Synchronicity
Written by Rohaan Solare on Monday, September 14, 2009 18:01 - 2 Comments
Toward a Balanced Worldview: Order Out Of Chaos And The Emergence Of A Holistic Science ARTSOS 3
Series Title: The Tzolkin Code and the Art and Science of Synchronicity: A New Way to See and Experience the World. ARTSOS Pt. 3
Core Reality Constructs and Our Ideological Inheritance
In part 1 of the Arts and Science of Synchronicity I made mention of what I term a core reality construct.
A core reality construct (CRC) is comprised of either proven and or, unproven concepts describing how we think the phenomenal world operates.
It is how we explain the how, when and why of what happens, has happened or will happen in our universe and with regards to human to human interaction and between humans and their environment.
In part 1 of the Art and Science of Synchronicity I go on to describe how the foundation of the Western worldview is based on a CRC devised over 5000 years ago by the founders of Western Civilization. The foundation of the Western worldview is all too well preserved in the form of Biblical scripture.
The first “book” of the Bible, Genesis, laid down the core reality constructs that have governed Western thought and behavior for the last 5000 years or so. Those wanting a deeper review of the foundational ideology of Western Civilization may review my article entitled Deconstructing the Biblical “Fall of Man”: Insight into the Source of our Misery–Ancient and Modern.
The JCCC: A Dysfunctional Worldview
The key point made in my introduction to the Art and Science of Synchronicity, as far as core reality constructs are concerned, is that the Western worldview is anti-nature, anti-women and anti-other at its core and therefore ill equipped to accurately and effectively relate its adherents to the whole of nature in a healthy and ecological way.
An artists impression of what happened in the Cradle of Western Civilization. "The Fall of Man" according to Peter Breughel, the elder
I go on denounce the Western worldview as a dysfunctional and incoherent thought complex at the root of the world’s social, economic and environmental problems.
As a way to increase social coherence and ecological integration I propose the Art and Science of Synchronicity as a knowledge base founded on our verifiable understanding of nature and with the intent to reconcile science with the mythosophical (art/spirituality/religion/philosophy).
The Art and Science of Synchronicity deals with a visible, but culturally obscured order permeating our world at every level. An order responsible for every detail of our lives.
I assert, every event is a synchronicity and that our present understanding of reality allows us to recognize only the most obvious of synchronicities.
Given the magnitude with which the Western CRC has contaminated most of our thinking, I offer to first to deconstruct the Western world’s CRC before delving into the Art and Science of Synchronicity.
I liken the process to the de-installation of an obsolete computer operating system so that a new and improved version may be put in its place.
There is a great deal of introductory information in part 1 of the Art and Science of Synchronicity (ARTSOS) on the fragmented nature of the Western worldview or the Judeo-Christian Culture Complex.
The JCCC: A traumatized culture born and raised of catastrophe and afflicted to this very day.
Those encountering the ARTSOS for the first time may be better suited to assimilate this report by first reading part 1 of the ARTSOS.
The label of Judeo-Christian Culture Complex (JCCC) reflects the Westerns world’s ideological origins. And it also serves to underscore the ideological foundation of the Western secular world or the non-overtly religious realms.
The values, ethics and general worldview that has carried the JCCC through out its over 5000 year history are essentially the same ones governing the modern secular realm.
The superficial separation of church and state simply created another faction of the JCCC that for the most part sought to shift political power over to the secularists.
Western secularism is simply another offspring of the JCCC, but with less mention of Godliness and religious doctrine. Secularism is the educational, practical, commercial, governing and teeth bearing branch of the JCCC.
While supporting religiosity and retaining certain basic prejudices (anti-women, anti-nature, anti-other, Christian white male privilege) Western secularism is also ideologically unbound to cherry pick the brain of the JCCC’s problem child–science. I am alluding to the fact that institutionalized religion must reject key scientific discoveries in order to preserve itself.
The Problem Child
Science maybe likened to the rebellious child who runs away from home due to mentally and physically abusive parents. Rejecting
most of, but not all of its inherited and encultured parental wisdom, science strikes out on it own to discover the world for itself.
Western science has been struggling for over 500 years to emerge bias free from the ultra-dysfunctional worldview of the JCCC.
A key point made in part 1 of ARTSOS is that any ideology emerging from the cultural matrix of the JCCC would to some degree be afflicted by some of the most pernicious and insidious cultural biases that are passed on during our pre-adult lives and therefore incorporated into the deepest parts of our subconscious.
