Electric Avenue

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Trish and Rob


Jim Banholzer sends this one from the San Bernardino newspaper. Instead of blaming the fence, the headline should read: “Lightning jolts six people on Electric Avenue.”
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Lightning jolts six people near fence in San Bernardino
By Andrew Edwards
Posted: 06/03/2009 07:58:16 PM PDT

Six people received a jolt after lightning struck a metal fence they were leaning against in a north San Bernardino neighborhood.

Emergency personnel responded to the call about 6 p.m. today near Electric Avenue and 40th Street.

Witness Aaron Sallis said he and the others were hanging out when the lightning bolt hit.

Sallis said all six young men seemed to have experienced electrical burns, but were conscious.

Firefighters treated four people at a nearby convenience store, and Sallis said the other two left the area.

Additional details from the San Bernardino City Fire Department were not immediately available.

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Hexagram 39

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Rob, now on crutches and in a cast, asked the I Ching about the meaning of his broken foot. He received Hexagram 57, Proceeding Humbly, with two changing lines that resulted in a second Hexagram – 39, Obstruction. The Wilhelm version wasn’t much help in understanding his question, so we brought out the Alfred Huang version and were struck by the interpretation and pictograph for #39, which Huang calls Hardship. Look at the symbol above, then read on:

“The ideograph of the gua shows its original meaning – a lame person having difficulty walking…At the top of the ideograph is the roof of a house with a chimney. Below it, there is an ideograph of a person. At the bottom, there is an ideograph of a foot. On each side of the foot and underneath the person a pair of crutches is drawn.One can visualize the crutches under the armpits of the person…”

Again the Ching is eerily literal.
& yes, hobbling around on crutches with a broken foot is definitely an obstruction and a hardship!

If that’s not strange enough, another interpretation found by Googling Hexagram 39 labels the hexagram ‘Difficulties’ or ‘Limping’. “It describes the experience of a perpetual uphill struggle: just one thing after another, grinding on and on, battling with handicaps or with the elements or with an unforgivingly inhospitable world…
…and it also describes the moment when you turn this around.
Clarity

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Reading the bumps

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Trish and Rob



Ammonite fossil…and the Himalayas

This story is from Butternut squash, who has left insightful comments on this blog a number times. Her synchronicity involves travel and places to which we feel deep and mysterious connections.
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When I lived in Japan, I had a street psychic read the bumps on my head. One of the things that he told me was that Nepal was a country that would be very good for me. I did not know anything about Nepal and had no plans of going there. I did have a plan to go to China and taking the Trans Siberian Railway across Mongolia to Europe.

A year later, I started on my travels with a girl friend. On the way we met a couple of boys, not too unusual. What was strange is that without any planning we ran into the same two young men in three different cities in China. China is immense with billions of people, what are the chances that we would meet them three times hundreds of miles apart?

We decided that traveling together must be fated so we traveled all over China with a plan of going on the Trans Siberian Railway together. When we got to Beijing, we were told that there had been some political trouble at the border and there would be no possibility of a trip to Europe via the Railway for months. One of the young men traveling with us picked up a brochure about Nepal and read “kayaking” and “great food,” and with that, we decided to go instead overland through China to Tibet and Nepal.

It was a difficult but fantastic journey! In Nepal we parted amicably, but for no particular reason. It was as if these young men chaperoned me to the place where my life began. Certainly, I would not have traveled as far as I did without one of the young men who was a Mandarin Chinese speaking Scotsman. On that trip, without any real planning, I started a business from Nepal and I have been going back regularly ever since.

On that first trip to Nepal I found a Salagrama in a river bed. It is a black rock that when split open has a fossilized ammonite, a spiral with radiating lines, hiding inside. In Nepal it is believed that when you find a salagrama it means that you are on your correct path in life. I thought you would like the symbolism of the concentric rings with lines radiating out of them, it seems the symbol of synchronicity to me.

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Rob’s Left Foot

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Okay, so this evening Rob decides to go trail biking – the kind of biking where you slam over obstacles like fallen trees. It had rained today, which broke the stifling Florida heat and usually means the trail is well packed. I remind him to take his cell phone since we’ve had some car issues lately, but he can’t find it.

Around 8 PM, I hear the front door open, shut, which is odd. He usually comes in through the garage. I go out into the living room and he’s sprawled on the couch, eyes squeezed shut. “I think I sprained my ankle,” he said, and lifts his injured foot onto the edge of the coffee table.

I take one look at his foot and know this is no sprain. A bone on the outside of his foot is about the size of an apricot. “Uh, I think this is a fracture or a break. I’ll get some ice.”

