Here’s a synchro from Gabe Carlson (aka Max) of Minneapolis that adds to his earlier mind-boggling synchronicity that involved a pair of identical teapots that mysteriously came together in his life. Apparently, the nature of reality is still steeping in Gabe’s unconscious mind.
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Today four of us went to the thrift store for the first time in many months. On the way there, discussing the pros and cons of different store options, I loudly declared that I was going to find another magic teapot. I guess I had no expectation that I really was going to find a teapot, but maybe was hoping that I’d find something serendipitous and synchronistic – thrift stores are often good for that, with their dense assortment of randomness.
I’d already forgotten my pronouncement by the time we arrived, but still headed to the kitchen section first, thinking that my girlfriend Kristin might want to browse for something useful for her canning/cooking/pickling.
Of course, that was the section were teapots are found, and where I’d bought one of the original two.
Before I could even start down the kitchen aisle, Kristin suggested that we head down further to look at the furniture. So we did. We ‘d been in the store for maybe three minutes when she pointed out the first item of interest – a series of square boards connected by strapping, to be used as some kind of hanging shelf unit.
When Kristin pulled it off the shelf to examine it, letting it hang down to the floor, I happened to notice the back of a pin on one of the straps. There was just one – somebody had once stuck a single decorative pin into the strapping. But the way it was hanging, I couldn’t see the front of it.
After asking her a few times what it was (she had no idea what I was referring to) I managed to get hold of the strap, and twist it around so we could both see … the silvery teapot shining there.
We both started laughing, mores o when we remembered that I’d actually announced that I was going to find a magic teapot today.
Needless to say, that alone made the entire trip more than worthwhile. I didn’t even look very hard for anything else, since I’d found what I’d been looking for, right off the bat – yet another wink, another nudge, another confirmation of all the weird and seemingly irrational things I’ve found myself increasingly daring to believe since my mystical experience 7 years ago.
I’m still not sure what it means … but it certainly makes things a lot more interesting. Gabe’s blog is called Teapots Happen.
A post-script: Gabe followed up a few days later with this comment.
Oh! and I forgot to mention something cool about the teapot pin.
My girlfriend Kristin was one of the friends I was with at the thrift store when I found the first of my two teapots in 2006. In fact, she was the main person I kept coming up to, trying to understand why I was so compelled to buy the rather utilitarian-looking but nonfunctional teapot.
She’d quite sensibly advised me not to buy it, but I did anyway. So, it was an extra awesome synchronicity to not only accidentally find a teapot after declaring my intention to do so – but to find it with her, stuck onto an object she’d chosen … and at a Unique Thrift Store, just like 2006.
Well, Max, obviously we vehemently disagree and I won’t argue with your viewpoint although I certainly could. What I WILL say is that people who use substances as a means to achieve “visions” or more synchronicities, etc, is an excuse. I’m a born medium; clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient, and I have NEVER in my entire life felt compelled to use any substance to increase my awareness of ANYTHING, and have been very successful in this work. As a matter of fact, I must take a particular prescription , a controlled Class A medication, occasionally for a chronic and very serious illness, and that medication INTERFERES with my abilities to function psychically. Different strokes for different folks. You have your way, I have mine. We won’t meet in the middle. But I will say, as well, that in my experience, just in my ordinary life and in my career as a medical professional, I’ve witnessed folks who use recreational drugs to enhance “trips” often go to places they don’t want to visit in their wildest psychodelic imaginations and those trips are hell to them. Do what you will. So shall I. Whatever floats your boat, as they say. My boats floats perfectly when I’m sober and not under the influence of any substance. Peace to you, and be well.
We’re not all born clairvoyant, clairaudient or psychic. Books by Terrence McKenna’s, Aldous Huxley, Rick Strassman’s DMT: The Spirit Molecule definitely provide evidence that certain types of drugs DO indeed enhance psi and and expand consciousness. It’s one of the reasons ayahuasca is so widely used among indigenous people in the Amazon.
not sure how the topic turned to marijuana, but I gotta pipe in and disagree with MathAddict above … the whole “pot is a gateway drug” thing is so “Just Say No” era baloney! Tevs. Correlated relationship are not necessarily causal relationships, etc.
And more to the point – pot tends to open people up to increased synchronicity, I suspect …. or at bare minimum, open people up to increased awareness of it.
https://teapotshappen.com/tag/marijuana/
I agree with you completely, Max.
I thought about this, and slept on it, before commenting. First, I love the teapot synchro story! Teapots as a symbol represent home, coziness, harmony, friendship, warmth, sharing. And who doesn’t enjoy a cup of nice hot tea in front of a blazing fire on a frigid night, or sharing a cup of steaming tea with a friend during a pleasant visit! But this “other” business mentioned…..”pot”, the drug. It isn’t the legislature that has determined that the use of recreational marijuana leads to the use of stronger and more dangerous, often lethal drugs. It is credible medical scientists, physicians, clinicians, who have spent decades in researching this issue. It isn’t a political issue, although there seem to be folks who wish to make EVERYTHING a political issue. It is no more a political issue than a woman’s right to make choices about her own body is a political issue. The abuse of drugs is a medical concern, and rightfully so. These credible studies have proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that the habitual use of marijuana does frequently lead the user to experiment with other more potent and harmful drugs. Their impeccable research is available everywhere, and is valid. Heroin and cocaine, however, are no longer the current preferred worse drugs of choice.
