Fans have compiled more than one hundred moments of perceived interplay between the film and album, including further links that occur if the album is repeated through the entire film. Examples include music changes at dramatic moments, and thematic alignment such as the scarecrow dance during “the lunatics are on the grass”. This synergy effect has been described as an example of synchronicity, defined by the psychologist Carl Jung as a phenomenon in which coincidental events “seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality.”Detractors argue that the phenomenon is the result of the mind’s tendency to think it recognizes patterns amid disorder by discarding data that does not fit. Psychologists refer to this tendency as apophenia. Under this theory, a Dark Side of the Rainbow enthusiast will focus on matching moments while ignoring the greater number of instances where the film and the album do not correspond. Another theory suggests the correspondence may have been assisted by the synthasic effects of narcotics taken by those who then chose to listen to both the album and watch the film simultaneously.

Coincidence versus intent

Pink Floyd band members have repeatedly insisted that the reputed phenomenon is coincidence. In an interview for the 25th anniversary of the album, guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour denied that the album was intentionally written to be synchronized with Oz, saying “Some guy with too much time on his hands had this idea of combining ”Wizard of Oz” with ”Dark Side of the Moon”.”

On an MTV special about Pink Floyd in 2002, the band dismissed any relationship between the album and the movie, saying that there were no means of reproducing the film in the studio at the time they recorded the album.

In a 2003 interview with ”Rolling Stone”, Dark Side of the Moon engineer Alan Parsons said of the supposed effect:”It was an American radio guy who pointed it out to me. It’s such a non-starter, a complete load of eyewash. I tried it for the first time about two years ago. One of my fiancee’s kids had a copy of the video, and I thought I had see what it was all about. I was very disappointed. The only thing I noticed was that the line “balanced on the biggest wave” came up when Dorothy was kind of tightrope walking along a fence. One of the things any audio professional will tell you is that the scope for the drift between the video and the record is enormous; it could be anything up to twenty seconds by the time the record’s finished. And anyway, if you play any record with the sound turned down on the TV, you will find things that work.”

On the cover of the band’s 1995 live album ”Pulse” in the background, can be seen a bike with a basket on it and a girl with ruby slippers, both references to The Wizard of Oz. Some fans have construed this as the band subtly confirming the theory.

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason stated categorically to MTV in 1997, “It’s absolute nonsense, it has nothing to do with ”The Wizard of Oz”. It was all based on ”The Sound Of Music”.” While it seems likely that this statement was a joke, some fans have begun to notice synchronization between ”The Sound of Music” and ”The Dark Side of the Moon”.

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Carl Jung describes four ”psychological functions” that are capable of becoming conscious, but to differing degrees in specific individuals:

* Sensation – all perceptions by means of the sense organs

* Intuition – perception by way of the unconscious, or perception of unconscious events

* Thinking (in socionics, logic) – interpretation of information based on whether it is correct or incorrect

* Feeling (in socionics, ethics) – interpretation of information based on its ethical aspects

For example, Jung’s model for 2 types: extraverted intuitive-thinking (ILE) and introverted feeling-sensory (ESI)

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By Jung’s rules 16 psychological types exist. But in his book “Psychological Types” he described in detail only 8 types, distinguished by the eight possible dominant functions.

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The persona is also the mask or appearance one presents to the world. It may appear in dreams under various guises (see Carl Jung and his psychology).

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Erich Neumann (; January 23, 1905 – November 5, 1960), was a psychologist, writer, and one of Carl Jung’s most gifted students.

