PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF
Imagine you are attending a one trick magic show. As the performance ends you find yourself in a state of awe. “Now that you are dazzled,” says the magician, “I’ll either repeat the trick as often as you like, or I’ll show you how it’s done.” The choice is yours.
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“Gibbs Williams has struggled with awe-inspiring coincidences in his own life and combed the relevant literature to formulate a rational psychodynamic theory of synchronicity. This book is both a personal journey and a guide for psychotherapists to harness their patients’ creative processes to liberate the sense of self from its traumatically imposed restrictions.” —Frank M. Lachmann, PhD
ABOUT THE BOOK
Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities) offers an original theory of the nature of meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) and their practical use from a naturalistic (non-supernatural and non-Jungian) perspective. The findings are the outgrowth of Gibbs A. Williams’ forty-year investigation, both as a professional observer of some of his synchronicity prone patients receiving psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as of his own intimate experience of these intellectually challenging and emotionally powerful occurrences. Williams concludes that meaningful coincidences are the surface manifestations of an individual’s unique creative process, accommodating the “best” available resolution of a problem for a person initially feeling “stuck” in a seemingly intractable dilemma.
Readers are treated to a rich mine of historical data, novel concepts, and theoretical insights drawn from speculative philosophy, depth psychology, and esoteric occult and spiritual traditions, and they are shown how to decode their own synchronicities in order to be able to use their embedded “messages” for increased self-awareness, cohesiveness, and expanding consciousness.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gibbs A. Williams, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and supervisor in private practice in New York.
ISBN 978-0-7657-0702-4 2009 330pages Regular price: $70.00 / After discount: $56.00 Amazon:
I am aware these are recessionary times so the price appears steep. If you would like to read the book but can't afford it I urge you to call your local library and request they order it. Better still tell your family members, and all of your friends who might be interested in this subject to call as well. Then if any of you read the book I would very much appreciate your writing a review on Amazon and or Barnes and Noble. Thank you.
The letters between Jung, and
the Nobel laureate physicist,
Professor W. Pauli, were published
under title, "atom and archetype."
Their final conclusions about
"acausal reality" - is the nature
of number as the most primal
archetype of order in the human mind, i.e., pre-existent to
consciousness.
This is what Jung had to say
about numbers, (in part).
Since the remotest times men have used number to establish meaningful coincidences, that is, coincidences that can be interpreted.
There is something peculiar, one might even say mysterious about numbers. They have never been entirely robbed of their numinous aura. If, so a textbook of mathematics tell us, a group of objects is deprived of every single one of its properties or characteristics, there still remains, at the end, its number, which seems to indicate that number is something irreducible.
The sequence of natural numbers turns out to be unexpectedly more than a mere stringing together of identical units; it contains the whole of mathematics and everything yet to be discovered in this field.
Number, therefore, is in one sense an unpredictable entity.
It is generally believed that numbers were invented, or thought out by man, and are therefore nothing but concepts of quantities containing nothing that was not previously put into them by the human intellect. But it is equally possible that numbers were found or discovered.. In that case they are not only concepts but something more-autonomous entities which somehow contain more than just quantities.
Unlike concepts, they are based not on any conditions - but on the quality of being themselves, on a "so-ness" that cannot be expressed by an intellectual concept.
Under these conditions they might easily be endowed with qualities that have still to be discovered. I must confess that I incline to the view that numbers were as much found as invented, and that in consequence they possess a relative autonomy analogous to that of the archetypes.
They would then have in common with the latter, the quality of being pre-existent to consciousness, and hence, on occasion, of conditioning it, rather than being conditioned by it.
Appropriate quotes:
"man has need of the word,
but in essence number is sacred." Jung.
"our primary mathematical
intuitions can be arranged before
we become conscious of them." Pauli.
Posted by: Todd Laurence | December 14, 2009 at 10:21 AM