The Realm of Synthronicity (4)

In one of the most (if not the most) powerfully evocative books of our time, Jean Gebser, in his The Ever-Present Origin, describes in rich detail the transformation of human consciousness over time. He writes of five consciousness structures: the archaic, the magical, the mythical, the mental, and the one emerging now, the integral. Human consciousness has moved (through mutational leaps, not through a smooth continuous evolution) from the zero-dimensional (archaic) through the one-dimensional (magical), two-dimensional (mythical), three-dimensional (mental or rational), to the four-dimensional (integral or aperspectival consciousness).

The synthronous consciousness of which I speak and write is able to occupy each of Gebser's mutational leaps at will, but resides primarily in and as integral or aperspectival consciousness (its default mode). Syn-throne-y means a simultaneous sitting on the same seat. In religious language it means that you and God are sitting on each other's laps with no pause or hesitation. Each of you "knows your place" (you know that you are not God) while occupying the same space. This is theosis, this is theophany, this is synthrony.

As synthronous consciousness, one is outside the box, outside the camp, outside the merely cognitive. One has access to and can open to all realms (magical, mythical, rational) while not being caught or stuck within their boundaries. The limitations of perspective have shifted to the aperspectival. No longer bound by space and time, transparency and mutual disclosure co-occur.