Because we write and talk about synchronicity, every so often we experience synchronicities about synchronicity.
That was what happened to me recently just before I joined Trish and others on a Zoom conference call for Bernard Beitman’s Synchronicity Project. I had been somewhat hesitant to get involved in the project because it was mostly composed of psychologist, psychiatrists and therapists–academics and medical professionals. I knew what they had to say would be interesting, but wasn’t sure that wanted to spend 90 minutes of my day listening to conversations about the difference between happy people and psychotics – both of whom experience synchronicities and react to them in different ways.
It turned out that this session spent some time on the difference between synchros that showed you were on the right path and those that warned you that you might be on the wrong path. That was interesting to me because just a few minutes before going onto Zoom I had gotten an e-mail message from Jane Clifford, a psychic healer who lives in Wales. It consisted of a 3-minute You Tube video of the channeler known as Bashar who was talking about that very subject – two types of synchros, the ones showing you that you were on the right path and the ones warning you that you might be taking a wrong turn.
In other words, a synchronicity about synchronicity…and I guess it was good guidance, telling me to go on Zoom.
We also talked about how synchronicities can manifest through altered states of consciousness and I offered an example of how being fully focused on a fictive tale I was writing recently – a horror story involved a Spider Woman cult that’s gone bad.
Lots of spiders involved in the tale, and after working on it intensely for a couple of hours the other day, I sat back and noticed for the first time a large spider web stretched between my desk and a nearby bookcase. A short time later, I got up and went to the bathroom where I found a large brown recluse clinging to the wall.So those were like manifestations from fiction into the everyday world.
Mind games aside, I was wondering if you have ever heard of these guys before Trish -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ib6ze4S4XE
They are Jungian annalists who I used to be in contact with a while back in a casual kind of way (not as a patient :-)) who I thought would maybe like to be part of your coincidence Zoom group with Bernie.
It’s a mind game that neither of us can win in a pointless debate.
But I’ll agree that you have to live your life as if you really do have a choice.
Because what choice do you really have anyway?-)
This comment was meant to go under the Zen koan comment, but something went wrong when I was posting the comment and a message told me it was a duplicate comment and for some reason posted it as a stand alone comment.
That’s why I thought the coincidence cafe might interest you.
It interests me, but not so much as to be up from one o’clock in the morning Australian time when my mind is ready for sleep and I’m functioning at my poorest mental capacity fighting off the sleep demons.
Such is my fate, I guess. 😉
C’mon, Daz. Chris Mackey does it!
I see you made a Freudian slip when you wrote –
“It turned out that this session spent some time on the difference between synchros that showed you were on the RIGHT path and those that warned you that you might be on the RIGHT path.”
I personally believe that you are always on the right path no matter which path you are on in life, it just seems to our ego that we are on the wrong path from down here in our earthly lives.
Life lessons can be both good and bad and our egos only want the good … which is understandable.
Rob wrote this one. What you say is true for people who are happy with the path they’re on. People who aren’t happy on that path probably will make an effort to get elsewhere.
That’s right, and that was the path that they were going to take all along from a spiritual perspective.
Just because you think that you choose a path doesn’t mean that you actually chose that path.
We like to think that we make our own decisions when it comes to choosing a path as our earthly selves, but I think that it is our higher selves that are really choosing the path that we were always going to take anyway.
It’s a bit Zen when you think about it … or don’t:-)
Here is a Zen type Koan question that you will either find quite simple, or quite hard –
Do you as a human being think that you have a real choice when it comes to your fate?
Yes or No?
I’ll bet you answered yes, because you’re fated to think that way I think:-)
I don’t believe in fate.
Then how does synchronicity work?
And who or what makes it happen?
Not everything is chosen. I think we agree to a degree of risk when we come here. As an astrologer who is also a human being, I believe that the chart is a pictorial representation of contract which, yes, we bring with us.