Dead Man’s Curve

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 This photo of a dead man’s curve is in Bolivia, but the  next synchronicity is about similar dangerous curve in Georgia.

After reading A Trucker’s Tale, Connie Cannon sent us  the following story.
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Our friends were “Joan and Dave”, (pseudonyms), who had been married for seven years and had no children, although they had been trying to conceive for years.  Dave was a some-times-heavy beer drinker, and on the night of April 12, 1970, had gone out in his Mustang to a bar on the other side of Atlanta.  He got back into the car after having too much to drink, was driving much too fast, and on a curve that was so dangerous it had been dubbed “dead man’s curve”, Dave lost control of his vehicle and rammed it into a tree.  Almost every bone is his body was broken and, for all intents and purposes, he was dead, kept alive by a respirator.

When we received the call and went to the hospital, I found Joan in the chapel there on her knees sobbing, begging God to let Don live because she wanted a baby so badly.

Dave did not only miraculously survive, but survived with no after affects whatsoever.  Later, I helped Joan fill out their insurance forms, and according to the police report the accident had occurred at 2:02am on April 13, 1970.

A few months passed, and they conceived a baby boy.  More time passed, and Dave traded automobiles.  He purchased a brand new Pontiac Grand Prix, in which he went out drinking on the night of April 12, 1972, to the same bar on the other side of Atlanta.  Coming home, once again driving too fast and inebriated,  he flew around Dead Man’s Curve.  But he didn’t make it.  The car smashed into a steel utility pole.

Dave was carried to the same hospital.  He had no visible injuries this time, but had sustained a closed head injury and it killed him.  According to the police report, (I again helped Joan with the insurance forms), the accident happened at exactly 2:02am on April 13, 1972, exactly two years from the moment of his first accident.

At both accident scenes the police knew the time because the car clocks had stopped at the moment of impact.

Did the Universe answer Joan’s sobbing supplications and allow Dave to survive another two years so that they could have their baby boy?

The police reports and insurance papers prove the exact time and place of both accidents.

But who can prove the reason Dave recovered from the first, only to conceive a child and then die at the (apparent) originally appointed time?

His wife has never re-married, remaining a widow to this day, almost 38 years later.  She remains totally spooked by the synchronicity of the events surrounding her husband’s accidents and subsequent death, but is comforted by their son.

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Loki – Shape shifter, trickster

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Loki, by Manarama

The other day someone asked the meaning Caleuche, the name of the ghost ship we’d written about. A short time later, d page responded with a succinct answer–it was a word from an Indian language that meant shape shifter. How appropriate that was since the ship and the crew were known as shape shifters.

So it was interesting when, a short time later, I found myself reading about another shape shifter – Loki. Here’s the passage:

“One of the best-known trickster myths features the Norwegian god, Loki, the son of two giants. He possessed great ingenuity, but was a rascal and raconteur who enjoyed stirring up trouble. A shape-shifter who took various forms—including a horse, falcon, and fly—Loki could even change his gender, so it’s no wonder trickster synchronicities appear in many guises. Loki hung out with the major gods, Odin and Thor, yet he was often their enemy. When he wasn’t invited to a banquet at Valhalla, for instance, he crashed the party, becoming the thirteenth guest. He lumbered around, demanding food and alcohol, embarrassing everyone. He even tricked Hoder, the blind god of darkness, into shooting Balder, the god of light and joy, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow. Balder died and the earth was plunged into darkness. Ever since, the number thirteen has been considered unlucky.”

The source for that  paragraph? Seven Secrets of Synchronicity.  I was reading the galleys, our last step before publication in August.
Rob

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Corey & the Trickster

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Another actor has died and once again we’ve found a synchronicity related to his recent acting career. Previously, we’ve written about the deaths of David Carradine and Keith Ledger, Bruce and Brandon Lee, and the synchronicities related to them.

Now Corey Haim, who starred in Lost Boys as a teenager, has died at age 38 after a career that was marred by drug use. For years, Haim’s debilitating drug use eliminated him from consideration for movie roles. He started making a comeback a couple of years ago, co-starring with Corey Feldman on Two Coreys, a reality show that lasted two seasons. Last year, he had a role in Crank 2:High Voltage. (Although the movie isn’t drug-related, crank is street term for amphetamines.) The tag line for the movie is: He was dead…But he got better.

 This year, Haim starred in his first movie in two decades, which will be released this fall. The apt title: American Sunset. The tagline: Everything is a clue and everybody has something to say, even if it is from the grave. And so it is for Corey Haim.

Also, notice the limo in the publicity photo. It looks like a hearse.Once again, it sounds like the trickster was active in the passing of an actor.