So I get a bucket of ice, then head to the internet to look for information on the bones in the feet. I figure the bone that’s fractured or broken is the cuboid, on the forefoot, as it’s called. I’m wondering if there’s a synchronicity connected to any of this.

Later on, I stack up a bunch of books we’ve been using as references and put them on Rob’s desk. A few minutes later, he calls out: “You aren’t going to believe this. You know those books you just put on my desk? I picked up Jung’s autobiography, turned to chapter 10, and here’s how it starts: “In the beginning of 1944, I broke my foot…”
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UPDATE
A correspondent for evolver.net (Crazy Rudy) sent us these cultural pegs from Wikipedia related to My Left Foot. Thanks, Rudy.

“On the television sketch show In Living Color, Jim Carrey played a taekwondo expert who could only move his left foot. The sketch was known as My Left Foot of Fury.

“An episode of The Critic has Jay Sherman wearing a My Left Foot sock, a promotion item given to him when viewing the film.

“In the Animated T.V series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack; A Movie poster promoting a film called “My Left Tentacle” in front of a theater, a reference to the film; is seen as Flap jack leads Captain K’nuckles around the docks during the episode “Lead em’ and Weep”

“In the 1999 film Flawless Walter Koontz (played by Robert De Niro) suffers a stroke and is partially disabled. When one drag queen (Cha-Cha) meets him for the first time, she remarks, “You’ve got a kind of My Left Foot thing going on, huh?” For the rest of the movie, she refers to him as ‘Mr. My Left Foot.’

“In an episode of Family Guy, there is a flashback joke of Stewie Griffin performing a song & “dance” routine from a staged musical production of “My Left Foot”, wherein Stewie, while seated in a wheelchair, performs an elaborate tap dance with only his left foot.

“In an episode of Gilmore Girls Lorelai tells Luke that she was just doing a rendition of Daniel Day-Lewis’s performance in My Left Foot and how she did it with her right foot to give a very different effect.” (Wikipedia)

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Mark Twain

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Trish and Rob

In the late 1850s, Mark Twain and his brother, Henry, worked on the Mississippi riverboats that moved between St. Louis and New Orleans. One night while staying at their sister’s place in St. Louis, Twain dreamed of his brother’s corpse laid out in a metal coffin in their sister’s living room. The details were quite specific: the coffin rested on a pair of chairs and a bouquet with a single blood-red flower was on Henry’s chest.

Several weeks later when Twain and his brother were together in New Orleans, they had to take different boats back to St. Louis. Henry was on the Pennsylvania and and wasn’t far from Memphis when the boilers exploded, killing numerous people. Henry was badly injured and taken to Memphis, where he died a few days later.

Most of the victims were buried in wooden coffins, but a group of Memphis women raised enough money to have Henry buried in a metal coffin, just as Twain had seen in his dream. The bouquet he’d seen, that single blood-red flower, was missing. But as Twain was standing next to the body, a woman came into the room and placed a white bouquet of flowers on Henry’s chest. In the center of it was a single crimson rose.

– from The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
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This story bears some similarities to one we posted on February 15 from Joyce Evans.

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Final Destination Update

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Trish and Rob



R.I.P.

Around 6:15, CNN announced that Jackson had passed away. So the loop of three comes around again.

Update to Final Destination:
Ed McMahon died several days ago, Farrah Fawcett died today. We’ve been discussing how these celebrity deaths seem to come in threes. Now there’s a report that Michael Jackson has had a heart attack. Original story here.

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#23, updated

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Back on March 23, we posted an entry called #23,Anyone? It was about the research that writers William Boroughs and Robert Anton Wilson did on the #23. In researching this number, we uncovered some more fascinating stuff about this number. Interestingly, we were researching this information on June 23, but didn’t make that connection until June 24.

