San Martin De Porres

This synchronicity was sent by Margarita Goodhart, who lives in Ecuador. We met her and her husband Frank some years ago when we stayed at their hotel in Otavalo, one of the highlights of that trip.

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As a kid, Margarita was brought up by the Catholic church until she was 18. When she was 10 or 11, she was instructed to pick a saint.The idea here is that the saint intercedes for you with God. So she did her homework, reading up the lives of saints, and finally chose San Martin de Porresm, a black man who wasn’t allowed to become a priest.

According to Wikipedia, he was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregor XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He’s the patron saint of mixed race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, all those seeking racial harmony, and of animals. Among the many miracles attributed to him were bilocation, levitation, and an ability to communicate with animals.

So years ago, Margarita was in Lima, Peru, staying in an old section of the city where the church of Santo Domingo was. “I decided one day to go over there to the church, sit in the back for the rest of a Mass, and then got to speak with the Sacristan, one of the caretakers. He mentioned  that the remains of San Martin de Porres were  in the back chapel and would I like to see it?

Well, my heart stopped for a moment. This was a ‘connection, ‘  something meaningful. So yes, his remains were back there, ‘buried’ somewhere, not sure what they were, maybe a bone? Anyway, it was set up in the little ornate chapel like a ‘casket’ in a way with glass on the top.  I was able to be there and spend all the time that I wanted! I knew that I was ‘home’ whatever that was, as I lived in 5 different ‘homes’ (not) growing up! So I thought you would be interested in that!   I’m now 72 so you can imagine how long ago that was!

Well, I went full circle on that one.

Just look at the odds.A saint Margarita had picked when she was 10 or 11, an orphan of the Catholic church, just happened to be buried in a church  in a neighborhood in Lima where she was staying as an adult many years later. She felt as if she’d “come home.”

 

 

 

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A SYNCHRONICITY ABOUT COVERS

The similarity between these two covers is something our podcast producer, Jon Posey, brought up today (Feb 18) during our podcast  with Aeon Karris. The cover of her book, Synchronicity: Unlock Your Divine Destiny, is supposed to be the light within our souls . The cover for the new Pearl Jam album is supposed to depict the album’s title, Dark Matter.  Both feature an illuminated area in the center of darkness.

Jon is a huge Pearl Jam fan.Here’s his swag from a Memphis concert some years back.

He called later this evening to let us know how this synchronicity had played out. Jon joined a group called “The Ten Club,” an official Pearl Jam fan club. A week ago, he requested tickets through the club for the two shows in Philadelphia in September. He’ll find out if he got them in several days. He posted the podcast with Aeon and the covers to the fan club’s website.

“Hopefully, I earned a little karma today,” he said. “I love how Pearl Jam takes care of their fans, offering ticket deals like this.”

Stay tuned! We’ll let you know if Jon got his tickets!

And we’re going to have Aeon on the podcast again as she makes her way round the world following the guidance of synchronicity!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TMU podcast with Philip Merry

Author and synchronicity master Philip Merry is our guest. We love talking with this man!

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Science Fiction Writers See the Future

 

Science fiction writers have a long tradition of envisioning the future and its technology that later becomes scientific fact.

Take Jules Verne. In his 1870 novel, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, he imagined an underwater ship powered by electricity. American inventor Simon Lake was inspired by the novel and invented his own submarine, the Argonaut, in 1888.Verne’s novel, From the Earth to the Moon, published in 1865, described the details of a space capsule that in 1969 sent astronauts to the moon – the Apollo 11. He stipulated how long the flight would last, that it would be launched from Florida, and its splashdown in the ocean. He also described light-propelled spacecraft now known as solar sails. And keep in mind that Verne was living in the time of the Civil War.

Verne isn’t unique. Throughout history, numerous examples exist of how writers, artists, moviemakers, and others in creative professions depicted inventions and details about future events that they realistically had no way of knowing. But Verne, as a science fiction writer, may hold the top prize in this regard.

Edward Bellamy is probably best known for his 1888 Looking Backward, a utopian novel set in Boston in 2000. In the story, the U.S. is a socialist country that exists in a spirit of cooperation and brotherhood – not exactly what life is like in the 21st century! However, the people in his utopia carry cards that allow them to make purchases without cash. Sounds a lot like a debit card!

Robert Heinlein’s most famous novel was probably Stranger in a Strange Land. But like many writers, he started out writing short stories. In 1941, he published Solution Unsatisfactory in Astounding Science Fiction, about a future world where the U.S. develops an atomic weapon that ends WWII. This event launches a nuclear arms race. The story was written before the U.S. entered WWII and five years before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In 1953, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was published. In the book, Bradbury describes “little seashells… thimble radios” , portable headphones already existed, but they were massive and ugly, and they weighed a ton. Bradbury’s description of “little seashells…thimble radios” exactly describes ear bud headphones, which didn’t come into wide use until 2000.

Then there’s the 1969 novel Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner. It takes place in 2010, a man named Obami is president, terrorist attacks and school shootings are rampant, cell phone video chats are a favorite way to communicate, cars are powered by rechargeable electric fuel cells.

William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer predicted the world wide web, virtual reality, cyberspace, and hacking a decade before the internet existed as it does today.
In May 1982, Stephen King published Running Man under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. The story is set in the U.S. in 2025. Life is a Dystopian nightmare, the economy lies in ruins, and Ben Richards, the protagonist, is desperate. He’s unemployed, his daughter is gravely ill, and his wife is now prostituting to help pay the bills. He undergoes rigorous training so he’ll be chosen to participate in The Running Man, Games Network’s most lucrative show. He’ll be hunted by the network’s elite killing team and if he manages to survive 30 days, he’ll win $1 billion.

