Category Archives: trickster
The Trickster At Work
The trickster is one of the classic Jungian archetypes. Smeagol in Lord of the Rings qualifies. So did Jim Carey in The Mask. We’ve posted a couple of trickster synchronicities in the past, but this one, which comes from Mike … Continue reading
The Joker’s Wild
Here’s another one from our friend, Jane Clifford. We’ve been calling her Welsh, but she informs us she’s Irish, but has lived in Wales for 30 years.***Last summer my friend was collecting joker cards from playing card packs, so in … Continue reading
The Laser, the Chopper, the Moped
The first part of this story – about the council man, was brought to our attention by Max Action, whose synchronicities have appeared several times on this blog. In 2008, Jim Englin, a Council member of West St Paul, Minnesota … Continue reading
N.F.D.
Years ago, an editor asked me if I would be interested in completing a novel for an author who had died. He was forty and passed on very suddenly of a heart attack. He’d written four chapters and left behind … Continue reading
El Siboney
A friend from Key West, Jim Moseley, called me late Monday evening. I hadn’t talked to him for several years, but we had corresponded. Usually, I write him in response to something he has written in his iconic newsletter called … Continue reading
The Painter and the Monk
I came across this peculiar synchronicity on a site called System Glitch ***Joseph Aigner was a fairly well-known portrait painter in 19th century Austria, but he was also a very complex and unhappy fellow, who made repeated attempts to kill … Continue reading
Tony and the Trickster
The Trickster is a Jungian archetype. One of the best examples is the sneaky, lurking Gollum character in Lord of the Rings, orginally named Smeagol. He usually had an agenda of one kind or another that prompted him to mislead … Continue reading
Eyes of a Blue Dog: A Tale of Triple Synchronicity
Yesterday I read my monthly horoscope on Susan Miller’s Astrology Zone and perked up when I read that friends from the past would contact me this month. In fact, just a couple of hours earlier I’d received an e-mail from … Continue reading
Plum Pudding
Here’s one of my favorite crazy synchronicity stories as told by French writer M. Deschamps. As a boy in Orleans, France, he was presented with a piece of plum pudding by a guest of the family, M. de Fortgibu. Years … Continue reading