Motifs of Life Altering Experiences: Presence of Unwitting Synchronizations in Times of Trauma and Triumph

By Dr Don J Feeney

The manuscript reveals the dynamics of life-altering experiences as collaborative products of unwitting entrainments. Unwitting entrainments synchronizing our motifs can emerge into life-altering experiences. The manuscript strives to depict the ironic timing of synchronized entrainment present in perfect harmony. Taking two extra minutes drinking a Starbucks’s coffee saves a life, creating just enough delay in missing the 9/11 tragedy.

Addictions, divorce, financial ruin, and damaged careers can all result from unwitting entraining of synchronized motifs. Fortuitous as well as disastrous coincidences of synchronizing events are possible outcomes of life-altering experiences. Formativeness of multifaceted motifs lie at the core of good and evil manifestations of events, affecting trauma and triumph. Recognition and utilization techniques through time alteration of future designs highlight multidimensional consciousness of critical factors in survival and transformation.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796043297

Dr Don J Feeney

Don J. Feeney, Jr. is the founder and director of Consulting Psychological Services, P.C., in Downers Grove and Chicago, Illinois, where he functions as a licensed clinical psychologist. He earned his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Loyola University of Chicago in 1979 and has been fascinated with the study of life purpose dynamics and motifs for more than twenty-nine years. He completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago and attended the Adler Institute of Chicago. He is a certified alcohol and drug counselor and has published numerous articles on addictions. He has been on many national talk shows and recently completed Motifs: The Transformative Creation of Self and is currently working on new material related to the Psychology of Terrorism. He is a certified neurolinguistic programmer, using Ericksonian hypnosis in his therapy and publications. He has drawn extensively from many theoretical and clinical fields in formulating his particular brand of therapeutic intervention involving healing and sensory motifs.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Chapter I       Playing Dice with the Universe:

Chance, A-causal Events and Interconnection

Chapter II      The Nature of Formative Motifs

Chapter III     Trauma and Formative Motifs

Chapter IV     Motifs Gone Wild: Asymmetry and Life Altering Deviations of Bounded Motifs

Chapter V       Fundamental Motifs: Contours of Connection

Chapter VI      Losing one’s Mind, Finding our Senses Collapsing and Expanding Bounded Motifs.

Chapter VII     Depth Perception in a Multi-Dimensional Universe: Connect the Dots . . . Find the Monkeys

Chapter VIII    What It’s all About: A Causality, Evil and the Right Stuff

Chapter IX      Revealing Mysteries of Life Alterations

Chapter X       Time Lines and the Arrow-Dynamics Flights of Life Altering Experiences

Chapter XI      Life Altering Experiences Through Multi-Dimensional Consciousness

Chapter XII     Epigenesis: Asynchronization in Asymmetrical Motifs

Epilogue: Mindful Motifs of Life Altering Experiences

Bibliography

Dedication

To Kelly, my daughter and her generations’ generations of heart-felt souls who courageously encounter their perfect storms, passing through their I of the hurricane, emerging into their aligned gifts of self-hoods of gifted motif’s synchronization for themselves and their loved ones.

Preface

The purpose of this manuscript involves the dynamic demonstration and delineation of life altering experiences as collaborative products of one’s unwitting participation. Such unwitting collaboration involves interaction and interfacing with self-organizing schema embedded in catastrophic motifs. Synchronization of embedded design schema, inherent in one or more aspects of a person’s life style resonating with people, places, things, unfolding events (geophysical-psycho-social-cultural) is described as a dynamic principle of this unwitting collaboration.

The manuscript strives to depict the ironic timing of synchronized entrainment present in perfect harmony. That is, how someone taking two extra minutes drinking a Starbuck’s coffee saved his/her life by creating just enough delay thereby missing the 9-11 horrific tragedy. It also deals with unexpected consequences in everyday events.

There is an old adage that . . . when you’re up to your neck in alligators, it’s hard to remember your original objective was to drain the swamp. The unexpected consequences of becoming unwittingly distracted in either dangerous or excessively escapist diversions of pleasure can lead to entrainment of disastrous proportions. Addictions, divorce, financial ruin, damaged careers, etc. can all result from unwitting distractions in entraining motifs that lead to one’s demise. Yet, even the most well meaning intention of caring contributions can also unwittingly lead into entrainment of co-dependency motifs undermining the core substance of one’s life experience and personal character.

The manuscript seeks to exemplify these dynamics and other facets of unwitting entrainment in life altering events through exploration of a-causal events evolving into an ensemble of schema that occurs through self organizing motifs exhibiting common schema with dynamically resonate similar attributes. The manuscript explores the physics and meta-physics of human experience seeking to comprehend the synchronization of a-causal events that culminate in sudden and dramatic tipping point experiences of life alteration.

The manuscript also focuses upon fortuitous as well as disastrous coincidence of synchronizing events such that the order of chaos and the chaos of order are viewed as equally possibly outcome of life altering experiences. Emphasis on multiple dimensions of inter-connectedness at the implicit and explicit levels of human consciousness and behavioral experience are also examined.

