Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan – highly improbable market events – meet C.G. Jung’s Synchronicity – An Acausal Connecting Principle. Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a mathematician who has made a fortune by betting on highly improbable market events.Carl Jung warned that if societies do not attend to their collective shadow, a world crisis can result. Our era is one of failing elites and broken social covenants is fraught with the dangers of unleashed economical, millitary and social chaos. We each can do our part to safeguard each other by unterstanding black swans. I want to apply C.G. Jung’s wisdom as intuitive thinker on Taleb’s book (The Black Swan) beneficial to analyze external events – and yes, I am afraid this has something to do with the financial crisis and current geopolitical risks. Continue reading
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Science and Ancient wisdom
Number, Pattern and Kabbalah Symbols – from a Jungian view
Jung has been often (rightfully) seen of being a contemporary Gnostic. However, the interpretations which Jung places on Gnosticism and the texts which Jung refers to on alchemy, were often Kabbalistic, so much so that one would be more justified in calling the Jung of the Mysterium Coniunctionis or Kabbalistic in contemporary disguise. One of the most serious and arguably criticisms against … Continue reading
Archetype Lupus and Astronomy – the Sirius Case
This is an extension of the last post: the archetype of the wolf. I am a hobby astronomer and fond of its older sister Astrology. So lets look to the Wolf from that perspective. The wolf is inherently pagan and shamanic, that means American Indian, Chinese, Egyptians, Babylonians should have big stakes in in its Astronomy … Continue reading
ANGELS FEAR – Sacred aesthetics of fractal recursion
fallenAngel’s Fear is an obvious wordplay which crossed my mind after a blog reader pointed out that Bateson’s book Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred might be of relevance to me. The title created immediately multiple associations and images, so I became curious and got the book. Bateson presents from a anthropologist view concepts and topology of structure- determined recursion – in a … Continue reading
2013 Year of Snake – Black Water Snake with sneaky energy.
The 2013 Year of Snake begins shortly after the New moon in Aquarius, the humanitarian of the zodiac. The Snake is the sixth sign of the Chinese Zodiac, which consists of 12 Animal Signs. That means all twelve years begins a new cycle. The snake is considered the enigmatic, intuitive, introspective, refined and collected (cold) of the … Continue reading
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