Enculturation: Culture’s Default and Automatic Pilot Program.
The brain automates and incorporates not only routine behaviors, but also routine observations. Meaning that if a child grows up watching his or her mother be the only gender to do certain household chores, the brain then assumes by observational default that certain duties are the sole province of women.
In turn boys grow into men expecting women to fulfill the duties they have been accustomed to via observational and unstated behavioral conditioning. The previous is a simplified example of what I mean by enculturation.
That is self-propelled behavioral and ideological conditioning occurring without the intention of indoctrination. In other words we simply imitate what we see due to our hardwired propensity to imitate uncritically during childhood.
In spite of the well intentioned efforts by scientists to remove as much bias as possible from their observations they are still hampered by biases laid down via the subtle and insidious mechanism of enculturation. To this day we know that the bias against the female gender is all too alive and well in the engineering and science fields.
The core reality construct of the JCCC would have us believe in the superiority of a male godhead who created the world and set all things in motion about 6000 years ago. Meaning all causes are the will of a male God. They would also have us believe reams of other literalized mythic lore.
Surveys of peoples beliefs and scientific knowledge have confirmed the efficacy of a leadership culture preferring to maintain unsubstantiated beliefs over well founded scientific observation.
Those of us aware of the JCCC’s mythic illiteracy know what I am talking about. And those of us aware were fortunate to have been weakly encultured along such treacherous lines. We were also lucky to have received enough scientific education along with a few other uncommon experiences to help us escape the gravity of the JCCC and other literalized religio-mystical concepts imported from other cultures.
It is a well known fact that a science education helps eradicate the artificiality of religious doctrine and its erroneous views of nature. Science improves our knowledge of nature by observing how nature works and then attempts to interpret those observations via a methodology designed to remove hidden biases.
Science is a self-correcting and self-evolving thought complex.
Science is the only ideology that can make that claim and that is why science reigns supreme as a way to arrive at our clearest understanding of reality. Every belief striving to be more than just that must be evaluated before the rigors of the scientific method.
And to be fair science must not dismiss any phenomena before it has been thoroughly investigated.
Some encultured dogmas have become so entrenched that they have escaped our attention. How many of us have ever questioned the Western concept of time and calendars? Ideas of time and calendars are central to the Art and Science of Synchronicity (ARTSOS)
A painting by Salvador Dali
Western concepts of time and calendars are two of the least questioned aspects of the JCCC.
The foregoing is the primary reason for my time spent on the subject of deeply encultured ideas before I get into the crux of the ARTSOS .
Our Ungrounded and Disconnected Split Brain Culture
On one hand we have the maladapted and incoherent ideology of the JCCC who seeks to dominate nature and “other” by force of will.
Man is presumed to be superior to nature, women and those with other views of reality—essentially everybody not white, male and holding non-Judeo-Christian worldviews.
Colonialism, neo-colonialism, social exploitation and environmental indifference are testament to the previous statement.
On the other hand we have a confident and demonstrably competent scientific body who can accurately tell us about the universal truths of nature.
Divorce is Painful
Stories relating to our origins, our purpose and to the rest of nature are at the foundation of what I call the mythosophical, ie., mythology, art, religion, spirituality and philosophy.
The process of scientific discovery obliged science to throw out the baby with the bath water–respectively mythology and religion. In doing so science left us without a story to relate us, the mythosophically disenfranchised, to the phenomenal world in a way which orients and connects us to the natural world in ways healthy and sane.
Scientists by virtue of their training by and large develop an ecological worldview. An ecological worldview is sane and healthy and it also meshes perfectly with the way nature works.
The mythosophically disenfranchised are those of us who have rejected traditional worldviews, but are not scientists or science oriented and therefore piecemeal our worldviews based on encounters with various ideas that “sound good” to our preferences. The goal of any healthy worldview should be that it mesh with reality according to the way nature works.
The Splintered Split Brain
In addition to the tortured and traumatized psyche of the JCCC, the Western Worldview now also has a splintered split brain.
Its mythosophical right brain has splintered into over 38,000 Christian denominations, thousands of political labels, philosophies and spiritualities both homespun and imported from other cultures. Each view has its take on the nature of reality and how it works and/or should work.
And then we have this increasingly coherent left brain that does have the proven ability to tell us how nature works. The miracle of the modern world is testimony to the success of science. However, science as it stands is in and of itself an incomplete story. Science nourishes the left brain, but it has thus far neglected the needs of the right side.
