Theory Ching I think everyone has noticed how the concept of coincidence and fate are raised in Lost. These coincidences strange that seem to be a "wink of fate" has a name: the synchronicity
. A little Googling led me to this page:
http://alain.gesbert.free.fr/prod01.htm And what I see in the title: the word " Ching! This word probably tells you nothing, and yet ... Guess what is called the octagonal symbol of Dharma? I decided to look into the matter and submit this little line of thought ...
What is synchronicity? Sometimes we meet with a coincidence mysterious character, leaving us an unsettling feeling and indefinable. It is a kind of "wink" that the fate of psychoanalyst Carl Jung
called synchronicity. We then say that the coincidence is loaded with meaning, it is significant.
Jung defines synchronocité
as "a simultaneous occurrence of two events related by meaning and not the cause" . It is when two events occur that nothing seems to link them, but related, take on significance in the consciousness of the person. Synchronicity interpret the coincidence of events as meaning something more than mere coincidence, is the process to become aware of coincident events, to discover that fact, luck does not exist.
More about synchronicity:
http://www.alliancespirite.org/telecharger-dossier-4.html http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicit% C3% A9 Synchronicity has been appointed and analyzed by Jung in the 50s, but has always been used, particularly in the I Ching as a means of self-knowledge and the cosmos. The I Ching is based on the principle of meaningful coincidences (The inexplicable coincidences in life). The
Ching is a sort of "oracle" (a bit like Tarot cards), a divination system that provides answers to our questions. And synchronicity can "explain" the coincidences in the answers given by the I Ching. The I Ching is therefore not based on the principle of causality (as defined in Western scientific) but on the principle of synchronicity.
symbol Ching More info on the I Ching:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livre_des_Mutations http://tecfa.unige.ch / perso/frete/yiking/yiking0.html example of synchronicity: One day, a patient of Jung tells him a dream where she received a gift of a gold bug. Meanwhile, Jung heard a noise at the window caused by a large insect that had hit them. He captured the animal and found it was a Scarabaeides Lamellicorns of the family, the closest of beetle it is possible to find in our latitudes.
examples of synchronicity in Lost are particularly abundant (dreams, visions and premonitions are totally in part):
Walt reading a comic in English where you can see a polar bear. A little later a group of survivors on an expedition and found himself face to face with a polar bear (NB: this coincidence does not prevent the bears from being brought to the island as part of experiments zoology project Dharma! As mentioned above, these two phenomena are related by meaning and not the cause)
Locke visited Australia for a safari. It is not accepted because of his paralysis (he insists on repeating that it is his destiny). He pays the return trip, the plane crashes and he finds the use of his legs.
Jack tries to rescue a girl from drowning but fails. In the flashback, Jack returns from a child fighting (having tried to save one of his buddies) and his father told him "Do not play hero, do not try to save everyone." Then, Boone said, "Who made you our savior? "And at the same time he has a vision of his father.
Claire dream had a strange dream in which her baby has disappeared and she plunges her hands into the cradle filled with blood. We later discovered that Rousseau was trying to remove at the same time and the blood on his hands is that of Rousseau it violently scratched arm.
Claire consults a medium for which mysteriously insists that it embarked on Flight 815. This is an obvious reference to "Divination" the principle of Yi-King is.
When Walt playing backgammon with Hurley, every time he rolls the dice, the numbers he wants to fall. Same for all the scenes where Walt is playing backgammon.
Locke introduces Walt to throw a knife. He told her to focus on the target and imagine his inner eye. Walt launches knife and puts it right in the target. He then said "I saw in my head as if it were true. "
In a flashback, Walt is reading a book on birds. He insists that his mother looks and a second later, a bird crashed against the glass. Also note the reaction of his adoptive father, who at the death of his mother refuses to keep Walt: "When is there, things happen. It is different. "
Walt bed again the English comic book in which there is a polar bear. His father asked him to help him build a raft and cast the comic fire. A little later he was attacked by a polar bear.
In the episode where Sawyer feels harassed by a boar, Locke says that the death of his sister when he was small, a labrador came home and slept for five years on the old bed his sister, until her adoptive mother dies and then walked away.
Hurley wins the lottery. All the phenomena of bad luck that happen again (death of his grandfather, a house fire, etc.) follow the law of series in synchronicity (repetition of events, things, symbols or the same or similar time and / or in space). The fact that he found these same figures on the island is a very good example of synchronicity (no causal connection between the fact that he wins the lottery with these numbers and the fact that he found on the island from which they come, but significant coincidence ).
Locke made a premonitory dream in which he told Boone that the island will send them a sign. He sees the Beechcraft will crash, which bloodied Boone says "Theresa falls from the stairs" and he sees himself in a wheelchair. A little later they found the Beechcraft, Boone was seriously injured and partially Locke loses the use of his legs.
In a flashback, a woman and a man seriously injured in a road accident arrive at the same time to emergencies. Jack is alone competent doctor there, he chose to save the woman he married some time later. The man was the father of Shannon. A few years later, Jack and Shannon both survive the crash of Flight 815.
In a flashback, Jin's brother uses trigrams of I Ching and he predicted that he will find love. The same day, Jin meets Sun.
Shannon Vincent used to find Walt. Shannon's dog leads to the tomb of Boone. It will be killed by accident a few days later trying to find Walt (just after a new outbreak of the latter in the jungle whispers: "They come and they are close).
Kate stumbles upon a black horse in the jungle. One discovers in his flashback she left on the run following a car accident caused by a black horse.
Eko found the Beechcraft he should use to export heroin from Nigeria, and on which his brother died. It is the most striking example, those with of Walt.
Note also winks at the Ying and Yang symbolize the poles of the change in reciprocal interaction and cyclical in the I Ching:
Pawns of Backgammon.
The black and white stones found on the bodies of "Adam and Eve in the cave.
Locke's eyes in Claire's dream.
All these examples show how the phenomena of synchronicity are present on the island. And the Dharma logo shows that all these phenomena are not due to chance. There is strong potential for finding many other phenomena of gender in the upcoming episodes. I think that is the key to the presence survivors of the crash on the island. And that Locke understood. He also said repeatedly that he believes in destiny and that everything that happens on the island is not a coincidence and has a purpose. He also said that these phenomena are directly related to the island.
I also think that it is through these phenomena that the powers of Walt make sense. Walt has the power to cause the phenomena of synchronicity. You should know that these phenomena are studied in parapsychology, a field research cited in the film "Orientation" Dharma. It is for this reason that Walt has been kidnapped. It is likely that experience in parapsychology involving survivors of the crash is conducted under the project Dharma ...
