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Crucially for our purposes, the DMN is negatively correlated with the attention network (AN), meaning that the more it is activated, the less access we have to the power of our attention.

The black sun, blackness, putrefactio, mortificatio, the nigredo, poisoning, torture, killing, decomposition, rotting, and death all form a web of interrelationships that describe a terrifying, if most often provisional, eclipse of consciousness or of our conscious standpoint.

Etymologically, at our third level of elaboration, the word “acorn” is related to “acre,” “act,” and “agent.” “Acorn” derives most closely from Old High German akern (fruit, produce), not merely as a seed but as an already fulfilled fruition. Actus (action, activity, agency) is associated with “acorn” so that the acorn must be understood as an

Jung first used the term “synchronicity” only in 1930, in his memorial address for Richard Wilhelm,4 the translator of the I Ching, or Book of Changes.

psychologists find that one of the hallmarks of an open mind is responding to confusion with curiosity and interest.30 One student put it eloquently: “I need time for my confusion.”31 Confusion can be a cue that there’s new territory to be explored or a fresh puzzle to be solved.32

In Tibet these mind-created entities have long been known as “tulpas”.