Thank you for doing this. Count me in as an avid participant. I am away this weekend. I will dive deeper come Monday. I love quote as they invite me into the words. We can never trade mastery for mystery. I love how you use words to invite me deeper into the darkness. In the darkness, the shadow cannot exist. In that place the light is our own. I’ve personally not read too deep on Jung. The archetypes seem to simple, but I fully understand that he was living into the questions. We can only meet there. Thank you so so much for what you’re writing, what you’re sharing, and all of the growth that comes from it in my own life. .
thank you so much Jamie! And apologies for the deviation into quotes and Jung... which is not really the core topic here. So no need to be a Jung connoisseur or avid follower (I am neither), and I'm not really into his archetypes or dreamwork either. But to me it's clear that he broke important ground at his time. 'Living into the questions'! ~ That's a good way of putting it.
I look forward to hearing more about the growth that comes from Synchronosophy in your life! 💕🙏
That should read as we can’t trade mystery for mastery. With that said, we can definitely bring the unconscious more into our awareness. As Blake said in the world, there is the known and the unknown. Everything else in between is a door. For me Poetry is a door that helps me meet my authentic self.
“Why am I here? What is my life’s purpose?” - this is one of those questions that has no right to go away. It definitely finds us and pulls us up a second curve or a second mountain in life. Ultimately, I believe the miracle of our lives is the journey from fear to love. I would believe that’s our shared purpose. This question comes out in a lot of the poetry that I write. Poetry is that conversation as I live into that very question. What truly resonates with me is that we are a body in a soul. That we are souls having a human experience. That lens allows me to be love.
"the miracle of our lives is the journey from fear to love. I would believe that’s our shared purpose." ~ That is a beautiful and bright guiding star for the inner journey through life.
I have been wondering recently whether the question about purpose itself, whether the 'need to have a purpose' is born from the Christian message drummed into me that 'God has a purpose for me' and I better make myself useful...
I definitely hear you on that conditioned message of doing. I’ve definitely lived it. I would say there’s something deeper underneath it that aches inside and beyond our bones. Daimon? It’s that soul piece. There is a call for a deeper awareness that pulls us up that second mountain. I can only refer to it as “being”. That’s what I feel is purpose. There are no words to describe it. It is ineffable yet I know it is there. That spirit or consciousness that dances me.
Thank you for that! This is a profound insight and very well put. Being rather than doing. The spirit that dances me.
I am currently dancing with that in relation to this book "Synchronosophy" itself. It is so easy to get pulled into the 'doing' channel. I have to keep pulling myself back and ask "What is my true purpose here?"
The answer is certainly not 'getting as many followers as possible on substack...' 🤔💭
Symbiopoiesis- this is my new favourite as it connects it all somehow for me.
This platform gives me some place to share that creativity . To connect. To create meaning. Yes, my ego likes to feel seen and to feel like I made a difference. To matter. To be missed. Your writing helps me lean into the poetry of awareness. Thank you.
The reason I am a poet is because I have a short attention-span. I like to get to the guts in a few short lines.
When it comes to Jung, Campbell, O'Donohue, etc, I like quotes because they're short, and focus the mind on what's about to follow in the posting -- which I find helpful. (I'll add here that I've started to read all of them, but never finished any of their books. This just tells me that as a 'channel' of communication, their style/era/understanding is not really mine, despite my attempted stretch of comfort-zone. Academic texts likewise).
Regarding 'T/truth', what are we after? My two-pennyworth is that that we are after an experience of being authentic, which can then guide authentic action. We are all different but all connected; hence the wide scope for 'T/truth'. And hence the need for a metalogue approach. I believe one place where capital-'T' Truth can be found is when dreaming. There we find the 'Truth' about our 'truth' because the choices 'made' in dream scenarios reveal where we are truly at, without ego or intellect or cultural shoulds-n'-oughts getting in the way.
Sychronosphy offers an inside-to-outside approach to growth in consciousness, as opposed to a top-down dance-hammering postive-thinking mind-over-matter finger-wagging might-is-right moralistic code beating us into submission. A flower doesn't grow by standing over it with a gun, giving it a motivational speech. It grows when the ground is rich in friable humus, and it receives gentle rain and sufficient exposure to sunlight.
