What do Will Rogers
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Anne Sexton
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Philip K Dick
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Sugar Ray Leonard have in common?
Read on.
Synchronicities multiply during periods of transition – a move, a marriage or divorce, a career change, a change in employment or financial status, a birth or a death. Here are some of the most ironic synchros we’ve run across related to death: .
Will Rogers, actor, humorist, and writer, died in a plane crash with his aviator buddy, Wiley Post, when they were taking off from a lagoon in Point Barrow, Alaska. Rogers’ typewriter was found in the debris and the last word he typed was death.
Jim Fixx, whose 1977 bestseller, The Complete Book of Running, triggered the jogging craze, died of a heart attack while running.
James Heseldon, who bought the Segway company, died when he drove his Segway over a thirty-foot cliff on his property and into the river below.
The last movie that John Huston directed before his death was called The Dead.
The last book of poetry that Anne Sexton published before she committed suicide in 1974 was entitled The Death Notebooks.
At the time of his death, Philip K Dick was working on a novel entitled The Owl in Daylight. In esoteric traditions, the owl is considered to be a messenger between the living and the dead.
In a 2006 article in Rolling Stone about author Kurt Vonnegut, he claimed he had given up finishing his anticipated novel, If God Were Alive Today. “I’ve given up on it… It won’t happen… The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people’s discharges and stuff. And my feeling was, ‘Please, I’ve done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?’ That’s what I feel right now. I’ve written books. Lots of them. Please, I’ve done everything I’m supposed to do. Can I go home now?” Less than eight months later, Vonnegut got his wish: he died from complications of a fall.
The last song that Hank Williams Sr wrote was Angel of Death. When he died, he had a hit single at the top of the charts: I’ll never Get Out of This World Alive.
The night before Sugar Ray Robinson fought Jimmy Doyle in 1947, he dreamed he killed his opponent with a single left hook. According to ESPN’s Larry Schwartz, Robinson was so shaken by the dream that the next morning he said he couldn’t fight Doyle. “But the promoters brought in a Catholic priest who assured Robinson his fears were unfounded. Robinson hit Doyle with a textbook left hook in the eighth round. Doyle was carried from the ring on a stretcher and died the next day.”
There are probably dozens if not hundreds of synchros like these. Just poke around on Google. You’ll find them. It’s almost as if the spirit of the individual teams up with the spirit of the universe to make a statement. Ray Grasse, in The Waking Dream, Unlocking the Symbolic Language of Our Lives,talks about how the way someone dies – the specific circumstances – may “summarize key lessons or aspects or his or her life.For example, only hours before he died by electrocution while sitting in the bathtub, famed Trappist monk Thomas Merton had proclaimed to an important meeting of religious leaders that the times ahead were electrifying.”
This is on a par with Will Rogers’ last typed word as death. Maybe it’s the trickster at work here. Even so, there’s something at a deeper level in all this that deserves exploration. Grasse delves into why peaceful individuals like Gandhi died by assassination by a political extremist. Or why Josef Mengle, a Nazi doctor, died of natural causes. “Looked at deeply, every death has some significance symbolically.”
Nathan Pritikin after a decades-long fight with leukemia committed suicide (by slashing his elbows was what I heard).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Pritikin
Daz
interesting insights into pritikin. I didn't know that he killed himself – or were you speaking metamorphically??
The Fixx story is what made me change my diet about 20 years ago.
I was reading a book by Nathan Pritikin at the time where he said he once had a conversation with Fixx about diet and Fixx would eat anything he pleased especially Big Macs and thought because he ran marathons his heart would be OK.
Pritikin's argument was that it didn't matter how fit you were,if you keep clogging your arteries with junk food,running won't save you.
At the other extreme,I have a feeling that Pritikin's extreme diet may have played a roll in the disease that was going to kill him,before he took his own life.
Life is strange and full of lessons for others it seems.
One of my favourite de-motivation posters which I have hanging in my room is ;
MISTAKES : It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others .-)
https://whitesakurarain.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/pickled-thoughts-for-tea-iv/
Daz
Interesting about Fixx, Ray. That book is the reason why I became a runner in my twenties (but later gave it up), why my parents were runners for more than 30 years.
Dr. Kenneth Cooper, father of aerobics who runs the Cooper Aerobics Center in Dallas TX was a friend of Jim Fixx.
In one of Dr. Cooper's books he outlined how Jim Fixx died. Cooper believes that anyone who does strenuous aerobic exercise should have a cardiac stress test. Fixx didn't want to do it. He would say maybe later. On the day Fixx died he started having chest pain about midway through his run. He began to feel weak, sat down against a boulder and died shortly after.
Dr. Cooper said that had Fixx either did a cool down walk or instead of sitting had lain on the ground with legs fully extended he might have survived.