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Five Minutes of Pleasure

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 According to neuropsychiatrist Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of “The Female Brain,” men think about sex every 52 seconds. Meanwhile, women tend to think about sex once a day. (Ha! says Trish.)
 
So, being a guy, I figured it wasn’t really synchronicity when a woman at the gym obliviously made a remark that could be interpreted as a double entendre. We were talking about diet. Since she is in training for an upcoming competition, I was curious about what she ate. She said the most difficult time was the evening, when it would be so easy to grab a bag of potato chips while watching television. 

I suppose we’d been talking about a minute–at least 52 seconds at that point–when she added: “But for five minutes of pleasure, it’s not worth it.” With that she excused herself and walked away.

Her last comment was overheard by a guy who’d just arrived in that corner of the gym, and didn’t know what we’d been talking about. He gazed after the woman, then turned to me. “Did I hear that right? Five minutes of pleasure? I think it would be worth it.”

“She apparently doesn’t think so.” Then I explained what we’d been talking about. We laughed a bit about that. Then, as if on cue, Synchronicity, by the Police, came on the gym’s sound system. So maybe it was one after all.

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The 3040 Synchronicity

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 Soul Cards


 Clusters of numbers, names, words, phrases, songs, objects, and events are one of the most curious aspects of synchronicity. When it happens, noted author Frank Joseph, you invariably feel “that something important, perhaps even divine, is trying to communicate through the numerical symbol.”

Jung, who experienced many numerical synchronicities throughout his life, believed that numbers represent “an archetype of order which has become conscious.” The meanings of  such clusters may not be immediately apparent when you experience them. But by interpreting them as metaphors, by doing some research and using your intuition, you can gain clarity and a deeper appreciation for how your inner self, your unconscious,
guides you.

 We’ve done quite a few posts on the synchronicity of numbers. Some of the more common and famous number clusters we’ve written about  involve 11,111, or 11:11; 23; 27; and 137. The other day, we received a really cool number synchronicity from Butternut Squash. We’re posted several of her synchronicites – here and here. 

She was in Kathmandu, Nepal, on a search for the jewelry she purchases there and then sells through her business in Ohio. When you read Butternut’s blog, though, you get a sense that her trips to Nepal are about connecting with the people and the culture of that country. A soul journey, perhaps. So it’s intriguing that her number synchronicity – 3040 – adds up to a 7. My understanding of 7 is that it’s a deeply spiritual number.

In February,  Butternut dropped us an email about a synchronicity concerning 3040 and we speculated about what the 7s could mean. The other night she wrote from Nepal with an update.

“Do you remember that I wrote a check for $3040.00 on check number 3040 and I was pondering the lucky number 7?  Well, it turns out that the next day my husband received a call that he had passed his licensing exam.  It was the completion of a 10 year retraining process in clinical psychology.  This has been the preoccupation of both our minds for years.

“Also,  a dear friend of mine, without prompting, called and announced that she was joining me on the trip to Nepal.  She managed to arrange this journey with less than 2 weeks before our departure date.

“The very same day, I arrived in Chicago at my hotel where the hotel announcement board proudly proclaimed me as the winner of the customer of the day with a free upgrade to a luxury room.  Stupidly, I did not buy a lottery ticket!”

I wrote Butternut and asked if she recalled the exact dates and was she back from Nepal yet? “Not back yet,” she wrote. “You are getting messages from Kathmandu. Power is intermittent and internet service is sketchy. The date of the check was 2/18/10 but all the good stuff happened on 2/19/10. I forgot to also say that I found a great pair of hiking shoes on the same wonderful day. That’s not a big deal for most people, but I haven’t been able to find a decent pair of shoes that don’t hurt my feet and can fit my inserts for about 7 years! 

“Got to go. A friend is picking us up for breakfast soon…rice, curry, lentil soup, and yak mile tea. Yum!”

We wondered if her boots were size 7s, but by then the Internet connection with Kathmandu was gone.

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Planetary Empaths

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Trish and Rob

We’ve posted a number of synchronicities on how animals seem to be able to predict catastrophes like earthquakes. But what about people who are planetary empaths, who feel physical symptoms of a pending quakes hours or even days before it occurs?

Over the years, we’ve known several individuals who possessed this ability. Our friend, Renie Wiley, sometimes experienced intense migraines and vivid precognitive dreams before a planetary disaster. Connie Cannon, a retired ER nurse and psychic,  often writes us when her symptoms begin, just so we have a record of it.  When I asked her to describe the symptoms in detail for this post, she did.

“Prior to higher magnitude earthquakes, no matter where they are going to occur on the earth, I begin to experience a sense of impending doom.  This is quickly followed by an “edginess”, and then the physical symptoms kick in.  My ears will click and ring and sometimes thump; walking becomes a real issue, as if I’m trying to walk on a rocking, undulating boat in water although my floors are perfectly level and I must hold onto the walls to keep my balance; the nausea is a sea-sickness type of nausea.  Although I do have advancing Parkinson’s Disease, there is a distinct difference between the PD symptoms and the planetary event warnings.

