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11. A Matter of Chance
The term 'chance' carries profound significance. It is what comes 'by chance' to us, as if we have summoned something upon ourselves. "Of course, this has to happen to me," or "I feel blessed by this turn of events", we say. We yearn for the favorable influence of this chance and dread the opposite; we hope for the best and fear the worst. When you consider how much misfortune could unfold in your life and how much beauty there is to anticipate, it is understandable that many individuals make it a daily task to keep chance at bay. And I am not even referring to those who hope for the worst and fear the best that could befall them.
Carl Gustav Jung could not bear the existence of phenomena that emerge from 'nothing' and lead to 'nothing.' To curb his frustration, he coined the term 'synchronicity.' In simple terms, he meant that a coincidence, or a series of coincidences, might retrospectively reveal meaningful connections. Singular experiences, so individual that they elude any comprehension, suddenly fall under the umbrella of human lawfulness.
To me, the principle of synchronicity seems mostly an attempt to deceive. An effort to exclude the most individual aspects of the experiential realm and a means to avoid welcoming human expressions thereof, instead placing them under the tyranny of control and predictability. Chance is chance. Neither more nor, assuredly, less. Perhaps the influence of chance is greater than the portion we grasp. Have we not considered everything we now understand as chance initially?
In psychosynthesis, the term 'self' is given to the workings of this chance. The self, too, evades verification and repetition. It is not even possible to determine whether my self falls to me, or if I fall to myself. For this reason, the psychosynthesist approaches the experience of the inexplicable in human life, whether dark or beautifully profound, as a sacred matter from the outset. Simply because what a person actually experiences forms the nurturing soil in which their existence takes root. It is from and upon this unique nurturing soil that each individual leads their life. The interplay between what a person generally holds within their grasp and what befalls them in exceptional moments is called 'self-realization' in psychosynthesis.
While you may not always control what befalls you, when you take hold of what chance delivers, you find yourself in good hands.
December 1, 2013
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Thuiswinkel Waarborg