I came across this peculiar synchronicity on a site called System Glitch
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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 himself.
His first attempt was at the age of 18 when he tried to hang himself, but was interrupted by the mysterious appearance of a Capuchin monk. At age 22, he again tried to hang himself, but amazingly was saved by the very same monk.
Eight years later, he was sentenced to the gallows for his political activities. Once again, his life was saved by the intervention of the same monk. Finally, at age 68, Aigner succeeded in suicide, shooting himself with a pistol. His funeral ceremony was conducted by the same Capuchin monk – a man whose name Aigner never even knew.
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Since this one is pretty strange, I decided to dig a little. Who was that monk? Did he really repeatedly appear at crucial times in Aigner’s life and finally at his funeral? I Googled ‘Joseph Aigner painter,’ and that’s when things got, well, even stranger. Read on.
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Joseph Aigner – The Sheboygan Press – September 23, 1929
Well Know Painter Suffers Fatal Stroke on Eighth St.
Joseph Aigner, well-known painter was suddenly stricken with paralysis shortly after 5 p.m. Monday while going home from work. He fell in front of the Ehrlich and Kindel Vulcanizing Company on North Eighth street and died at 5:20 p.m. at the entrance to St. Nicholas hospital where he was rushed in the city ambulance. A large number of people were present when the ambulance arrived.
Mr. Aigner was born in Frankenburg, Germany on December 24, 1870 and came to America with his parents when he was 14 years old. The family located in Kiel. In 1891 Mr. Aigner was united in marriage with Miss Ottilia Mais and moved to this city, where he lived since.
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So, it’s a different Joseph Aigner, also a ‘well-known’ painter, and also a report of his death. The first Aigner died in 1886, two years after the second Aigner left Germany for America.
Upon further perusal, I found the story about the first Aigner appears on several web sites, and eventually traced it back to Robert Ripley’s Giant Book of Believe it or Not, Warner Books, 1983. But this post might be the first time that the two Joseph Aigners have been connected.
It was as if the universe was saying to me: ‘Oh, you’re skeptical about the monk synchronicities, are you? Okay, take a look at this!’
Today I checked out a blog site https://theintuitiveworld.blogspot.com/ found on Shanda Hill’s (new group member) info. At this blog, I found on May 30, 2009 a subject matter entitled “Monkey See Monkey Do”, regarding the antics of animals—that they have a natural sense of knowing when a natural disaster is about to strike. The title caught my eye because it ties in with this thread (and my June 1 comment above re: “monkey”).
Much of the talk lately circles around ‘disasters'. Also odd is that I have an order to produce a pewter Key ring to commemorate an upcoming event—the 50th anniversary of the Escuminac disaster of 1959 where ‘22’ boats were lost out to sea during a hurricane, taking with them the lives of 35 men and boys. Escuminac is adjacent to the Acadian village of Point Sapin (Pine Point) where my mother was born and raised.
I wonder if perhaps the inner world-'collective unconscious' is taking great pains to wake us from La-La Land long enough to head off a major disaster.
Your welcome. More good synchronicities on the way.
many years ago i came to see the truth, at least in my own life, in your comment, rob, that some things which we might call synchronicities are actually just expanded awareness but with this expanded awareness comes more synchronicities – with this expanded awareness we open ourselves to all possibilities – i am so excited that my path of awareness has brought me to yours and trish’s door…thank you for inviting me in…
jenean
sometimes even mistakes and accidents fit into the synchronicity equation ;-)(-;
You’re right, May. I fixed it. The second J.A. left Germany two years before the other one took his life.
Love it, May!
This synch ties in with “MonK” (found in today’s post title), it takes a little explaining:
A few days ago, I did a little etymology search of the letter ‘Q’. I found an early hieroglyph that shows the origin of Q being a monkey with a tail, this evolving into our stylized letter ‘Q’. Earlier, the stylized ‘Q’ was depicted with the little line at the bottom /center of the ‘O’ instead of veering to the right as it does today. The etymology of the word ‘Cue’(originally ‘queue’) meant ‘tail’, later coming to mean ‘something that follows’; ‘hint/clue’ and ‘stick’.
Then I looked up the word ‘monkey’ in the etymology dictionary. Interestingly, directly above it is the word ‘MONK’. The word monkey comes from Italian source ‘mona’ (monkey) + ‘key’. So, what would have been the point behind adding the word ‘key’? This may be a ‘clue’.
The French word for key is ‘clef’ and that this is similar to our word ‘cleft’—meaning to split, hence ‘cleft chin’. Now this is interesting because a cleft chin is one of the arguments I use… evidence lending support to my hypothesis re: that homo Sapien Sapiens (modern man) is a form of highly evolved perfectly conjoined twins (straight down the middle vertically)—the cleft chin being a residual clue… “why else would some humans have a cleft chin?!”, I query “Q”.
Also,from the post, it seems that the first Aigner died in 1886 as the second arrived in America at 14. If he was born in 1870 this would make the year 1884– off by 2.
Or a parallel Aigner?
How odd that the one left Germany the same year the other one died. Like a replacement Joseph Aigner.
Some things we might call synchronicities are actually just expanded awareness, but with expanded awareness comes more synchronicities.
Rob
Off to take a look at your site, Butternut Squash! I know exactly what you mean about diaper commercials. When I was pregnant, I also seemed to be deluged with baby food commercials!
Trish
Coincidence, that is an uglier word than sychronicity isn’t it? It is strange how it happens more frequently when we begin to pay attention to it. Is it that we just notice coincidences more when we are looking for them? For example, I never realized how many diaper commercials there were on TV until I was pregnant. Suddenly every show was about babies, baby food, pregnancy…
I have had many sychronistic experiences in my life. Most of them I am still trying to puzzle together and make sense of. If you have time, look through some of the stories on my blog, The Dream of Lost Souls, Heavy Footsteps or The One Eyed Monkey of Swyambu might entertain you.
Indiana Jones was no small inspiration in my own life of travel and exploration. What sychronicity could their be in being pointed back to you now?
-Lover of Life sent me.