3 Questions About Synchronicity

On March 31, we were interviewed by Alejandro Rojas of   Open Minds Radio/TV  and the link went up  on April 1. He was the first radio host we’ve spoken with who focused closely on synchronicity. He asked several intriguing questions that prompted this post.  Do aliens experience synchronicity? Do they generate synchronicities? And what, exactly, is the dark trickster as it relates to encounters and abductions?

 Do aliens experience synchronicity?

 To answer this question, we have to ask what synchronicity is for humans. A synchronicity can act as a confirmation, a warning, a wake-up call. It can bring emotional issues and decisions into greater clarity and can signal communication being the living and the dead. It can nudge us to take on a particular creative project, to move or stay put, to get married or divorced or to start a family. And yes, synchronicity can be a trickster, a Smeagol in disguise that blows open our consciousness in some way.

Synchronicity often makes us feel as though the universe is speaking to us. That’s how writer Deirdre Blair probably felt after she won the National Book Award for her biography of Samuel Beckett. “Suddenly, quite a lot of people who didn’t know each other and in several cases didn’t know me, either, were asking what my next book might be and had I thought of writing about Jung?”

In the author’s note at the beginning of Jung: A Biography, she wrote that she was uncomfortable with the way Jung’s name kept surfacing, but recognized the peculiar confluence of suggestions as a synchronicity. She started researching Jung’s life  and work. The irony of her synchronicity was that she was writing about the man who coined the term and wrote extensively about it.

Synchronicity, then, hints at a deeper order in the universe, what physicist David Bohm called the implicated or enfolded order, a sort of primal soup that births everything, even time. He referred to our external realities as the explicate or unfolded order.  So, if this deeper order exists,  then wouldn’t aliens experience synchronicity, too?

Well, it would seem so. But the challenge here is that we don’t know what “aliens” are, what type of reality they inhabit, or the nature of their consciousness. Are they ETs? Inter-dimensional beings?  Are they from a parallel universe? Are they us from the future? Are they somehow connected with the dead?

Abductees tell us they can manipulate human consciousness, can apparently “float” people out windows, through doors, and up into crafts. We are told by abductees that these entities convey information through telepathy and also through images on TV-like screens.  If these abilities are genuine rather than screen memories, then it would seem they have surpassed any abilities that humans have. We can’t possibly know whether they experience synchronicity because we don’t have answers to the most basic questions about who or what they are.

As Whitley Strieber  has said, “these encounters may be our first true quantum discovery in the large-scale world: The very act of  observing it may be creating it as a concrete actuality, with sense, definition, and a consciousness of its own.”

Do aliens generate synchronicities?

We do know that synchronicities are often associated with encounters and abductions, both during and after the event. We wrote about a number of these synchronicities in Aliens in the Backyard. But we’ve found that just in writing about this material, synchronicities occur. For instance, when we were working on Connie J. Cannon’s story about her 1981 abduction to Warner Rob’s Air Force Base,  we happened to check the statistic counter for our blog and were astonished that moments earlier someone from Warner Robins, Georgia, had arrived at our blog by Googling: Warner Robins military secrets.  What are the odds?

It’s likely that the nature of the encounter and abduction material  creates an atmosphere in which synchronicity can flourish. For someone who has experienced an encounter or abduction, the search for answers, illumination and understanding seems to trigger synchronicity. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the entities are generating them.

Can humans generate them?  How would we even begin to do such a thing? It’s not as if you wave a Harry Potter wand and presto-chango, the synchro happens. The most humans can do is to create an inner receptivity, an emotional and intellectual receptivity, that is conducive to synchronicity. But just because it’s unlikely that we can generate synchros, does that mean these entities can’t either?

Not necessarily. Again, it comes back to the  fundamental questions: who or what are they? If they can manipulate our consciousness, our reality,  if they can shape shift and do the other things that abductees claim, then perhaps they can generate synchronicities. Perhaps their intervention in our lives acts as a launchpad for the synchronicities that swirl around encounters and abductions.

And what, exactly, is the dark trickster as it relates to encounters and abductions?

 Smeagol is the personification of the trickster archetype. He usually had a private agenda of one kind or another that prompted him to mislead the hobbits on numerous occasions and to trick them into believing he could be trusted.    

In Native American mythology, the coyote is often depicted as a trickster. He’s cunning, adaptable, a shape-shifter who uses his mischievousness to drive home a point and make people laugh.

The trickster is prevalent in mythology and legend. The Norwegian god, Loki, the son of two giants, possessed great ingenuity but was really a rascal and raconteur who enjoyed stirring up trouble. Loki was a shape shifter who could take various forms- horse, falcon, a fly – and could even change gender.

Diane Fine, one of the lifelong abductees in our book, recounted an encounter with a Loki-type trickster. After attending a rock concert with her husband, she awakened later that night to find herself on a craft with three Grays and a taller enetity. The rock star whom she had just seen was asleep at her feet.

“What’s he doing here?” she demanded.

Telepathically, one of the Grays replied: We thought you liked him,  and the rock star promptly shape-shifted into another Gray.

The dark trickster can also be an ally. In 1991, Diane worked at a marina in California and went up and down stairs frequently. Her left knee developed problems.  One night, she found herself on the familiar surgical table on a craft, with three Grays and a taller being operating on her knee.

“If you can fix my knee, then why not fix my auto-immune disorder?”

The answer, conveyed telepathically, was: We can’t. It’s karmic. The knee is mechanical.

Diane lost consciousness. When she awakened the next morning, she found a small incision in her knee. It healed within two days and her knee has never bothered her again.

The  trickster wears many guises. While we were writing Aliens in the Backyard, we were contacted by Rob’s former agent about a new project. e had recently He Tony had recently launched a new venture, bookazines, a cross between books and magazines, and asked if we would be interested in writing a couple of them. He told us that the editor for these bookazines was Bob Guccione Jr, the son of the man who started OMNI Magazine.

We were floored. Back in the mid-1980s, we wrote for OMNI’s anti-matter section, which covered UFOs, abductions, encounters and everything paranormal. It’s how we got our start as freelance writers. Because of OMNI, we met Betty Hill and Budd Hopkins and our interest in this field burgeoned. For us, things had come full circle.

We even experienced a rather amusing trickster synchro with Alejandro Reyes, the radio host who asked these three provocative questions. We thought that Open Minds would be a great venue for an article about synchronicity and encounters and intended to ask him about it once we received the link for the show. But he beat us to it. When he sent us the link, he invited us to send him a submission.