Our 14th Anniversary!

Today February 4, 2023, our blog is 14. We started it on this date in 2009, on blogger. It was called synchrosecrets.com

So before we go any farther, here’s our definition of synchronicity: the coming together of inner and outer events that can’t be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to you. 

In 2011. , a visitor got pissed about something we’d written, hacked the blog and took it over. He pretended to be Rob and wrote himself an apology. He also destroyed three of our computers.

We knew he was a computer guy in a town around Boston, knew his name, so we called the police  department in his town to report him. Turned out that he’d already reported us to the department. If I remember correctly, he claimed that we’d hacked our own blog and blamed him. We also reported the hack to our local cops.A cop stopped by the house, we explained what had happened.

The cop told us there wasn’t much they could do about this. So we transferred the blog to Word Press. And that’s where we’ve been ever since.

At any rate, our first post is below. At the top of the post are some of the books that have grown out of this blog
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Most of us have experienced them – odd coincidences that seem like weird little hiccups in the cosmos.They usually grab our attention. But what, exactly, do they mean?
While we were writing our outline for a book on synchronicity, we stopped at our favorite cafe for a hit of morning Joe. As we sat outside, an elderly man approached us and handed us his card. It explained that he was deaf and was selling key chains. We bought one and on the back of the card found illustrations for sign language.

On the way home, following the cue from the deaf man,we talked about synchronicity as a language of signs. Then we passed the local high school, where the digital sign at the entrance was announcing a class in sign language. This sign about sign language added a deeper layer to the synchronicity.

Initially, its meaning seemed to be that we were on the right track with our concept – approaching synchronicity as a language of signs. The next day, a writer friend e-mailed a synchronicity she’d experienced while working on her current novel. She said she had invited readers of her blog to submit any synchronicities they would like to share for inclusion in the book. So we decided to start this blog, a kind of digital sign announcing that we would love to hear your stories!
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In 14 years, there are nearly 3,800 posts on every facet of synchronicity and anything mystical, more than 37,000 comments, 217 drafts. The material grew into five or six books on various facets of synchronicity.

In 2020, thanks to a synchro on Instagram with Jon Posey, we started our podcast The Mystical Underground. We subsequently changed the name of our blog. The podcast is now entering its 3rd year. By Jon’s count, which is undoubtedly correct, we’re at episode 135.

Through the podcasts I’m learning how synchronicity works its magic in other people’s lives. I’m realizing its importance in a world that often is so chaotic, divisive and violent that without meaningful coincidence, we would be without direction. We would lack foresight, creative ideas, motivation. Without synchronicity we would be swept up in, well, something, anything with even a hint at structure, foundation.

Through these 14 years, we’re grateful to everyone who has shared their synchros with us and hope those stories continue to come in. We don’t care how weird your experience is. Most synchronicities fit some sort of pattern. And the most important element in that pattern is that your experience resonates for you.