Karma, luck, fate, sheer coincidence

[pattycakes_]

@constant escape, He was talking from a Buddhist pov. So yeah, neutral, detached. Am no expert but I think their idea of those positives is a lot more neutral than the greeting card varieties.

 

[Corpsey]

Today

Opened a book of hart crane poems on a poem about Melville's tomb (having been reading posts about him on here yesterday)

In this poem, the word "calyx" which I look up, crane uses in reference to shipwrecks, but could be translate roughly as the shell or skeleton of

Walking to the park, I pass a perfectly preserved skull at the base of a lamppost (a fox skull?)

Earlier on, reading a chapter about our prehistoric forebears (Austrapithicus etc.), skeletons in this of course, and then while walking listening to Ian McGilchrist talking about how science and art shouldn't be divided

Quoting or paraphrasing Goethe (and I'm paraphrasing from memory) "we cannot discover the eternal by turning our back on time, but by facing the products of time, we cannot discover the spiritual by turning out back on matter, but by going deeper into the material and discovering the ensoulment of things"

These aren't big coincidences, but I connected them together, and I thought that in some cases it's good to "believe in" coincidence because it does remind us of how everything is connected and significant.

 

[Corpsey]

This isn't about karma ofc (or maybe it is?) I just didn't want to start a new thread about coincidences

 

[Mr. Tea]

This isn't about karma ofc (or maybe it is?) I just didn't want to start a new thread about coincidences

I'm genuinely not saying this to try and be funny, but just yesterday I was thinking about doing this.

What prompted me was learning that the 'Dennis the Menace' comic strip in the Beano, and the totally unrelated American 'Denis the Menace', were both launched on 12 March 1951.

 

[Benny Bunter]

I was on about coincidences on here the other day, they've been cropping up on the forum quite a lot recently.

A couple of days ago I looked up the word 'fillip' from one of the new Prynne poems I've been typing up on here, cos I'd never seen it before. Next day, reading Moby Dick, there it is again!

 

[Benny Bunter]

I'm very into to the idea of synchronicities lately though with reading grapejuice, and I love how they keep cropping up on dissensus, especially lately with the thread on jung getting bumped, that mad coincidence between the prynne/prelude threads and now the insects in the books thing. I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting about.

 

[shiels]

baader mein Hoff complex

 

[Benny Bunter]

I think there also exists a sort of anti-coincidence, or maybe a negative coincidence. Dunno if a term for it already exists.

It's mad that Whitman and Melville were almost exact contemporaries - in the same city, both born in the same year and dying within a year of each other - but apparently never met or even mentioned each other at all.

 

[shiels]

Awe at your own pattern finding capabilities projected out

 

[shiels]

Teh red car theory

 

[shiels]

We are desperate to find the magic elsewhere

 

[shiels]

But the trick is to realise YOU are the magic son

 

[shiels]

You are the magic @Corpsey

 

[pattycakes_]

It's also out there too

 

[pattycakes_]

Everything is everything

 

[Mr. Tea]

Everything is everything

Deep, man.

 

[pattycakes_]

Fractals, baby

 

[sufi]

Last month the karma and coincidences were hefty - karma payback following closely from triggers, and odd connections cropping up constantly, this month the energy is diminished ... i find that stuff comes and goes but my fears about manifesting shcizophrenia prevent me from taking it too much to heart, after all إنَّ اللَّهَ كَتَبَ الْإِحْسَانَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْ

 

[Mr. Tea]

 

[okzharp]

a couple of months ago... after ten years of no contact i sent a one line email to a friend asking him how he's doing... as I clicked send my phone blipped, and it was a message from him asking me how i'm doing.