The Magic Teapot

Several years ago, we wrote a post about a fascinating synchronicity involving a teapot hidden in the bowels of an old house in Minneapolis. The man who lived in the house had purchased, on a whim,  a teapot in a second-hand store, even though he didn’t drink tea very often. The man, Gabe Carlson, was also a member of a group of people who had an odd hobby. They liked to explore old shuttered buildings—department stores, banks, whatever—places that were condemned and boarded up. Kind of a spooky past time. They weren’t ghost hunters, they were urban explorers of the past, of the old and abandoned.

So shortly after Gabe had purchased that teapot, he realized that he had never explored a hidden passage beneath the house where he lived. He lifted the hatch and with a flashlight crawled underneath the floor. He came across an old rotting blanket with a lump beneath it. He peeled away the blanket and found a teapot. He carried it out, cleaned it up, and was astonished to discover that the teapot was identical to the one he’d purchased in the second-hand store.

The event was a game-changer for him. He began studying synchronicity and altering his views about reality. We used his story in The 7 Secrets of Synchronicity. It’s a good one. But, amazingly, it’s continuing, and now Gabe is actually on the sidelines as a new player in the ‘teapot’ synchros is coming forward.

But before we talk about Jacqueline’s teapot synchronicity, we have to introduce a psychiatrist into the story. That’s Gibbs Williams, who has written a book on his view on synchronicity. Unlike many mainstream scientists, Gibbs accepts the reality of meaningful coincidences. He rejects the idea that these experiences are random and meaningless. However, his perspective is quite a bit different than mine and Trish’s, as I’ll explain.

Recently, on a synchronicity Facebook page, Gibbs analyzed Gabe’s teapot synchro. He asked Gabe a number of questions, then made his analysis of the experience. It’s lengthy and you can read it here. The bottom line is that, not surprisingly, Gabe’s experience conformed to Gibb’s take on synchronicity, which is a reductionist point of view.

Gibbs rejects the concept of a collective unconscious or an underlying reality where everything is connected, a realm that exists outside of the everyday world of cause and effect, what we refer to as the birthplace of synchronicity. He calls that a fantasy. From his perspective, it’s all about the personal subconscious.

Okay, fine. He can believe whatever he wants. His perspective is not the point here. That’s where Jacqueline come in. She responded to Gibbs’ assessment of the teapot syncho in this way:

“The point of synchs is that the inner and outer worlds become ‘as one’. Not really to be interpreted either as ‘you creating your reality’ or as an ‘external god’ throwing signs at you. The point of synchs as I experience them is that the inner/outer dichotomy is healed as well as inner conflicts being resolved.”

She no sooner started typing her comment when up came an ad for a business called The Magic Teapot. Was that a Facebook bot following her trail on the Internet and providing advertising links? Or was it a ‘random’ ad, in that case a clear synchro? She noted that she didn’t use the word teapot in her comment. And, when she followed up with another comment, using teapot several times, no such ad appeared. (See that post at the end. It’s kind of funny.) Furthermore, she says she has never seen a local ad on Facebook.

But, it didn’t stop there. It was as if the universe said to her, “Okay, you’re not sure about that synchro, then how about this one?” She went to the Magic Teapot site and the first thing she read was about a market in Jedburgh. Just prior to going on Facebook, she had looked up a website that was seeking volunteers to help out on a reforestation project, something she was interested in. To her surprise, a friend of hers was the director of the project…and the project is based in Jedburgh.

Skeptics, of course, can dismiss all of these incidents as mere coincidences or Facebook technology. But clearly they were meaningful to Jacqueline. As someone else noted, “Maybe the universe is using Facebook to teach us all a lesson here on how our thoughts create our reality. We are attracted to things that we think about, consciously and subconsciously. Intuition is the glue that gets birds of a feather to flock together. When something resonates with our heart, I think our souls send out flares or rockets and connects ourselves to common universal consciousness.” Well said, Michael Collett.

I can’t leave this out…Jacqueline’s attempt to produce a local ad about teapots.

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