Thanks for offering such a detailed three-in-one contribution to our Café session. I'll try to split the responses for our metalogue (for purposes of easier readability.)
I am lying here in my campervan sipping on a coffee, listening to the birds busying themselves in the early morning. No lying around for them 😊. Truth: l like the notion of many truths in one truth. The truth, when we are willing for it to be presented to us, arrives at our point of need, is how l have found truth. Delivered by our soul when we choose to listen/feel the intuition beyond the first port of call, our gut feeling. Ego, l grappled with her in my earlier seeking of truth; now she knows she is attached to her soul, she has a trust and defers to her parent. So, finally l have learned not to take myself too seriously. Our egos are attached to our human experience, it would be a folly to expel her - l just need to remind her she is safe and loved when anxiety creeps in. 💜 Thank you for this post 🙏
I fully agree "our egos are attached to our human experience..." one day I'll write a chapter on the Ego (and the Self) in the world of Synchronosophy...
You are most welcome. Thank you for popping in at this Café Session ☕ 🙏 💕
I look forward to that Veronika. Imagine the day when the fear based conditioning of society is gone; replaced by a teaching that we are souls (love) and our ego is here to protect us (fear); not to be manipulated and governed by fear. It is this exacerbation of fear that the ego thinks it needs to battle to survive. We forget who we are for a reason, to seek truth. Part of our collective human experience is how l understand it. 🙏💜
sounds like a valid interpretation. Part of that search for truth (or our personal snippets of it) would be that every time anyone finds a little piece of that truth-puzzle, collective human Consciousness experiences a tiny expansion...
Thank you Jenna! It's an experiment, to shake up the format of 'writer's monologue' a bit. I'm planning Café Sessions in different virtual locations between each section of the book (that'll be roughly every 7 weeks)
The idea is that these 'sessions' remain open to anyone who drops at any time, and open up opportunities for conversations about the contents.
Okay, here goes: I have a really hard time with I see Jung at the top of your posts. I have a strong aversion to Jung. It bothers me greatly when people I respect seem to either see nothing wrong with him or chalk it up to the times he was living in. I sometimes can't read your work when I see his quote at the top because it disturbs me. I do not wish to change you, but this how I feel. <3 <3 <3
That's a great filter. If a quote stops you from reading my work, there is probably no point reading any further. I also have personal issues with Jung and disagree with many things he did. But his work is inspired by his visionary genius.
Not at all. My experience was simply looking at the books I had a vibe read. What IS a trauma response is how I feel when you say that. It feels dismissive of my intuition as well as my intellectual reasons why I have a visceral response and cognitive reasons why I deeply do not want to be around those men's words and vibrations.
Consider asking what it feels like when I feel that I cannot read your work. Because my intranaut experience is very different when my soul or body wisdom guides me away from something in a strong way than when I feel triggered. I actually am more likely to dive right in when triggered, as that is my family baseline for dealing with conflict.
I absolutely love when people share the core motivating events in their lives. Initiations are very personal, so when someone shares their experience it is rare and powerful and sacred.
Yes, I see it as you do! So this has been a rather easy metalogue! Veronika, let me know if there are any other rules or things I should know to be respectful while also being spontaneous and honest! <3
This is only the beginning. Thank you for engaging in this metalogue, Alicia (despite not having read the chapters ~ that's very brave ~ like taking a plunge into deep water without knowing its depth.) 💕🙏
There are no rules other than the focus on the general topic, and what it brings up for you. Spontaneous and honest is great. Respectfulness is inbuilt in the principle of metaloguing.
Think of it as an opportunity to hang out together in a coffee shop and having a chat about the 'deeper stuff of life'.
