Rationalists have also been known to talk about some kookysoundingstuff. Here’s Val from CFAR describing something that sounds a lot like Peterson’s “synchronicity”:
After a sequence of mythic exploration and omens, it seemed clear to me that I needed to visit New York City. I was actually ready to hop on a plane the day after we’d finished with a CFAR workshop… but a bunch of projects showed up as important for me to deal with over the following week. So I booked plane tickets for a week later.
When I arrived, it turned out that the Shaolin monk who teaches there was arriving back from a weeks-long trip from Argentina that day.
This is a kind of thing I’ve come to expect from mythic mode. I could have used murphyjitsu to hopefully notice that maybe the monk wouldn’t be there and then called to check, and then carefully timed my trip to coincide with when he’s there. But from inside mythic mode, that wouldn’t have mattered: either it would just work out (like it did); or it was fated within the script that it wouldn’t work out, in which case some problem I didn’t anticipate would appear anyway (e.g., I might have just failed to think of the monk possibly traveling). My landing the same day he returned, as a result of my just happening to need to wait a week… is the kind of coincidence one just gets used to after a while of operating mythically.
I would guess that the same people who objected to those paragraphs, also object to similar paragraphs by Peterson (at least I object to both on similar grounds).
Rationalists have also been known to talk about some kooky sounding stuff. Here’s Val from CFAR describing something that sounds a lot like Peterson’s “synchronicity”:
I would guess that the same people who objected to those paragraphs, also object to similar paragraphs by Peterson (at least I object to both on similar grounds).