Wind of the universe

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The 'Wind of the Universe' is a metaphor for the dynamic of the invisible super-sensible influences that are guiding the emergence and emanation of our physical reality experience. It is a term to denote in a friendly metaphoric way that there is more to our reality experience than the mechanistic universe as described by the predominant contemporary materialistic worldview of mineral science.

Some effects of the Wind of the Universe are quite noticeable indicators of these invisible influences from spiritual realities in our very personal human experience, because the experience amazes so that it intuitively defeats and just don't fit the logic of the materialistic worldview of mineral science.

When one stands still and starts to pay attention to such experiences and effects, it may be the start of a spiritual pathway to try and upgrade one's worldview. The interest of these topics is that their personal experience and consecutive further investigation can be a lead into a personal pathway of developing consciousness into spiritual science and initiation, see also There's a crack in everything and Cosmic fractal.

The following non exhausive list introduces a number of such effects:

coincidence
synchronicity (appearing as defeating causality as taught in physics)
serendipity

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epiphany (as for example in scientific discoveries)
premonition (precognition)

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zeitgeist pregnancy - simultaneity of certain discoveries made by people independently in a certain timeframe and culture
intuition
how perception, interpretation and expectations define/influence outcome; also known as: self-fulfilling prophecy and/or the Pygmalion or Rosenthal effect, Golem and Galatea effect (Thomas and Merton)
law of attraction (related to the previous point)

Aspects

Terminology
- These topics have been subject of study and a huge literature published on each of them. Nevertheless they are not clearly understood by contemporary mineral science, and they require a framework of spiritual science to gain an insight on their 'technical' workings. In contemporary culture therefore, because spiritiual is much in the greyzone or borderline of general acceptance, a specific nomenclature has been developed by the multitude of writers (eg Jung, Bentov, Mansfield, etc), terms such as 'mental energies', the 'collective unconscious', and so on.
- Different cultures have knowledge and terms for the functioning of waking consciousness in relationship to its underlying astral 'mechanics or functioning' (see Schema FMC00.289 on Human 'I'). An example is the concept of dreamtime with the Australian aboriginals, see wiki page for The Dreaming.
Building on the metaphor of 'wind of the universe', 'Sailing' is a metaphoric term to denote orienting one's self - individually or as an organization - along this dynamic to optimize progress and results. This implies being aware, checking and measuring the wind, and most importantly - the technique of sailing itself. The term sailing contrasts with rowing or engine power: it makes use of nature's forces, and only a small shift in the sail can make the difference between no movement or tailwind progress. The alternative of considering the WU, ai ignoring it or choosing to operate blindly, is to choose an operating model based on a structured model built with rational intellectual thoughts. This more or less maps to how society functions on the basis of the dominant contemporary worldview. The alternative is described under worldview spiritual science and worldview wars.
- applications
  - The aboriginals concept of dreamtime (and the functioning of consciousness and perception) have been studied by a.o. Arnold Mindell and has found inroads into application in coaching techniques, see the ORSC Path module (that uses three worlds: essence, dreaming and consensus reality)
  - similarly TheoryU also uses the three levels of thinking, feeling and willing - see also Man as a threefold being and hold this to Planes or Worlds of Consciousness

Coincidence

The term coincidence is used for

any interesting or noteworthy link or correlation that we observe (and hence, where there is meaning in this link or correlation)
.. where we cannot determine a causal connection, in other words, we do not understand the reasons or underlying mechanisms at work that produce this meaning.

The differentiation between cause and effect has both a philosophical and a mathematical (probability theory) basis in the principle of cause and effect, or causality, in a materialistic cosmos with linear time and space.

Plotinus, Ennead VI.9

Those who believe that the world of being is governed by luck or chance and that it depends upon material causes are far removed from the divine and from the notion of the One.

Arthur Koestler, The Roots of Coincidence

The paradox consists, loosely speaking, in the fact that probability theory is able to predict with uncanny precision the overall outcome of processes made up out of a large number of individual happenings, each of which in itself is unpredictable. In other words, we observe a large number of uncertainties producing a certainty, a large number of chance events creating a lawful total outcome.

To establish cause and effect (causality) is notoriously difficult, expressed by the widely accepted statement 'correlation does not imply causation'. In statistics, it is generally accepted that observational studies can give hints, but can never establish cause and effect. With the probability paradox considered, it would seem that the larger the set of coincidences, the more certainty rises and the more it appears that there is some cause behind the effects of this large-set certainty of random, coincidental events.

Hence, certainty and the laws and rules with which we understand and structure our reality experience, are basically macroscopic patterns in large populations of instances. Each individual instance is in se unpredictable, but if we know the behaviour of very many, we are able to make a statement of likelihood.

To illustrate this:

when a person is diagnosed with cancer, a normal response is to investigate the statistics for how long that person may still have to live. This is usally a pie chart with so many people so long, etc. Now that information may be very true, but the key point is that the person does not know in which segment of the pie chart he or she falls. So in essence the information may be indicative, but its value for the individual is in fact zero.
the fact that 'everything' or 'anything' is theoretically possible in any event (and is hence unpredicable) became theoretically underbuilt by quantum physics theory at the beginning of the 20th century. In popular media, for example, see 'What the bleep? (2004)

like synchronicity, it is a non-causal

it is just where the causal components are beyond our daily conscious awareness and science-based explanatory worldview

some people have had such amazing strings and streams of coincidences filled with meaning, that they logged it -> see website

Synchronicity

Carl Jung was the first to coin the term and write the first key work about this with his (1952) book 'Synchronicity: an acausal connecting principle'

Jung was intrigued from early in his career with coincidences, especially those surprising juxtapositions that scientific rationality could not adequately explain. He discussed these ideas with Albert Einstein before World War I, and first used the term "synchronicity" in a 1930 lecture, in reference to the unusual psychological insights generated from consulting the I Ching. A long correspondence and friendship with the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli stimulated a final, mature statement of Jung's thinking on synchronicity, originally published in 1952

As both Jung and his successor in the field of synchronicity, Marie Louise von Franz, have said, the theory of synchroncitiy is very close to that of Leibnitz's monadolgy, and Progroff explains why in a most coherent and accessible way.

Progroff also relates a conversation he had with Jung in which the latter explained how ESP and psychic phenomena in general could be understood through a synchronistic framework and the archetype of the miracle. All fascinating stuff and not in the maintream of either Jungian or coincidence studies. On the cover of the book, which was written in the fifties but updated and published in 1973, is an endorsement by Jung himself: "Ira Progroff discusses the question of synchronicity very skilfully..."

http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2013/01/synchronicity-and-collective-unconscious.html

“Jung himself was fully aware of the fact that the concept of synchronicity was incompatible with traditional science and he followed with great interest the revolutionary new worldview that was emerging from developments in modern physics. He maintained a friendship with Wolfgang Pauli, one of the founders of quantum physics, and the two of them had a very fruitful exchange of ideas. Similarly, in personal communications between Jung and Albert Einstein, the latter explicitly encouraged him to pursue the concept of synchronicity because it was fully compatible with the new thinking in physics. Sadly, however, mainstream psychologists and psychiatrists have still not caught up with the revolutionary developments in modern physics and Jungian psychology.”

- Stanislav Grof, “The Holotropic Mind” (173-4)

From his observations Jung draws some conclusions about synchronicity and the crucial role that the human psyche plays in it. Coincidences may be purely random events but, as Jung points out, as soon as they seem to carry some symbolic meaning they cease to be random as far as the person involved is concerned. He even considers the idea that the psyche may somehow be operating on external reality to 'cause' coincidences - or that, as in precognitive dreams, the external phenomena are somehow 'transmitted' to the psyche. But he quickly concludes that, because such ideas involve a suspension of our known 'laws' of space and time, we are not capable of ascertaining whether these hypotheses are relevant. And so he comes back to his own theory of an 'acausal' connecting principle governing certain chains of events.

In the face of a meaningful coincidence, Jung says, we can respond in any one of three ways. We can call it 'mere random chance', and turn away with our minds clamped shut; we can call it magic - or telepathy or telekinesis - which is not a great deal more helpful or informative. Or we can postulate the existence of a principle of acausality, and use this idea to investigate the phenomenon more thoroughly.

In the course of doing this Jung puts forward the unsettling thought that space and time may have no real objective existence. They may be only concepts created by the psyche in the course of empirical science's attempts to make rational, measurable sense of the Universe. It is certainly true that these concepts have little true meaning in the systems of thought of many primitive tribes. And, as many leading Jungians have pointed out, a great deal of damage has been done to conventional ideas of space and time by post-Einsteinian advances in particle physics, where so offen causality vanishes and probability rules. So, if space and time are merely mental concepts, it is quite reasonable to suppose that they will be capable of being 'conditioned' by the psyche.

Using this hypothesis, Jung goes on to pose a fascinating question. He assumes that, when a meaningful coincidence happens, an image - perhaps from the unconscious -comes into consciousness, and an 'outer' objective phenomenon coincides with it. The psyche perceives meaning in this juxtaposition of events. But what if the meaning could also exist outside the psyche? What if meaning exists within the phenomenon itself- just as causality exists, demonstrably, within objective cause-and-effect phenomena?

Premonition

Having experienced synchronicity .. then here's a 'public' version of a worldview idiosyncracy or inconsistency .. that is so known by the world and shared culture that it cannot be ignored, even though it's easily classified as an anomaly and pseudo-science (see as an illustration how Precognition is positioned on wikipedia).

Case examples

Some well known examples are listed below. One may or may not have heard the rumour about premonitions of the Titanic, but it's only when one investigates the facts and the enormous material and correlations that one truly sees the sheer magnitude of the 'collective wave of precognition'.

1 - Sinking of the Titanic

on 14-Apr-1912, causing 1500 deaths.

There were dozens of cases of precognition reported, at least 19 of which were confirmed and studied: people cancelled their passage (J.P. Morgan, Vanderbilt, MacDonald), statements beforehand by travellers and non-travellers (eg family at the coastline) etc. The most amazing example is probably the (1898) novel 'Futility: the wreck of the Titan' by Morgan Robertson (1861-1951).

2 - Aberfan coal mine disaster

on 21-Oct-1966 see wiki page.

Here 144 people found death: 116 children and 28 adults were killed when a mountain of coal collapsed and buried a section of the town of Aberfan, including and elementary school filled with children. The disaster touched nearly every family in the town and extinguished an entire generation of children in the town.

The number of premonitions was striking, ao a dream of a ten year old child the night before, Mrs. Brown the morning of the disaster, Mr. Venn a week before, etc .. and reports from all over Wales. This was so striking that three separate independant organizations conducted studies of premonitions and these were eventually combined, a study headed by Dr. J.C. Barker who later started the British Premonitions Bureau.

3 - Other examples - from premonitions to prophecies

Sometimes individuals have visions of future events, and here one could say a spectrum if formed

... from "images arising from the subconscious" (premonitions) - see above, as well as Stages of clairvoyance#.5B2.5D The subconscious

... to "the faculty of natural clairvoyance appearing in simple individuals" (eg Alois Irlmaier) - see Stages of clairvoyance

It is often difficult to qualify in what category to classify the faculty of the individuals and their reports, based on the frequency and quality of the prophetic images.

