A Singer Synchro

I recently met Philip Merry on a Facebook group synchronicity page where he very niftily countered a skeptic who had repeatedly contended that synchronicity belonged wholly in the everyday world of cause and effect. In our on-line conversations, I found out that Philip is a Brit who has lived in Singapore for 26 years and is in the midst of completing a Phd on synchronicity. He also told me that our book, The Seven Secrets of Synchronicity, was instrumental for him in starting his thesis on the topic. Philip also said that he has conducted leadership workshops for 35 years in 57 countries.

Philip is including some of his own synchronicities in his thesis and he sent me one of them. It’s a meaningful coincidence that occurred at a pivotal point in his life, when synchronicities often manifest. This is directly from his thesis, which accounts for the academic style of writing in which he refers to himself in the third person.

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“The first example concerns meeting the American singer John Denver at a time when the author was making a decision about marriage. The author had attended a workshop where John Denver’s songs helped clarify his decision to marry. On Friday he actively thought about how he could contact John Denver, but dismissed it as a crazy idea.  

“He was surprised to find from the next day’s newspaper that John Denver would be in Singapore the following week. He shared the story with his friend Carol, who called who her friend Shirley, who worked at the hotel where John Denver would be staying. Shirley called the author asked him to send a fax for her to pass to John Denver.

“Shirley reported later that she was standing with fax in hand and John Denver appeared from the lift. She passed the letter to him and he called the author on Sunday evening saying how pleased he was that the author enjoyed his songs.

“This is synchronicity in action. At a significant moment in the author’s life (deciding to get married) he wanted to thank John Denver and two days later talked to him.  There had been no planning, no knowing and no logic, just a synchronistic event that seemed to confirm that getting married was the right thing to do.” 

Philip also sent the image at the top of the post. Here is what he said about it.

“On the picture – my take on synchronicity is that there is an energy field (or morphic field or zero point etc) that exists just outside awareness of our everyday world. This is a field we can tap into if we know how (or if we believe that it exists). Hence the pic captures this sense of looking beyond the world of everyday into the magic world of synchronicity. Trust that makes sense.”