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The Boston Marathon has been around for 117 years.  Runners from all over the world congregate to run 26.2 miles. This year, there were more than 26,000 (26,839 to be exact) runners. The marathon is one of Boston’s biggest annual events. It ends near Copley Square, not far from the landmark Prudential Center and the Boston Public Library. It is held on Patriots Day, which commemorates the first battles of the American Revolution, at Concord and Lexington in 1775.

Fours hours into this year’s race,  close to the finish line, a bomb exploded. It apparently contained shrapnel and BBs and was placed low to the ground,  so as the bomb detonated, many people sustained serious leg injuries. The first explosion occurred on the north side of Boylston Street, just before the photo bridge that marks the finish line. A second bomb exploded ten to twenty seconds later, several blocks away along the marathon route.

From an article on the Huffington Post: “Roupen Bastajian, a state trooper from Smithfield, R.I., had just finished the race when he heard the blasts. ‘I started running toward the blast. And there were people all over the floor,’ he said. ‘We started grabbing tourniquets and started tying legs. A lot of people amputated. … At least 25 to 30 people have at least one leg missing, or an ankle missing, or two legs missing.’”

The marathon honored the victims of Newton, Connecticut, with a special mile marker in Monday’s race.

As of tonight, three people are dead, including an 8-year-old boy, and more than a hundred were wounded. Hospitals in the area are reporting injuries predominately to the lower extremities.

One of the oldest and most historic cities in this country was thrown into pandemonium, air space over Boston was closed, and alert levels in other cities were raised. The situation was described repeatedly as “fluid” – i.e, no one really knew what was going on, whether there would be more explosions, whether this was a terrorist attack or the work of a single deranged individual. This tragedy, of course, quickly became a global mass event. And as with any mass event, there are a number of synchronicities:

1) Today is April 15, tax day in the U.S.  The American Revolution started in Boston, with the Boston Tea Party, which protested a tax on tea.  In Massachusetts, it was a holiday – Patriot’s Day, a commemoration of the first battles in that revolution.

2) The marathon route is 26.2 miles. There were 26 victims in the Sandy Hook massacre. There were more than 26,000 runners in today’s marathon.  Boston Athletic Association president Joanne Flaminio apparently noted the connection with the number of victims at Sandy Hook and called it a “special significance.”

3) Then there’re the types of injuries, mostly to lower extremities. Unless you are South Africa’s Blade Runner, you need legs and feet and ankles to run the marathon. Some of the victims have had their legs amputated.

It’s impossible to classify this synchro without integrating the loss of life, suffering, and trauma of the victims and their families and loved ones. It seems to be addressing the accessibility of guns and the raw materials for bomb-making. But perhaps the message is something else entirely.  Sometimes, it takes months or yearsfor the full message to be understood. And sometimes, the message is never grasped.

The Boston Marathon has always been a joyous event, where thousands of spectators line the route and cheer the runners, give them cups of water, and generally act as cheerleaders. It’s a community of runners and their supporters. One news anchor described this tragedy as “plunging a knife into the heart of a joyous event.” One thing is for sure: the Boston Marathon will never be the same again.

Our thoughts go out to all the victims and their loved ones.

We’re all, to one degree or another, fascinated by conspiracy theories. Many of us scoff at some of them, yet nod in agreement at others. Whether your politics tend toward either conservative or liberal, it doesn’t matter. No one, it seems, is immune from belief in some conspiracy theories to one degree or another.

Often times, we don’t even realize that we believe in a conspiracy theory simply because we think of the matter as a fact, not a conspiracy theory. For example, about 90 million Americans, or about 29 percent of the population, believe aliens exist. Some 66 million think aliens landed at Roswell in 1947. If you don’t accept those ideas, then you’re more likely to see them as conspiracy theories. The rest of us, meanwhile, might say: ‘Oh yeah, that’s true.’

The two most popular conspiracy theories deal with presidents. A whopping 51 percent of Americans – 160 million – belief that JFK was killed in a conspiracy rather than by a single crazed shooter. The next most convincing theory, favored by 44 percent or 138 million Americans, is that George W. Bush and cohorts intentionally misled the American public on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.

