On the return journey from Fürstenwalde to Berlin yesterday. A crowded regional train. Next to me was a fellow passenger reading a science magazine. A headline caught my eye: “Fight hard, think hard, love from the bottom of your heart”. In the framework of the science of the mind, these are topics of spirit, mind, and soul. But where does this quote come from? Back home, ChatGPT couldn't make sense of the quote. The next day, today, I asked Google's AI. Oh my goodness! The algorithm claims that the materialist (?) Friedrich Engels is the author.
A strange synchronicity immediately came to mind. In 1866, Karl Marx was working on the final editing of his first volume on Capital, which was published as a book in 1875. 1866 was also the year when Mary Baker Eddy Science of Christianity, as she also called it, and then it took nine years until she too could publish the first edition of her book about her discovery in 1875.
Robert PeelThe author of what is probably the most comprehensive and highly readable biography of Mary Baker Eddy reports an interesting detail from Lenin's life. During his exile in Zurich, he borrowed Mary Baker Eddy's book "Science and Health" from the Zurich Central Library and pointed out to friends that this book puts forward propositions exactly opposite to dialectical materialism (bibliographic information in preparation).
Is it all a coincidence? In 1952, CG Jung and the physicist Wolfgang Pauli published a joint, interdisciplinary work entitled "Explanation of Nature and Psyche," in which Jung took over the section "Synchronicity as a Principle of Acausal Connections." Here, Jung examines phenomena in which inner psychological states (dreams, intuitions, archetypal experiences) and external events coincide in meaningful coincidence, without any demonstrable causal connection. He understands these "meaningful coincidences" as expressions of a deeper order that complements the principle of causality.
Could it be that the LogosIs John, according to the author, the primary source of all knowledge, then, when the “darkness” fails to grasp him, leading to conclusions that are then revealed in works like those of Karl Marx? Indeed, Engels reads... “Fight hard, think hard, love from the bottom of your heart” in a materialistic context, it's completely different than in a spiritual context. Or is it?
