Our daughter, Megan, is writing a novel. She has outlined it, written 30 pages that she sent us, and today experienced a synchronicity that perfectly illustrates one of the secrets in our book 7 Secrets of Synchronicity. The fourth secret, The Creative, is that creativity lies at the heart of synchronicity. At the beginning of that chapter, we use a quote by physicists and author F David Peat: “The space between…is the space that lies between the observer and the observed; it is the space of the creative act that brings a poem or a painting to life.”
Or a novel.
In her novel, the protagonist, Riley Phoenix, 22, lives in a second story one-bedroom flat with lousy plumbing, in a neighborhood that isn’t very safe, and there’s no security whatsoever in the building – no cameras, no concierge, no security people. But she’s perfectly happy living by herself in this place. Okay, that’s the setup for the synchro.
This weekend Megan drove over to Florida’s west coast to see a friend with whom she went to high school. Renie had recently moved and Megan hadn’t ever been to her place. So she got there, they went out on the town, and this morning, Megan bolted awake and realized she was in her character’s apartment. Renie lives in a one-bedroom flat, on the second story of a building, in a not very safe area of town, and the building has no security whatsoever. And oh, Renie’s flat has terrible plumbing.
“It wasn’t like I walked into Renie’ place last night and thought, Wow, this is where Riley lives. It just hit me out of the blue this morning. So I walked around, taking pictures of the place so I can now fill in the details of Riley’s flat.”
When she called to tell us the synchro, we told her it was a positive sign for her book and her creative process. She agreed, but added, “It’s because I have absolutely no resistance to writing this novel. I know I can do it.”
Pretty cool, huh?
Wow! What an amazing experience. Certainly a sign for the thumbs up for her novel 🙂
I think so, too!
I’ve just posted this one https://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2012/08/dark-matter-trojan-horses-strategic-design-vocabulary.html on my Facebook profile. They mention the term “comfort zone”, the same I’ve mentioned here https://2020.global.gaiaspace.org/global/pg/search/?q=comfort+zone&x=0&y=0 (Comment on “Creativity”: “In these turbulent times you can either voluntarily leave your comfort zone now and then and observe what happens or wait to be kicked out of your comfort zone.”).
I’ve been thinking lately a lot about leaving my own “comfort zone”.
Good point, Aleksandar. I think I would rather leave my comfort zone willingly! Will take a look @ the links, thanks.
How about this one? I’ve just noticed a link there on the right side https://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2012/08/dark-matter-trojan-horses-strategic-design-vocabulary.html to a book Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room (just above the book from that link, a book about the movie Stalker). You are mentioning an unsafe room in this blog post and I added a comment about comfort zone (zona). If you’ve watched the movie Stalker (especiallythe last scene), you would understand even more what I’m talking about. It’s a must see for anyone interested in synchronicity.
Reminds me of the Jeff Kripal interview Mike Clelland did where they discuss similar scenarios where authors would be writing fiction and it would soon turn up as a real life episode for the author.
it’s a good interview if you get the chance to listen to it.
Maybe Megan should have a listen ?
https://hiddenexperience.podbean.com/2011/11/06/jeff-kripal-interview/
P.S. And good luck with the book.It sounds like something she should write to me.
Sounds like an interview right up our alleys. Thanks for the link, we’ll take a look. And I’ll let her know about writing it to you!
Actually I may be thinking of the Chris Knowles interview with Jeff Kripal –
https://secretsun.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/secret-sun-radio-mystery-hour.html
Either way both are worth listening to.
I may have listened to part of that, will have to check.
Dr. Jeffrey Kripal is on the latest edition of
“42 Minutes” in 3 hours time.
https://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=113894&cmd=tc
You’ll be able to listen to it when it’s put into the archives with the rest of the recordings.
That was a gift you gave your daughter – no resistance to the creative process!
🙂 She has run into blocks before, but I think she’s on track with this novel and idea.
How great is that. It’s almost akin to déjà vu, perhaps a near relative! Must be a positive sign.
Probably a kind of déjà vu!
Woah, talk about déjà vu! I sometimes get the same effect from dream conversations that I’d have with people I know. Only months later, having completely forgotten about the dream, a random chat with the same person will echo the dream, and I get this brief spike of déjà vu: Hey, we’ve had this conversation before! It’s a weird feeling.
That’s happened to me, too, Dale. Very strange feeling! And thank you for taking time to review Aliens!
Always a pleasure! I hope my tantalizing review entices more people to buy the book, and I can hardly wait for the sequel! 🙂
Very cool!! I love when those things happen!
I told megan to come read the comments!
Way Cool!
way to go megan! on all counts! 😉
reminds me of that “dream visit” to ya’ll house several years ago –
neat post!
That dream visit may have been an OBE!
Yes, VERY cool. I love the picture in my head of her waking up and realizing she knew the place from inside her imagination.
What was interesting to me was that it didn’t dawn on her till the next morning.