Is there an esoteric undercurrent to contemporary life? In the 21st century, the mundane monopolizes our attention. It is an understandable reaction. Banalities brutalize our senses, and the ordinary appears to tower over us like an unimaginative skyscraper in Anyplace, U.S.A. But appearances, as they say, can be deceiving.
Succinctly put, synchromysticism is postulation that below the surface of the commonplace appearance of modernity (or beneath the freakish artificiality of post-modernity), exists a vibrant network of hidden – dare we say “occult” – associations. Unremarkable interstices are punctuated at intervals by dynamic nexuses, identified – to those with eyes to see – by signs and words.
Synchromysticism can be approached as practice or theory or both. As an activity, it consists in the “reading” of culture (for example, its art, history, and socio-political goings on) to draw out latent connections – as one might scour an optical illusion looking for the picture within the picture. It’s not always clear whether we search for the big picture, as it were, or the little one. Theoretically, it might be held that the most significant aspects of the world are mise en abîme, “relegated to an abyss.” Whether this is by agency and contrivance, chance, or necessity is an open question.
~ Abramelin (7/29/2017)
In this project, which we term Synchromystique (or “Analytic SynchroMysticism”), we explore such people and topics as: alternative epistemology (e.g., in William James), archetypal analysis (per Carl Jung), Arthur Koestler, Carole Cusack, conspiracy culture, cultural semiotics, esoteric interpretations, esoteric worldviews, Forteana (named after Charles Fort, and expanded by James Shelby Downard, Jim Brandon, and others), hermeneutics (in the sense of Hans Georg Gadamer), hidden patterns, interpretive frameworks, Jason Horsley, meaningful coincidences, metaphysical inquiry, modern mythologies, myth and meaning, mythopoetic thinking, occult symbolism, pattern recognition, reading culture, Steven Sutcliffe, symbolic analysis, symbolic thinking, synchronicity (again, Carl-Jung-style), SynchroMysticism (as coined by Jake Kotze), Twilight Language (à la Michael A. Hoffman II, and as picked up by Loren Coleman),
