Carl Jung was psychoanalyzing some poor young woman who was telling him about a dream where she was presented with a golden scarab beetle. He heard a tapping at the window and reached out and caught a scarabaeid and showed it to her.
It was a breakthrough.
From this, he developed the theory of Synchronicity with a capital "S": the idea of using coincidence as a philosophy. Of course, there is nothing new in this. People have been assigning meaning to serendipity since before Christ was a corporal.
A similar idea is that of the Zen Koan: a phrase which, when spoken at exactly the right time, provides a form of enlightenment. Such as: "Does a dog have a Buddha nature?"
Right.
I believe that every day, we hear somebody say something that could cause a personal epiphany, if we were just open to listening to it.
For instance, yesterday, I was walking to Comet Ping Pong Pizza, and I passed by two parents who, with their tiny children, were getting out of a car.
She said to him: "Well, why don't you have five hands?"
Poetry. Various urgent, lively, and sometimes haunting poems appear here alongside stark black and white photos of Jones' homeless subjects. Jones takes on the plight of the homeless in different voices, echoing the thoughts of people on the streets,
In today’s secular environment the two worlds of science and spirituality are alien worlds, distinguished primarily by a deep-seated antagonism in which the principles of spirituality and the pragmatism of modern science exist face to face in a peren
