John Townley - Seriality & Synchronicity

John Townley discusses seriality, synchronicity and the hidden structures of information that lead to strange coincidences. Einstein studied this model closely, and Carl Jung drew upon it for his model of synchronicity. Seriality was developed by Austrian biologist Dr. Paul Kammerer, who had the hobby of collecting coincidence stories. He published a collection of these coincidence stories in a book entitled “Gesetz der Serie”, or “The Law of the Series”, 1919, and his model of seriality views coincidences as visible peaks of larger moving entities of organized information. Kammerer called these events “constellations of bodies and forces”, and modeled them as displaying affinity and attraction under natural law. He developed basic principles of how it might work, drawing on the physics of his time, including an “imitation hypothesis”, an “attraction hypothesis” and the principle of “persistence”, an extension of inertia that applied to systems and information as well as physical bodies. His description of seriality nearly 100 years ago is similar to what has more recently developed in chaos, complexity, and catastrophe theories. John Townley is a writer, historian, editor, author, photojournalist, recording artist, producer, and publicist. His books and articles range from scholarly papers for the halls of academia to unabashed tabloid feature writing. In the editorial/publishing chair, he has headed daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly magazines both on staff and freelance. John has produced recordings for labels as wide-ranging as Columbia Records and the National Geographic Society, designed and built the first 12-track recording studios in New York and San Francisco, and is the founding president of The Confederate Naval Historical Society. He's also the former program developer at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News and New York's South Street Seaport Museum, and his papers have been published by the Society for Historical Archaeology, Mystic Seaport Museum, and the U.S. Naval Academy. He joins us today to discuss Seriality, something he has studied extensively and has been cited on for publications such as "Psychology Today". LINKS & RESOURCES: John Townley's Website: http://www.astrococktail.com/ John Townley on Coincidence: http://www.astrococktail.com/crossroadsofcoincidence.html https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2021/03/ocean-a-lost-recording-of-the-family-of-apostolic-john-townley-interview.html The Shape Of Time http://www.astrococktail.com/shapeoftime1.html