Some might argue that it is not the work of science to nourish the right, but that it is the function of the arts to nourish the right side. To insist upon such a strict dichomtomy is symptomatic of what I mean by a split brain. The two sides of the brain are joined by what is known as the corspus collossum.
Both sides of the brain communicate with each other to make the most sense of the world. We know that some people are more “left brained” and others more “right brained”. It is clear that both have their proper and rightful place in the scheme of things. The right and the left or art and science simply describe and perceive the world differently. In the simplest and briefest of terms the right brain is big picture focused and generalist while the left is preoccupied with procedure and specificity.
My understanding is that they can both be accurate in what they describe, but that they simply use different terms to describe the same thing. My work on the Art and Science of Synchronicity hopes to reconcile the terminology to show how both views are accurate and valid ways of describing the phenomenal world.
The Absence of a Unifying Story
Our story telling heritage from time immemorial has sought to relate the realms of reality into a coherent whole. 
Tell me what ancient myth, story, legend or religion does not attempt to relate the individual with the invisible realm, plants, animals, the earth, the stars, behavioral expectations, society, our origins, destiny and our final fate?
Science was correct to throw out the bath water (JCCC), but it has yet to compensate for the loss of an essential story that gives meaning to life in way that connects our temporal existence with the mystery of existence and all of its elements.
Mythology is the study of our ancients stories, myths, legends, spiritualities, religions and rituals.
Perhaps it is the job of a mythologist to relate our new found world of verifiable knowledge (science) in a way that tells the story of life and existence so as to create coherence out of an increasingly incoherent world.
I believe that the Science of Synchronicity will begin to help fill the void, confusion and schism I have described in this report. You may read more on the theme of a unifying story in an article entitled Toward a Holistic Cosmology of the Planetary Culture.
Getting into tune with the universe and staying there is the principal function of myth. ~
Joseph Campbell
Our Cultures Biggest Problem: The Sinister Secularists
Science lags far behind in its study of the social sciences and human behavior relative to technological science. Science can tell us how to get to the moon with relative ease, but it cannot seem to solve our growing social, economic and environmental problems. The discontinuity is not an accident–it exists by design.
The third major splinter of the Western worldview is occupied by the ultra-secularists, the world of big business and big politics.
The ultra-secularists believe wholly in might makes right and they are propelled by a rapacious biology justified as capitalism to acquire wealth and power at all costs.
In my study of socio-cultural dynamics I affectionately refer to the ultra-secularists as the prevailing culture of the Western world and they are found in the upper echelons of GovCorp Inc.
It is they who say what is to be done with the public’s resources–our taxes and natural resources.
The US can boast about having the biggest and greatest weapons of all time, while also home to the most scientifically illiterate public of the Western world and a majority who believes in the literal interpretation of mythic texts (mythic illiteracy).
Killing technology and militarism are exalted and over-funded while intellectualism is ridiculed and impoverished. This condition obliges the US to import scientists and engineers from “less developed” countries.
Gadgets Galore and a Dumb downed Populace.
The scientific revolution began a little over 500 years ago. The JCCC was left to govern the socio-political world while science 
preoccupied itself with machine technology and the study of the natural world. It would take another 400 years before science would begin to put the psycho-socio-political aspects of the JCCC under the microscope of scientific inquiry.
The lag in the scientific investigation of the psycho-socio-political realm is reflected by the contrast of an extremely sophisticated machine culture in the presence of an extremely unsophisticated public and a savage political leadership culture. This is not an unintended consequence.
The religio-political leadership of the JCCC is essentially anti-natural science (evolution vs mythic creator God) when it comes to the socio-political arena, but they are very friendly to technological science.
Technological science means business opportunities, creature comforts and it has helped the leadership of JCCC maintain control of its subjects via TV, radio and print tech. Technological science also helps the JCCC with its worldly aspirations of global wide cultural and economic domination via military technology (neo-colonialism). Psychology and social science came around in the early to mid 1900′s and they too are used against the public.
Fortunately for us the technological sword has begun cut both ways and the internet is now helping right the scales by providing an informational and social organizational medium not easily controlled by the religio-political leadership of Western civilization.
Some Illusions Run Deep
Despite the well intentioned efforts by Western science to discover the truth about nature it cannot help, but be affected by some of the most enduring and deeply embedded ideological bias’s of the JCCC.
Ideas such as free will, linear time, object fixation, dualism, linear cause-effect, western calendrics, individualism and its own ethnocentrism.
