New Gaze - New World

Synchronicity

For those who had scrupulously respected the instructions given to them, they had placed their watches and mobile phones in a waterproof bag so that the Saharan sand, as fine as flour, would not damage them.Those who had defied this advice had quickly realised the uselessness of a mobile phone in the absence of a network or electricity to recharge it.So much so that some were unable to measure the time they had spent walking. They were beginning to realise that in the heart of the desert, time is not measured in hours, They could simply say that they had walked for a long time and that the sun had passed its zenith.Aziz had taught them that you could estimate the time left before sunset with your fingers.All they had to do was measure how many fingers separated the sun from the horizon, each finger representing about 15 minutes.They had deduced that the sun would shine for about five more hours.Aziz had chosen the place where the camp would be set up for today. He had indicated the location of the central camp and the position of the rooms and toilets. The nomads had unloaded the camels and everyone had lent a hand with all the hesitation and even apprehension caused by this strange animal that most of them had only ever met on a screen.The white sail and the mats had been set up and a snack of salad, bread, fruit, tea and coffee had been shared.Everyone was ready and curious to take their first class.It was Saida who took the floor."From three primary colours, white and black, the painter is able to create a whole universe of colours. The skills and tools you have acquired so far through learning and experience are comparable to the black and white on the painter's palette, they allow you to obtain the infinite shades of grey, but they often lack colour. The tools we are going to bring you are comparable to the three primary colours. They will allow you to create the infinite range of colours and to give life to your paintings. We will have to appeal to your humility because these tools are not acquired by learning but rather by unlearning. This is about awakening an ancestral understanding that lies dormant within each of us. So if your eyes and mind are open enough, you cannot fail.Of course, to create his work, the painter cannot do without primary colours, white or black. But observe even more carefully, the artist never uses a pure colour, but always a subtle and delicate mixture of several colours to create the exact shade of his inspiration.Just like the artist, you will learn to mix and match the knowledge and skills you already possess with the tools we will teach you.You will also realise that knowing how to compose the whole universe of colours is necessary but not sufficient.To be able to start his work, the artist also needs some elementary principles, he must know the different types of paint, the different ways to apply them and also the supports he can use...It will be the same for each of you, all these tools are a starting point, but to apply them ethically and kindly, you will also need to acquire and embody some principles.Only then will you pick up your brushes and want to start painting your life's work.Have you seen a painter create the masterpiece of his life on the first try? A pianist play Mozart in his first lesson? A cyclist win a stage in his first race? All these geniuses have one thing in common, practice, like them, you find yourself daily confronted with a multitude of decisions to make, problems to solve, each of these events is your training ground, the place of your practice.Each time you ask yourself what a genius would do in this situation, you will progress in your practice, you will become better every day.To teach you these tools, to transmit these principles, to allow you to practice them and to put you on the path of the men and women of the new earth, here is the ambitious program that we propose to you.Liam will present the first tool to you.Liam took his position in the middle of the assembly, his powerful voice dispensing with the microphone."The tools of the man and woman of the new earth are eight in number. No one tool is more important than another, they make up a circle and you will rarely use them alone but more often than not, like a painter composing a colour, you will combine them.One of these tools is called "Synchronicity".When you know how to recognise and tame them, synchronicities will always be your ally, your guide, your personal assistant.From a theoretical point of view, the notion of synchronicity was put forward by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, who defined it as the simultaneous occurrence of at least two events that have no causal link, but whose association makes sense to the person who perceives them (in his book "Synchronicity and Paracelsica", Carl Gustav Jung explains the mechanisms scientifically, and it is very surprising), To illustrate this very "theoretical" definition. To illustrate this very "theoretical" definition, I will tell you about the synchronicity through which I discovered the theory of synchronicity.It happened about twelve years ago, I was at that time taken by a frenzy of reading, I devoured the books without counting. In my readings, I had sometimes seen references to C.G. Jung, I had voluntarily hidden them thinking that the language of psychologists would be incomprehensible to me.One evening, I was shopping for my next books on Amazon, and among a dozen books, I had put in my basket a book whose content I did not know, but whose title had inspired me. It was called "Allowing Yourself to Walk Towards Yourself".When it came time to order, I recoiled at the high price and decided to eliminate four or five books from the list, including "Allowing Yourself to Walk".I then (at least consciously) forgot about this episode. Several weeks later, I spent a few days in the south of France. I had heard about the Temple of a Thousand Buddhas located in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere, and since I was only a few kilometres away, I decided to go there. It was indeed a beautiful haven of peace and I decided to spend a day or two there. Among the activities of the temple was a lovely library where I spent many hours. In the shelves, on a very high shelf, a large book attracted my attention by its beautiful coloured edge and illustrated like a Mandala. As it was very high, I stood up on tiptoe and gently slid the book with my fingertips, and as the book was released, another smaller book, which stuck to the first one and which I had not seen, fell on my head, after the usual "Shit" at such moments, I picked up "Allow yourself to move towards yourself".Anyone would have considered this event as a clumsy mistake and forgotten it on the spot. For me it had a very important meaning.I devoured this book and discovered a fascinating comparison of the wisdoms of Krishnamurti, Sri Aurobindo and C.G Jung. I realised that reading Jung was not so difficult after all and I subsequently bought "Synchronicity and Paracelsica".You now understand what a synchronicity is. It is an event of which you are the actor but whose mechanisms escape you but make that what is necessary to you arrives at the right moment.Is your life not punctuated with synchronicity? Perhaps you called it luck, chance or grace?Even in this moment when you are sitting listening to me in the middle of the desert, if you go back, don't you find a seemingly insignificant event that has guided you so far?Let's be careful, however, not to become 'synchronicity addicted'. Sometimes, dazzled by this discovery, some people take everything that comes to their attention as a synchronicity and react accordingly. They may even cause synchronicities that are not synchronicities.We will see on another occasion that avoiding involving the ego and the mind in the interpretation of synchronicities is the surest way to avoid becoming 'synchronicity dependent'.Build your experience of recognising and observing synchronicities. Realise that something is working for you, Observe how the information you really need comes to you, Observe that even without TV, radio or newspapers your understanding is expanded.The Man and Woman of the New Earth tame synchronicities, they do not cause them or become dependent on them. They are simply confident and patient for they know that they always occur at the best time.I will now let you individually go back through your lives to identify the synchronicities that make you who you are.Take time for introspection, we will meet again at the end of the day for the talking circle.Liam, returned the silence to the desert.