After reading Goro Adachi for more than five years, I've got, maybe, a grasp on how to explain his concept of "Synchronistic Mysticism." In the Symbolic Universe, every Person/Place/Thing is assigned some value/meaning just.. by being. Each object then can be grouped with other objects that relate in some way with yet more objects larger in symbolic value. For example.. "Pollution" is much larger in value than say, "trash can," "gum wrapper," "oil spill," or "carcass," but those words can all be symbolically linked to "pollution."
"Piles" of Symbols then become larger when more related words are added.
Visualize an empty room with piles of blocks grouped together. Each block is a symbol, and the sum of each pile is the larger symbol. Then, connections between the larger groups of symbols will occur, and more connections within the group will begin to appear. Meaning is derived from the interpretation of these connections of smaller to larger related events, and connections between different, larger archetypes. I didn't say it was a simple explanation..
So a portion of Goro's process must involve scanning world events constantly in order to develop each relevant symbolic theme as fully as possible. I understand
that he does what he does, and somehow these
multicontextural wonders appear, what I still don't understand(and probably never will) is
HOW he does it. How can he sift through, then synthesize the massive amount of information required to connect the events(past), occurrences(future), people, and things in the manner in which he does connect them? Featured in this article: Planetary positions around the sun, Princess Diana, the State of Indiana, Michael Jackson, Paris, the April earthquake in Italy,
2001 A Space Odyssey, Prince William, Janet Jackson's "Nipplegate," and Nickelback(!).
Intrigued? You should be. It's a long, confusing read(all the articles are), but if you dig it,
you will be hooked..
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