As I delve deeper into the Art and Science of Synchronicity I will show how the Western ideas just mentioned are the blind spots and illusions I make them out to be.
Western science has uncovered many of its biases due to the force of experimental data obliging scientists to rethink their ideas. Ideas not their own. Ideas hatched in cradle of civilization and passed on via the socio-cultural mechanisms of enculturation and indoctrination.
The encultured ideas of the JCCC run so deep that 500 years has not been enough for time for Western science to fully extricate itself from some of the JCCC’s most insidious, erroneous and life complicating worldviews.
A human being’s primary liability upon being born, from an ideological perspective, is the process of enculturation.
A concept you will encounter in many of my writings because it is so all important that we understand how it works and how each of us and our culture is affected by it. We must then learn how to counteract the undesirable aspects of enculturation.
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Norland Télle
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Trying out this new service of extended notes. I like what you are doing a lot Emergentculture, and your point about the universalization of tzolkin–or let us say mythology in general, which is my field of graduate studies–is well taken. In fact this is the whole bent of Joseph Campbell too, who, in his own way and with the help of Jung’s work, also attempted to universalize myth on psychological grounds. As archetypes are “the same” whether you formulate them in Chinese or Arabic, paint them or dance them, etc… —But are they? Since this “identity” can only be a formal and empty abstraction, devoid of historic content, it is unable to touch the deeper level of our psyches. Scientific universality only satisfies “theoretical man”, only the intellect,whereas it leaves our fundamental nature intact. So I understand very well that scientific knowledge, i.e., its method, is universal, but at the same time I recognize that the “universality” of scientific knowledge–which is a subjectless universality (even in quantum physics)and is yet subject to historic change in time–is a very poor kind of universality,empty and abstract and with the added pretense of “timeless” validity and ahistoricity.
As I mentioned to you, there is such a thing as a spiritual and intellectual colonization when dealing with other people’s myths; assimilating the tzolkin to our Western frames of reference would be such an example. Just imagine some one studying the Maya Religion only to corroborate Christian doctrine. Such a person might think that they’re doing the Maya a favor by bringing them “up to date” and “universalizing” their Religion into the universal religion of the West. And has not science today become our tacit Religion? That is why, in view of these dangers and with the help of deconstructive criticism, I am doing exactly the opposite: showing that our customary frames of reference breakdown in the Maya context, that is, when one sticks to the actual imagery and symbolism of their texts in their native soil, with the result that our way of thinking is truly transformed; rather than using the Maya to corroborate our prejudices and our unbounded faith in in science. One does violence, typical of the Western “conquistador” way of thinking, by uprooting traditions and stripping them of everything that does not fit into our current status of knowledge. Context is everything, and to decontextualize something in order to put it to “our use,” in order to posses it, is to kill it; is a form of intellectual colonization.
That is why I am attracted to what is “other” in the Popol Vuh, other than our western way of thinking, and how in confrontation with this Other–which will not allow itself to be caged into the logic of the same–our own thinking is transformed in ways that CANNOT be predicted. But using a scientific framework actually already “anticipates” a solution.
That said, I still look forward to reading your stuff and learning from you, even if, in a certain sense, our approaches may be fundamentally different.
(incidentally, the contrast of object science vs relational science is something that has come into our current scientific world-picture (think of the metaphor of the “web” not only on line but in the life sciences as well) w/o having to reach for Native American mythologies).
Cheers!
Norland Tellez
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Anticipating Personal and Collective Shifts in Relation to MMAC Time Science
The word shift is commonly used in reference to the motifs associated with the 2012-“End of the Mayan Calendar” phenomena (2012-MC). The expectations of those most realistically attuned to the mytho-symbolic significances of 2012-MC sense that there are large scale socio-cultural shifts in the works. Emergent-Culture.com is essentially dedicated to the planet wide socio-cultural movement (planetary culture) that I believe lies at the heart of the “co-incidence” between the end of the 5125 year Maya Long Count Cycle and the unprecedented levels of socio-economic turbulence seen all around the world.
The notion of mere “coincidence” is dispelled once one understands what the Ancient Mesoamericans (Maya, Toltecs, Olmecs, etc) discovered about the nature of time and reality. I use the the term Ancient Mesoamericans because precolumbian Mesoamerica was home to upwards of 80 different tribes and most followed the same calendrical system. Additionally the Maya were not the first to use the core of the Mesoamerican calendrical system—-the tzolkin cycle. Although they were the ones who developed Mesoamerican calendrics to its highest degree. I also prefer to use Ancient Mesoamericans because it helps differentiate between present day Mesoamericans and those who lived in Middle America prior to the European invasion.
