I recently was invited to join Dr. Bernard Beitman’s Coincidence Project, and several of the other members of the group will be guests on The Mystical Underground in coming weeks. This story comes from Chris Mackey, a clinical psychologist in Geelong, Australia. Chris is also the author of The Positive Psychology of Synchronicity .
“One time in Bali a butterfly landed on my head and stayed there for well over an hour. My friends were amazed and took a photo of it on the left lens of my sunglasses. Just recently I noticed that in a similar position near the other lens there was a heart shape in the background.
The heart symbol is another powerful synchronistic symbol for me. There was something synchronistic in the symmetry of these two symbols in the photo. I love these little touches that we can experience, and it’s terrific to be with a group of people who get this stuff and have lots of experiences of their own like that.”
Butterflies represent transformation, so I asked Chris what was going on in is life at the time. And this is where the story becomes intriguing.
“A key thing on that holiday was meeting Sarah, the wife in a lovely couple we met through our friend who organized the trip, who is one of the most psychic and spiritual people I know. She was right into synchronicity and she and her husband had just read my book and related strongly to it. I only learnt later that Sarah was a spiritual healer. A few years later I accepted her offer to come through my two psychology practice buildings in Geelong to clear the rooms of any negative energy.
“Sarah went from room to room, told me her impressions of what she noticed about the energy in each room, did a brief ritual when she spoke in tongues, and later described visual images of a snake like presence/energy leaving the room.
“Her comments on each room uncannily overlapped with how I perceived the psychologist in each room (how confident or experienced they were, whether there was conflict with me or others, etc.) There were a couple of striking examples. In one room she described a sense of mourning – a very idiosyncratic comment and different from any other comment she made.
“I was specifically wondering whether she would say anything that related to that consulting room previously having been the bedroom of a previous owner who had died in that room decades earlier. Neither she nor current colleagues knew that story. The psychologist using that room spontaneously commented the next day how smoothly everything had gone that morning, suggesting that she felt an extra positive energy in the room.
“In another room, I wondered whether my psychic friend would pick up the one example of strong conflict I felt with a colleague. She immediately described a feeling of long-term stuck resentment and strong negativity and resistance around the desk of that colleague. Her comments led me to be much more confident in forcefully challenging that colleague about aspects of her attitude and behavior.
“It led to a complete resolution of our conflict and we still get on very well now, 2-3 years later. This is an example where acting on synchronicity might not seem rational, but I don’t think I have ever regretted doing so. I think it is rational, because it works!
“I hadn’t connected meeting Sarah in Bali with the butterfly so much, but even at the time the butterfly landed on my head I was less surprised as it felt more of a synchronistic holiday with Sarah present.
“The link below has recordings from my synchronicity segments on local radio in 2019 (we did the segment, “Talking Synchronicity” twice monthly for a few years until the end of 2019). The segment from 8th May includes a conversation with Sarah and how she met her husband (the synchronistic matchmaker at work).”
What a lovely story of synchronicity! And of connection………..
It really is.
I was the guy from Australia who told Bernie about Chris Mackey’s Geelong radio show, as I wrote about in one of my posts from exactly three years back –
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2018/03/synchronicity-42-and-owls.html
“I then went to Chris Mackey’s website and found he had posted
a series of podcasts I had never listened to before.
In one of those podcasts Chris mentioned how Dr. Bernie Beitman had a radio show where Bernie claimed to have the only radio show in the world on synchronicity, so I thought I should e-mail Bernie and tell him about these podcasts of Chris’ so he could have a chuckle, plus I thought Chris would make a good guest to have on Bernie’s show.
Bernie e-mailed me back telling me that he had Chris booked for the 22nd of February, 2018.”
YOU should be on Bernie’s show, Daz.
I don’t do podcasts Trish, but if I ever decide to to be on one then your show will be the first.
Funnily enough, I wrote a post featuring Chris Mackey’s son Rowan who has a podcast show called ‘Individuate’ where he wants everyone to have a go at starting their own podcast –
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2021/03/individuate-podcast-call-to-arms.html
For some reason it is my most popular post in the last 7 days.
I don’t know if it’s because of Rowan’s podcast show or the Montaigne song featured in the post.
Now THAT is an interesting synchro, Daz!
It’s also interesting that Chris mentions the podcast airing on the radio on May 8, because there are suggestions in the media of moving Australia Day from January 26th to May 8, because Australians like to call each other MATE (M8) get it?-)
Also I know from another post I wrote about a dragonfly getting into my home on May 8 that David Attenborough has May 8 as a birthday –
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-complexities-of-climate-change-and.html
Off to check out your links. Thanks!
What did the dragonfly mean for you?
Too much to list here.
I was born in the Year of the Dragon … so there is that as well.
Oddly enough dragonflies eat butterflies. 🙂
Daz connects synchronicity people, Chris!
Not only is there a butterfly and a heart in the photo, but there is a stone statue of what looks like an earth elemental beside and leaning toward Chris. It seems to have a woman’s face but there is something about it that feels nonhuman to me. Very strong goddess energy in that place, wherever they are.
Somewhere in Bali.
That’s very funny, Darren! I didn’t know who it was who told Bernie about that. Thanks for your role in putting me in touch with him! Cheers, Chris.
It was one of those cosmic moments where that internal/external voice was pestering me to tell Bernie about your radio show knowing that it was important to put it out there to Bernie like a cosmic ripple in a cosmic stream.
In other words, it was something I felt was important to tell him at the time knowing somehow it was important to a lot of other people that I let him know.
I wouldn’t say that I was compelled to tell him about you, but that I should tell him about you.
And I know from past experience that when I “hear” that voice I should listen, as it always leads to good future results, not just for me, but for lots of other people.
Bill Bennet would call it your PGS (Personal Guiance System) I like to throw an “i” into the mix and call it my PiGS (Personal inner Guidance System) 🙂
I highly recommend watching Bill’s doco or read his book PGS –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XCeQW2qIuQ
It’s the same inner voice Chris that “told me” that I should tell you about Bill Bennett in that comment above. 😉
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2019/07/using-your-pgs-or-maybe-even-your.html