Causality as individual essence: its bearing on synchronicity

Abstract

Causality, time, and number are subjectively lived realities and need to be noticed as such. Fundamental to the wide range of living experience, they are also basic to scientific knowing. In this article I examine causality in relation to an article on synchronicity by Harald Atmanspacher and Wolfgang Fach. My examination is neither scientific nor metaphysical, but rather phenomenological, as it is a clarification of form as individual essence of a thing. This non-material form of an individual thing in the widest sense of the word 'thing' was rejected and so lost during modern seventeenth-century science but, renewed now, can help describe synchronicity. A commentary by William Willeford follows.

Attentive notice to a reply of Harald Atmanspacher (JAP, 59, 3, 429‐434)

“…In ‘Roles of causation and meaning for interpreting correlations’ (), Harald Atmanspacher replies to ‘Causality as individual essence: its bearing on synchronicity’ (Tougas ) and to ‘A commentary on “Causality as individual essence: its bearing on synchronicity”’ (Willeford ). Atmanspacher concludes with a fundamental metaphysical view.…”

Levels of unconsciousness and their formal structure

“…I suspect that this exercise could even lead to the discovery of additional features complementing Freud's classification in interesting ways, but again, this is not the place to explore this. Let me just expand a bit on one of the characteristics, timelessness, because of its paramount significance for the issue of causation (see Tougas 2014, Willeford 2014, and my reply to them).…”

Roles of causation and meaning for interpreting correlations

“…A central theme in the essays (Tougas , Willeford ) by CT and WW is the notion of causation, or rather I varieties of notions of causation. I agree completely that Aristotle, primarily his Physics , is a good place to enter this issue, both historically and conceptually.…”