These are a few of the conspiracies that Public Policy Polling asked Americans about in the aftermath of the 2012 election. They also asked respondents who they voted for.

Interestingly, Republicans tend to be more conspiracy-prone than Democrats. For example, they are far more prone to favor the idea that the government is populated by lizard people. Five percent of Romney voters gave the thumbs up on that one, while two percent of Obama voters agreed.

So if you’re among the 37 percent of Americans who believe that global warming is a hoax, it’s likely that you voted for Romney. That’s because 61 percent of Republican voters accept that conspiracy theory, compared to 12 percent of Obama supporters.

Only three conspiracies were more commonly believed by Obama supporters: that Bush intentionally misled America about Iraq’s WMDs (a massive 69 percent of his supporters believe that one), that the CIA launched the crack epidemic, and that the moon landing was faked.

There are two theories with equal support among Obama and Romney supporters: that aliens exist and the one about fluoridation. Everything else in the poll was believed more by Romney supporters.

Public Policy Polling, by the way, correctly predicted the presidential election results in all 50 states. But they also have become known for their ‘weird’ polls. During last year’s presidential campaign, for example, they asked: “If God exists, do you approve of its handling of natural disasters?”

Here’s how the Atlantic Wire arranged the findings from most- to least-believed. They also show the actual Americans represented by the percentages.

Here’s PPP’s press release on the  poll, and here’s more on how Democrats and Republicans differ on conspiracies.

We definitely live in interesting times!

And to all our U.S. friends, well, happy income tax day. Might as well embrace it, right?

We haven’t put up one of these in a while!

This strange little synchro comes from Gabe Carlson of Minneapolis. Back when we had first started our blog, he had left a comment about a mind-blowing synchro he experienced involving a teapot.  We used it in 7 Secrets of Synchronicity. It still remains one of the best synchros I’ve ever heard about. Gabe, like Daz and others who visit our blog, seems to be a synchro magnet, for lack of a better term.

I ran across his story on Facebook’s synchronicity group and asked Gabe if we could repost it.

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Yesterday, I had to stop at the bank inside a grocery store, and on a whim decided to buy a plant for the house to help counterbalance the late season snow we’re getting up here.  They had a type of plant I’ve often seen and liked, so we picked it up. In the car afterward, my girlfriend asked what kind of plant it was- there was no label, and I didn’t know.

So she pulled out her smart phone, with the intention if using an application I’d downloaded for her. The app allow you to take a photo of a plant’s leaves to get an ID. When she  entered her unlock password, I heard her exclaim violently   and thought she’d just gotten some kind of crazy news. But nope – her phone had opened up the Leaf Snap app, and it was ready to go.

She’d never used it, it had never opened itself up before, and she wasn’t even sure it was on her phone. Afterward, we tried to see if somehow the phone could have opened the app automatically, based on overhearing a phrase like, “What is this plant?” But nope, nothing would make it open. It was just coincidentally open right when she went to use it.

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Perhaps there’s a category for synchronicities that could be called, Tech Synchs! I admit to being somewhat curious about Leaf Snap’s ID of the plant. And now that I know about this app, I think it’s one I’ll download!

Here’s a peculiar story from Jane Clifford, a healer in Wales, who encountered another healer in a strange location.

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I was in a town across the mountains that I visit often with a dear friend & we had 20 minutes to spare after lunch before her dental appointment. So` I mentioned a second hand furniture place very near where we were parked that is fun to poke around in and where I have been before. Its a real shack, grubby and chaotic, but in amongst the tat there are real finds, the profits support a local church.

Outside it was a blackboard and in wobbly writing it said, ‘Prophecy and healing.’ I had a chat with a man serving in there about furniture and asked him about the healing and prophecy and where it happened, to which he replied, “Here!”

He explained that a guy called Richard did it, so I asked about the prophecy. He said, “If Richard gets a message from the Lord for you whilst he is doing the healing, he passes it on.”

I said I would like to try it, so he called Richard from the back of the shop and to my astonishment it was going to take place right where I was standing in the shop.I asked my companion if she would like to try it but  she was too shy. But she told me to go ahead and sat down nearby.

