Synchronicity

[Sethomas]

This is not something about music, this is not something about movies. If anywhere else, this belongs in the philosophy forum, but interest in the subject seems to be too broad for such limited attention. To address Kahljorn's concerns:

I've only seen synchronicity applied as a term to cases where two different media converge, as if engineered together for counter-point. At any rate, that was no doubt the case "in this context". If you want to consider perceptionality a media, then there could be strictly esoteric understanding of synchronicity within the mind, but general consensus is that the combination of Genesis and Sphere has a certain universality about it. The experience, however, is NOT universal. "Dark Side of the Rainbow" has a wide variety of "official" techniques and etiquette, varying by locale or internet community or whatever else. Some people insist that the album be begun at a certain moment (e.g. "the second roar"), some people insist that to use anything but a vinyl record kills the effect. At the same time, countless internet sites provide "guides" for what to look for and expect during the movie.

With Genesis/Sphere, however, the only "constant" is the extreme level of personalization. Alicia is not coming across funds very easily for such studies, but a handful of subjects have been exposed to the project with (so far) two variant procedures for synchronicity verification. Four subjects were instructed to write in ink on a paper tablette while watching Genesis/Sphere each perceived instance of synchronicity. Of these, all reported (in the tablettes) evidence of emotional internalization of events that cannot be deciphered as relating either to the album nor the film. In three cases of the above, the text was written in a second or third language of the student. Grammatical consistency was far more impressive than when the students attempted to use these languages "intentionally", but the tablettes recorded no instances of foreign vocabulary previously unknown to the students. In the remaining subject, the results were in English but employed a business shorthand purported not studied by the student since age thirteen.

Another variant involved the subject viewing the project then attempting to provide examples of synchronicity in an interview setting. These six subjects, however, seemed more disjointed than the others immediately after the viewing, and none could provide any example of synchronicity. A faculty advisor helping Alicia from the Psychology Department believes the synchronicity is not a surreptitious display of audio events alligning with visual events, but taken together they somehow form a "somnambulist trigger".

Of these ten subjects, within four days the two groups had converged into a set picture of an early long-term effect caused by the synchronicity. After four days, the ten subjects from two groups each displayed "A dead spark of personality and a new fire of purpose." Unfortunately, the previously mentioned 34 anonymous students cannot be regarded in their survey responses as reliable for any further validation of this phenomenon.