Category Archives: celebrities
Synchronicity and Symbols
What do Will Rogersand Kurt Vonnegutand Anne Sextonand Philip K Dickand Sugar Ray Leonard have in common? Read on. Synchronicities multiply during periods of transition – a move, a marriage or divorce, a career change, a change in employment or … Continue reading
Neverland
Simon Crump began work on his fourth book in 2006. He finished it just four hours before Michael Jackson’s death–an eerie synchronicity. Entitled Neverland, it’s a series of interconnected short stories about the troubled superstar. According to the Guardian of … Continue reading
Will It Come in Threes Again?
Ted Kennedy died yesterday, August 25, and when we read about it this morning, we wondered if there would be two more. Less than 24 hours later, writer Dominic Dunne passed away at the age of 83. On November 22, … Continue reading
Dark Passages
One of our ‘secrets’ of synchronicity deals with creativity and the law of attraction. When you focus intently on a creative endeavor, you attract like experiences in the outer world. For example, when Trish was writing about a stalker years … Continue reading
#11
On bat night at Yankee Stadium last month, Yankee Brett Gardener swung at a pitch, and his bat slipped from his hands. It flew into the stands, and struck a boy named Jacob Smith. Bat night indeed. Smith is the … Continue reading
Seriously, What Are the Odds?
Here’s an article on synchronicity, written by Dick Cavett, that appeared in the New York Times on May 8, 2009. Cavett doesn’t use the word synchronicity, which is surprising. He also refers to Freud, but doesn’t mention Jung. It’s almost … Continue reading
James Dean
Dale Dassell sent an e-mail this evening wondering if the following story about James Dean qualified as synchronicity. The answer is yes–it’s a case of precognition, an aspect of synchronicity. During filming of Rebel Without a Cause, Dean traded in … Continue reading
Harrison Ford synchronicity
This one is from Terri Patrick, another blogger: My husband Ed, had his private pilot license for about ten years when he decided to get his tail-dragger endorsement. Imagine the type of airplanes used in old movies, where the tail … Continue reading
The Girl from Petrovka
Here’s a good one offered by my friend, Dale. Anthony Hopkins, who in researching his part for the film of George Feifer’s The Girl from Petrovka, traveled to London in search of a copy of the novel. Having failed to … Continue reading