiences as the voice of someething other and as something “different” from my conscious intentions. I take them as tasks.
So, if I welcome this intrusion, what do I make of it? I do not think “synchronicity” is meant. That would be the going together in time of an inner psychic event (such as a dream) and an outer event that constitute an acausal “unit.” No need for another word for this. Intuitively, I think what is being referred to is the going together in time of events on the same level. For example, this past Sunday, the news was dominated by the Super Bowl, Tayloe Swift, Money (Super Bowl ad revenue) and Trump. These things “go together” in a unit of time (a kairos)—in this case, a “day.” These are all “outer” events, not the relation between an inner psychic event and an outer event. Inner events may also exhibit synchronic coalescence, e.g., a series of dreams, or visions, or image, over a period (kairos) of any defined length.
The question is: are these synchronic coalescences meaningful in any way?
The term coalescence has many exemplar meanings in different contexts, but all referring in some way to an active process of things being “pulled together.” For example, in chemistry, coalescence refers to “the process by which two or more separate masses of miscible substances seem to ‘pull’ each other together should they make the slightest contact.” (Wikipedia). Wikipedia also refers to “mind coalescence” which refers to “collective intelligence.”
As I work on this, I will post on how synchronic coalescence adds a useful dimension to the analysis of important inner and outer phenomena. In the meantime, see what you can do with this idea.