Randomness and
Synchronicity
Our lives are filled with a range of events. Some are random and
defy explanation, some are synchronicities that defy explanation. Between these two
extremes, we have a great bell shaped curve of experiences with the majority of the
events of our lives clustered around the great median of normal experience; neither random
nor wild co-incidences.
There are some important things to notice about this bell-shaped
curve, first described by Carl Friedrich Gauss in the beginning of the 19th Century.
The polar relationship of the uncommon
First, it demonstrates that synchronicity and randomness are aspects
of the same class of experiences, lying along an axis of probability. Seemingly random
events, like the unpredictable jiggling of air molecules in a cloud chamber, are not
random at all when seen from a different viewpoint. Even molecular randomness becomes an
astonishing parallel trajectory when viewed from the perspective of the galactic center.
Events that seem random to you or I become part of a larger trajectory when viewed from
the perspective of history.
Synchronicities defy random
chance and give us just cause to believe in
destiny. But what seems a miraculous event
to you will seem totally random to others
with a different viewpoint. Most synchronicities
require knowledge of a very special set of
information before they have any significance
beyond random chance. The chain of synchronicities
detailed in log books one and two are examples
of this. For example, the astounding appearance
of a rare species of nautilus at just the
time and place when we were trying to offload
our daffy friend in Rabaul, PNG, was only
astounding to Doug, Freddy and I. Not to anyone
else in the whole world. The WorM
experience meant nothing at all to anyone
but Freddy and me. The events described in "Synchronicity" are uncanny - but only when you know their
associations.
So, randomness and synchronicity
The Bell Shaped Curve
The other thing to notice is the bell shaped curve that Dr. Gauss
described in such complete detail that we have not improved on his description since. Dr.
Gauss was one of the few great geniuses of our planet. He noticed aspects of our world no
one else saw. His mathematics discoveries broke the trail for Einstein's Theory of
Relativity. His work on magnetism lead to telegraphy and eventually to all electronic
communication. And the Gaussian, or normal, distribution curve describes almost every
circumstance related to probability.
In any population of any creature, any characteristic - physical or
mental - will vary according to the miraculous bell shaped curve. The curve itself is what
is interesting. It is so exact we base many of our tests of statistical significance on
it.
Where does the bell shaped curve itself fit on the axis between
randomness and synchronicity? Certainly it was a wonderful synchronicity that Carl Gauss
noticed this association. But, actually, the curve itself can't be described by the curve.
It is a different class of event from the circumstances it describes.
A Pattern of Events
The curve is a pattern of events. We use the pattern as a
simultaneous measure of both randomness and synchronicity. Patterns are part of the
control system, part of the feedback, part of the guidance network fashioning the thread
of awareness in chaos.
The bell shaped curve appears only with a twist of viewpoint from
one system level to another, outside the events it measures. It is an artifice created by
the language mind of humanity, but then the events and conditions it describes are also
artifices created by other communication networks. Each network has its own way of
detecting and describing and reacting to the Gaussian distribution between random chance
and synchronicity.
That there is a great resemblance between the Gaussian Distribution
and a Sine Wave and that the sine wave describes the relative trajectory of the error of expectations. This is probably not pure chance.
The Thread that connects
There is, however, one aspect that connects the events to the
pattern. One link between the polarity of randomness and synchronicity and the
distribution of these events of life and it is this.
They both require:
This is because these are
the 4 prime characteristics of all intercommunication,
the 4 phases
of becoming, that are common to all patterns
and events.
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