Synchronistic Clues At the Bookstore

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Trish and Rob

 

Today (12/18) Megan and I went out to do girl stuff – hair, shopping – and of course we stopped at Barnes and Noble. While she was cruising the music aisles, I went over to the science fiction section. I walked up and down the aisles, hoping a title or author would jump out at me. I had been reading the Robert Moss book – specifically about environmental clues and signs that can answer questions. So I asked: Is there any book here for me today?

At that very moment, a woman sitting in the magazine section was talking on her cell phone. Well, not exactly talking. She said only one word, three times. “No. No. No.”

Could it get any clearer than that?

I walked out of the science fiction to go look for Megan and we went home.
– Trish

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The Power of 10

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Painting by Nicole  Cutt 
The Goddess of Fire Night Magic

 This next synchronicity came to our attention through our Google alert for the word synchronicity. Nicole Cutt is an artist, writer, and clinical psychologist who also leads vision quests. This synchronicity was originally posted on her site.
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Jung offered synchronicity as conclusive evidence for his concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious and felt that it described a governing dynamic that underlies the whole of human experience and history–social, emotional, psychological and spiritual.

On the journey of living  my Vision I have had many intense experiences of synchronicity. I could, I guess, dismiss them as mere coincidence but I see them as clues to my destiny, signs that I am on the right path.  According to one of my favorite teachers, Deepak Chopra, “When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.” He calls this state “Synchrodestiny” and says that when you are in this state it becomes possible to achieve the spontaneous fulfillment of our every desire.

The Power of 10-Tuesday night was one of those times of intense synchronicity.  I was facilitating a Women’s Vision Quest session in Charleston, WV. It was a particularly powerful night and you could feel the energy in the room. I sat with a group of 10 women sharing their visions with one another. They came from all different walks of life and had very different visions but there were so many themes that kept coming up again and again; following your dreams no matter what, overcoming fear and inertia, a drive to find their purpose, fear of success/failure, the struggle between putting others first vs themselves.

But there was also another theme that kept cropping up; 10. Woman after woman kept saying things like, “it was 10 yrs ago”, or “I’ve known you for 10 yrs, or “I thought about this 10 yrs ago but have only acted on it now.” We all started to notice this and began commenting. 10 just kept coming up again and again.  We noticed that there were 10 women in the group, then I recalled that 10 had been my magic number, the number of women I hoped to attend!

What does this all mean? Is it merely coincidence?  I might say so except for the fact that whenever I am experiencing a high degree of synchronicity it is always a sign that I am firmly on the right path. Everything feels right and a magic hangs in the air. As I drove home the next day through the gorgeous mountain terrain I also decided to take this as a sign that 2010 is going to be a great year!


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A Healing Dream

Posted on December 26, 2009 by Trish and Rob

In an earlier post, we talked about Robert Moss’s book,  The Three “Only” Things, Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination.  This story is in the dream section, where there’s a wonderful story about the healing power of dreams.

An author,  Wanda Burch (She Who Dreams) asked a doctor to look at a mole on  the sole of her left foot. He determined that the mole needed to be removed. Even though it was just minor surgery, it would mean she would have to stay off her feet for several days. So before her scheduled surgery, Wanda posed a question as she was falling asleep: Why did she have to go through this? Wasn’t there another way of dealing with the mole?

In her dream that night, she was inspecting the mole on the bottom of her foot. “Then a hand appeared from out of nowhere – as if out of a cloud – holding a large black pencil. The hand drew a circle around the mole, and the mole popped off and disappeared.”

The next morning, Wanda looked at her foot – and the mole was completely gone.
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Has anyone else had an experience like this?

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Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 25, 2009 by Trish and Rob

 A bit of Christmas day cheer – notice the lights on the house on the right. Ditto, indeed.

And here’s one little holiday synchronicity. A couple of days ago, we left Noah, our new golden retriever, at home for an hour. When we came back, he had snatched one of the Christmas cards from the book shelves where they were displayed. He put a few teeth marks into the card and battered it a bit,  but we were still able to see that it was from – Janice Carlson, who just happens to be an animal intuitive from Minneapolis, who specializes in dogs!

What were the chances that he would pick that one?
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And that leads to this heart-warming doggie tale.
 

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!