His punchline was that the probable reason Fixx refused a stress test is because his father died of a heart attack and he was afraid he might have a heart condition.
This was in the mid eighties. I worked out in the gym for thirty minutes and ran for a half hour at lunch. When I got home I would ride my bicycle for an hour. After reading Dr. Cooper's book I took a stress test. When I first started my run I would have non cardiac chest pain until I got into the run. The test proved it was nothing to worry about.
Ray
It IS thrilling. It could have ended so tragically, but instead, there are miracles.
I want to leave this day on a very uplifting note. The 33 miners trapped in Chile are finally going to be brought up! HooRay! The drilling of the rescue shaft broke into the cavern where they are trapped this morning, and they plan to try to start bringing them out on Wednesday. This is such thrilling news! What an extraordinary example of bravery and of folks working together for a common cause! Don't you know those 33 men and their loved ones are ecstatic!! cj
You're right, Sansego. I was only half watching the news and misunderstood. Thought it was the anniversary of his death. MY bad!!
🙂 cj
Actually, today marks the 70th anniversary of John Lennon's birth. The 30th anniversary of his death is this December.
Its a shame that a delusional young man thinking that he was the real John Lennon ended the life of a musical genius. How many more brilliant songs would he have written and sung, not to mention a Beatles reunion in the late 80s or early 90s, had he lived?
This is hard to put down.
Good for you, Nancy, avoiding negativity!
Magic… you hit it, Mike.
Nancy, as a Hospice RN, I cannot agree with you more. Death can actually be one of the most beautiful events in a person's life. I know that sounds unbelievable, but I've witnessed it time and time again in my work with end-terminal patients who come to a place where they are at total peace with where they are and are ready to release the physical and move on to other adventures. It's awe-inspiring work. cj
Yes indeed, Mike. Nothing comes into material manifestation without first being "created" within the subconscious/superconscious mind.
Thoughts are things. They have resonance and can be measured with highly sophisticated clinical devices currently in medical use and in other applications. True magick is simply the manifestation of an idea that is birthed by the combination of Desire, Will, and Intent. The greater the power and strength of the Desire, Will, and Intent, the greater the manifestation. Isn't life a glorious journey!! cj
I strongly agree with cj and Mike. In fact the mind loves to be in "grooves" and tries to jump in one every chance it gets. That's why when you do something a certain way a few times, it's so easy to do it that way again – the mind automatically jumps to what it knows. Taking care in what you are thinking is paramount to living your best life. I now avoid political talk that elicits anger and negativity, I don't watch police shows anymore, and I try to take a negative thought and turn it around to something positive. We are what we think – including our deaths, in all probability. I recently read where death does not have to be terrible – that there are ways to leave before it becomes painful, etc. It was suggested we are actually in control of when we die.
Sure is bizarre. I go along with what cj writes about the unconscious not being able to distinguish between fantasy and reality. It's probably why in some beliefs people build miniature houses, and the like, when they want a new house, or whatever. Magic often works along similar lines.
Natalie – too bizarre!
Speaking of Lennon,when he was killed in 1980, he had his first top ten single in years and it was called Starting Over.
Today is the anniversary of John Lennon's murder. (Synchronistic to your post today, I think.) Were he alive, he would be 70. Actress Susan Hayward played the key role in a re-make of the old classic movie DARK VICTORY, in which her fictional character died from a brain tumor. Hayward later died from a brain tumor. Another famous actress (whose name I can't recall) reprised that same role in yet another remake, and she, too, died from a brain tumor. In such cases, I'm of the opinion (according to teacher Ron) that the subconcious mind can't distinguish between fantasy and reality, and for this reason we need to be very careful with our thoughts. This idea has been supported by the sad fact that several actors and actresses who immerse themselves into the roles of the characters they "play" have died by the very means that their characters did.
High weirdness, yet not. The subconscious is programmed by our thoughts, soooooo. cj
Daz, interesting comment in light that our next door neighbors yesterday at dusk put up a Grim Reaper statue and two grave markers in their front yard. Prepping for Halloween.
We somehow left out the Bruce Lee/Brandon Lee death scenarios, but that startling one can be found in The 7 Secrets.
You guys better get a new post up in a hurry before the Grim Reaper gets a chance to read this .-)
Daz
Weirdness.
Yesterday, two midwives were mowed down a couple of blocks from my house, by another woman carrying hygiene products in a van. The bringers of life, were killed by a woman who managed the the other end of the fertilisation cycle. It was gruesome and otherworldly, and a completely 'freak' accident that no-one can explain. I felt it two minutes before it happened, not long enough to prevent a terrible tragedy. It is not sitting well with me…the irony of the trickster is leaving a bitter taste in my mouth.