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Old Apr 28th, 2006, 01:45 AM        Synchronicity
Everyone in the world has heard of the "Dark Side of the Rainbow" trick where you listen to Dark Side of the Moon while watching The Wizard of Oz on mute. At best, this is a good way to convince stoners in your dorm hall that there's more to reality than the corporate fascist pigs or pedophile priests want you to realize. However, if you want to REALLY challenge your perspective on the world, an even more strenuous attack on your sensibilities will come from a much more obscure example of synchronicity. That is, listen to "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" by Genesis while watching the 1998 film "Sphere", an adaptation of the Michael Crichton novel by the same name and featuring Samuel L. Jackson, Sharon Stone, and Dustin Hoffman.

I know a graduate student here at IU who is presenting her findings on the subject as part of a MA dissertation. The central mystery being latched upon by her critics is that the internet has virtually zero record of this as a social phenomenon--a very conspicuous fact given the socological nature of the findings. Her argument is that the discovery of the Sphere/Genesis synchronicity leaves the viewer with a sensation of "forbidden knowledge", resulting in a secretive behavior pattern. According to Alicia, the MA student, among 34 anonymous students who claim to have watched this synchronicity across eight universities in the United States and two in Canada, none of them report having attended a social gathering in having made the discovery. There is no broad consensus in how the synchronicity was discovered, most reports being that it spread by word of mouth or through electronic media. Hence, one would expect there to be a greater presence of the phenomenon on the internet.

Alicia's argument is as follows: as word spreads of the synchronicity, it is accompanied by an overbearing sense of elitism. Viewings occur traditionally in groups of a maximum of three persons, the mode being one. The profound psychological aftermath of the viewing incurs a feeling of responsibility to limit the knowledge flow. This is an odd behaviour, but not without precedent. Word is spread only to those with whom a person has deep trust and confidence.

More on this as her work continues, I guess.
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