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Indiana Jones Synchronicity

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Trish and Rob

 Dale Dassel and Dr. Jones

The other day I was cleaning out a closet, which I usually do at this time of year, when I came across a box of bound galleys of Indiana Jones novels I wrote years ago. Bound galleys are uncorrected proofs of books that are bound with a plain cover that just displays the title and author. The copies are usually sent out to reviewers and leftovers often are shipped to the author.

So, upon finding them I e-mailed #1 Indiana Jones fan Dale Dassel, who writes on the blog occasionally, and asked if he would like a few of these bound galleys for his Indy collection. Besides being a big reader and a writer himself, Dale collects all the Indiana Jones clothing and paraphernalia. So I wasn’t surprised that he was very interested in the books, especially since I was only charging for the shipping.

Meanwhile, that same evening I started reading The Three ‘ONLY’ Things by Robert Moss and was amused to see him make reference to Indiana Jones within a few pages. Moss explained that he was playing with an idea for a fact-based novel with some “Indiana Jones” touches, in which Winston Churchill and his bodyguard battled Nazi occultists.

He was looking for guidance related to the idea so before heading to the airport to begin a trip, he wrote on an index card: I would like guidance on whether writing a novel about Churchill with an Indiana Jones flavor is a good idea. On the second leg of the trip, while in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, Moss reached his gate and found a guy in full Indiana Jones regalia. “He has the whole kit: the hat, the jacket, the Sam Browne belt, even the canvas dispatch case. Everything except the whip and the gun.”

Moss, at that point, was thinking that this was his sign. But a part of him was saying that it was a bit too much–over the top. Besides, the guy didn’t look like Harrison Ford and was somewhat chubby. So he boarded his plane, found his seat and started reading a book about Churchill. Just before takeoff, someone interrupted him: “I’m sitting next to you. I swapped seats with a guy so he could sit with his family.” Of course, it’s the Indiana Jones guy. Seating arrangements were scrambled and synchronicity blossomed.

Moss asked if he had the whip. It was at home, along with the revolver. He went on to tell Moss that his garb is all authentic and that the clothes were made by Peter Botwright, who made the clothes for the Indy movies. As an aside he added that Botwright used to be Winston Churchill’s bodyguard.

That was Moss’ cue. He continued his research and began writing the novel.

Meanwhile, I got my closet cleaned and found another synchronicity for the blog. – Rob

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Stephen King’s Dream

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Trish and Rob

 We’ve posted a number of stories about dreams and synchronicity and about dream and the creative process. One of our favorites is from Stephen King’s book on writing, On the Craft, where a vivid dream provided the creative energy – and a plot and characters – for King’s novel, Misery.

While on a flight to London, King fell asleep and dreamed of a woman who holds a writer captive.  A female fan. In the dream, the fan eventually killed him, skinned him, and fed his remains to a pig – then used the pig’s skin to bind his novel. As soon as King arrived at his hotel, he sat down and wrote the first 50 pages of the novel.

The final product differed from the dream – the protagonist wasn’t killed, but was terrorized and tortured by the woman who held him captive. What’s so interesting about this dream, though, is that it seemed to plug King right into the creative flow that all writers seek and that flow lasted long enough for him to get the first 50 pages written. The book is considered to be one of King’s most riveting thrillers.

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Raising Lazarus

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Here’s a synchronicity offered by Gibbs Williams, author of the upcoming book, Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, The Personal Unconscious, and The Creative Process. His book features 19 personal synchronicities that he studies in depth.  Dr. Willams is a New York psychoanalyst and writes from that perspective. If you want to read more about his theories and thoughts about synchronicity, you can visit his website.
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Trish and all interested others…. The following is the context surrounding my first significant synchronicity plus the meaningful coincidence in detail.

The Coincidence. While consciously asking myself the question if miracles might in fact be really real, I opened the Bible and randomly turned to the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead. I was struck by the story’s implications, reasoning that if the bible is the revelation of divinity communicated to mankind so that events like the rising of Lazarus might be literally true, then such phenomena as contacting “dead” spirits and personal spiritual guides at a séance, such as I had attended (initially judged to be as preposterous as it was seductive), might in fact be valid.

Feeling excitedly agitated, I called D to share my experience. Responding to my apparent revelation, excitement, and reflections, she exclaimed: “How uncanny!” for that very afternoon on a walk with L, her (unconventional) psychiatrist, had told her that in a previous lifetime he had been present at the raising of Lazarus.