Richard was a big tall South African guy. He stood facing me and took both of my hands in his. “You are a healer, ” he said immediately. “And the Lord wants to use you as an instrument of his healing.” I confirmed that I am a healer. He continued: “You don’t attend a church, but you have the Lord in your heart.”

I agreed.

He asked what I wanted to heal and I replied lately that my arthritis has been very painful. So he asked if I know that bitterness, anger and the need to forgive are a component of arthritis. I replied that I did know that. (We have also just had the coldest winter for 60 years, which is another component).

So he asked if I had any forgiveness issues and I said that I do, because my sister has stolen hundreds of thousands from my elderly mother without her knowledge and I had been working on the forgiveness for some time and reached compassion for my sister. But then she stole more money, and I am back to zero again. So I understand I have more forgiving to do. I said I also have severe back problem with collapsed discs.

Then he started  talking to the Lord to assist me in forgiveness and to re-align my  spine and ease my pain. I would not have been surprised to hear a few praise the Lords and all that happy-clappy stuff. But I could tell he is a medium and clairaudient, a genuine one.

Then he asked if I minded if the other guy ( who runs the second-hand store) placed his hand over my lower back, and I agreed. As Richard is praying for my spine I definitely felt something going on there. Then it was done! He said the forgiveness issue will be worked on overnight.

The arthritis has eased considerably. My back is more comfortable and I actually fully expect to be in a better place with the sister stuff  by morning.

Well, the Lord sure does work in mysterious ways! Its the last place one would expect to find healing or prophecy, but there it was!

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We wonder how many people go to that second-hand furniture store for healings and prophecy. Not only was the sign amazing, but the healer was actually there…as if waiting for Jane.

I wrote this shortly after The Hanged Man became an e-book, finding a second life in digital form. It was published by Kensington Books in the mid-90s, the first book I did with editor Kate Duffy.  I kept pushing it back and back, and then received an email from David Wilson at Crossroad that on Aprilo 11-12, he would be offering it free. I glanced at the date I had pushed it back to – and there it was, the synchronicity. It was on the dashboard for April 11. So there’s the synchro. And here’s the story:

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As a writer, I’m in awe of novelists who can sustain a character over multiple books and not lose their readers.

J.K. Rowling did it with Harry Potter. Suzanne Collins  did it with Katniss in her Hunger Games trilogy, Sue Grafton has done it with Kinsey – who is now up to – what is it? V? W? – well, most of the alphabet.  George R.R. Martin has done this not with just one character, but with an entire canvas of characters in Game of Thrones. Philip Pullman achieved it in his Dark Materials trilogy. Jeff Lindsay has done it with his Dexter books. Nora Roberts achieves it with any number of her 100 plus books. John D MacDonald did it with Travis McGee. Rob nailed it with his Native American Will Lansa and with his depictions of Indiana Jones. There are many other writers who have done this, too, but these are the ones who come immediately to mind.

There’s some sort of alchemy that happens between the writer and the character in such series. Boundaries between self and character vanish. The writers’ emotions, worldview, and concerns become those of the character – and vice versa. Now, there are writing instructors and pundits, agents and editors who will tell you this isn’t so,  that it’s all about the writers’ talent and dedication and opportunities. While that’s certainly true, it’s not the full story.

Stephen King calls it “dreaming awake.” It’s a  state of consciousness that novelists enter into when they are fully plugged in to what they’re writing. An altered state of consciousness, in other words, a kind of creative meditation that produces the unexpected plot twist, the strangeness of a situation or condition, the emotional resonance that captures the reader, for whatever reason. It’s also how synchronicity comes into play, as it did when Edgar Allan Poe  wrote his unfinished sea adventure novel, The Narrative of Arthur Conan Pym, which described a fictive event that subsequently happened 47 years later.

In my experience, series characters are not easy to sustain. I did ten books on a married couple, Quin and Mike McCleary,  who plied their private eye trade in Miami. By the tenth book, I was so irritated by my agent and editor telling me how the books should be written, that they shouldn’t have any metaphysical stuff at all, that I killed off Mike and intended to bring him back as a ghost.  That didn’t happen. I changed publishers – and agents and there was never an 11th book.

