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 ago in her first novel, In Shadow, she attracted one who actually called her while she was working late at night on a related passage.

Thursday morning’s front page newspaper story about the death of David Carradine caught my attention in the same respect. The headline read, “Star of ‘Kung Fu,’ ‘Kill Bill’ lived by the sword on the set.” In the latter series, Carradine was the head of a group of assassins. He was filming another movie in Thailand when he was found hanged in his hotel room.

His passing brings to mind the death of other actors involved in violent roles. Heath Ledger, playing the Joker – the dark Trickster – in the The Dark Knight, died of an overdose.

Then there was the cases of Bruce and Brandon Lee, father and son, who died while playing deadly, violent roles. In both movies, The Crow for Brandon and Game of Death for Bruce, the actors played characters who were not only both shot to death, but subsequently return from the dead to exact revenge.

In Brandon’s case, he actually died in the very scene in which his character, Eric Draven, was murdered. The death was caused by the firing of a blank at point-blank range after a dummy cartridge had gotten lodged in the barrel of the gun.

He died at 28, his father died at 32. Both deaths were ruled accidents, but both were considered highly suspicious.

What are we to make of synchronicities that have a negative impact? One rule that dominates synchronicity is that like attracts like, and that’s especially true when the person is deeply focused on a creative endeavor.

Even though the two men were acting dark roles, not living them, they were experiencing what it was like to live such a life of violence and death. The same could be said for Carradine and Ledger. They were so involved in their roles that, unfortunately, they attracted the real life experiences that led to their deaths.

It may seem unfair, but it’s not. The bottom line is that we are all terminal. Death is a given, life isn’t. But it’s nothing to worry about. We’ll be back.