The manuscript is designed to emphasize that formativeness of multifaceted, organizing motifs lie at the heart and soul of life altering experiences. How good and evil are manifested in life alterations is discussed as a function of such formative self-organizing motifs.

The twelve chapters of the manuscript progress from chance and a-causal events to formative motifs, trauma, asymmetry, contours of illusions and reality, collapsing and expanding boundaries of motifs, depth perception, evil and the right stuff, peaks into mystery, the arrows of time, multi-dimensional consciousness and transformational mastery of synchronization in multi-dimensional states of life experience.

Case examples are illustrated at the personal, psycho-social and cultural-political levels of hierarchical experience. One such example might be illustrated in the current Bush administrations response to the horrific events of 9/11. The Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq in order to create and establish democracy now runs the risk of becoming a breeding ground for terrorists and a potential for civil war. The U.S. aide in the 1980’s to the Afghanistan War with the USSR only served to later enhance its fighters such as Osama Bin Laden later to become the terrorist leader of Al-Qaeda which sponsored the 9-11 attack on America. The US sponsoring of elections in Palestine was an act of democracy with the coincidental result of electing the terrorist group Hamas into power further destabilizing the Middle East.

In each of these scenarios, the original objective of democracy was lost in the distraction of creating political alligator adversaries entraining the US off course from draining the political swamp of terrorist regimes. These ironies of coincidental twists of fateful acts of circumstance illustrate but a tip of how unwitting entrainments of subversive organizing motifs may coalesce into unexpected consequences. These consequences may result in life altering experiences shocking in scope and impact on one’s life style. How can a lover’s quarrel lead to one partner seeking to jump from a moving car, police intervention and/or the vengeful killing of one’s children to punish one’s spouse/parent for leaving?

Pathological distractions are the self-generated alligators entraining us into depths of dangerous waters. Such unwitting entrainment are the subject of this manuscript. How efforts to drain dark waters of problematic concerns may actually entrain unwittingly with deadly distractions stirring turbulence rather than calm are illustrated. When couples seek to resolve communication issues, entrainment of rhythmic, mutual interruptions escalate into tipping points of explosive, disintegrating proportions all but certifying chaotic confusion forestalling even the simplest of exchanges.

The manuscript explores these and other dynamical concerns as functions of interlocking motifs resonating with unwitting entrainment. The matching and mirroring of intensity and configuration motifs of partner’s communication interrupts can entrain into a death-grip of deadlock. The manuscript extends further the constructs of unwitting entrainment into fortuitous, coincidental events, unprecedented and unpredicted yet evolving at multiple levels of resonating harmony. Examples may include physical events of nature and psycho-physical events in the phenomena of one’s life. Multi-parallel occurrence of tornadoes in one’s community, turbulence in politics and stormy communications among friends may all congeal in non-causal yet coincidental resonance. Such synchronizations can occur at multi-levels of organization. They range from immediate, psychosocial events towards those of an expanding nature. What’s involved are interconnecting, entraining themes which permeate one’s lifestyle with far reaching, long-term implications of life altering motifs. They can affect conditions of one’s birth, early childhood, family system, community, social/cultural context, etc. These constructs are the contentions and presuppositions of the manuscript. This is the interconnectedness principle of reality manifesting itself and is embellished in the writing.

The manuscript emphasizes that formativeness is essential to creation of one’s reality. As such, the design structures of how we entrain and interface with ourselves, one another and the world at large alter the formativeness of our reality. It is the motif of interacting design structures which selectively entrain, construct and re-construct which life altering experiences have the highest probabilities of manifesting themselves in our life experience.

The articulation of what motifs are is developed in the context of formativeness without any absolute closure. That is, motifs are by definition asymmetrical design structures which unfold similar but variant themes, patterns and design structures. They are a family of processes without any one process or theme summarizing or representing the whole. Just as no one member off any family stands for the whole group yet exemplifies family traits indicating membership in the whole. They are similar to fractal patterns of chaos theory.

These attributes permit them to represent unfolding unique, formative themes that self-organize in similar but variant fashion modeling organic life forms at multiple levels of manifestation. That is, human beings are unique yet similar both within themselves as well as between one another. They are ideally suited to serve as templates for unique, unfolding formative themes that are capable of multi-faceted and multi-dimensional entrainment. These are the underpinnings that the manuscript explores and discerns as operative in the a-causal manifestations of life altering events which are capable of sudden shock to one’s reality orientation and lifestyle. The purpose of this manuscript is to demonstrate that life altering experiences often emerge through one’s unwitting synchronization and entrainment with self-organizing patterns.

We may have minimal consciousness of how our focus of behavioral experience and attributes of awareness attract, draw and entrance us into a synchronized, risk-laden, entrainment. Like a herd of buffalo feverishly racing towards the edge of a cliff, our absorption, entrancement and even obsessive drives can lead to skewed, asymmetrical imbalances reaping chaos. The multi-dimensional nature of existence embeds implicit interconnectedness in our lives. What happens in one facet of our life (poor health, habits, destructive relationships, risky avocations, etc.) will inherently interact with and affect the rest of our life style (attitudes at work, productivity, mental health, levels of attained success in careers, family, etc.).

