Post by eliasavelar on Sept 9, 2015 2:42:57 GMT
Since the dawn of man, humans have always searched for meaning and been considered pattern-seekers. The issue of apophenia/patternicity seems to be embedded within us since birth, it’s simply part of the nature of who we are. Patterns are everywhere, from the rotation of the planets in our solar system down to the Flower of Life that contains the patterns of creation as they emerged from the “Great Void”. What we don’t really know for sure is whether there is some inherent spiritual intellect behind these incidences or if it’s all merely a coincidence. Either way, this shows why humans are prone to see significance and meaning in random or chaotic events. I think it’s inevitable for strange coincidences to occur because of the complete randomness and unlimited possibilities of life. Most importantly we can never forget the miracle and essence of life itself.
There is a phenomenon known as the hundredth monkey phenomenon which refers to a sudden spontaneous and mysterious leap of consciousness achieved when a “critical mass” point is reached. At first Dr. Lyall Watson thought that scientists were reluctant to publish the whole story for fear of ridicule but it was such an incredible event that he and Desmond Morris had to spread the word. Watson wrote “I am forced to improvise the details, but as near as I can tell, this is what seems to have happened. In the autumn of that year an unspecified number of monkeys on Koshima were washing sweet potatoes in the sea… Let us say, for argument’s sake, that the number was ninety-nine and that at eleven o’clock on a Tuesday morning, one further convert was added to the fold in the usual way. But the addition of the hundredth monkey apparently carried the number across some sort of threshold, pushing it through a kind of critical mass, because by that evening almost everyone was doing it. Not only that, but the habit seems to have jumped natural barriers and to have appeared spontaneously, like glycerine crystals in sealed laboratory jars, in colonies on other islands and on the mainland in a troop at Takasakiyama.
When the “hundredth” monkey learned to wash potatoes, suddenly and spontaneously monkeys on other islands with no physical contact with the potato-washing cult, started washing potatoes.
Altogether, the notion of raising consciousness through reaching critical mass doesn’t seem impossible. It’s the same with many other strange coincidences that have happened in our history. John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln were two of the greatest presidents if not the only and there’s a countless number of similarities between them like how they were elected to the House of Representatives in ’46, elected to the presidency in ’60 and inaugurated in ’61, both their vice presidents and successors were Southern Democrats named Johnson, and both men were shot on a Friday in the back of the head and in the presence of their wives. It’s just another thing that can’t necessarily be explained in this vast universe.
There are a lot of people out there who want to tell us that miracles are just a figment of our imagination but I think we are all prone to have them occur in each and every one of our lives, just at different times. I think the meaning of life is to give meaning to life and that may be why humans are prone to see significance and meaning in random events.
Watson, Lyall, Dr. Lifetide. N.p.: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979. Print.
There is a phenomenon known as the hundredth monkey phenomenon which refers to a sudden spontaneous and mysterious leap of consciousness achieved when a “critical mass” point is reached. At first Dr. Lyall Watson thought that scientists were reluctant to publish the whole story for fear of ridicule but it was such an incredible event that he and Desmond Morris had to spread the word. Watson wrote “I am forced to improvise the details, but as near as I can tell, this is what seems to have happened. In the autumn of that year an unspecified number of monkeys on Koshima were washing sweet potatoes in the sea… Let us say, for argument’s sake, that the number was ninety-nine and that at eleven o’clock on a Tuesday morning, one further convert was added to the fold in the usual way. But the addition of the hundredth monkey apparently carried the number across some sort of threshold, pushing it through a kind of critical mass, because by that evening almost everyone was doing it. Not only that, but the habit seems to have jumped natural barriers and to have appeared spontaneously, like glycerine crystals in sealed laboratory jars, in colonies on other islands and on the mainland in a troop at Takasakiyama.
When the “hundredth” monkey learned to wash potatoes, suddenly and spontaneously monkeys on other islands with no physical contact with the potato-washing cult, started washing potatoes.
Altogether, the notion of raising consciousness through reaching critical mass doesn’t seem impossible. It’s the same with many other strange coincidences that have happened in our history. John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln were two of the greatest presidents if not the only and there’s a countless number of similarities between them like how they were elected to the House of Representatives in ’46, elected to the presidency in ’60 and inaugurated in ’61, both their vice presidents and successors were Southern Democrats named Johnson, and both men were shot on a Friday in the back of the head and in the presence of their wives. It’s just another thing that can’t necessarily be explained in this vast universe.
There are a lot of people out there who want to tell us that miracles are just a figment of our imagination but I think we are all prone to have them occur in each and every one of our lives, just at different times. I think the meaning of life is to give meaning to life and that may be why humans are prone to see significance and meaning in random events.
Watson, Lyall, Dr. Lifetide. N.p.: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979. Print.