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Phillips was born in Cardiff in 1954, the child of second-generation Polish Jews. He grew up as part of an extended family of aunts, uncles and cousins and describes his parents as “very consciously Jewish but not believing”. As a child, his first interest was the study of tropical birds and it was not until adolescence that he developed an interest in literature. He went on to study English at Oxford University and his defining influences are literary – he was inspired to become a psychoanalyst after reading Carl Jung’s autobiography and he has always believed psychoanalysis to be closer to poetry than medicine: ‘For me, psychoanalysis has always been of a piece with the various languages of literature – a kind of practical poetry’. He began psychology training soon after leaving Oxford and qualified to practice at the age of 27. He had a particular interest in children and began working as a child psychologist – ‘one of the pleasures of child psychotherapy is that it is, as it were, psychoanalysis for a non-psychoanalytic audience’. For eight years he was principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He currently divides his time between writing and his private practice in Notting Hill.

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Bollingen is known for the “Tower” built there by Carl Gustav Jung, anonther remarkable site is the Wurmsbach Abbey.

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Jungian interpretation of religion is an approach, pioneered by Carl Jung and advanced by his followers, to interpret religion in the light of Jungian psychology. Unlike Freud and his followers, Jungians tend to treat religious beliefs and behaviors in a positive light, while offering psychological referents to traditional religious terms such as “soul”, “evil”, “transcendence”, “the sacred”, and “God”. While no one interpretation of religion is shared by all Jungians, in general theologians and devotees of religion have objected to having their “objective reality” interpreted in subjective terms. That the Jungian interpretation of religion has been, and continues to be, of interest to psychologists, theologians and the public is attested by the large number of books and articles published on the subject as well as conferences.

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Born in Michigan, Michael Talbot’s (non-fiction) books include ”Mysticism And The New Physics”, ”Beyond The Quantum”, and (arguably his most notable work) ”The Holographic Universe”.

In ”The Holographic Universe”, Talbot explores the idea that the entire universe is a hologram. He examines the works of physicist David Bohm and neurophysiologist Karl H. Pribram, both of whom independently arrived at holographic theories or models of the universe. Talbot suggests that a holographic model might provide a scientific foundation for understanding various paranormal and anomalous phenomena, such as extrasensory perception, and provide a scientific basis for understanding mystical experience. He also ties in elements of Carl Jung’s “collective unconscious” theory, and the synchronicity phenomenon, to suggest the existence of an underlying unified field that ties all things in the universe together.

Talbot often referenced Stanislav Grof, whose work on Holotropic Breathwork was also of obvious influence.

It is said that Talbot has made the often esoteric concepts of Bohm, Pribram, et al., accessible to the general public. This may be in some part due to his earlier work as a science fiction author.

Talbot attempted to incorporate psychology, anthropology, spirituality, religion, and science to shed light on truly profound questions that we have struggled with since the genesis of humanity.

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*Carl Jung passed up a career in internal medicine to take up psychiatry, starting a position at the Burgholzli Mental Hospital, as an assistant to Eugen Bleuler.

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According to Jungian psychology, individuation is a process of psychological integration, having for its goal the development of the individual personality. “In general, it is the process by which individual beings are formed and differentiated [from other human beings]; in particular, it is the development of the psychological individual as a being distinct from the general, collective psychology.”

‘The symbols of the individuation process…mark its stages like milestones’, prominent among them for Jungians being ‘”the ”shadow”, the ”Wise Old Man”…and lastly the ”anima” in man and the ”animus” in woman”‘. Thus ‘there is often a movement from dealing with the persona at the start…to the ego at the second stage, to the shadow as the third stage, to the anima or animus, to the self as the final stage. Some would interpose the Wise Old Man and the Wise Old Woman as spiritual archetypes coming before the final step of the Self’.

In addition to Jung’s theory of the Complexes, his theory of the individuation process forms conceptions of a phylogenetically acquired unconscious filled with mythic type images, a non-sexual libido, the general types of introversion and extroversion, the compensatory and prospective functions of dreams, and the synthetic and constructive approaches to fantasy formation and utilization.

Individuation is a process of transformation whereby the personal and collective unconscious is brought into consciousness (by means of dre

Besides achieving physical and mental health, people who have advanced towards individuation tend to be harmonious, mature and responsible. They embody humane values such as freedom and justice and have a good understanding about the workings of human nature and the universe.

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