That interconnectedness exists among and between all human beings (no matter where and no matter when) is a given. This is especially apparent in famlies and generations of families as suggested in the adage the sins and/or blessings of the father (which could become entrained as our future) are visited upon the son". Such interconnectedness needs to expansively incorporate the larger context of non-human ecology of our planet and universe. Such expansion implies an infinite number of possible synchronizations capable of entraining vast possibilities of life altering experiences.

That quality of interconnections are intricately involved with motifs of life altering experiences can be illustrated in recent investigations of what caused the sinking of the famous ocean liner Titanic in the early 1900’s on her maiden voyage. This luxury liner was touted as unsinkable. The complexities of what could have caused the ship to have collided with an iceberg in the north Atlantic ocean were revealed in a comprehensive study (Discovery Channel, 2006). The variables included its speed, turning radius, warning system, communications with other nearby vessels, navigation, judgment of the captain, construction of supposed water-tight compartments, etc. Ironically, it was determined that the key variable was actually the impaired wielding of the bolts designed to function as interconnections of the ship’s steel plates that failed to hold it together under the enormous pressure of on-rushing water. As a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, the qualities of our motif designs entrained in our interconnecting lifestyles with one another and the world (and universe) at large can truly emerge (or sub-merge) into unwitting, life altering encounters.

The manuscript demonstrates how our encounters with life altering experiences can involve our unwitting participation in self organizing principles emerging in the motifs of crisis. That life altering events emerge throughout the course of our lifestyles by their inherent organizing principles of motifs is a presupposition illustrated throughout this work. The escalation of unrestricted, chaotic growth may be cancerous or creative (or both) in our lives. The manuscript provides critical multi-dimensional perspectives of how expanded consciousness of one’s unique self and one’s particular context of life experience (life style, family, friends, time period, geographic location, physical and meta-physical environment, etc.) may interact and interface through self-organizing motifs into clusters of shock and impacting our live existence. The manuscript advocates dynamic perspectives comprehending our deep-seated interconnectedness and the powerful a-causal impacts of expansive altered consciousness as instruments of choice, selectivity and empowered entrainment of future living.

The experience of life altering encounters throughout the development of an individual’s life. From birth trauma, the first day of school, adolescence, etc. the loss of loved one’s, threats to careers, financial ruin, acts of terrorism, the presence of attorneys in one’s life, natural disasters and cultural upheavals are just a few examples of how life altering experiences can be encountered throughout the course of one’s lifestyle. This manuscript seeks to present a meaningful set of perspectives and frameworks from which a unique sense of self mastery and transformation may emerge through such encounters. Indeed, it will be presented that they may well be an essential variable in one’s life transformation.

The purpose of this manuscript seeks to elaborate proactive perspectives essential in constructively and creatively encountering life altering experiences. That nothing happens by chance, that good things happen to bad people and vice versa, the absurdity of random spiraling can burst into an out of control runaway system (the Martha Stewart connection stemming from how she lied to defend herself and that became her crime) will be facets and nuances explored throughout the manuscript.

An unwitting chance encounter may trigger a series of events culminating and converging into an unexpected but surprisingly meaningful outcome. Learning how to increase intuitive awareness, identify future implications from here and now events, and meaningfully expanding one’s consciousness of self as interconnected within a web of global fields are among the topics covered in the manuscript. Blind dates, chance encounters, fortuitous discoveries and much more will be explored through the perspective of interconnectedness. Such a perspective will be elaborated and filtered through such constructs as Synchronizations (Jung, 1964) and chaos theory (Glick, 1985). Perspectives on arrows of time and future memories will also be tapped. Exploration of how concepts of entrainment and six degrees of connectedness contribute to synchronizations will be highlighted.

There are nodal points of change at various age specific, developmental tasks where life altering events emerge as part and parcel of that maturation process characteristic of these stages. For example, moving through transition age periods of: 0-3 years, 4-6 years, 8-12 years, 13-17 years, 19-24 years, 25-29 years, 30-34 years, 35-39 years, 40-44 years, 45-49 years, 50-55 years, 56-59 years, etc. may invoke to varying degrees the presence of turbulent chaos. As the universe itself goes through inflationary periods of expansion acting like a cosmological, biological organism so the psychobiology of the individual experiences rapid surges of growth at varying stages of maturation.

The capabilities of predicting, influencing and optimizing one’s quality of life at various levels (individually, psycho/social/cultural and global) have been traditionally based on the concept that scientific knowledge is power. Yet, science has been discovering (Glick, 1985) an emerging awareness that increasing knowledge reveals chaotic complexities of staggering proportions. The consequential realization is that multi-system events like the weather, population growth and global ecological changes are so over determined as to make precise predictions close to impossible. Lorenze (1962) demonstrated such multi-systemic effects with weather forecasting. He found that tracing weather deviations over time produced mathematical graphs representing geometric forms known as fractals. Fractals are self-replicating, mathematical patterns found throughout nature, from the formation of rivers and continents to spiraling galaxy formation asymmetrically distributed in space.

