Twelve Seminars on Synchronicity
…But ultimately, the conversations are to seed
breadcrumbs …
…breadcrumbs to maybe follow or maybe to deviate from ... with new breadcrumbs to follow... to see if together we can create the Perfect Storm for mankind, a synchronicity of working together in commonality across the inclusivity of all humans from all walks of life…
Rico Sneller, philosopher Mark Koops, earth scientist
12 online conversations on Rico
Sneller, Perspectives on Synchronicity,
Inspiration, and the Soul. Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2020.
Format:
VideoPodcast conversation
By
Rico Sneller & Mark Koops - from March 19th 2021 to February 18th
2022
Our old synchronicity is coming to an end…12 themes from the recently
published book Perspectives on
Synchronicity, Inspiration, and the Soul form the backdrop for a
conversation on how humanity can migrate to a new synchronicity – the
Perfect Storm - more aligned with the needs of people and their earth
today. Listener/viewers can put in personal or general questions and concerns.
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Perspectives on
Synchronicity, Inspiration, and the Soul.
12
online conversations on Rico Sneller, Perspectives
on Synchronicity, Inspiration, and the Soul. Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2020.
By Rico Sneller & Mark Koops - March
2021 - February 2022 - format: VideoPodcast conversation
Historical facts, great achievements,
grand failures, happiness and unhappiness, all have in common that they came
into being through some form of synchronicity. It is never a single event that
determines the creation of something of significance, it is always a
combination of events, waves and trends that lead to a certain outcome, whether
positive or negative. In the current time juncture, where we seem to be
touching on limits of the resilience of the earth and its people, a situation
compounded by Covid-19, there is a sense that we have reached the end of a
trail, the end of an old synchronicity.
For maybe a century and a half we thought
there was only one direction, a direction of deterministic planning for better
lives, supported by more and more technology. This sense of control over ever
more prosperity is leaving us. We thought we were in a plannable world,
‘economic growth’ was abundant for decades. We thought we were in control but today we are starting to realize
that the control was only an appearance
of control, that it was maybe just happenstance:
post-WWII positivism to rebuild our nations, with new technologies, with automation
to produce evermore. A number of things came together to create the
synchronicity of what looked like eternal growth. Synchronicities by their very
nature are not stable, synchronicities after some time lose their steam, other
events (‘waves’) start to interfere and start to disentangle the cohesion of
the previously synchronous system, to be replaced...to be replaced by WHAT?
If the old synchronicity does not work
anymore, what new synchronicity should we then create? What kind of values do we
cherish? Do we all share the same values, or are there values that ultimately
conflict with each other? Are synchronicities controllable through their design
and their internal nature? Are synchronicities pure happenstance? To what
extent can consciousness be in a driving seat towards the synchronicities that
we (think we) desire? What if, after a century of boundless ‘growth’, we, human
mankind, discover that we are merely a plaything in the hands of greater
forces? Many questions. If human mankind is to play a role in synchronicity we
first must determine what kind of synchronicity we want, what this
synchronicity should do for us, what kind of lives we want to pursue.
But before even thinking of trying to
design a new synchronicity, we must delve much deeper into ourselves, dive into
the fabric of our soul and spirit. What is it that we want? What is it that we
are capable of? Do we, humans, want
or need long term control? Or are humans designed to react to every days’
happenstance and hope for the best? What do we foster more, our individuality
or commonality?
The above are some questions that will come up in an online conversation between Rico Sneller and Mark Koops. Input to the conversations are 12 themes selected from the book ‘Perspectives on Synchronicity, Inspiration, and the Soul’ by Rico Sneller, published in 2020 (repr. 2021). Rico Sneller is a philosopher who has been teaching philosophy for a long time at the University of Leiden. He orients his thinking from the humanities. Mark Koops, an earth scientist who orients his thinking from the perspective of natural sciences and the logic of Socrates.
The conversations will be broadcasted
online over 12 months, an episode every month. The series forms the backbone
for the first 12 months of the formation of the association the ‘Academic
Circle Erasmus’, an association that strives for a reinstitution of the Renaissance.
Through the series of conversations, Rico
and Mark hope to inspire many others to hold similar conversations to help us
all synchronize our thinking about what we want, about what why we want and about how
we will achieve what we want.
But ultimately, the conversations are to
seed breadcrumbs … breadcrumbs to maybe follow or maybe deviate from ... with
new breadcrumbs to follow... to see if together we can create A Perfect Storm for mankind, a
synchronicity of working together in commonality across the inclusivity of all
humans from all walks of life.
Members of the Academic Circle Erasmus receive
private access to the broadcasts at no charge. Members will be encouraged to
submit questions to enhance the relevance for the listener. The series will be
released to the general public at a commercial price.
Programming - times to be set - dates can change
1.
