Thales’ claim that the soul is mixed in the universe might generate some hint of synchronicity…
We have already seen Plotinus’s opinion that the soul is not in the body but rather the body is in the soul. Now, the most ancient Thales says that the soul is spread everywhere, mixed, and that everything is full of deities.
I’ll repeat a question I’ve already asked, but with a different term of comparison: could the alchemical theory of breathing between the sun and the central sun of bodies be explained by the theory of Synchronicity?
We have already seen Plotinus’s opinion that the soul is not in the body but rather the body is in the soul. Now, the most ancient Thales says that the soul is spread everywhere, mixed, and that everything is full of deities.
For a modern physicist one of the two particles could be “born” long before its companion…
In fact, these “doubles” are often not contemporaries. As in a mirror, the image is formed a few moments later. But, being particles, they then continue a parallel life, until the next minute arrives.
Fascinating theory, that of non-contemporaneity, which an alchemist may be tempted to define in the formula Archetype = Son…
In fact, alchemists are just waiting to find an infinite sequence backwards to call it an Archetype. Whether they are actually right remains to be seen. Let us remember that the alchemists reasoned in sequences of similar ones called “chains”. A typical example is the sequence of the Mercurii, or Spirits of life, that descend from the stars, similar but different in “density” of their envelopes.
The Neoplatonists spoke of the Archetype as an “intelligible cosmos” …
… Intellect that becomes Principle, the Unexpressed, the pure, original, archetypal “form”, the Neoplatonists pushed these ideas to excess until they reached abstraction: for Porphyry it will become a possible perspective only starting from a high contemplative state; for Iamblichus a real demonology of presumed Egyptian priestly derivation. For the ancients of the dawn of time, something that is close in idea to the emanations of the stars. For alchemists, the origin of the repeater series.