Today, the drugs of choice beyond marijuana are oxycodone, hydrocodone, Valium, profafol, methamphetamines, (diet pills), and other prescription medications…..some of which are found in the cabinets of hundreds of thousand of homes and are pilfered by the youngsters, as well as being used by hundreds of thousands of adults who started with pot and moved to the abuse of deadly substances. This is why the rehabilitation centers stay filled with patients trying to break their addictions. In and of itself, marijuana is not considered to be addictive, but instead can become habit-forming. But these harder substances are addictive and potentially and frequently are deadly. To compare using heroin after eating baby food is an irresponsible sarcastic quip, in my opinion, and if this offends, I’m sorry. When my own three sons were growing up, I watched a lot of their friends go from pot to mushrooms and then to other life-endangering substances, and even as a young adult myself, I watched my own friends doing the same thing. A person who drinks alcohol, whether beer, wine, or hard booze, doesn’t necessarily become a dedicated alcoholic. Some do; most don’t.
But please, don’t deny the established fact that the use of marijuana does often lead the user to more dangerous substances just as the over-use of alcohol can lead to alcoholism. To deny this is an ill-informed personal opinion, not a well-informed or well-researched fact. On a previous post, I commented that if I had known where to purchase marijuana in my mother’s town when she lay dying and suffering horrendously, I’d have bought it for her in a nano-second. That is absolutely true. Marijuana, like cigarettes (nicotine), and alcohol, is a drug, and marijuana does have very positive medicinal uses. There are wines that are good for many medicinal purposes, including certain heart problems and also to prevent food poisoning. Whiskey is a great treatment for chest congestion in flu, etc. But people who choose to use marijuana recreationally and habitually, do so at the risk of becoming users of the more dangerous drugs. That simply cannot be accurately or responsibly denied.
Cigarettes can and too often do cause cancers in many organs of the body; specifically, the lungs, pancreas, esophagus, throat. This is undeniable. Alcohol in too frequent use can and does cause stomach cancer, cirrhosis of the liver, and other deadly diseases. Marijuana kills the production of sperm cells in young males and when over used, can and does cause adult male infertility, and over-use can and does often lead to the abuse of other more potent drugs. To nay-say this is ill-informed, and I think we need to note the difference between personal opinion and established fact on this particular subject. I don’t want to make enemies here, and I won’t argue and debate this. The only thing I have against the recreational use and enjoyment of ANY substance is in its inherent, POTENTIAL dangers to life. Quote: “Enough said”.
The link between pot & heroin is simple. They’re both illegal. End of story.
I’m sorry I mentioned the pot pun above now,but here’s a sync.
I’m just finishing off Tim Freke’s book “How Long Is Now?”
and here is a quote from page 178 about psychedelics from Tim –
” Drugs can cause terrible suffering,and anyone with a heart would be against drug abuse.But I’m interested in considering what constitutes “use” and “abuse”. Like everything in duality,drugs have a positive and negative aspect.It would be foolish to deny the trans-formative power of drug use.
Although not everyone who takes deep drugs has a positive experience.”
And seeing the “End of Story” at the end of the reply above,
I have to mention that on page 179 of that book is chapter 16,titled –
“The End Of The Story” ( about death)
I respect what you are saying Connie and I don’t condone the abuse of any substance whether it be pot,controlled Class A medications,mushrooms,food, or alcohol.
But I’m glad to see those two states overturning those laws.
One last thing I will say though is that if this law was around when the wonderful caring author Peter McWilliams was alive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McWilliams
His tragic end could have been a lot more civil.
He was using pot when he was being treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma to stop him vomiting all the time.
He was arrested for using it and his mother’s house was put up for bail –
” When his elderly mother pledged her house as security for the bail, they threatened that the government would seize her house if her son simply failed a drug test, not just if he were to flee. She would not be intimidated, but now her son is dead as the result of the conditions of the bail. These are the “family values” of America’s war on the sick and dying. ”
R.I P. Pete,you were one of my favourite authors.
I forgot to mention in the comment above that Pete choked to death on his own vomit.
What a wonderful story! I really enjoyed reading Gabe’s blog too………..sounds like the universe is certainly talking to him. I’d call his teapot pin a magic amulet, that he can wear to remind him of the conversation.
Good story,even though I’m not really into pot .-)
But I see it has now passed in the states of Colorado and Washington for personal use of pot to be legal .
So two pots happened…only 48 states to go now.-)
There probably won’t be much expansion of legal pot, even though alcohol is more dangerous. Too many legislators are under the mistaken belief that smoking pot is the gateway to heroin, which is BS. Yes, some people smoke pot before trying heroin. True. But 100% of people try beer and alcohol before getting into heroin. They also ate baby food before getting into heroin. Enough said.
and i remember the other teapot story, too – and now another great one! tea, anyone?
A great story and I remember the first post about the teapots – which was quite a remarkable story.