In 1987, the novel became a movie starring Arnold Schwartenegger. In September 1989, a TV reality show, American Gladiators, premiered that bore some uncanny parallels to The Running Man.

These examples are just a small cross section of science fiction novels that presaged the future. Did these writers, through their creative endeavors, dive into the archetypal well of ideas where time doesn’t exist? When novelists are plugged into their stories and characters, they envision the inventions, gadgets, society and government they describe.

Are we, through our creative endeavors, able to dive into the archetypal well of ideas where time does not exist?

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The WORDLE Addiction

What is it about some games that capture the attention of  hundreds of thousands of people?

Wordle supposedly has a daily user base of 250,000 people.  Its popularity has grown largely because of word of mouth. Friends tell friends. Friends form wordle groups to whom they send their stats daily.  Soe people post their stats on Facebook.You can also get your own statistics on any given game that also shows you how your starting  word compares to the words other players used.

On a site called gitnux.og, some interesting stats are provided about the game:

65%of surveyed Wordle users play the game daily

43% of  users guess the correct word in 3 tries

The average number of guesses to discover the correct word is 4.71

72% of users have told their friends about Wordle.

The most common starting words are: slate, crate, stone, smart and plant.

On the very rare occasions when I get Wordle in two guesses, I wonder if there’s a psychic component to the game.  I stare at it long enough and suddenly, something in the back of my  mind clicks and I’ve  got it in 2 guesses. But other times, I sit and stare at it and nothing pops into my head. I guess and guess and lose.

Considering the game’s popularity, its creator, software engineer James Wardle, should have been paid a lot more than a million for the rights to this game!

 

 

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Star Power Forecast for March

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Full Moon VIrgo

Full moons often bring completion and news. The February 24 moon  at 5 degrees Virgo, is trined by Jupiter @10 degrees Taurus – in the 2nd house. Any time you enjoy a Jupiter trine, there’s an expansion of whatever you’re experiencing. However, Saturn @ 9 degrees Pisces in the 12th house is opposed to this moon. It tries to squash Jupiter’s expansion through the use of authority.

I’m not so sure, though, that it’s successful. Saturn is like the stern parent who insists that rules and regulations are followed. Jupiter is the joyous, optimistic kid who enjoys everyone and follows his heart.

The Virgo moon is detailed, precise, critical – and often self-critical. The news you hear is likely to be positive, upbeat but may have some caveats, perhaps guidelines you’re supposed to follow. So what’s in store for you?

Look here for how this moon impacts your sign.

 

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Wow!

Friend Cheryl Bartlett sent this.  It’s moving and incredible!

 

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Aeon Karris: Unlock Your Divine Destiny

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Aeon Karris is a leading transformational facilitator, a leadership consultant, and a master mystic. She’s the founding director of Know the Self, a mystery school for modern-day living. For nearly 30 years, she’s been a visionary of evolutionary consciousness, seeding new business initiatives and eco-communities to protect our future. Her extensive client list includes leading corporations, economists, elite businessmen, royals, and spiritual leaders in India, Japan, and the USA. She’s the author of Synchronicity, Unlock Your Divine Destiny, a contributing author to Second Chances, From Surviving to Thriving, and serves on the board of The Coincidence Project, whose mission is to illuminate the invisible currents that connect us.

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The Creative Flow – Like attracts Like

In our book The 7 Secrets of Synchronicity, the fourth secret is called The Creative. It about the power of imagination combined with focus that manifests synchronicities through the law of attraction – like attracts like.

Recently, my focus on a couple of creative endeavors – both novels that I (Rob) am ghostwriting for other writers. One of the stories takes place during World War II and involves a professional art thief, who is also an art history professor and a member of an Iris mafia family in Boston. When a detective trails John Rollins and is about to arrest and charge him with thefts of masterpieces from wealthy Boston families, he slips away with a fake ID that he forged and enlists in the army. He’s sent to London where he eventually lands a job that allows him to see secret messages intercepted from the Germans that tell of the theft by Nazis of works of art from museums and Jewish families across Europe. Now John – who knows the location of some of the stolen art –  and several members of his Irish mob who have fled Boston for London create their own mission to steal back stolen Nazi art.

I wrote this story with no knowledge of a movie called Monument Men, which is about an authorized group of art historians who go to Europe in search of stolen art at the end of the war. I was well into the novel when I came across a description of the 2014 movie. It was strikingly similar to the story I was writing, except the mission in this story occurs earlier in the war when the Allies first found out about the art thefts. And there’s irony, of course, in that these guys are actually experienced art thieves themselves.

A short time after watching the movie,  Trish and I came across another  TV series set in WWII called All the Light That You Can’t See. It was about a blind young woman who sends coded radio messages to members of the French Resistance. If not for the novel I was writing, I probably would not have come across the movie or the TV series. But as  I said, like attracts like.

Now I’m ghostwriting another novel that takes place in Alaska and involves a combined Russian-North Korean invasion of the 49th state. Our daughter Megan, who knew nothing about this more recent novel, last week said we should watch Season 4 of True Detective, a series that features different stories and different actors each season. This one stars Jodie Foster. When we started watching the first episode, I was somewhat amazed and pleased to see that it was set in Alaska. Just what I was writing about. Again, like attracts like.

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