I did four books for Ballantine as Alison Drake in a series that featured a single female cop on the fictional island of Tango Key. I liked Aline, I liked her life, the way she thought. I liked that she loved her partner, Kincaid, even though he was gone for long periods of time because he had a nomadic heart. She and that series gave me Tango Key,  a fictional island 12 miles west of Key West that I have returned to time and again – in my fiction, in my imagination. I think, if I ever retire, it’s where I’ll live. It’s where I put Mira Morales in the four books after The Hanged Man.

Shaped like a cat’s head with very irregular proportions, Tango Key is a mystery even unto itself. Connected to Key West by a 12-mile bridge, an engineering marvel, the island has hills, cliffs, a history, and a mystical undercurrent that fits who I am. Just about anything is possible on Tango Key. Mira Morales, a single mother, owner of a successful bookstore,  a psychic, knows it better than most.

It has  taken me a long time to figure which of my characters I would stick through for 26 books, as Grafton will apparently do. And for me, it won’t be Mira. She lives on in her own alternative universe and the reason she does is because Category Five  there’s a single paragraph that hurt the book’s sales. It was encompassed in a conversation between Sheppard, Mira’s FBI lover, and Nadine her grandmother, about real life, how the George W Bush administration had taken us to unspeakable places. That was in 2005, when the U.S. was as seriously polarized as it is now.

I remember running across an online review by someone who said, Let’s sink this book,  this left-leaning travesty.  Or something to that effect, and cited that particular paragraph/conversation in the book. I thought, Huh?   

So the series ended a book later, with Cold As Death. I’ve written other novels and books since then, but oddly, seven years later, Mira sticks with me.  She steps periodically into my dreams, she crept into Esperanza,  she’s my buddy in crazy times. So the other night  I played around with ideas for a new novel.  I had been proofing The Hanged Man and Black Water, the first two books in the Mira Morales series that Crossroad is bringing out in digital format  with a far better cover than what Kensington had. And  I suddenly thought Mira might be  my Kinsey Milhone, my Harry Potter, my Katniss, my Will Lansa.

And just as suddenly knew I didn’t want to go backward. I love Mira and her world, but s a writer I’ve moved beyond her. Other ideas are simmering. I’ll have to see where it all goes. Even if a novelist lives in complete isolation, he or she is never alone. The characters they have created crowd in, whispering, demanding, cajoling:  C’mon, make me real.

We have now done eleven radio shows/podcasts for Aliens in the Backyard.  It started on February 4, the day the book was released, with a three-hour Coast to Coast interview with George Noory. For us, that interview occurred between 2-5 AM. Even for me, a night owl, this was a long stretch in the darkest part of the night, when my brain really wanted to just curl up and go to sleep.

But there was something strangely appropriate about talking about aliens, synchronicity, encounters and abductions at this dark time of the night. (The radio links are all in the page heading at the top of the blog, under news, radio etc.) Our most recent show, with William Morgan and Douglas Bolles of  42 Minutes– the guys responsible for The Sync books- was great fun. The link takes you directly to the show.

What we’ve discovered is an alternate universe in which every facet of the paranormal – aliens, Big Foot, ghosts, reincarnation, remote viewing, synchronicity, telepathy, time travel, UFOs, whatever – is discussed in an open-minded way. The people who host these radio shows and podcasts are like so many of us – curious about and fascinated by unexplained mysteries. Like us, they are trying to piece together many parts of a baffling puzzle about the nature of reality. They are knowledgeable, well-read, and their questions are often insightful, even profound.

After some of these shows, Rob and I talk about this alternate reality out there in the virtual world – a territory that is an entity unto itself, unfiltered and uncensored.  Most of these shows don’t have commercials. They aren’t sponsored by corporations. They aren’t sponsored by anyone except the host or hosts who are doing the show, often through Skype. These hosts are like you and me. They have a burning desire to undertand and that desire is what drives the show. In a way I don’t quite grasp yet, synchronicity seems to act as a cohesive element that binds together the many facets of this puzzle.