{Fri 19 March 2-4pm} Introduction. Science,
philosophy, and spirituality. (Introduction, pp. ix-xxiii)
How to assess the current split
between science, philosophy, and spirituality? How to assess vulgar conceptions
of either of these? E.g., ‘science’ is often equated to its materialistic
offshoots or laboratory practices; ‘philosophy’, to conceptual analysis; and
‘spirituality’ to flee-floating self-obsession. Can these three be matched or
aligned? Should they be?
2.
{Mo 19 April 2-4pm} ‘Do we have a soul?’
The notion of ‘soul’ seems to be an
odd, obsolete expression for what is preferably called the ‘psyche’, or better
even, the ‘mind’. Art, religion, and even large strands in Western philosophy cannot dispense with the notion. What does this mean? Could it be that, by
avoiding to speak about ‘soul’, the mainstream scientific discourse has
involuntarily cut itself off from its roots? And humankind along with it?
3.
{Mo 3 May 2-4pm} Culture and psychopathology:
pathways towards the soul?
Human culture, whether in a narrow or
a broader sense, is often reduced to its alleged ‘evolutionary’ constituents.
But does this not erroneously misrepresent what might equally be seen as an
anticipation of what humankind might still become?
Likewise, psychopathology is frequently seen as a human failure. Instead, along
with human culture, it might represent a trajectory towards a better
self-understanding of human nature in terms of soul.
4.
{Mo 7 June 2-4pm} Inspiration
The concept of ‘inspiration,’ key to
human flourishing has more in store than it seems. Ensnared between the
extremes of ‘inward’ or ‘outward’ origin, it might equally suggest a reframing
of ‘time’ and ‘space’. How about resituating the latter in the former, in other
words, how about starting to think in light
of inspiration towards time and space
(as derivates rather than original determinants)?
5.
{Mo 5 July 2-4pm} Ecstasy
Ecstasy, if it has still any meaning
at all to human beings, can rightfully be seen as a philosophical root
experience. Socrates and/or Plato spoke about eros as a divine madness. Whereas the history of western thinking
has the outlook of being rational and argument-based, a close re-reading of its
major texts shows a different story. Perhaps philosophy and mysticism are more
interrelated than appears at first sight. Should this make sense, then it would
be fascinating to endeavour into the human mind, in search of its inner ‘heat’.
6.
{Mo 6 Sept 2-4pm} Possession
Both inspired and possessed people can
be charismatic. Unfortunately, the difference between the two becomes clear
when it is too late and damage has been done to followers of the latter (cf
Hitler, bin Laden, etc). But what is at the core, the difference between inspiration
and possession is fluid? Should we be wary of inspired people altogether? Is
there a possibility to distinguish?
7.
{Mo 4 Oct 2-4pm} Synchronicity and necessity
‘Synchronicity’ comes down to an
acausal determination of events (provided that the word ‘determination’ still
makes sense here). David Hume deprived causal relations of logical cogency. He
thereby risked generalizing coincidence. Would it be meaningful, however, to
imagine a deeper, ‘illogic’ notion of necessity, which rules synchronicity
events?
8.
{Mo 1 Nov 2-4pm} Synchronicity and causality
A natural science
view: History, the living of our lives, the building of societies, ‘that what
we do on earth’ is built bottom-up by synchronicities in Cartesian-Space-Time.
However, only synchronicities that have been seen / recognized by a
consciousness that observes a meaning into the synchronicity. While Jung would
say that synchronicity is built up out of meaning, a natural quantum
scientist would say that synchronicity exists because meaning is provided
to it simultaneously with - but logically after - the synchronicity coming into
being.
9.
{Mo 6 Dec 2-4pm} Physiognomy
Racism and anti-Semitism stand as a
historical warning against reducing human beings to their physical
characteristics. Still, human faces reveal expressions, which speak to
observants endowed with subtle perception. Artists, actors, or novelists count
among the latter. How to resort to physiognomy in a viable way without throwing
the ‘baby’ of subtle perception away with the ‘bathwater’ of reductive,
derogatory racism and determinism?
10.
{Mo 10 Jan 2-4pm} A “higher metaphysics”
Which human experiences allow for a 21st
century return to metaphysics? Should not the human scope move from the single
mind to a more transpersonal perspective? Is contemporary philosophy capable of
accounting for such a multifocal approach?
11.
{Mo 7 Febr 2-4pm} Death
Unfortunately, ‘death’ is usually
defined in negative terms, as being the cessation of heartthrob, breathing,
etc. Few people realise that negative definitions are uninformative. They
betray our ignorance and do not allow for the apodictic certainty scientists
often claim to have. What if death, rather than being a mere cessation of
‘vital’ (sic) organic functions, entailed an enhancement of human consciousness, insofar as it continued
inchoate tendencies of pre-mortal existence?
12.
{Mo 7 March 2-4pm} Suffering
Suffering has always posed the biggest
riddle to humankind. Easy answers abound, both inside and outside humankind’s
spiritual and ideological traditions, but they rather hurt than help. Perhaps
suffering can be seen as a symptom of a deeper inner struggle, as the top of an
iceberg. How to account for this? How to avoid simplistic theodicies here, and
do justice to the intensity of suffering?
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