These formations may also be present in the synchronizing schemas embedded in self-organizing motifs. The motifs of life altering experiences involve a skewed, asymmetry which, if not counter-balanced, evolves into a runaway system hitting a tipping point of critical mass. This is the experience of the sudden shock of life altering experience.

The asymmetry of life altering motifs, unevenly matches and counterbalances its growth cycles in a complimentary fashion. That is, where positive and negative (not negative in the sense of badness but rather as polar opposites) features compliment one another, in an off-setting way (pros and cons of a debate). Yet, this counterbalancing is proportional to how skewed is the inherent motif. Remember, all motifs are a little off-balance. It’s their asymmentry which conveys the nature of idiosyncratic uniqueness. That’s why each person may affectionately be viewed idiosyncratically as a little off. There are, of course, degrees and ranges of counter-balancing skew proportionally present in healthy motifs. Serious disturbances can emerge when proportions are massively misaligned. Islamic fundamentalism is an example of a lack of aligning, complimentary balance. It is life altering motifs gone wild.

Asymmetrical motifs gone wild may also manifest themselves in our individual lives (for better or worse as when the seven year cycle of a marriage’s quid pro quo contract necessitates re-alignment of compliments as it can be at the tipping point of either growing or ending). What can appear as good or bad luck (fortune, fate or destiny), coincidence of being at the right or wrong place (relative to one’s perspective) in time regarding people, places, events, etc. may all in effect illustrate emerging, asymmetrical motifs generating sudden and dramatic, out of the box altering experiences. Such motifs gone wild can manifest themselves throughout the vast range of organizational levels in human experience. It can be a timely opportunity for synergistic re-alignment. It can be life altering.

Ranging from the most individualistic event of raising a child or relating to a loving partner to the global reaches of international policies and terrorism, anyone at anytime may find themselves in unexpected life altering scenarios. Whether you’re a Martha Stewart swept up in a court, a Jessica Lynch in the Iraq War, a tragic victim in the horrific 9-11 World Trade Center attack of having been blessed (or cursed for some) at winning the lottery, there are synchronizing entrainment increasing the probabilities that life changing events may be encountered at any given point in a life cycle. Carl Jung (1964) called it synchronicity where seemingly unrelated events, people, places or experiences occurred in a time and place exhibiting a kind of resonance and/or unexpected meaning of purposefulness. It may be a happenstance encounter on an airplane where two strangers are sitting side by side, strike up a conversation and the next thing is that IBM computers are being installed 1954 American Airline reservation centers marking the beginning computerization of society. It also laid the groundwork for the government to later develop what is now known as the Internet!

The manuscript proposes that from the beginning of the Big Bang (as cosmologists call the origins of our universe) to this very moment, asymmetrical formative energies influentce the design and structural resonance of human experience. Resonance of dynamical multi-systems effects on our physical and human existence have been consistently demonstrated by new research on mind/body studies, electromagnetic resonance, brain scans, and mapping electromagnetic brain wave pattern changes in human behavior (Briggs 1992) has found that formative patterns are operative in the olfactory center of the brain for detecting smells as well as their nuances and that the brain is organized by chaos patterns.

The focus of this manuscript is that by learning to discern, discover and embrace the hidden order in the chaos of our lives, we can increase the probability of fortuitous events with which we personally resonate. This hidden order hints at the unique motif of our lifestyle. When we are in alignment with our resonant motif of synchronization, we experience depth and expansion in the value, meaning and purpose in our lives. I have written (Feeney, 2001) in previous works of how individuals experience formative motifs within the inherent being of their existence. This work focuses on the convergence of these inner fractal-like motifs with the physical and experimental manifestation of serendipitous-like events (work, love, friendship, family, life purpose spiritual guidance, intuition, etc.) that are just what we need at the time we need them.

The manuscript will delve into the proposition that meaning and purpose in our lives even in radical, life threatening events, can be found in the revelation of hidden order within chaos reflecting the uniqueness of our motifs. The propositions and technologies revealed in this manuscript will illuminate startling conclusions that formative motifs (Feeney, 2001), inherent in the individual, function as synchronizing entrainment. Further, that the individual’s formative motifs are fractal-like in asymmetry and interconnect with one’s psycho-social-cultural world in potentially meaningful convergences. It is proposed that these convergences are transformational phase transitions elevating one’s individual life functioning towards greater potential levels of functional organization itself. If it does not kill you, it will make you stronger.

At the same, it will be argued that it is these very phase transitions where life events converge (divorce, illness, I.R.S. audits, teenage son gets DUI, clinical depression is diagnosed, etc. all within a short time frame). Dark, destructive forces can also be operative. Terrorism, 9-11, exploding trains in Madrid, Spain and Tokyo are all events in which being at the wrong place, the wrong time can lead to sudden, dramatic shock in a person’s life style.