Perhaps physicist David Bohm pegged it when he talked about the implicate and explicate order. The implicate order is the primal soup of the universe from which everything, perhaps even time, unfolds. The explicate order is what we all experience in our daily lives, the challenges and contrasts and triumphs, what we see, taste, touch, smell, feel, hear. Or, to put it another way, the implicate order is Jung’s collective unconscious or Indra’s net or six degrees of separation, the ways in which we are all connected. Synchronicity, then could be its manifestation, the way this implicate order speaks to us as the implicate unfolds into the explicate, our daily lives.

When we are asked to explain what we think the abduction phenomenon is, or how synchronicity fits into it,  there’s usually a brief silence. Rob and I look at each other. You first, I whisper – or he whispers that to me. The bottom line is that we don’t know. No one knows.

What we do seem to know is that an expanded awareness   is engaged in synchroncity. Time and space  become more malleable.  In abductions the same thing appears to be true. Perhaps we are all Hansels and  Gretels in the great dark woods, trying to follow a path of bread crumbs back home, back to the status quo. But suppose we don’t find our way back home? Suppose we follow some divergent path, into an unfamiliar place? What then? Who do we become in that new place? What do we believe? How do our experiences change?  Does our reality change?

If you follow this train of thought long enough and far enough, you end up beside Fox Muldur and Scully – the truth is out there,  somewhere. Or you end up inside The Matrix with Keenu Reeves. Or you end up where we do, at our kitchen table, the questions piling up like dirty dishes in the sink.   Our paradigm is in flux, redefining itself, and all of us are the transitionals who are trying to integrate the old with the new.

And that, ultimately, is the tricky thing here, the place where we all scatter to our separate corners to mull, discuss, absorb. And here, we encounter the ultimate bottom lines: Who or what are we really? What’s the truth? Is there a single indisputable truth about any of it?

And then suddenly I am 18 again, wondering about these same questions, and I speak to that younger self:  Enough already. It’s many years up the road. Figure it out, okay? Then pass it along, please.

When Aliens in the Backyard came out, we contacted a number of radio shows and podcasts. Radio and podcasts are a great venue for publicity.  One of them was Joe Montaldo at ICAR.  We never heard back, but several weeks later, we received an email from Jim O’Connell from Xperiencers , of the John E. Mack Institute.

Dear Trish,

 It’s come to our attention that you’re interested in speaking with knowledgeable alien encounter researchers who may be able to assist you. Our Xperiencers team collaborates on some cases with Joe Montaldo’s ICAR group and your case was one that was handed off for evaluation and or investigation.

 Our Xperiencers team is staffed with people that are living with ongoing alien encounters, so we understand what you’re going through and know best how to help you find understanding, peace and purpose from your extraterrestrial encounters.

I wrote back and explained I’m an author, not an abductee,  and that Rob and I had written a book about encounters, abductions and synchronicity. Jim and I started corresponding.

Jim started Xperiencers and now has a team composed of individuals who investigate encounters.  The group was endorsed by the Mack Institute board of directors, and a contract was generated by Mack’s son, Danny, which cemented the two organizations together.   They currently have a reality TV show in development.  Jim graciously consented to an interview for our bookazine on UFOs, and we’re posting part of it here.

This organization is unique in that the investigators are themselves experiencers. Their philosophy is similar to that of John Mack’s, that  these encounters are positive. Other researchers – Dr. Jacobs and Budd Hopkins, for instance – believe that encounters are overwhelmingly negative.

You use the term Xperiencers.  Could you explain the range of experiences covered by the term ?

 Xperiencers is derived from the word experiencers used by Dr. John Mack.  I decided to drop the “e” and allow “X” to represent the unknown as is done in solving common equations.  The unknown elements that our Xperiencers team will solve can be any of the following:

• Unexplained marks, scars or rashes.
• Missing time.
• Hearing voices or messages.
• Visits from non-human beings.
• Newly discovered abilities.
• Time-shifting.
• Newly developed phobias.
• Feeling the need to save the planet/human-race.
• Searching for hybrid children
• Understanding that there is no government cover up, but rather an alien cover up.
• Sightings of UFOs, glowing orbs, etc.

