Per the "big bang" theory universe originally was created from a marble-sized object that was was used to create "matter" in one/trillionth of one/trillionth of a second. And, 6 billion years of evolution later there are now intelligent human "beings". Since this creation of "matter" and the start of "time" we have made time, spent time, wasted time, killed time, passed time, took time, served time, etc.
The Mayans and others devoted a lot of their energy to measuring time and the movements of the stars, the sun, the planets and their moons. They built monuments that emulated these movements and predicted some future events based on these movements.
But, a lot of societies like the Mayans, Greeks, Romans and Egyptians were located in warmer climates where there were not four seasons as is the case in the northern regions. It was much easier to build these monuments as they had to spend less of their time surviving in harsh climates.
Recently I viewed a TV program on the Discovery Channel that focused on Steven Hawkings and his explanation of the "big bang" theory and black holes. It seems that some of the black holes are disappearing. While Hawkings had become a hero of the world of physicists by developing nice neat theories about the big bang and black holes, they had issues with his more philosophic view of their disappearance. He has postulated a sort of "deux ex machina" kind of property. He theorizes that that we are part of a mathematical universe with an infinity of choices and universes. These black holes, then, could be part of another big bang and created another universe.
It seems that physicists prefer a world of more concreteness. Even though they expend a lot of their brain power and energy splitting the atom into even smaller pieces, this is logical and rational. There are many of these particles like quarks, muons, gluon's, photons, etc. all with their own characteristics. They can't be seen, touched or felt and have no mass but they exist in their world of science.
Altough, Jung had no particular knowledge of high energy physics, he has postulated that these scientists had sliced up our existence and left out some of the irrational things that exist in our world. These scientists had ignored the spirit and intuition that is part of the human psyche.
In his works on synchronocity, Jung often referred to the studies of ESP by J.B. Rhine. These tests showed that the subjects were able to predict the results at a higher rate than chance. Also, the prediction rate was not reduced by distance or time, but only after the test was done too many times and the interest had waned. It seems that humans, if they were interested, would send out some kind of a detection device to read these cards and report the result back to the tester's brain. This would happen in a micro-micro second of time.
The subjects would do better that average, but not perfect, so the system wasn't perfect. It reminds me of when I was studying mathematics, when I was interested, I could do better than average, say a "B", but never an "A".
Jung concluded from these tests, that the psyche, which is what he called the detection device exists independently form matter and time. Also, in his study of synchronocity, he postulated that there was a method by which this occurred in physical reality. However, this version of the psyche is not responding to our human brain's request, but from something "above" us that is interested in our self's development.
When these events occur in our lives, they take place in a black hole of time and space that is similar to the big bang on a smaller scale. A new idea or new way is found for our selves and the world is now different. It's seems to be a good system. It is both rational and intuitive and keeps us interested and keeps our hope for a new and better world alive.
