Jung, in common with other thinkers at different periods of history, believed in an ultimate unity of existence. Using the terminology of medieval philosophy, he reffered to this an the "unus mundus". This unity is outside the human catogories of time and space, and beyond our seperation of reality into physical and mental. In Psychology and Alchemy Jung writes of
"Actualizing those contents of the unconscious which are outside nature, i.e. not a datum of our empirical world, and therefore an a priori of archetypal character. The place or medium of realisation is neither mind nor matter, but that intermediate realm of subtle reality which can adequately be expressed only by symbol."
If our categories of physical and mental are artificial, "objective" events and states of mind may be interrelated. Jung certainly believed that archetypes manifested themselves, at least occasionally, in physical events and in states of mind at the same time. He named this phenomenon synchronicity.
What this essentially boils down to is that the unconscious realm reaches us by such manifestations of synchronicity within the conscious realm of mind and matter. However, the mechanical-man who lives in Stuart Wilde's "tick-tock" will not see the synchronicity as a deliberate or meaningful manifestation, but simply as coincidence. My own experience has been that the more centered and "awake" I am, the more by perceptions are open to synchronistic events. Sometimes large chunks of my days seem synchronistic. Other times not. Are we having constant synchronistic events but failing to perceive them through "sleep" or perhaps "denial", or are we experiencing occasional synchronicities and need to continually be "aware" and on the look-out for them?
The first trick is to learn to stay awake in a world where everyone is asleep for the most part - lulled into a somnolence by the oscillation of the brain on the one hand and the oscilation of the electromagnetic field of the earth on the other. The earth vibrates at seven hertz-per-second, which of course is the same speed as the alpha brain wave or the dream state.
Learning to stay awake means forcing the mind to pay attention and to concentrate on "life" (the present moment). A simple concept but hard to do. It involves pulling your energy within yourself and concentrating only on those things which are important to you. It involves doing things constantly which will discipline you to stay awake. More than anything else staying awake is becoming enthusiastically committed to your Self. How excited are you by what you are? You have to back yourself, otherwise who will?
In a world where people hate responsibility, avoid commitment and shun reality, what you are looking to do is the very opposite. You are creating through your commitment to you Self, through your enthusiasm for truth, an affirmation which says : "I'll step up. I'll take control. I accept what I am and I commit totally and absolutely to my life. Not one second of it will I commit to the nonsense of mechanical-man. I Am what I Am, and what I Am is getting stronger and more independent each day. I might have been a bit wimpy in the past but I'm becoming stronger, crafty, and quick."
Then, as you walk towards a new world, a new brotherhood, you will allow yourself, through self-acceptance, the time needed to make the kind of changes you want. In the same way as you are not going to mess with trying to impress the world or trying to accomodate it, so to you will not try to accomodate what your Ego thinks you should do. What does it know anyway? Its religion is fear and insecurity. You will set your path through commitment, you will be happy in "not knowing" (uncertainty) and you will walk. You will not listen to the demands of the Ego which says that life has to be guaranteed, cozy and safe. Instead, you will deliberately design a life that endorses you, a life of experience and excitement, a life that is truely lived.
There is a point you will reach if you haven't gotten there already, where the resonance of mechanical-man will drive you mad. You will see the "tick-tock" in your life and you will wake to its utter uselessness, its crushing boredom. You will not be able to take it a moment longer. "Tick-tock" will become a symbol of your weakness and in the end you will have to wallk away or stay in the frustration of knowing that you are in prison, that the doors are open but you lack the courage (will) to walk out.
~ Stuart Wilde
Namaste'... ;)