(image by Kesara)

 What is your take on the abduction experience? Do you see it as a positive or negative experience or something in between?

The term alien-abduction reflects the mindset of those people who feel they’ve been taken against their will and were violated in some fashion by some alien beings.  On the other hand, there are those calling themselves “contactees” or “experiencers,” which indicates they consider themselves willing participants in the extraterrestrial phenomenon.  This second group also believes they may have agreed to their off-world contact before incarnating here on planet Earth and feel they have some important mission to fulfill.

I’m not sure that there is any real difference between the abductees and experiencers except for the way in which they process trauma and difficulty in their lives.  Being an optimist or pessimist determines whether your glass is half-full or half-empty, but I do believe that experiencers look at the glass and say, I know why the glass is there and it’s because I wanted something left to drink on my journey.

Each day I get out of bed and do all I can to understand this mysterious relationship and gauge its impact on my life and those around me.  So far, it’s made me a better person and exposed me to amazing experiences, so I remain open to contact, no matter what we call it.

What other types of beings – besides Grays – have experiencers encountered?

 For those involved in ongoing encounters, a diversity of alien beings begins to emerge in the fabric of their contacts and I present a short list:

• Reptilian
• Short Blues
• Bird men
• Insect or Mantis
• Pleiadian  or Nordics
• Dog heads or Anubis

(illustration by David Chace)

(image by David Chace)

What have your experiences and research revealed about the nature of consciousness?

We’ve learned that for the most part, humans are asleep and their connection to the cosmos has been severed.  Mankind has been conditioned to accept only what they’re told and to shut off the inner antennae that receives the most important signals.   This is why, in this politically-correct world, the one group feels it’s still okay to assault and humiliate those claiming close encounters.  Experiencers are people who’ve abandoned the confines of religion and mainstream politics, to embrace spirituality and karma.  We are experiencing an awakening and I believe we’re meant to serve as an example for the world to follow.

In a couple of days,  we’ll take a look at how Xperiencers investigate encounters. You can get in touch with Jim through the Xperiencer website.

A note on the illustrations:

The images in this post are done by Christine (Kesara) Dennett and researcher David Chace. “Kesara has been illustrating for investigators, witnesses, and documentaries since 1986. Like a police sketch artist, Kesara creates illustrations from actual events and descriptions from eye witnesses. All the art in this website is from actual events! To this day new reports are shared around the world. Kesara is updating and adding to her collection everyday.” And her art is for sale. You’ll see more of it in the next post.

I was going to end the post there, but the word count came to 911. So I decided to add a personal note: if I saw this mantis creature, I probably wouldn’t be alive to talk about it.

We like to  plug other authors who write about synchronicity. That’s the case with Randi G. Fine, a radio talk show host in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and ‘relationship dependency’ counselor. She’s also an author and her new book, Awaken from Life: Lessons for Discovering your Personal Truths, includes an interesting chapter on synchronicity. She suggests that the amount of synchronicity that you attract into your life is proportional to your own level of awareness.

Here’s an excerpt.

Synchronicities occur much more regularly than most of us are aware. They often go unnoticed because the signs represented to us tend to be symbolic in nature and need deciphering.

Often we find that the timing of these messages, people, and things relate directly to current issues in our lives or information that we are presently in need of.

Think about your life and the amazing ways that things have come together for you: the chance meetings with people that reveal just the information you had been looking for; the trip you took to a foreign country where you ran into someone you knew; the song that came on the radio at the exact time that you needed to hear those words; the book given to you by a friend that sent you on a life-altering spiritual quest; that certain number that pops up wherever you go; or the person you ran into that offered the healing solution to your illness.

Each day we attract “meaningful coincidences” that are there to give us direction. The amount of synchronicities we personally attract is proportionate to our level of conscious awareness. The more attention we pay to these awe-inspiring “coincidences,” the more frequently they will occur.