Partners we marry, communities in which we live and more emerge from the ebb and flow of chaotic dynamics inherent in our biology and psycho social, physical world. The manuscript highlights how serendipitous meetings that at first appear random and capricious, are actually convergences of unique, space-time configurations. For example, one day, a young married couple was eating lunch at a Ponderosa Steakhouse in the summer of 1972. The young husband eating lunch with his wife saw the psychiatrist who supervised him almost 2 years ago walking down the aisle of the restaurant. The young man pleasantly greeted the psychiatrist and said in a playful but serious manner, Hello there Dr. G! How have you been? Got any jobs out there in the state hospital?

It turned out that they had just opened up an alcohol rehab unit. As the psychiatrist knew the assistant superintendent of the hospital, he said he would recommend the young man as he knew the dynamic, change oriented treatment program would fit his style. Six months later, the young man began the first year of his three-decade career culminating in his emergence as a clinical psychologist with a life long specialization in alcohol/drug treatment. It was a perfect fit and something the young man never before fathomed as a career.

This fortuitous life-changing event that appears capricious and random was driven by a convergence of dynamic synchronizations. The perfect fit nature of the event was random, nor predictable but highly probable reflect of the hidden ordering dynamical systems of chaos. When Jung (1964) was studying with Sigmund Freud and the concepts of synchronization, he referred to a collective unconscious from which all humans draw their own archetypes and unique life synergies.

The manuscript reveals how such convergences are actually space-time configurations involving the coherence of unique motifs within and throughout the external world environment. This flow of interconnectedness within and between the motifs of the individual and his/her world field of experience is the convergence of such events.

Einstein (Discovery Channel, 2006) gives examples of such space-time convergences in his General Theory of Relativity. Here, he indicates that the degree of physical matter present will exert a curvature in space and time. What we call gravity is actually the configured curvature that bends and contours space and time in unique ways. Such contours and curvatures have similarly been observed in computer models of chaos patterns (weather systems, water flow, etc.). They create unique, formative motifs. Einstein gave an example of how such curvatures might operate in the everyday lives of two people. He notes that two people, standing on the earth’s equator at a far distance from each other, whom both start walking north to the North Pole at the same time will converge at a the same point in time (same space-time). Einstein indicates that what starts out as parallel movement converges (because the surface of the earth curves) into an intersecting point in time. Remember that in high school math, students are taught that parallel lines never intersect (but this is true only if space-time is flat not curved as Einstein indicates). Curiously, scientists depict that we live in a flat universe. It is the formativeness of matter which creates alterations in space-time of both the universe and our lifestyles.

As matter becomes denser (formative), curvature is more distinct and clocks run slower. Thus, both pathways in space and time are contoured (re-configured) in unique space-time motifs which is the influence of such matter density. Matter density can also be construed as matter composition made of formative complexity of structural design (as in tightly packed molecules in crystals and metals). Indeed, in quantum physics, matter is not a thing but rather capable of being both an energy wave and a particle of that wave of unknown composition. It is a vibrating, oscillating string or membrane of energy with a critical flicker frequency so rapid that it appears and functions as a solid (much as a movie is a composition of fast moving still frames-which by the way are not still at all at the molecular level) appearing as something moving on the silver screen. What then is reality but the real life formativeness of our critical frequencies of interactive interconnections. (That was not a question, by the way!)

The manuscript will illustrate that human biology has inherent within the evolution of its species values and meaning of what matters which are themselves manifestations of formativeness (albeit at a more complex level of design organization). The degree of design density of what matters to an individual creates brain/mind/body physical design manifestations (brain waves, thought patterns, beliefs, neuromuscular sensory activity and physical density). Mental matter and physical matter, reflecting heirarchecal organizations of design matter density have their own parallel convergence (mind/body connections). The contours and curvatures of such densities and concentrations are formative motifs expressed at different levels of complexities.

They are stuffed with similar stuff of design motifs. However, their particular way of manifesting motifs are obvious examples of uniqueness. That is why they are so difficult to perceive in the synchronization of their interconnections (Feeney, 2001). As two individuals are inadvertently drawn together by following their own directions while sharing the same contours of a curved earth surface, individuals may follow their own conscious directions unaware of how they are moving in unique contours and curvatures of their own motif inadvertently shared with strangers.

Synchronization of entraining events may occur to us over and over again (cars paralleling us with the same speed, familiar strangers sharing the same commuter train, the sports bar restaurant, school course work, or jail cell in some cases). Such shared design structures (schemes) embedded in self-organizing motifs entrain (synchronization of people, places, events in fractal patterns of resonance) in both fortuitous and/or tragic events. The manuscript reveals ways of identifying, discovering and utilizing the myriad resonances of fractal motifs as technologies for transformation in these life alternatives.