Upon hearing this amazing coincidental reference to the raising of Lazarus, being connected as it was to L, the remarkable psychiatrist; to D the unusually friendly woman; and the vision I saw at the extraordinary séance, I experienced an unexpected rush of awe combined with a felt sense of being in touch with an indefinable but highly significant shockingly good experience. (Jung would likely have named the sense of awe associated with this event as a numinosity.) Later I described my experience as being in touch with mysterious forces that, at that time, verified the possibility that so-called occult energies were apparently real and this meant that virtually anyone could access them at will.

I then experienced a heightened split between a wide open-side of me that desperately wanted to believe in the actuality of a transcendent spiritual realm that was a source of and accessible to potentially vital information concerning myself; versus, a skeptical cynical side of me that scoffed at such activities as highly stimulating but patently “unscientific” indulgences in the realm of the supernatural. I wondered if I was dangerously playing around in what Freud (1910) was cautioning Jung to be wary of; namely, “the black tide of mud… occultism?”

For me at the time the whole experience had important philosophical, psychological, scientific, spiritual, and occult implications that ignited my passion to try to scientifically understand what Jung said was basically incomprehensible in rational terms.
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Drinking and Driving

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Trish and Rob

As most parents of teens and twenties, we’ve worried about Megan and beer parties with her college friends, particularly when the partying is mixed with driving. Recently, Megan, home on break, had a few friends over. She and one of them went out to buy beer. The friend who is 21, went in to buy, and 20-year-old Megan waited in the parking lot. She turned off the engine of her car, but for some reason left the headlights on. Five minutes later, when friend and beer returned to the car, it wouldn’t start.

So she called home and one of her friends agreed to go out and give her a jump. I gave her my jumper cables and off she went. Meanwhile, a man in the parking lot saw an attractive young blond standing next to a car with the hood up, came over, and offered to give her a jump. So, Megan was on her way home before Ashley arrived. Instead of turning around when she got a call from Megan Ashley continued on to buy some more beer.

So Megan arrives home and a few minutes later, Ashley calls and says now her car won’t start. Synchronicity. Same plan: buy beer, same result, dead battery.  But luckily, Ashley had gone with my jumper cables and was able to find someone to give her a jump.

So what’s the bigger picture? For mom and dad, it was obvious, don’t drink and drive. Megan protested that they weren’t drinking, they were buying. True, so the message was a warning for the rest of the night, and the rest of their lives.And there could also be a message there about too much partying and wearing down your battery.


Rob

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The Future Past

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Our post on Dec. 6 began with the question of whether or not the present could affect the past. Peter Levenda presented an astonishing example that related directly to Barack Obama and the bogus controversy about his place of birth.

Now here is a higher order of speculation on a similar question: What do you get when the past crystallizes out of the future? According to a new model of the universe that combines relativity and quantum mechanics, the answer is: the present. It’s presented in Technology Review, published by MIT.  Take a look here.

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The Salted Cod

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Maja Nicolic is the foreign rights agent at our agent’s company. She was born in Belgrade and grew up in a small town about 25 miles from there – Smederevo. Her story about salted cod and the death of her aunt is another one of those synchronicities associated with major life transitions.
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When I was pitching the synchronicity book at the Frankfurt Book Fair, it reminded me of something that happened some years ago.

 My uncle married a beautiful woman from  Korcula, one of the Croatian islands.  Kruna (it means crown in English)  made an absolutely delicious salted cod stew. Part of what made the stew so good was that she was from the islands and living inland away from the sea, so there was always a touch of melancholy about her. When she cooked the stew, it was like something special went into every dish. As Yugoslavia fell apart and the economy collapsed, it became impossible to find salted cod over there and I always wanted to find a way to send it to her.   

For years, my daughters  had dance lessons on Sunday morning on the West Side and I did my weekly food shopping at a big store there. Every Sunday I’d look at the salted cod and remember my aunt. Then Kruna got breast cancer and the summer she was sick a lovely young woman from Serbia, Milena,  was in New York and agreed to take the salted cod back to Serbia for my aunt. 

I spoke with the person in the store and was assured they could vacuum pack it and make it easy to carry.  The day Milena was leaving I went to the store and they were out of salted cod! And yet, an unusually large order had come in earlier in the week.  I was very upset because they’d always, always had it, but did not
see it as an omen. 

When  I came back from the airport, there was a message that my Aunt Kruna had taken a very sudden turn for the worse and died that morning.

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