On July 7, a UFO over China shut down Hangzhou airport and 18 flights were diverted. Normal operations resumed an hour later, but no explanation was offered. People living near the airport snapped photos, like the one depicted above.
On July 15, in Chongqing in eastern China, a second UFO had residents on edge. Witnesses told the Shanghai Daily that “four lantern-like objects forming a diamond shape that hovered over the city’s Shaping Park for over an hour.”
The video below is impressive.
M.C. Escher’s Three Worlds
On July 11, we put up a post about the solar eclipse in Cancer that occurred at 3:33 EDT. Solar eclipses trigger external events, which was certainly the case for Connie Cannon. But her experiences also address the cluster of 3s in the time of the eclipse and resulted in some layered synchronicities.
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Ted and I went to Jacksonville yesterday in the Durango to browse around. On the way there, the pump in our SUV air conditioning more or less “exploded”, sending billowing smoke out from under the hood. The trip was awful, as the real temp outside was over 100 degrees and the heat index was 108, so the inside of the car, even with the windows down, was unbearable.
Chris and Susan and the girls also went on a short road trip yesterday. Their car, a sporty Chevy, blew its conditioning pump.
I was still wearing the cardiac artifical intelligence device. At 3:30 EDT, (I always immediately look at a clock when this occurs because 1- I need to time the event to know how long it lasts, and 2- I’m going to instantly take medication and need to know what time I took it), my heart went crazy, blood pressure sky-rocketed, and heart-rate was trying to do the jive dance. This continued off and on for the remainder of the day.
Got home. Carey called. He had a blow-out on a brand new tire while he was doing 70 miles an hour on U.S.1 (that was the speed limit there.) He was OK because his truck has automatic stabilizing feature. After buying a new tire and being on his way home, he was speeding and got a speeding ticket. The time and date on the speeding ticket was 3:30 pm EDT, 7-11-2010. Now here’s the kicker: He was driving through a “road construction” area, but on Sunday there were no workers present. The speed limit there, however, was posted at 35mph. Carey was clocked at driving 33 miles over the speed limit…..68mph….and fined accordingly!
I was in a deep sleep last night, dreaming; was suddenly brought out of sleep with a hard cardiac arrhythmia. My eyes hit the bedside digital clock. It was 3:30 am EDT, 7-12-2010. I of course took the medicine and recorded the event on the monitor, even though it registers everything on its own. The arrhythmia lasted
EXACTLY 3 hours and 30 minutes, then spontaneously converted to normal rhythm at 7:00am. I was wide awake throughout. Can’t sleep when your heart is doing that kind of wild dance.
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So it looks as if the series of synchros consistently addressed 3s. The odds? Considerable.
The Adirondacks in upstate New York is filled with lakes and the landscape is breathtakingly beautiful. This synchronicity occurred on Fourth Lake and involved a loon. It was sent by our friend Janice Cutbush. Last year, we posted another of her synchronicities, The Two Toms. This one also is about Tom – and the loon. Tom passed away some years ago, so this story definitely falls under spirit contact.
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Tom loved going to the Fulton Chain of Lakes near Old Forge NY every summer with the kids. It was his favorite vacation. One of the things he loved was listening to the loons on Fourth Lake early in the morning. Shortly after he died, our close friends who have a home on the lake invited me to come visit.
I went for a swim late in the afternoon one day and was immersed in the activity when I suddenly felt a presence near me in the water. I looked up and there was this enormous lone loon about 20 feet away from me. He stayed near during my entire swim and left when I got out of the water.
Each day of my visit he appeared in front of my friends’ home. We began calling him Tom. My friend said it was unusual to see a loon alone, as they usually travel in pairs and mate for life and also because they generally are spotted early in the morning or just before dusk.
We vacation there still every year and have rented different homes on various lakes in the area, but no matter where we are, our lone loon appears at some point during the vacation. I like to think it is Tom’s spirit visiting us.
According to an article on Huffington Post, Paul the Octopus could be worth millions – at least $4.5 million, says a PR specialist who spoke with CNN.
Pretend for a moment that he isn’t an octopus. Given his predictive record, he would make a perfect guest on Oprah, the late night talk shows, even the morning TV and radio shows. Give us your predictions, Paul, on whether BP will successfully cap the oil gusher.Or: Who will win the U.S. presidency in 2012? Or: What’s your prediction, Paul, about the midterm elections in the U.S.? Will the Dems hold on to Congress?
Paul apparently made his predictions based on his stomach.”Before each game, the 2 1/2-year-old octopus’ handlers placed two clear boxes in his tank, each containing a mussel snack and the flag for teams slated to faceoff. And he didn’t always favor the home team. Paul sparked a furor in Germany after he predicted the team’s 1-0 loss to Spain, and even received death threats from irate fans in the form of octopus recipes.”
We’ve talked about animals as messengers, so what does Paul tell us about ourselves and the state of the world and sports? Well, the octopus has a well-developed brain, incredible eyesight, no bones, and its bite is poisonous to prey. Its best protection is the ability to camouflage itself, to instantly change the color and texture of its skin to match its surroundings.
