The Zeitgeist and the Language of Time

This collection of quotations is what would be named 'ideas of reference' , a psychiatric term that I found out is presumed to be a symptom of certain mental conditions considered to be 'delusional' experiences. These quotations  did in fact 'refer' to exact information that was relevant to my idea , a kind of story that evolved slowly, when it was assembling itself.   I watched as it was assembled, almost overwhelmed because of the unexpected process and experiences I had after 1984.  They were  body felt  information that arrived perfectly timed. It's a pattern that is commonly experienced, not commonly noticed in great detail as to its mode of operation. Authors of books with long bibliographies perhaps do not notice the process itself; patterns are the  underlying structure of our lives.

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"Is there some way that nature communicates with us directly if we could but decode the hieroglyphs?"  Rollo May, The Courage to Create

"In her mind she thought she could hear one joyous shout amidst a clamor of other voices."    Carl Sagan's only fictional book , Contact, is a supposedly fictional account of the first contact with extraterrestrials. The entire book was a particular kind of coincidence that has not been described by any author that's written about synchronicity, or meaningful coincidences: it re-iterated/echoed a detail of what was happening in my life, what had happened in 1984.

"The mind can know more in an instant than can be spoken in months."          Emanuel Swedenborg

"The goal of myth and religion must here be sought outside of themselves in a fundamentally different sphere."      Ernst Cassirer, Mythic Consciousness 

"eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times." c.g. jung

"We live a double life whether we know it or not. We live our own life and we live the life of our time."   Laurens   van der Post, C. G. Jung and Our Time

"Each cell leads a double life, one independent, pertaining to it's development; the other intermediary, since it has become an integrated part of a plant." The same holds true for animals, the organism is a "cellular state' in which 'each cell is a citizen'.  John Gribbon,  In Search Of The Double Helix, quoting Schleiden and Schwann

"With the discovery of the cell, biology had found it's atom." John Gribbon, In Search Of The Double Helix

"Men certainly exist today who ... have never heard, deep within themselves, tnumbehe muffled but persistent voice which blames or encourages."           Lecomte du Nouy, Human Destiny

 A quotation like this one for instance:  hints that a language exists, hidden, embedded in every day life, under certain conditions which have been regarded to be 'mental delusions': Why Psychoanalysis Is Not a Health Care Profession by Marvin Hayman, Ph. D.

  Another discussion of the relationship between medicine and psychoanalysis appeared in Szasz's (1964) book The Myth of Mental Illness. Szasz took the position that "mental illness is a myth" and that in actual practice we "deal with personal, social, and ethical problems in living" (p. 308). Further, he argued that the so-called symptom is not a product of a disease process, but rather, is a form of protolanguage, a system of representational signs or picture language, rebus-like in its form and message. From this view, psychoanalysis is not the treatment of disease, but the semiotical analysis of verbal behavior (associations) and bodily language (e.g., hysterical symptoms).

The following is what I believe  is an unrecognized, as yet undescribed kind of synchronicity: it 'told' me what was happening in  my life at the time it happened. It's from Emerson's Oversoul:. As I read it, several events that had happened in my past that had puzzled me were explained by a suddenly there retrieval of those events along with a mass of 'understanding' of what had really happened, in a psychological context. I knew nothing about psychological process of 'analyzing' every day events when that happened.  Events in my past had happened to prepare for a future event!

Emerson,  from his essay The Oversoul:

The things that are really for thee gravitate to thee. You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not. ……….O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear! Every proverb, every book, every byword that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, shall surely come home through open or winding passages. Every friend whom not thy fantastic will, but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this, because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly an endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one. 

….So come I to live in thoughts, and act with energies, which are immortal. Thus revering the soul, and learning, as the ancient said, that "its beauty is immense," man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh, and be less astonished at particular wonders; he will learn that there is no profane history; that all history is sacred; that the universe is represented in an atom, in a moment of time. He will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches, but he will live with a divine unity. He will cease from what is base and frivolous in his life, and be content with all places and with any service he can render. He will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it, and so hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart….Emerson, The Oversoul

About the above quotation:

I had not yet begun to recognize there was a relationship between what I was reading  and  how something I read affected me so strangely at times; and what was already visible in my thought, in 1984. The content of that event  that had  happened in 1984 was being 'unpacked' so to speak, methodically and systematically long before I recognized how it was being done: by abstracting out content, where ever it could be found, that in some way represented, or illustrated some of that content!!!  I wish I could describe what happened to me as I read these words for the first time, probably in 1985 or thereabouts. I found it impossible to describe for several years. Recently I read a web site about one of Arnold Toynbee's experiences that were quite similar. An enormous amount of information suddenly came into my thought, certain memories from my past were retrieved, they were explained and I understood those events that had puzzled me when they happened. At the time I read the Oversoul, I knew nothing that could have explained such an unexpected mental 'influx' of information about my life.

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"The essence of neuroses as distinguished from culture is, according to Freud, "that the neuroses are asocial structures;  they endeavor to achieve by private means what is effected in society by collective effort." Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death  page 156

About the above quotation: The number 156 and its reverse are numbers that were a kind of marker along a path in life although that's a fact I had to notice, and that took several years, between 1983 and 1989! In 1989 the reverse, 651 was the link to a pattern in pi, 3.1415926535... that no other person would ever be able to recognize.Trival? Meaningful? Yes. There have been points of change, when other numbers slipped into the category of being a benchmark, somewhat like a highway sign: 751 barely caught my attention in 1989 when I had my 'pi quake', but it had registered enough by then to prepare for a later 'coincidence' of almost unbelievable content when I read Martin Gardener's book, The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix.