Why humans repeat the same mistakes, and not learn from their negative experiences, is not fully understood. My sense is that we tend to think it might be different this time; we will try harder, etc. Then failure happens.
So the question becomes, Do we push through or sit still? Western thinking tends to say push through, but sometimes this is not the best action.
Great Post! I'm reminded of the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. We keep going through negative experiences until we learn and can correct ourselves. So the negative is a lable but its in fact a teacher.
Hola schon wieder, Veronika ! Bob sang about coping with the consequences of slavery, zum beispiel - history, not actually "etymology" (which is, like ancient cave paintings), a grossly undervalued source our uhrancestry.
I haven’t read any of the preceding comments yet, but wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t already re-quoted.
“While ‘positive synchronicity’ is uplifting, pleasant, and encouraging, it’s the negative synchronous events from which we can learn the most, if we have the courage, willingness, and resources to travel through them.”
The “end” result of going through and integrating the negative synchronous events is living in conscious awareness of constant synchrony. Fun times 😎
I love your exploration of language here! I'm particularly intrigued (and want to think more about) the idea that we have experiences versus making them. That feels so true. An experience (for better or worse, preferred or non-preferred) is gifted to us. As you said, we can try to set it up as we want it, but in the end we can't be in control of it. If we were, the experiencer wouldn't actually have anything to experience. We would be creator, not experiencer. Quick question if you have the time and inclination: can you give me an everyday example of negative synchronicity? I do seem to 'experience' a lot of what I call synchronicity in my life, and I'm not sure I'd necessarily label it as positive or negative. This has me wondering if what I've been calling synchronicity is actually something else.
I don't think folks are taught to learn from negative experiences. We certainly hear of others doing so, but I don't know, maybe it seems like hard work? People aren't patient enough? It's like you said, our minds can't make sense of it. So, the scary question then becomes, what happens to those experiences if you can't turn them around or at least make peace with them?
A wormhole is finally being blasted straight to heaven's door whereby 'negative synchronous events' can be properly resolved, their gift and lessons appreciated, and their locked-up energy be released into creative actions which build a new communal paradigm of spirit-vitality, leaving the old order to self-destruct in its own hubris and irrelevance.
To slightly, and Only Slightly, paraphrase Bob Marley "If you know your etymology, den you know where yo comin from"
Why humans repeat the same mistakes, and not learn from their negative experiences, is not fully understood. My sense is that we tend to think it might be different this time; we will try harder, etc. Then failure happens.
So the question becomes, Do we push through or sit still? Western thinking tends to say push through, but sometimes this is not the best action.
Great Post! I'm reminded of the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. We keep going through negative experiences until we learn and can correct ourselves. So the negative is a lable but its in fact a teacher.
Hola schon wieder, Veronika ! Bob sang about coping with the consequences of slavery, zum beispiel - history, not actually "etymology" (which is, like ancient cave paintings), a grossly undervalued source our uhrancestry.
I haven’t read any of the preceding comments yet, but wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t already re-quoted.
“While ‘positive synchronicity’ is uplifting, pleasant, and encouraging, it’s the negative synchronous events from which we can learn the most, if we have the courage, willingness, and resources to travel through them.”
The “end” result of going through and integrating the negative synchronous events is living in conscious awareness of constant synchrony. Fun times 😎
Another gem!
“Learning from experience only works by taking the leap, diving in, and taking the perilous ride one more time.”
“Experience is as much an external as an internal event “ We are a symphony of synchrony indeed.
The poetry of the Symbiocene! Experience is a poem! See you in the spaces between the synchronies!
Veronika the quote by Jean Gebser is wonderful.
I love your exploration of language here! I'm particularly intrigued (and want to think more about) the idea that we have experiences versus making them. That feels so true. An experience (for better or worse, preferred or non-preferred) is gifted to us. As you said, we can try to set it up as we want it, but in the end we can't be in control of it. If we were, the experiencer wouldn't actually have anything to experience. We would be creator, not experiencer. Quick question if you have the time and inclination: can you give me an everyday example of negative synchronicity? I do seem to 'experience' a lot of what I call synchronicity in my life, and I'm not sure I'd necessarily label it as positive or negative. This has me wondering if what I've been calling synchronicity is actually something else.
I don't think folks are taught to learn from negative experiences. We certainly hear of others doing so, but I don't know, maybe it seems like hard work? People aren't patient enough? It's like you said, our minds can't make sense of it. So, the scary question then becomes, what happens to those experiences if you can't turn them around or at least make peace with them?
A wormhole is finally being blasted straight to heaven's door whereby 'negative synchronous events' can be properly resolved, their gift and lessons appreciated, and their locked-up energy be released into creative actions which build a new communal paradigm of spirit-vitality, leaving the old order to self-destruct in its own hubris and irrelevance.