Examples:

Leonie Van Den Dyck (1875-1949) (BE) - premonitions of oa death of Belgian kind and deadly accident of queen
Jeane Dixon (1904-1997) (US)
Lieneke van den Hoek (NL) - premonitions of two airplane crashes end of 1992 near Amsterdam (NL) and near Faro (PT)

Law of attraction

The Law of attraction states that human thoughts and emotions, so an imagination combined with desire, provide the content and force to also attract the imagined and desired. This is based on hermetic principles of universal knowledge which is as old as mankind: that the universe is mental or spiritual, and there is correspondence between the above and below .. the higher planes and our physical plane.

This also represents the principle used in magic: perform a visualization using the trained faculties of concentration, charged with the feeling energies of wanting and desire, and applying the force of willing.

This principle was 'popularized' at the beginning of the 20th century (see Further reading section).

Haanel, in the Master Key System, ensured the practical application through individual exercises that turn the course into a 'system'. The exercises include:

physical control (sitting still and relaxation ai releasing tension),
mental control (observing and stilling one's thoughts)
visualizations (concentration, in different steps)

Discussion

Related pages

References and further reading

reference 1

Old source

3 - serendipity

The wiki page for this to get a base definition

The following books give dozens of detailed contemporary stories of scientific discoveries and technological inventions.

- Royston M. Roberts: Serendipity: accidental discoveries in science (1989)
- Charlotte Jones Mistakes that worked (1994)

Fleming peniciline

Kekulé benzene

Serendipity means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it. The word has been voted one of the ten English words hardest to translate in June

sociologist Robert K. Merton, who in Social Theory and Social Structure (1949) referred to the "serendipity pattern" as the fairly common experience of observing an unanticipated, anomalous and strategic datum which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory or for extending an existing theory. Robert K. Merton also coauthored (with Elinor Barber) The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity^[6] which traces the origins and uses of the word "serendipity" since it was coined. The book is "a study in sociological semantics and the sociology of science", as the subtitle of the book declares. It further develops the idea of serendipity as scientific "method" (as juxtaposed with purposeful discovery by experiment or retrospective prophecy).

business paper, eg unknown value in M&As

"Momentum and Serendipity: how acquired leaders create value in the integration of technology firms", by Melissa E. Graebner, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. 2004.

Hannan, Patrick J. (2006). Serendipity, Luck and Wisdom in Research. iUniverse. ISBN 0-595-36551-5.
Andel, Pek Van (1994). "Anatomy of the unsought finding : serendipity: origin, history, domains, traditions, appearances, patterns and programmability". British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (2): 631–648. doi:10.1093/bjps/45.2.631.
Gaughan, Richard (2010). Accidental Genius: The World's Greatest By-Chance Discoveries. Metro Books. ISBN 978-1-4351-2557-5.

Planned Serendipity

book Get Lucky; how to put Planned Serendipity to work for you and your business, here is the book reviews page or the book website

by Thor Muller and Lane Becker

They focus on eight skills to get lucky through serendipitous events: Motivation, Preparation, Divergence, Commitment, Activation, Connection, Permeability, and Attraction

examples of 3M (PostIt) and Google

book gets coverage in introductory articles such as Who needs Luck? Try Planned Serendipity or Eight ways to cultivate Serendipity in business and life a

Harvard Business Review

Serendipity is discussed in different contexts, eg 'Startups walk the line between serendipity and creepy'. The article Make Serendipity work for you offers the following:

"It is this combinatorial skill — the ability to combine events or observations in meaningful ways — that differentiates serendipity from luck. Serendipity is to see meaningful combinations where others do not."

Trying to refine the understanding in a context of innovation, the note the importance of history, socializing, diversity, but especially interesting:

Serendipity is a close relative of creativity, which means that it is a capability that can be cultivated, bought and sold.
Serendipity benefits not just from scarcity (forcing people to be creative) but from a degree of sloppiness, tenacity, and dissent.
Tinkering matters. Occasionally, it pays to turn a blind eye when seeing co-workers tinker with company resources for things they care about personally.

