Russell Lockhart<\/p>\n
Synchronic Coalescence<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 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 \u201cdifferent\u201d from my conscious intentions. I take them as tasks. 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 \u201cdifferent\u201d from my conscious intentions. I take them as tasks. So, if I welcome this intrusion, what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSo, if I welcome this intrusion, what do I make of it? I do not think \u201csynchronicity\u201d 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 \u201cunit.\u201d 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 \u201cgo together\u201d in a unit of time (a kairos)\u2014in this case, a \u201cday.\u201d These are all \u201couter\u201d 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.
\nThe question is: are these synchronic coalescences meaningful in any way?
\nThe term coalescence has many exemplar meanings in different contexts, but all referring in some way to an active process of things being \u201cpulled together.\u201d For example, in chemistry, coalescence refers to \u201cthe process by which two or more separate masses of miscible substances seem to \u2018pull\u2019 each other together should they make the slightest contact.\u201d (Wikipedia). Wikipedia also refers to \u201cmind coalescence\u201d which refers to \u201ccollective intelligence.\u201d
\nAs 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"