Death is the ultimate journey, the ultimate transition, the end of the road. So it’s not surprising that it’s a fertile ground for the occurrence of synchronicity. In The Waking Dream, author Ray Grasse has collected a number of them. Here are some of the most unusual:
– Director John Huston’s last film was called The Dead.
– When John Lennon was murdered in 1980, his top-ten single was entitled, “Starting Over.”
– At the moment that the wife of author and psychologist Ken Wilber died, a powerful windstorm blew through the town where they lived. When Wilber checked the papers the following day, he discovered that the storm didn’t extend outside their town.
-Humorist Will Rogers died in a plane crash in 1928 with aviator Wiley Post. Rogers’ typewriter was found in the wreckage and the last word he had typed was “death.”
– When Hank Williams died, his most popular recording was “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive.”
-Singer Martin Gaye’s song, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” surged in popularity a day after his death, when the movie The Big Chill was released and his song was used in the opening scenes of a funeral.
“Looked at deeply, every death has some significance symbolically,” Grasse writes.
In Jung & Hesse, Record of a Friendship, Chilean writer Miguel Serrano tells a remarkable story about the end of Jung’s life that was related by Jung’s daughter, as they stood in the garden of his Bollingen tower.
She led Serrano and his son to a tree under which Jung used to sit, and pointed at a huge scar that ran along the trunk from top to bottom. “When my father died, there was a tremendous storm over Kusnacht – something which never happens at that time of year. And in the course of the storm, this tree was struck by lightning.”
Serrano looked at the scar. “I took it as a sign that Jung had reached the center of universal forces; Nature had responded; it had been moved; there was synchronicity.”
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"Death is the one thing that's guaranteed – life is not."
That's the best way I've ever heard it stated. Thanks!
Life and death are just two sides of the same coin, Terri. So I don't think that looking @ death too deeply – for synchronistic symbolism of anything else – takes any fun out of living. If anything, it adds to appreciation of life as these physical beings that we are. Death is the one thing that's guaranteed – life is not.
That is a great book, The Waking dream. I was looking at it again just last night.
Later
Johnny Drongo
"Looked at deeply, every death has some significance symbolically," Grasse writes.
Hmm, I'm going to disagree with this. 🙂 All the examples in your post made me feel a lighter touch of synchronicity at death. An obvious connection between the death and a specific event, as noted by those still alive, and having no potential message for the dead. Yet, if the death wasn't there, was the event less significant?
I feel every LIFE has symbolic significance peppered throughout the days. So keep up the good work on showing synchronicity is a marvelous tool to be used. Death, looked at too deeply, takes some of the fun out of living.
Thank you Adele & Whitmont! You said enough to really tantalize me. Jung – messing around with thunderstorms. Oh, wow! The potentials yet to learn!
There was this kinda odd/funny thing that happened at the end of his documentary where his brother and mother had dumped his ashes. It was windy and most of them ended up in a pizza box. After that there were all these funny pizza syncs that happened for me. So instead of giving him a number, I let him be pizza boxes in my world, pretty strange but the syncs were all quite profound.
C – bizarre story about this kid.
With death as the major transition that awaits all of us, it makes sense that synchronicites proliferate around it. But the symbolism seems deeply personal – and yet, in many instances, collective as well.
@ Joseph Pulikotil, and Moses
was 600 years old. <—1/2 joking.
I think there are significant & profound synchronicity surrounding all this that are tragic. I hope that we can use these so those things wouldn't have happened in vein and 2 open our eyes 2 a different understanding of what may be waiting for us on "the other side".
I have a video up about some a boy who's skin fell off and all the synchronicities I was calling "spirit syncs" that came from me watching that. There were some profound ones like he got "Bake Beans" on the side of his coffin just cause it meant nothing to him and he wanted people to wonder what it might mean. One of my sons nickname is bakebeans. Anyways dispite the severity of his condition (his close would mend with his skin, it was hard to watch) he went on about how he knows there was no way that his life (full of pain) was leading to something in vein when he died and there was gonna be something "better" in the next stage of life, I AGREE %100 but that's also why I disagree %100 with religions with heaven and hells in them.
Hope that makes some kinda sense, trying to keep the ranting to a minimum.
One of my husband's best friends is named Will Rogers, after his father's cousin, the man in the plane crash. I will pass this along. Thanks.
Back about 25 years back, back(duh) packing up in Yosemite in August, ole Bobby up there with his buddy (TF from MIL.), tottaly unprepared. going from 8,600 to 11,000 with out a poncho or raincoat. Don't know the order rain hail lighting, not sure of the order. but in the little cashisms just a little south of toulleme going towards Vogelsang. The lightning would hit maybe 1/4,1/2, 3/4 a mile away, but things is because of all the rock walls around the sound would echo off the rock and come at you from every direction. (LOUD) It was the coolest thing, always wanted to get back and experinece it again, maybe I'd bring a rain coat. Rob, Pop visited this way from your way once since he went down to attend to his aging parents, it was in the middle of July "03", google up an see what the weather system for this country did at that time, quite the anomlay. What do they say "he brought it with him". Would write about who phrased it that way for me under a picture of her famous relative but well I forget.
Adele – fascinating story! I would've been hanging on this every word!
Joseph – no doubt!
Gypsy – I especially like the nature symbolism/events surrounding death.
Hi Greetings:)
Spine chilling stories. Amazing facts.
It is said that when Jesus died the curtain in the temple tore into two in middle and there was an earth quake.
Have a nice day:)
Joseph
That was most interesting about Jung and the Thunder storm and the tree struck by lightning. Years ago I happened to meet Edward Whimont, Jungian analyst and author of "The Symbolic Quest" at a party given by a mutual friend in Connecticut. I had recently become interested in Jung and the I Ching so when I learned that Whitmont had actually known Jung, a few drinks under my belt, I got involved in a discussion about Jung, his interest in Astrology and the I Ching. I recall that Whitmont implied that Jung had many more interests or beliefs that he did not discuss with most people. So I asked for more information about these secret gems of information. Whitmont said, "Well he was messing around with thunder storms." "Wow!" is probably how I responded and eagerly wanted to know more. Suddenly our intimate conversation ended with Whitmont saying, "I've said too much."
I never forgot that conversation so reading your comments here is most gratifying. And I still wonder what Whitmont knew.
oh, great great post – and the story of jung and the tree! captivating! i think it's so true that every death has some significance symbolically – it's just a matter of seeing/finding it – great stories all of them – particularly interesting the ones with acts of nature – everything touches becomes at one with everything else –