If serendipity is a capability, then how is it developed, protected and sustained? Why are some organizations "luckier" than others, and how do they acquire this skill? Given that serendipity relies on 'loading and savoring the moment, of wandering and loitering and directionless activity of all sorts', is there an optimal degree of wastefulness to be tolerated even in economically tight times like these?

We remark the language used:

- 'seeing meaning' (similar to synchronicity, meaning is key, and this is very much internal to the observer/person)

- loading and savoring the moment' which can be interpreted as: not busy in actions or filled with thoughts .. or maybe just: receptive, open to receive

- the description of 'directionless, loitering, sloppines' etc have in common that they are using the judgemental frame or gradient of what is seen to be of no value to what we call the direct thoughts-and-action approach.

The Wired article 'Can Serendipity be a business model?' Consider Twitter or How Twitter really makes money article in BusinessInsider.

4 - epiphany

see wiki page here

related to eureka, aha!

see also: Fermat's Last Theorem and Andrew Wiles' proof - see youtube Andrew Wiles (full movie, especially 2'20-3'30 where he talks about the beauty of the light of insight that came totally unexpectedly on 19 September 1994).

Despite its popular image, epiphany is the result of significant work on the part of the discoverer, and is only the satisfying result of a long process.^[10] The surprising and fulfilling feeling of epiphany is so surprising because one cannot predict when one's labor will bear fruit, and our subconscious can play a significant part in delivering the solution; and is fulfilling because it is a reward for a long period of effort.[

there is a common myth that epiphanies of sudden comprehension are commonly responsible for leaps in technology and the sciences.^[6][7] Famous epiphanies include Archimedes' realization of how to estimate the volume of a given mass, which inspired him to shout "Eureka!" ("I have found it!").^[3] The biographies of many mathematicians and scientists include an epiphanic episode early in the career, the ramifications of which were worked out in detail over the following years. For example, allegedly Albert Einstein was struck as a young child by being given a compass, and realizing that some unseen force in space was making it move. A similar flash of holistic understanding in a prepared mind was said to give Charles Darwin his "hunch" (about natural selection) during The Voyage of the Beagle. Another famous epiphany myth is associated with Isaac Newton's apple story.^[4] Though such epiphanies might have occurred, they were almost certainly the result of long and intensive periods of study those individuals have undertaken, not a sudden, out-of-the-blue, flash of inspiration on an issue they have not thought about previously.^[6][7] Epiphanies can be distinguished by a (usually spiritual) vision, as epiphanies are often triggered by irrelevant incidents or objects

An epiphany (from the ancient Greek ἐπιφάνεια, epiphaneia, "manifestation, striking appearance") is an experience of sudden and striking realization. Generally the term is used to describe breakthrough scientific, religious or philosophical discoveries, but it can apply in any situation in which an enlightening realization allows a problem or situation to be understood from a new and deeper perspective. Epiphanies are studied by psychologists^[1][2] and other scholars, particularly those attempting to study the process of innovation.^[3][4][5]

Epiphanies are relatively rare occurrences and generally following a process of significant thought about a problem. Often they are triggered by a new and key piece of information, but importantly, a depth of prior knowledge is required to allow the leap of understanding.^[3][4][6][7] Famous epiphanies include Archimedes's discovery of a method to determine the density of an object and Isaac Newton's realization that a falling apple and the orbiting moon are both pulled by the same force.^[8][

Inspiration came to Archimedes while sitting in the bath and to Isaac Newton under an apple tree,

For more info see our dedicated page on Epiphany

6 - Multiple discoveries - Zeitgeist pregnancy

Few men have imagination enough for the truth of reality. - Goethe

multiple independant discoveries in science(eg Newton & Leibniz, Darwin & Wallace, ..)

The wiki page for multiple discovery here, and a very good wiki page for multiples or this wiki page for multiple discoveries listing examples

The concept was coined by Robert K. Merton (1910-2003), an American sociologist who ao won the National Medal of Science.

Merton developed the concept of 'unintended consequences' and coined the term 'self-fulfilling prophecy', a process whereby a belief or expectation affects the outcome of a situation or the way a person or a group will behave. See also three laws of performance.

