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will I be able to read it? or intimidations of the next step
According to psychoanalytical theory, a parapraxis or Freudian slip, as it is more commonly termed, denotes an error in speech or action, which although seemingly innocent betrays an unconscious anxiety or problem. Given my own clinical observations in this regard, I have not treated as insignificant the inadvertent conversion by certain individuals with whom I have spoken of the title of my journal entry intimations of the next step to intimidations of the next step. (I should say that I am being as careful as I possibly can at this moment in the spelling of these two words.)
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The Police and Synchronicity: All Access
Twenty-four years ago in 1983—when I had completed in the form of my MA thesis my first serious work on the then highly esoteric subject of synchronicity and was about to embark on another stage of research on that same subject that would ultimately take the form of a book-length manuscript—I was watching a new music show on TV when it was announced the soon-to-be-released album by The Police would be titled Synchronocity [sic]. Of course it would not take long before millions worldwide—the album went 8xplatinum in the US alone—would know that the title of that new release by The Police was in fact Synchronicity.
Searching for Reality Beyond the 'Wow' Moment
In reading the case examples presented in The Syndetic Paradigm: The Untrodden Path Beyond Freud and Jung there will no doubt be some very powerful 'wow' moments. I myself certainly had a few when I was writing The Syndetic Paradigm. Such moments inspire and as much as I have at times enjoyed experiencing them with others I am now less inclined to do so. Why? Because all too often we attach to these wow moments in a manner that causes us to stop short of seeing that of which they are but an expression. All too often what has the potential to serve as a point of access to the depth meaning of self-organizing Reality becomes a mere form of entertainment.
Intimations of the Next Step
In the process of preparing material for this website I was led back to journal reviews of my first book C. G. Jung's Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity I had not read for many years, some not since the time of that book's appearance 17 years ago. As I made my way through the folder holding those papers I have to say that I was genuinely surprised that beyond crediting me with completing Jung's thinking on synchronicity and the psychology of religion several reviewer comments could acknowledge the necessity of the next step—the necessity of this my most recent work The Syndetic Paradigm: The Untrodden Path Beyond Freud and Jung.