In science and math:

During conception, each parent contributes 23 chromosome apiece to the fetus. Euclid’s geometry has 23 axioms.
23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime numbers and add up to another prime number.
It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate through the human body.
Every 23rd wave that slams into a shore is twice as large as the average wave.
The first lunar landing was in the Sea of Tranquility, 23.63 degrees East. The second lunar landing was in the Ocean of Storms, 23.42 degrees West. The first two landings were Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 – 11+12=23.
The earth rotates completely every 23 hours, 56 minutes.
The axis of the plane Earth is 23.5 degrees.
The human biorhythm cycle is 23 days.
The pattern of DNA shows irregular connections at every 23rd section.
Humans have 23 vertebra running down the main part of their spines.
The Harmonic Convergence occurs every 23,000 years.
Geosynchronous orbit occurs at 23,000 miles above Earth’s surface.
September 23rd is the Fall equinox.
23+23+23=WWW, the World Wide Web (W being the 23rd letter of the alphabet)

In Hollywood and with movies and TV, the number also plays a role. Take X-Files. The production company, Ten-Thirteen -10+13 – adds up to 23. 10-13 is the birth date of creator Chris Carter. For fans of X-Files, remember that abandoned nuclear silo where a UFO is being held? 1013 is the number on the silo. In another episode, Mulder goes to the apartment of a recently deceased man and the number 23 is on the door.

In the popular TV series Lost, which builds on layers of synchronicity, there are a number of oddities involving 23:
Oceanic Flight 815 – 8+15=23
The gate number from which the flight departed
Jack’s seat on the flight was 23A
Rose and Bernard were sitting in row 23
Hurley stayed in a Sydney hotel on floor 23
The reward for turning Kate in: $23,000
One of the numbers in the sequence of 6 that won Hurley the lottery and opened the hatch: 4 8 15 16 23 42.
Even if the repetition of 23s in the series is intentional, it’s nonetheless the sort of weirdness that would have interested both Burroughs and Wilson.

Is anyone stalked by the #23??

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Twin Deaths

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Another story about twins and their inter-connected lives.
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In 2002, seventy-year-old twin brothers died within hours of one another
after separate accidents on the same road in northern Finland. The first
of the twins died when he was hit by a lorry while riding his bike in
Raahe, 600 kilometers north of the capital, Helsinki. A short time later, his brother died in a car wreck just 1.5km from the spot where his brother was killed.

“This is simply a historic coincidence. Although the road is a busy one, accidents don’t occur every day,” police officer Marja-Leena Huhtala told Reuters. “It made my
hair stand on end when I heard the two were brothers, and identical
twins at that. It came to mind that perhaps someone from upstairs had a
say in this,” she said.
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Okay, but this story would be more interesting if we knew whether or not the second twin was aware that his brother had just died. If so, his death could’ve had a causal link. In other words, it could’ve been a suicide, or he was upset and in no condition to drive along that same road. On the other hand, if he hadn’t found out about his brother’s death, it would be an astonishing synchronicity.

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Final Destination

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Trish and Rob

David Malcolm – whose synchronicities we have used several time on this blog – alerted us to this story. It’s one of those bizarre and tragic synchronicities. Maybe the message is that you can’t cheat death.

On June 1, Air France flight 447 vanished over the Atlantic Ocean while en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris. Pieces of the wreckage and several dozen bodies have since been recovered, but authorities still aren’t sure what caused the crash. 228 individuals perished. But at least two passengers got lucky. Or did they?

Kurt and Johanna Ganthaler, pensioners from the Bolzano-Bozen province in Italy, were vacationing in Brazil and were supposed to take flight 447 back to Paris. But they missed their flight. No big deal. Happens every day. But the Ganthalers subsequently discovered that they dodged death.

They took a flight back to Europe the day after Flight 447 vanished. But within a week, while in Kufstein, Austria, their car crashed into an oncoming truck and Mrs. Ganthaler was killed. Her husband was seriously injured.

Rob doesn’t think this one is a synchronicity. But to me, it’s just too bizarre not to include here. So what’s the meaning?

Original article can be found here.

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11:11

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Trish and Rob

In researching cluster synchronicities involving the numbers 11, 111, and 11:11, I came across some intriguing information. First, if you Google 11:11, more than 203 million hits come up. Yeah, that’s 203 million. That number falls between the populations of Indonesia at 237,512,352 and of Brazil, at 196,342,592. A whole bunch of websites, in other words.

The phenomenon of 11:11 appears to be huge, but there are so many theories – and some of them are so far out there – that it’s anyone’s guess what any of it means. But here are some of the best examples of 11, 111, or 11:11:

The WWI armistice was signed at 11:11 AM on 11/11/18.

World War II ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

The Berlin Wall fell on 11/11/89.

Yasser Arafat died on 11/11/04.

JFK was assassinated on 11/22.

Supposedly the Mayan calendar end year 2012 is timed at 11:11 Universal time.

The U.S. Navy lists the 2012 solstice for 12/21/12 at 11:11 Universal time.

Israeli psychic Uri Geller has an entire section on his website devoted to 11:11.

And that’s just for starters.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Any synchronicities involving these numbers that you would like to share?

– Trish

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