Since it was the ancient ones who were responsible for the development of Maya-Meso-American Calendrical system. (MMAC)
And What is Time?
In the Western world time is a very muddled concept. Western science is only now beginning to acknowledge that their classical conception of time is ill defined, overcomplicated and just plain wrong. Have a look at Wikipedia’s treatment of time to get a taste of what I mean. Time has been so misunderstood that Western scholars have written entire books about the subject without reaching any kind of conclusion or consensus about what time is.
Those of you familiar with my writings on time and Mesoamerican calendrics (calendar/time science) know that from my vantage point, time is nothing more than movement and that’s how the Ancient MesoAmericans (AMA) saw it as well. Albeit a special kind of movement.Something I call ordered movement. There are various definitions of time and many are useful, but I’m talking about time in the most fundamental of terms. Time is not the fourth dimension as Einstein believed.[…]
[NOTE: The foregoing paragraphs serve as an introduction to a chapter on my developing book on The Legend of 2012. The remaining text below this note is the tail end of the chapter where I show how one may apply MMAC time science to one’s life in order to anticipate significant personal life events, and as a way to self validate what I consider to be the most profound and universally relevant cosmology (worldview) presently available. It is universally relevant because it applies to everyone regardless of whether one believes in it or not. It is universally relevant because it’s a mesocosmically scaled cosmology and that means that you don’t need to understand equations or use special tools to observe and appreciate, e,g. microscope, telescope.
The chapter goes on to develop the idea of time as ordered movement/change and of how the earth’s basic movements translate into the scheduled and sequential movements of all organisms. The mechanism is detailed down to the DNA molecular level in an attempt to show how all of life unfolds to the beat of some cosmic piper. The piper’s “musical score” is intrinsic to the earth’s movements, the workings of DNA code and all human activity in general. I suggest that the Ancient Mesoamericans discerned the cosmic score from their study of astronomical and earthly cycles both overt and subtle. Some cycles are so subtle that no other culture discovered them. The most subtle of these cycles were encoded into their Tzolkin cycle calendar.
I also relate the tzolkin and genetic codes and then show their relationship to the implicate and explicate orders that the Physicist David Bohm describes in his Holomovement cosmology. This article focuses on a particular type of movement we call a shift or transition. These shifts happen at predictable time scales because the growth and development of all organisms happen according to timing constants built into the very fabric of our reality. It seems that the AMA discovered those constants. The following excerpt tells you how to apply those constants.] click here to read entire article
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I also like what you said about the Judeo-Christian-islamic–or MONOTHEISTIC complex—, as I too share a great distrust of Western paradigms of thought–including, or especially, Science, as you mention, by which is meant the mathematically guided methodologies that establish the sciences of Nature. That is why I have taken wings with the postmodern trends of cultural criticism, which do come hard on all of this, with a particular eye to the reconstitution of a meta-narrative or grand récit which attempts a totalizing view of Nature and man, rather than being content with a multiplicity of little narratives (petit histoires) or "truths". The mad drive toward a totalizing (totalitarian?) picture of reality is the hallmark of all such (monotheistic) attempts to derive any and everything from a simple "primordial ground," rather than recognizing the equiprimordiality of constitutive factors–such as those that cleave the humanities as geisteswissenschaften (sciences of the human spirit) from the sciences of Nature. The latter's approach becomes "unscientific" if applied to cultural phenomena. This conclusion comes out nicely in an essay on "A Psychosocial Hermeneutics" by Roy Howard, where he writes:
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The moral here is not that the subjectless methodology of the physical sciences is inherently vicious but that it is the wrong basis for mapping the process of intersubjective systems. As McCarthy, in his excellent study of Habermas, puts it, "The real problem…is not technical reason as such but its universalization [!], the forfeiture of a more comprehensive concept of reason in favor of the exclusive validity of scientific and technological thought, the reduction of PRAXIS to TECHNE, and the extension of purposive action to all spheres of life. (THREE FACES OF HERMENEUTICS 93)
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That is why the proposition that the tzolkin by itself alone could be a "unified field theory" on the basis of physicalist science makes me rather anxious. For although SEMANTICALLY you may be replacing Western paradigms of thought with those of the Maya, SYNTACTICALLY, in a structural sense, you could easily be reinstating the totalitarian LOGIC of the meta-narrative under a new semantic banner, which in the last analysis no Native Maya shaman could recognize as being their own.