Why people keep meeting the same, unhealthy partner, repeat similar types of mistakes or mishaps, periodically relive tragic/comic events every 5-7 years, relapse asymmetrically in alcoholism and drug abuse, are crises-prone, etc. has more to do with the hidden order in the chase of their mind/body system and how such motifs are shared with the physical world (people, places, scenarios) to which they are interconnected. Recent studies (Discovery Channel, 2004) have revealed that an individual’s brain wave patterns will alter before becoming conscious that an anxiety-provoking experience is going to occur. Such is the entrainment of convergence. The manuscript will emphasize intuitive recognition and utilization tools. It will also highlight how to embrace and utilize unique and chaotic, life-transforming sequences of events unfolding in unknown, unrecognized (though uniquely familiar to one’s motif) self-organizing systems. Such systems bear a striking resemblence to unque chaos patterns of one’s uniqueness.

Introduction

The times that test the human spirit extend far beyond simple frustrations and obstacles interfering with our goal attainment. Renewed determination and/or strategy adjustment are the usual requisite resources. It is the unpredictable, incomprehensible emergence of overwhelming events which threaten an inner sense of control, resourcefulness, and future optimism. An employee losing his job resulting from poor performance is a predictable, comprehensible outcome within the range of personal control (presuming the presence of required resources, level of functions and motivation). Job loss occurring shortly after the employee was just hired (having taken two years to select the right position) as a consequence of management re-organization may be a shocking experience. Such a sudden turn of unpredictable, incredulous events challenge one’s personal predisposition towards inner control, resourcefulness and future optimism. Seligman (1975) refers to these types of traits as influencing personal levels of optimism in future endeavors. When these are threatened and undermined, negative, destructive interpretations may be concluded. The employee may start a thought mantra of belief distortions (subjectively logical) such as just my luck, I’m destined to never find the right job, God must be punishing me, etc. These are not just irrational thoughts emerging from shock, dismay and even possible depression. These are conjectures about the structure and nature of reality and the universe as a whole. They address questions of free will vs. predetermination. They raise questions as to why some people’s lives feel cursed while others feel blessed. While common sense suggests that we all have free will and choice, countless, positive thinking, dynamic individuals continue to experience the unpredictable chaos and unbelievably ill-timed courses of events that thwart their best efforts.

Someone once stated that to make the universe laugh one way was to first make a plan on how events should evolve. Relationships are renowned for this. Intelligent, beautiful women searching for the right partner spend months, even years sorting and selecting out their dates only to find that their one right person (Mr. Big) just happens to be married, gay, dying of an incurable disease or is leaving town to tour the world. It’s not just the frustrations of a major goal or objective in our lives (being a millionaire or married with children by age 30 years) that threatens, to unravel us. Rather, it’s when perceptions and interpretations arise that, try as one may, unforeseen, overwhelming events thwarting our personal best are an inevitability. As the old, Saturday Night Live character Emily Latela used to say, . . . it’s always something. Ironically, the actress who played this character died shortly there after of cancer.

Some schools of thought would suggest that human behavior is to some extent predetermined genetically and bio-chemically (60% of the personality is temperamentally predisposed at birth). Other perspectives suggest powerful environment/social/cultural determinates influential as providing critical contexts (reinforcers) for behavior. Existentialists emphasize that meaningful perceptions and interpretations are choices exerted by the individual’s free will. Each perspective emphasizes an important property of the human experience. To some extent, however, each is reminiscent of the three blind men and the elephant story where each only senses a partial feature confusing it for the whole. How themes of free will, determinism and locus of control evolve on a continuum in the human experience represent a major emphasis of their work. Portrayed throughout such a continuum is an evolving range of control areas each person may experience.

One example of such a range may be areas of: 1.) direct control (I can start my car whenever I want presuming it’s in good condition); 2.) indirect control (sometimes I can drive at my desired speed, traffic conditions permitting); 3.) little or no control (stuck in rush hour traffic). How such range of experiences are perceived and interpreted, while technically a personal choice can equally be affected by predispositions, influences of immediate environment, and exercise of free will, bio-chemistry (and perhaps how well one’s car entertainment system provides stress-relieving diversions).

Requisite resources towards mastery of such ranges of influence in a person’s life include a deep and thorough comprehension of how reality works. From learning to drive a car to using a computer, the how it works learning is essential to mastery. Misconceptions and illusion of how the reality of human experience works (or is supposed to work which may be a key source of chaos) will affect how we interpret, make sense and respond to overwhelming, chaotic life altering events. What makes chaos chaotic is the experience that there is no rhyme or reason involved. What can exacerbate the problem is how such events utterly annihilate plans, efforts and pre-conceived notions on how our lives are supposed to be.

