Category Archives: synchronicity
Residual Energy and the Wave
A haunted place is usually a house or location where residual energy remains of the people who lived there or of the events that occurred there. But can this residual energy exist in some other form? Can there, perhaps, be … Continue reading
Synchronicity Followup to Dale’s Mom
On March 17, we posted an email from our friend, Dale Dassel, whose mother was dying of cancer and how synchronicity had helped him prepare for here death. As Dale was writing a followup to my email, explaining that his … Continue reading
Jung, the Enigma
I periodically pick up Deirdre Bair’s biography of Jung and page through it, reading a chapter here, more chapters there I’ve never been able to sit down and read it from cover to cover. With the index, it’s nearly 900 … Continue reading
A Ham Cluster
The week before Easter, I took care of our neighbor’s cats and fish while they were away. They received a large package on Tuesday that week. I put it in the house and didn’t look at the return address. On … Continue reading
Popular Culture and Spirit Contact
Jung was such an atypical psychiatrist for the time in which he lived that he never went through psychoanalysis himself. Instead, as Deirdre Bair notes in her biography about him, he used his “‘personal myth’ as the starting point to … Continue reading
The Garden of Forking Paths
When Seth Lloyd was a college student, he read a short story called The Garden of Forking Paths, by Jorge Luis Borges. In the story, Borges envisions a world in which all possibilities actually happen. At each decision point, each … Continue reading
House of Cards & the 2016 Election
Here’s the thing about election season politics in the U.S. It’s wild, unpredictable, and has revealed the dark underbelly of the American psyche – that we are a deeply divided and polarized nation. We elevate a reality TV star and … Continue reading
Coincidence and the Meaning of Life
Here’s an interesting article by Jule Beck that appeared in The Atlantic on synchronicity. Beck does her best at trying to balance meaningfulness with randomness. Of course, if you do that, you get all twisted in knots, and it sounds … Continue reading
Every Day Magic
Over Valentine’s Day weekend, Megan came home to attend the wedding of a former college roommate. On Saturday, she headed up to Jupiter with another friend to see some sea tortoises, so I loaded Nika and Noah into my car … Continue reading
Synchronicity as Alchemy
Synchronicity sometimes acts as a kind of alchemy that transforms us or a decision we’re making in an essential way. The alchemy occurs because of what the synchronicity says to you, its impact on you. This was certainly the case … Continue reading