Ray Grasse wrote an article about this called 'Tuning into the Zeitgeist'

When Nobel laureates are announced annually—especially in physics, chemistry, physiology-or-medicine, and economics—increasingly, in the given field, rather than just a single laureate, there are two or the maximally-permissible three, who often have independently made the same discovery.

Historians and sociologists have remarked on the occurrence, in science, of "multiple independent discovery". Robert K. Merton defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar discoveries are made by scientists working independently of each other.^[2] "Sometimes the discoveries are simultaneous or almost so; sometimes a scientist will make a new discovery which, unknown to him, somebody else has made years before."^[3]

Commonly cited examples of multiple independent discovery are the 17th-century independent formulation of calculus by Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and others, described by A. Rupert Hall;^[4] the 18th-century discovery of oxygen by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Joseph Priestley, Antoine Lavoisier and others; and the theory of evolution of species, independently advanced in the 19th century by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.

7 - intuition

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift ..."

Albert Einstein

the creative intuitive flow seemingly coming from 'higher than one's self' (phenomenom described in art by Beethoven, or in WWII by Churchill, ..)

A contemporary author who has written about Intuition is Penney Pierce, see her personal website with the book The intuitive way

left or right brain thinking, or julian haynes evolution of consciousness .. actually antenna see power of belief

Intuition in strategy and strategic decision making,

Intuition in science

Examples are the (1998) book by economics professor Roger Frantz: Intuition at Work: Pathways to unlimited possibilities

8. Expectations define outcome

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. - William James (The Varieties of Religious Experience)

Originally this section was titled 'perception, interpretation and expectations define/influence outcome'.

- In the new title, 'define' does not mean fully waterproof 100% consequence, but rather that there is a causal relationship and expectations impact outcome. The effect seems to be, or may be, more than just an influence. Anything could be regarding 'an influence', scientifically speaking.

- The 'perception and interpretation' part of the title is nicely covered in the book The Three Laws of Performance, see our page on this

now: expectations .. is what you believe .. actually a whole raft opens here;

Claude M Bristol: 'The Magic of Believing' (1948)

Joseph Murphy: 'The Power of Your Subconscious Mind' (1963)

Bruce Liption: 'The biology of belief' (2005)

Self-fulfilling prophecy - Pygmalion/Rosenthal/Golem/Galatea, Thomas and Merton,

- Thomas theorem, see wiki page for more info, was formulated in 1928 by W.I and D.S Thomas: 'If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences

In other words, the interpretation of a situation causes the action. This interpretation is not objective. Actions are affected by subjective perceptions of situations. Whether there even is an objectively correct interpretation is not important for the purposes of helping guide individuals' behavior.

The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, is the phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon people, often children or students and employees, the better they perform.

the Thomas theorem, which states that "If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences."^[2] According to Thomas, people react not only to the situations they are in, but also, and often primarily, to the way they perceive the situations and to the meaning they assign to these perceptions. Therefore, their behaviour is determined in part by their perception and the meaning they ascribe to the situations they are in, rather than by the situations themselves. Once people convince themselves that a situation really has a certain meaning, regardless of whether it actually does, they will take very real actions in consequence.

here is the wiki page for this

or Golem effect, see wiki page for this

- self fulfilling prophecy, see wiki page for background and an impressive list of examples of literature across history and cultures

Merton defined the concept as follows:

"The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come 'true'. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning".

- Galatea effect: power of self expectations, when people believe in themselves and succeed ..

Concept op self-efficacy, see wiki page here for more info: Self-efficacy is the extent or strength of one's belief in one's own ability to complete tasks and reach goals

10 - intrinsic motivation
11 - conscience, and courage

inspiration, creativity

noetic mystical experiences eg koestler

http://www.bodysoulandspirit.net/mystical_experiences/read/notables/koestler.shtml