While chaos theory (Glick, 1985) has been demonstrated to have a hidden, implicate order embedded in apparent, random events (weather, motion of waves, fractal patterns in earth geography) how does this translate (if at all) to human experience? The issue is at the very heart of this work. There exists in each person’s life style movement, non-linear (not simple cause and effect behaviors) beliefs and behavior patterns (Feeney, 2001). These patterns are intricately designed schemes (templates) cross-networked in a fashion not unlike neuron cell assemblies of the human brain. Such patterns of behaviors and beliefs operate in a web-life fashion (hanging mobile). When one chord (or part) is stimulated, the whole of the rest resonates. For example, a belief about aging can trigger multiple associated ideas of optimism or pessimism, life after retirement, companionship, etc. Vast entanglements of emotions, feelings, attitudes, behaviors, etc. also resonate to beliefs. These complex patterns will be presented as similar to chaos structures (known as fractals). How they operate as an expression of the individual’s self-selection process in life development and their potential to periodically (or aperiodically) evolve into runaway deviations will be explored. It is these deviations that can represent the nodal, change points of life altering experience. Such deviations will be seen as transition phases of unpredictable and, at times, overwhelming experiences. They will be seen as occurring throughout the life cycle.

The manuscript will illustrate that human beings move in dynamic patterns which are designed in structural hierarchies of motifs (Feeney, 2001). Comprehension of these hierarchical levels and their interconnected weave (psycho-social-culturally) to the world at large will be reviewed. It will be developed as an integral phase of life mastery. Recognition of one’s participation throughout multiple pathways as a precursor to multiple outcomes is part of this comprehension. Participation is presented as a choice contributing and resulting in life altering experiences. The deleterious consequences of chaotic, traumatic, early childhood experiences will be considered as contributions to such participation.

Emphasis will be that nothing happens by chance as life altering experiences emerge through participation of choice. That good things happen to bad people, and bad things happen to good people will be reviewed as mutually reciprocal phenomena the dynamics of which resonate to participating motifs. That spiraling events are synergistic in their interconnections and are capable of involution (turning in on themselves).That these can generate deviations perturbing one’s life style into chaotic overwhelm will be developed through a variety of perspectives (chaos, theory, quantum physics, Jungian constricts, empiricism and resonance theory).

A unique feature of this work will be the sequencing of a three-part change process known as: 1.) Intensification, 2.) Paradoxical shifting and, 3.) Differentiation (Feeney, 1984). The work delineates phenomena of luck, fortune, curse, coincidence, being in the right or wrong place, etc. as the resonance of one’s participation in an interconnected mosaic of formative motifs. The entrainment of participation which interconnects a vast mosaic of motifs will be illustrated in such events as Martha Stewart, Jessica Lynch, and War in Iraq, tragic victims in the horror of 9-11, winning the lottery, etc. These events will underscore the synergistic nature of interconnecting motifs. How motifs become entrained in ways that align their subtle nuances will be explored as key dynamics in generating life altering experiences. Nuances of motifs involving symmetrical and asymmetrical resonances will also be emphasized.

The manuscript identifies formative energies resonating throughout the known universe originating from what cosmologists call the Big Bang. These formative energies resonate in asymmetrical (irregular, not evenly distributed) patterns (motifs) informing an organizing force throughout the known universe (galaxies, consolations, stars, and evolving life forms). The organizing motifs of these formative energies resonate in similar but different patterns and energy levels. Resonance (matching similar patterns of motifs paralleling one another) can be found in many human experiences. It has been demonstrated in new mind/body research (MRI, FMRI) increasing coherence between partners in significant relationships and in the countless numbers of situations where strangers with similar attitudes, interests, and mind sets continue to cross paths. Observe any daily commuter train and notice entrainment (literally on the same en-train-ment) of total strangers with one another as they habitually sit in generally the same car, same seat with almost the same set of familiar strangers (they are not called strange attractors for nothing). Eventually, a pattern or motif (unique template) emerges in such a group as strangers progressively (in subtle ways) become more familiar. They are now riding parallel tracks together. The subtle familiarities become more aligned with greater synergy and resonance of entrainment motifs. This work illustrates the role such as processes play in the phenomena of what is called luck, fate, coincidence, and destiny.

Formative organizing patterns are potentials that operate at all levels of existence. How one design emerges as compared to another depends on which entrained track one is currently participating. Formativeness implies potential for all possible design structures and alignments. Ironically, chaos has been found to actually induce order and design. Biggs (1992) found that the detection of smells and their nuances occurring randomly functions as formative patterns shaping the olfactory brain center of the human brain. How resonance of formative energies appearing chaotic and a-causal can enhance a sense of meaning as well as purpose is a focus to be explored in this work.

That seemingly unrelated, a-causal series of events unfold into dramatic relevance will be underscored through the concept of resonant motifs. That order is created out of chaos is not a new concept. That chaos is created through an ordering function may not be so evident. Throughout the manuscript is the theme that serendipitous events, first appearing random and capricious are in fact converging motifs entrained in some unique creative resonance together. The implication is that human beings can be participating in a plethora of resonant motifs culminating in a range of beneficial or traumatic outcomes. Wittingly or not, participation in such resonances constitutes choice at the creative level of human existence. For example, while few people can consciously choose to make their heart beat faster, the activity in which they choose to participate entrains and alters their heart rate (quietly sitting in a chair, running or sprinting, engaging in visual imagery of impending disaster or catastrophe, etc.). Desired outcomes of problem solving through compulsive, long-term worrying can have unintended damage on one’s heart rate. While this may not be an intended, chosen outcome, continued participation in anxious thought patterns constitutes a choice of the totality of the human organism. It constitutes the best available choice of participation for the person at a certain, subjective point in time.