Thank you for doing this. Count me in as an avid participant. I am away this weekend. I will dive deeper come Monday. I love quote as they invite me into the words. We can never trade mastery for mystery. I love how you use words to invite me deeper into the darkness. In the darkness, the shadow cannot exist. In that place the light is our own. I’ve personally not read too deep on Jung. The archetypes seem to simple, but I fully understand that he was living into the questions. We can only meet there. Thank you so so much for what you’re writing, what you’re sharing, and all of the growth that comes from it in my own life. .
thank you so much Jamie! And apologies for the deviation into quotes and Jung... which is not really the core topic here. So no need to be a Jung connoisseur or avid follower (I am neither), and I'm not really into his archetypes or dreamwork either. But to me it's clear that he broke important ground at his time. 'Living into the questions'! ~ That's a good way of putting it.
I look forward to hearing more about the growth that comes from Synchronosophy in your life! 💕🙏
That should read as we can’t trade mystery for mastery. With that said, we can definitely bring the unconscious more into our awareness. As Blake said in the world, there is the known and the unknown. Everything else in between is a door. For me Poetry is a door that helps me meet my authentic self.
Symbiopoiesis is that dance of synchronosophy
“Why am I here? What is my life’s purpose?” - this is one of those questions that has no right to go away. It definitely finds us and pulls us up a second curve or a second mountain in life. Ultimately, I believe the miracle of our lives is the journey from fear to love. I would believe that’s our shared purpose. This question comes out in a lot of the poetry that I write. Poetry is that conversation as I live into that very question. What truly resonates with me is that we are a body in a soul. That we are souls having a human experience. That lens allows me to be love.
"the miracle of our lives is the journey from fear to love. I would believe that’s our shared purpose." ~ That is a beautiful and bright guiding star for the inner journey through life.
I have been wondering recently whether the question about purpose itself, whether the 'need to have a purpose' is born from the Christian message drummed into me that 'God has a purpose for me' and I better make myself useful...
I definitely hear you on that conditioned message of doing. I’ve definitely lived it. I would say there’s something deeper underneath it that aches inside and beyond our bones. Daimon? It’s that soul piece. There is a call for a deeper awareness that pulls us up that second mountain. I can only refer to it as “being”. That’s what I feel is purpose. There are no words to describe it. It is ineffable yet I know it is there. That spirit or consciousness that dances me.
Thank you for that! This is a profound insight and very well put. Being rather than doing. The spirit that dances me.
I am currently dancing with that in relation to this book "Synchronosophy" itself. It is so easy to get pulled into the 'doing' channel. I have to keep pulling myself back and ask "What is my true purpose here?"
The answer is certainly not 'getting as many followers as possible on substack...' 🤔💭
Symbiopoiesis- this is my new favourite as it connects it all somehow for me.
This platform gives me some place to share that creativity . To connect. To create meaning. Yes, my ego likes to feel seen and to feel like I made a difference. To matter. To be missed. Your writing helps me lean into the poetry of awareness. Thank you.
The reason I am a poet is because I have a short attention-span. I like to get to the guts in a few short lines.
When it comes to Jung, Campbell, O'Donohue, etc, I like quotes because they're short, and focus the mind on what's about to follow in the posting -- which I find helpful. (I'll add here that I've started to read all of them, but never finished any of their books. This just tells me that as a 'channel' of communication, their style/era/understanding is not really mine, despite my attempted stretch of comfort-zone. Academic texts likewise).
Regarding 'T/truth', what are we after? My two-pennyworth is that that we are after an experience of being authentic, which can then guide authentic action. We are all different but all connected; hence the wide scope for 'T/truth'. And hence the need for a metalogue approach. I believe one place where capital-'T' Truth can be found is when dreaming. There we find the 'Truth' about our 'truth' because the choices 'made' in dream scenarios reveal where we are truly at, without ego or intellect or cultural shoulds-n'-oughts getting in the way.
Sychronosphy offers an inside-to-outside approach to growth in consciousness, as opposed to a top-down dance-hammering postive-thinking mind-over-matter finger-wagging might-is-right moralistic code beating us into submission. A flower doesn't grow by standing over it with a gun, giving it a motivational speech. It grows when the ground is rich in friable humus, and it receives gentle rain and sufficient exposure to sunlight.
Thanks for offering such a detailed three-in-one contribution to our Café session. I'll try to split the responses for our metalogue (for purposes of easier readability.)
“A flower doesn't grow by standing over it with a gun, giving it a motivational speech.”
