When we first started this blog, we created a Google alert for the term synchronicity. Every day, dozens of alerts pile up in our inbox related to this word. Most of them don’t seem to have much to do with synchronicity. But this next story, which came through one of the alerts, fits the ticket. It’s from artist Paul Brown, who is from Liverpool and now lives in France.
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Four weeks ago, I took my father for a minor operation to the suburb of a city 40 miles away. While I was waiting for him to come out of surgery, I took a drive into the historical town centre to walk around and take some photos. I saw this 18th century door and brass knocker and thought it would make a nice composition.
The square, the circle and the shadow nearly forming a triangle. I left the knocker at an angle on purpose so that it wasn’t too symmetrical.
Last week, I had to take dad for an eye examination to the same city – but not in the centre this time. We didn’t know where the clinic was, so we printed a map from Google maps. When we found the road we were looking for, we counted the doors down to number 9 – and guess which door we were standing outside of?
Yes, this one, the same door. What drew me to that door four weeks ago in a city with thousands of ancient and small streets..I have no idea! The chances must be millions to one of this happening…
Sorry, Paul. The exact same door is even more astonishing!
Hi Guys
It was not an identical door knocker … it was the exact same door. In my post I did not say 'knocker' but door so I guess it got lost in the move over to here 😉
Thanks for the kind comments about my painting.
Cheers,
Paul
As you already know, a lot of the stuff in the alerts aren't synchros. But I really liked this one. I'm beginning to think we all live in this time stream that has no past, present, future. It just is…and everything is available to us. Now: how to tap into that consistently!
Saw this one in my Google Alerts as well, and enjoyed it. So many synchronicities could be "explained" by some kind of low grade precognition … very interesting.
Disappointed – I don't know. Click on Paul's name in the story and go to his site. Ask him, I'm curious, too, now that you've mentioned it!
is that an identicasl knocker or the same knocker???????? gosh darn similiar architecture in the same town…. bizarre
Terrific synchronicity!!
I love this one too. I think it's cool that he actually took a picture of it the first time.
this is such a great story! and love that he did the image of the door –
Oh this was a good one! Loved it and the painting.
much love