The octopus has three hearts. The color of its blood is light blue. It moves through jet propulsion, temporarily blinds a predator by squirting ink at it. Most of these creatures live only a year or two (don’t like the sound of that!). Once an octopus reaches sexual maturity, it can mate several times a day. Once impregnated, the female lays tens of thousands of eggs, which she weaves into strings and attaches to the roof of her dwelling. Until the eggs hatch a month later, she doesn’t leave her den, and dies shortly after the eggs hatch. The male also dies shortly afterward, so all these youngsters are left to fend for themselves.
If we take our cues from animal messengers based on their behaviors and lifestyles, then it’s all beginning to remind me of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, not an uplifting omen for the future.
So I think I’ll focus on those three hearts: the first pumps life, the second embraces life, the third loves life.
– Trish
Manhattan’s Apple Store
We went to the Apple Store at our local mall (not the one in the photo!) to look at the new MacBooks. The man who helped us out seemed well-informed about the products, so while Megan was cruising around the store, I asked him how the iPad compared to a notebook for writing. Ever since the iPad came out, I’ve thought about how light is is compared to my notebook and if it could be a substitute for my notebook while traveling. In the course of the conversation, I explained why I was interested in an iPad. He asked what kinds of books I wrote, so I mentioned the synchronicity book.
“What’s synchronicity?” he asked.
“Meaningful coincidence.”
His eyes widened. “Oh, my life is filled with those. You want to hear a couple?”
“You bet. I’ll post them on our blog, would that be okay with you?”
“Sure.” And he proceeded to share his synchros.
On a September 1 years ago, his mother, who had cancer, slipped into a coma. He flew to New York to be with her and stayed with his brother and sisters near her bed for about a week. Her doctors didn’t have any idea whether she would regain consciousness or simply pass on and he had to return to work. He and his siblings believed their mother would die on September 19, the day of her anniversary. “And at six AM on September 19, I got a call that mom had just passed away. What are the odds?”
“Skip ahead a few years,” he went on. “My dad had slipped into a coma and wasn’t expected to live. It was February 1. My brother and sisters and I believed he would die on February 14, on our mother’s birthday.”
“And he did?”
He nodded. “But that’s not all. I don’t mean to be depressing here, but in 1975, I had an infant son who died suddenly of crib death. On the day my mother died, September 19, it would have been my son’s twenty-first birthday.”
Odds. Wow. And what are the odds of hearing stories like this at an Apple store?
Before the recently concluded World Cup competition fades to memory, we need to honor the triumph of –not Spain–but Paul, the octopus who correctly predicted the winning team eight times in a row. Paul, who lives in an aquarium in Germany, predicted the winner in Germany’s last seven games, then went on to pick Spain in the World Cup finale. Good job, Paul. You’re the toast of animal oracles worldwide!
Here’s how Wikipedia describes the cephalopod phenom.
Paul (purportedly hatched January 2008) is a common octopus living in a tank at a Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, who is an animal oracle and now retired predictor of football matches, usually international matches in which Germany was playing. He came to worldwide attention with his 100% accurate predictions in the 2010 World Cup.
During a divination, Paul was presented with two boxes containing food in the form of a mussel, each marked with the flag of a national football team in an upcoming match. He chose the box with the flag of the winning team in four of Germany’s six Euro 2008 matches, and in all seven of their matches in the 2010 World Cup. He correctly predicted a win for Spain against the Netherlands in the World Cup final on 11 July by eating the mussel in the box with the Spanish flag on it.[1] His predictions were 100% (8/8) correct for the 2010 World Cup and 86% (12/14) correct overall. Paul was retired after the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Okay, congrats to Spain, too, even though our friends in Aruba were greatly disappointed by the Netherlands’ 1-0 loss.
In yoga philosophy, Samadhi is a blissful state of consciousness induced by complete meditation. Like almost everyone else, I find it challenging to reach that state. In fact, I can think of only once where I came close to entering it.
It was at the end of a 4-day hike through Canyon de Chelly in Arizona on the Navajo Rez. I was a on a vision quest with a group of people led by a shaman named Alberto. So as the others climbed out of the canyon to a waiting bus, I decided to sit on a boulder and meditate awhile as I gazed out over the canyon. Several people were lagging behind so I figured I had time.
Within a few minutes, I moved into a state of consciousness I’d never achieved in meditation. I lost track of time, my thoughts faded to nothingness, and I literally became the canyon. Yet, at the same time, I was aware of myself seated on the rock. I was in bliss and I didn’t want it to end.
Vaguely from a distance I heard a voice calling my name repeatedly. I slowly came out of it, and realized that Alberto was yelling at me from the road above. The bus was full and everyone was waiting to go. He’d been shouting my name off and on for several minutes. So I climbed down from my rock and rejoined the others.