!!!
I am lying here in my campervan sipping on a coffee, listening to the birds busying themselves in the early morning. No lying around for them 😊. Truth: l like the notion of many truths in one truth. The truth, when we are willing for it to be presented to us, arrives at our point of need, is how l have found truth. Delivered by our soul when we choose to listen/feel the intuition beyond the first port of call, our gut feeling. Ego, l grappled with her in my earlier seeking of truth; now she knows she is attached to her soul, she has a trust and defers to her parent. So, finally l have learned not to take myself too seriously. Our egos are attached to our human experience, it would be a folly to expel her - l just need to remind her she is safe and loved when anxiety creeps in. 💜 Thank you for this post 🙏
Thank you, Simone.
I fully agree "our egos are attached to our human experience..." one day I'll write a chapter on the Ego (and the Self) in the world of Synchronosophy...
You are most welcome. Thank you for popping in at this Café Session ☕ 🙏 💕
I look forward to that Veronika. Imagine the day when the fear based conditioning of society is gone; replaced by a teaching that we are souls (love) and our ego is here to protect us (fear); not to be manipulated and governed by fear. It is this exacerbation of fear that the ego thinks it needs to battle to survive. We forget who we are for a reason, to seek truth. Part of our collective human experience is how l understand it. 🙏💜
sounds like a valid interpretation. Part of that search for truth (or our personal snippets of it) would be that every time anyone finds a little piece of that truth-puzzle, collective human Consciousness experiences a tiny expansion...
Yes 🙌 💜🙏🏼
time to log off for now (just gone midnight here) till soon 💛 🙏 💕
This sounds wonderful, Veronika! I love the idea of coffee and ongoing conversation about synchronosophy. ❤️
Thank you Jenna! It's an experiment, to shake up the format of 'writer's monologue' a bit. I'm planning Café Sessions in different virtual locations between each section of the book (that'll be roughly every 7 weeks)
The idea is that these 'sessions' remain open to anyone who drops at any time, and open up opportunities for conversations about the contents.
Looking forward to your comments❣️
Okay, here goes: I have a really hard time with I see Jung at the top of your posts. I have a strong aversion to Jung. It bothers me greatly when people I respect seem to either see nothing wrong with him or chalk it up to the times he was living in. I sometimes can't read your work when I see his quote at the top because it disturbs me. I do not wish to change you, but this how I feel. <3 <3 <3
That's a great filter. If a quote stops you from reading my work, there is probably no point reading any further. I also have personal issues with Jung and disagree with many things he did. But his work is inspired by his visionary genius.
This sounds very much like a trauma response.
Not at all. My experience was simply looking at the books I had a vibe read. What IS a trauma response is how I feel when you say that. It feels dismissive of my intuition as well as my intellectual reasons why I have a visceral response and cognitive reasons why I deeply do not want to be around those men's words and vibrations.
Consider asking what it feels like when I feel that I cannot read your work. Because my intranaut experience is very different when my soul or body wisdom guides me away from something in a strong way than when I feel triggered. I actually am more likely to dive right in when triggered, as that is my family baseline for dealing with conflict.
I absolutely love when people share the core motivating events in their lives. Initiations are very personal, so when someone shares their experience it is rare and powerful and sacred.
My initiating question was: “What is the Truth?”
What do you think?
Do you see a difference between truth/Truth and all the in betweens?
I think there are many truths and one Truth - both perspectives are true simultaneously.
which is the fundamental premise of metaloguing. Thank you for clarifying that distinction 💕🙏
How about you?
Yes, I see it as you do! So this has been a rather easy metalogue! Veronika, let me know if there are any other rules or things I should know to be respectful while also being spontaneous and honest! <3
This is only the beginning. Thank you for engaging in this metalogue, Alicia (despite not having read the chapters ~ that's very brave ~ like taking a plunge into deep water without knowing its depth.) 💕🙏
There are no rules other than the focus on the general topic, and what it brings up for you. Spontaneous and honest is great. Respectfulness is inbuilt in the principle of metaloguing.
Think of it as an opportunity to hang out together in a coffee shop and having a chat about the 'deeper stuff of life'.