It is inappropriate to split the whole of the human being into isolated entities of conscious and unconscious minds or mind versus body (I tried to relax but my body won’t let me). While we may all have experienced these phenomena from time to time, it does us little good to continue with such partitions of the whole if we want to gain mastery and maturation of unpredictable, chaotic life altering events. Even science has demonstrated that such splits are artificial arrangements as these component parts actually operate holistically (Adler, 1954, Perls, Maslow, Richard Gardner, Roger Penrose, Robert Ornstein, etc.).

While sections of our brains and mind functions may be limited, impaired or simply not developed no section (conscious or unconscious), functions independently of the holistic field of the organism. Destructive conflicts within and/or between one another represent skewed alignments of nuanced motifs gone awry. They lack a refinement of dialectical formativeness (working through opposing or distorted perspectives) such that they could evolve into a male-formative, runaway deviation.

The purpose of the manuscript is to provide a meaningful, comprehensive framework cognizant of interconnecting (and interlocking) motifs and the empowering, transformational roles they play in our lives. Unhealthy solutions in relationships, career moves, psycho-social living arrangements, geopolitical relations, etc. all require elevated integrations of entrained motifs. Assisting the reader in expanding his/her unique artistic motif through synergistic entrainment enhances formative nuances towards higher levels of functioning in one’s life and the world in general. Emphasis on how formative motifs may incur and entrain devastating life altering experiences also instructs us towards their transformational possibilities.

It will be developed that formative motifs function as entraining core, creative properties of existence influential in both crisis and creative restoration in the life of each human being. It will be presented that motifs operate with an asymmetry of seemingly illogical (a-logic), unrelated connections of un-common denominators. That is, their multi-faceted and multi-dimensional levels of self-organization and ensembles illustrate complexity of inter-connectedness (consider a rubic’s cube at exponential expansion). Consider if you were given three words (reading, service and stick) and asked to come up with one other word which could be used with each of these three words. To facilitate this task, intuitive, multi-dimensional consciousness is evoked. Discovering such un-commom connecting denominators (in this case lip) taps into empowering capacities of organizing motifs. Learning to recognize uncommon denominators of our unwitting entrainments empowers transformational consciousness for re-synchronization of our motifs. Transformational mastery will be exemplified as an acquired ability in which one learns to artfully participate in interconnected mosaics of motifs. The outcome of such an acquired ability is a transformational enhancement of a-causal, life altering experiences into intrinsic meaning, purpose, and clarity of one’s life style. It is towards this end that is the evolution of this work.

Chapter I

Playing Dice with the Universe:

Chance, A-causal Events and Interconnection

The shock and awe of life altering experiences in our lives can be both exhilarating and/or devastating. The horrors of war, terrorism, loss of a loved one, financial ruin, winning the lottery, being chosen as this years Heismen Trophy winner in football are just a few of the life altering experiences that leave us with eyes wide closed of disbelief of how that could ever have happened to us. The effort in this work is to explore the dynamics of such events and advocate the need for mastery of these heretofore undisclosed exigencies. In this chapter, the concepts of chance, a-causal events and holistic serve as a spring board into a complex domain of life altering experiences.

It is a premise of this manuscript that, as Einstein once said, God does not play dice with the universe. Einstein understood that seemingly unrelated, a-causal events could occur in a way exhibiting resonance and connection even if billions of miles apart. He demonstrated in one of his famous thought experiments how this would be possible. The tongue-in-cheek principle he invoked to explain it was referred to as spooky action at a distance.

Such intriguing, cosmological dynamics pervade the same universe of which human experience is grounded. People need not travel billions of miles to experience incredulous resonance and connection among seemingly unrelated events. Fateful events unpredictably coalescing and impacting significant life areas (work, love, friendship) seem to be unsolvable mysteries. However, it is the contention of this work that nothing happens in one’s life by any chance exclusion of some spooky action at a distance. Life may be a crap shoot at times yet we are part of the crap we shoot. It is not about fatalism or some grand scheme. Rather, it will be developed that influential properties of the universe in which we live (including life events on this planet) involve laws of attraction (gravity) and repulsion (opposing electro-magnetic fields). Properties such as these were responsible for the formation of stars, planets and even life forms (human beings) on earth.

Whether a certain person, situation, meeting or coincidences of events was specifically meant or fated to happen is a significant question to which will be fully responded. For now, suffice it to say that for the universe (and us) to form, science identifies properties and principles of higher ordering (evolution of the species, big bang theory, quantum mechanics of the infinitely small and the theory of relativity of the infinitely large). Ironically, the higher the ordering, formative principles, the more recognition of uncertainty and relativity in the universe exists. Probability and statistical calculations of chance occurrence become our divining devices of prediction.

Einstein didn’t