I told this story to my meditation class recently as a I prepared to read a couple of passages about samadhi from an adaptation of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, written more than 2,000 years ago. It wasn’t until a couple days before the class that I was struck by an ironic synchronicity that I’d overlooked. The book which I had selected was called, Yoga, Power and Spirit: Patanjali the Shaman. I’d picked it up a couple of years ago because I recognized the author, Alberto Villoldo. Yes, Alberto, the same Alberto who had yelled at me from the road to get off the rock, and hence out of samadhi.
Trish didn’t think this was much of a synchronicity–more of a case of awareness– maybe because Alberto hasn’t surfaced in the present in any form unrelated to my meditation class. She has a point, but it still struck me as meaningful since I hadn’t consciously connected my canyon story with the book I was using for the meditation on samadhi.
Here’s a portion of what I read.
Meditating by a lake,
the yogi becomes the lake,
Meditating by a fire,
the yogi becomes
the flame,
the crackling branch,
the oak,
the acorn.
She becomes one with the object of her meditation.
She becomes the red-rock canyon wall
or soft and green like the moss.
She smells the rose and there is only the fragrance,
No thought of roses
She achieves samadhi.
from soul cards
The word “clusters” conjures various images: clusters of stars, grapes, leaves, people, experiences. But synchronicities often occur in clusters – notably in numbers or the repetition of names, phrases, songs, objects. We’ve posted quite a few synchros about number clusters. Another type of cluster is simultaneous discoveries.
Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, working independently of each other, discovered calculus. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace came up with the theory of evolution at the same time. Author and physicist F. David Peat, writing in Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind, asks, “Do such concepts and insights exist in some enfolded, symbolic form within the unconscious mind? Or are they approached within nature, not directly but in some hidden way which must be unfolded within the languages of art, literature, music or science?”
Jung also saw synchronicity as the reason independent researchers can come up with the same results or knowledge at the same time. Congealing in the unconscious is the need for answers. Searching for a solution in their own ways, researchers resolve the problem simultaneously. Peat points out that some synchronicities could involve “becoming linked with the environment in a special way, anticipating events or sensing some underlying pattern to the world.”
This special link to the environment that Peat mentions might explain the planetary empath phenomenon or why some of us have such strong connections to animals, certain places. When Jung experienced clustered synchronicities, he described them as having a “numinous quality,” a characteristic many people mention when talking or writing about their synchronicities. It’s as if the hand of the cosmos sweeps into our lives and shakes things up so magically that we no longer see the world or ourselves in the same way. Come to think of it, that’s how I feel every time I stumble across a synchronicity on a blog or website or whenever I experience one myself. A sense of wonder.
– Trish
You spend time posting to your blog and creating a blog that attracts visitors. Blogger allows you to back up your blog in the export section of your dashboard. But it’s in xml, a language that is basically useless unless you’re transferring your blog to another server or restoring it. As a result of our experience, detailed here, I spent hours yesterday trying to find a way to convert our backup to a PDF file. Once it’s in PDF, you can open and read it like a book, convert it to word, print it out, whatever. The problem is that most services that do this charge for it. Blogger has a service where you can pay between $15-25 to have your blog printed as a book. But there’s an even better option.
It’s here. First, go into the blogger dashboard in draft mode. Press the export button and download the xml file. Save it to your hard drive and to a flash drive or external hard drive. Then go to blogbooker and follow the directions. If you have a large blog, you should set the filters for smaller chunks of time. I tried multiple times and it wouldn’t work, so I wrote to blogbooker. The person who wrote back requested my xml file, which I sent. He/she replied that the file was valid, but too large. So by doing it in smaller chunks, I was able to get several pdf files of our blog, photos, images, comments and all. It doesn’t save the template, but you’ve got the important stuff, the content. Blogbooker operates only on donations and it’s worth every euro or dollar that you donate.
This way, if your blog ever vanishes, you’ve got it backed up in PDF. Forever.
Today’s total solar eclipse occurs at 3:33 PM EDT and 6:15 GMT. Most of the eclipse will occur over the Pacific Ocean, so not that many people will be able to see it. Chile’s Easter Island will be epicenter for the eclipse here on earth. About 4,000 indigenous people – the Rapa Nui – live on the island and they’re going to be sharing the island with thousands of scientists who are arriving for the event. This eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse to occur over Easter Island in more than a thousand years. Here’s a terrific article about the eclipse from The Pulse, Chile’s all English newspaper.
Astrologically, there are a a variety of opinions about this eclipse. They can be found here (midway down the page), here, here. You may also want to check here to find out how this eclipse may impact you. Click on your sun sign for a review of the month and for personal info about the eclipse. The thing to remember about all eclipses is that they have lessons to teach us – collectively and personally. If you don’t have any lessons to learn from this eclipse, then you should breeze through the day. The effect of an eclipse isn’t always exact. Events can sometimes radiate outward for as far as six months. Or over the course of a lifetime. Princess Diana was born under an eclipse – and died under one.