Whether believer or skeptic we have all experienced these seemingly random occurrences that seem too improbable to be chalked up to just chance. Coincidence or synchronicity, both fascinating phenomena, are uncanny and appear unexpectedly.

How many times have you heard someone say, “There are no coincidences, in response to one of these baffling occurrences? Perhaps you even use the phrase yourself.

To understand why these incidents are not coincidental you must first understand what a coincidence is. Coincidences are experiences where two events coincide that have no relationship to each other. Some sort of pattern or connection associated with the coincidental experiences can be derived, but an obvious explanation for their occurrence cannot be found.

There are skeptics who say that these phenomena are coincidental; that a connection between the experience and one’s reality is merely illusory or selective perception.

Statisticians fall into the skeptic category. They believe that these types of occurrences are not phenomena at all—just manifestations of the law of averages. They say that coincidences are inevitable; with five billion people on the planet there is a reasonable probability that unlikely circumstances of this nature will happen. To quote mathematician John Allen Paulos, “The most astonishingly incredible coincidence imaginable would be the complete absence of all coincidences.”

There are those who follow the supernatural theory of synchronicities but offer different, spiritually based explanations on the matter. They attribute these experiences to karma, fate, or destiny. Some say the experiences come from angels or spirit guides showing us signs that guide us in the direction of our soul’s purpose.

None of these explanations are inaccurate. All these facets of spirituality and supernatural activity are likely to factor into the occurrence of synchronicities.

We recognize a number of spiritual occurrences through our intuition. Those of us who are open and receptive to embracing faith based realities tend to be most in touch with our intuitive, inner knowing perceptions. By paying attention to our inner guidance, we are more likely to know what we are seeking and can more easily recognize the signs that direct us to it. It is our acceptance of intangible realities that allows us to recognize the many synchronistic occurrences that happen to us.

Intuition and synchronicity are interconnected in such a way that it is hard to distinguish where one stops and the other begins. The more synchronicities one notices the more intuitive one becomes; the more intuitive one is the more synchronicities they are likely to recognize. The more awareness one has of his intuition and the synchronistic occurrences happening around him, the stronger his connection to universal energy and knowledge becomes.

Think of synchronicities as communications from the Universe that are there to keep you aligned with your purpose. These signs are indications that your inner world is in sync with your outer world.

The more you believe in the miraculous nature of synchronicities, the more you will notice and experience them. By developing an awareness of the many synchronicities that occur in your life, you will gain the understanding that everything that happens in your life happens for a reason, whether or not the reason reveals itself at the time. You will awaken your spiritual journey and find your life flowing in wonderful ways.

Synchronicities are awe-inspiring, though not all of them play out the way you may hope for. As you experience more synchronicities in your life, try to keep a positive attitude, especially when you are confronted with a seemingly negative outcome. Do not despair. A negative outcome is often put before you as a tool for learning and growing, and may ultimately lead to a positive outcome.

It is important to remember that every event in your life, whether positive or negative has a greater purpose. A lesson that does not turn out the way you would like it to, is simply a lesson that turned out the way it was supposed to. Make it a practice to accept the natural flow of life.

In times of uncertainty, disquietude, and transition synchronicities give us direction. They guide us as we spiritually evolve in the physical world. They are signposts, sometimes subtle sometimes obvious, showing us the most direct route to take, the easiest path to follow, to fulfill the purpose we are here for. They put us in the right place at the right time to cross paths with others who have meaningful messages for us.

We all have stories of how we met the loves of our lives or our best friends, found a new career or the perfect job, began a spiritual path or met the perfect spiritual leader, and discovered we had an illness or unlocked the mystery of an elusive ailment. In more cases than not, a synchronistic experience was involved in that life changing event.

My life story, as told in my memoir Fine…ly, was a series of synchronistic events that led me through a significant amount of pain and adversity, but ultimately delivered me to a place of serenity and joy.

The same can be true for you. By awakening to synchronicities, having patience, and trusting the perfect guidance of the Universe, you will fulfill your purpose for being here.

Be mindful of what happens around you. Through this conscious awareness you will ultimately achieve the loving, peaceful quest of your soul.