“When the event is going to be a significant volcanic eruption, I experience a severe and sudden localized head-ache…and I do not have headaches otherwise, fortunately.  When my head hurts, on one side or the other, I can be sure a volcano is rumbling and ready to spew.  I also get extremely nauseous and very hot prior to the eruption.  My head will seem “foggy”, and I can actually smell dust where none exist.
The compelling thing is that I don’t know precisely where or when the event is going to happen.  Just that it is.  And the more people who are going to transition, the worse my symptoms.

“Another interesting aspect is that once the “release” occurs, once the event happens, my symptoms disappear as if by magic.  But they begin and build until it manifests.”

D Page,  a psychic and Dharma student in California, also experiences symptoms before a catastrophe. On February 27, her post says that since 2004, her left ear “registers high pitched rings prior to earthquakes all over the globe.When this phenomena first started happening, I talked to my lama, Lama Chodak Gyatso Nubpa. I told him I was hearing high pitch ringing 1-3 days before significant quakes, occasionally with accompanying visions of disaster and lossof human life. He verified that this was real. Being a new, immature student, I asked if he could take this phenomena away! No, he said. He did give me practices  to do, consisting of mantras and meditations, to help those beings who are dying and suffering.”

Before the Chilean earthquake, the ringing in her ear was absent.”Instead, I was very dizzy, with severe ear pain yesterday. I spent the afternoon and evening on the couch. With the Haiti quake and aftershocks, I heard the ringing in the left ear, but I did not have visions.”

D ends her post with wise words from a Dharma practice:

“May sickness war, famine, and suffering be decreased for every being.”
                  -Red Tara  Practice (Chagdud Gonpa)

Does anyone else experience these kinds of symptoms before global catastrophes occur?

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On A Lighter Note

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Trish and Rob

                            Is this the final word on 2012??!

UPDATE:
Jim Banholzer notes that the massive Hadron Collider that smashes protons at Cern will be shut down for repairs at the end of 2011. You might remember that some people speculated that turning on the collider would create a black hole and destroy the planet. Didn’t happen. But what about next time? It’ll be down for a year.They’ll turn it back around, oh, Dec. 21, 2012.
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Here’s a little prayer that the scientist in Walker Percy’s novel, Love in the Ruins, recites:

“Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men.
“Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction.
“Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.”

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Robin Hood exposed

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Recently we wrote about Johnny B. Goode, the South Florida man who is mentally disturbed and, at last count, had been arrested 50 times in recent months. His most recent arrested happened an hour after a reporter had interviewed him about all of his arrests.

Now comes Robin Hood — Robin Josua Hood, a thief who was arrested in Denver in January for stealing three baseball caps from a record store. We are left to wonder if the 34-year-old Robin Hood really needed three caps, or…was he planning on giving away a couple of them to hatless, hapless street people? Apparently, Robin Hood was living incognito at the time. Instead of hiding in Sherwood Forest, he was using someone else’s ID when police arrested him. But they soon uncovered the truth, that they had nabbed Robin Hood.

Thanks to Jim Banholzer for alerting us to this news item.

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7 Secrets of Synchronicity

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Here’s our book cover. That’s a doorway, not a tombstone! 😉
Not the greatest, but better than an earlier version that we didn’t even want to put up here. We’re happy the publisher was willing to change it.

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Rains of Fish

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Charles Fort spent most of his life studying anomalous phenomena – events that fall outside accepted theories and beliefs. Some of the phenomena he studied included: ball lightning, teleportation, spontaneous fires, UFOs, unexplained disappearances, giant wheels of light in the ocean, rains of frogs and fish.

In Wikipedia, he is cited as probably the first person to attribute unexplained disappearances to alien abductions. He also wrote about the interconnectedness of nature and synchronicity, which is where this story falls.

Lajamanu lies in the northern territory of the Australian outback. In Late February, the town’s 650 residents were treated to a Fortean event when hundreds of white fish – perch – landed in the town. People were apparently picking them up everywhere. One resident, Christine Balmer, said the fish were alive when they hit the ground. Even though perch are common throughout this area, the nearest river is 326 miles away. In fact, Lajamanu is located at the edge of the Tamani desert, hundreds of miles from the nearest lakes and even farther away from the coast.

According to a local meteorologist, conditions were ideal for a tornado, which could have whipped the fish upward from lakes or rivers and deposited them elsewhere. But there was no tornado.

This same town experienced raining fish in 1974 and 2004. The original story is here.

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