Chris Mackey is a clinical psychologist and author in Australia who uses synchronicity and the power of flow in his work and his life. He was recently on our podcast to talk about his terrific book, The Positive Psychology of Synchronicity.
Mike Perry, who lives in the Cornwall in the UK, was one of our first blogging friends. He has a blog on synchronicity and on the beauty of Cornwall. Shortly after the new year, he emailed a synchronicity that occurred one evening when he and his wife, Karin, had friends over for dinner.
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Hello Trish.
We had a coincidence over the Christmas period.
We had some friends at our house for an evening meal. We got talking and the subject came up about Karin’s early life in Germany (she was born in Germany).
Karin told them about the farm her family had and how it is now a hotel. It was about 10 o’clock in the evening. I got out some photos I had taken, when in Germany, which showed them what was Karin’s home on the farm.
They asked if she had any friends still in Germany. Karin answered that there was only one but she had moved away now and she hadn’t heard from her for about three years. I showed our friends a photo of the house where Karin’s friend lived.
At that moment our phone rang. It was Karin’s friend in Germany! She told Karin she was looking through some photos and found a slip of paper with our phone number amongst her photos.
Even though it was quite late she felt compelled to phone the number!
All good wishes for 2022
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What’s particularly interesting about this synchronicity is that Karin’s friend in Germany was going through old photos just as Mike and Karin were and found their phone number. It seems there may have been an element of telepathy involved as well.
I’ve been reading 9 Keys of Synchronicity by Philip Merry, an entrepreneur and synchronicity wise man. Philip’s book is filled with stories about how synchronicity works in daily life. One of the most remarkable stories involved $15,000.
On a hot sticky afternoon in Singapore in November 1995, Philip Merry experienced a mind-blowing synchronicity. It was 3:50 p.m. He was reviewing his company’s finances and realized he needed $15,000 to balance the books that month. He wondered where he going to get the money.
As he wrote in 9 Keys of Synchronicity, “At 4:00 p.m., I received a call from a Dutch colleague, Dr. Fons Trompenaars, who said that he needed a speaker in Beijing the following week. I checked my diary and found I was free. There was a pause, and then Fons said, ‘Philip you will also be pleased because it is a good fee: $15,000.’’”
So within ten minutes of Philip realizing he needed $15,000, an opportunity opened for him to be paid exactly that sum. “How is it that I could wish for funds and ten minutes later the precise amount of money was delivered to me? If I had any influence in this, then this was a part of ‘me’ that I did not know.”
This may be one of the most rapid manifestations we’ve ever heard about. Our immediately reaction is the same as Philip’s was: how’d that happen so quickly? Can it be taught? Can anyone learn how to make a wish and have it answered ten minutes later?
Philip will be a guest on our podcast on February 27. Can’t wait!
Planet earth with some clouds. America’s view.
On January 28, just hours before President Biden visited Pittsburgh to talk about the $1 trillion infrastructure bill he signed into law last year, the Gainey bridge in that city collapsed.
“We have been so far behind on infrastructure for so many years it’s just mind-boggling,” Biden told a group of elected officials and first responders during a visit to the collapse site. “…We used to be number one in the world.”
Earlier, Mayor Ed Gainey told reporters the collapse highlights the need for the federal funding.
This is one of those odd global synchronicities we wrote about in 7 Secrets of Synchronicity. What are the odds of it happening just hours before Biden’s arrival to talk about his infrastructure bill?
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My daughter feels that some synchronicities should stay in the family because they’re too weird or gross to share. The gross category usually involves some undesirable critter, like a rat. I find this “keep in the family’ stuff intriguing since synchronicities tend to be all inclusive.
But what does it mean when you keep a synchronicity within the family? What do you do with it? Does it become an intimate part of the family lore, repeated at reunions, weddings, in bedrooms? Does it become like the family’s black secret? So here’s ours.
This evening, Megan went next door to see our neighbor, Annette, who watches our cats when we’re out of town. Recently when we were in Orlando, Annette came over here without her glasses on and picked up something off the floor and put it on the table. When she put her glasses on, she saw a rat’s head – one of the cats had found and killed it. As Megan told us this story, we were about to watch Blood Red Sky and the name of the production company appeared on screen: Rat Pack Filmproduction.
So, what’s the message? Esoterically, rats symbolize resourcefulness and never giving up. There’s a trickster element, too, with these creatures. This synchronicity occurred as Megan is preparing to buy her first home and going through all the financial stuff you have to endure these days to obtain a mortgage – and doing it during a Mercury retrograde. I’m delighted it was just a story/word synchronicity story – and not the actual dead rat!
THE BREAKERS, PALM BEACH
EL PALACIO, HAVANA, CUBA
When we went to Cuba in February 2017, one of the places we visited in Havana was the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales. Palacio means palace in English. And this one was the former official residence of the governors of Havana. It captured the wealth that belonged to Cuba’s 1%, the decadence of an autocratic country where the other 99% lived in abject poverty.
Last fall, we met my nephew and his family at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach. We’ve visited the hotel before,but only for lunch, so we didn’t have access to the same areas as paying guests. And this visit was long before we went to Cuba. The similarities between the two place struck me.
The Breakers, like the Palacio. was intended for the uber wealthy and powerful. It opened to universal claim on February 1, 1904, a colonial style building with 425 rooms and suites, where rooms started at – get this!- four bucks a day and that included 3 meals a day. The guest register included Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Astors. European nobility and U.S. presidents frequented the place. So did J.P. Morgan, William Randolph Hearst, J.C. Penney, Andrew Carnegie.
Today, it still stands on the shores of the Atlantic. To get onto the property, you have to pass through the guard gate where you’re asked for photo I.D. and are given a handout about Covid and mask requirements. If you’re vaxxed, no need to wear a mask. You’re on your honor. We know how well that works. In fact, during the hours we were there, I saw that all servers wore masks but I only spotted three guests wearing masks.
The Breakers isn’t just a hotel. It’s also a country club where an annual membership buys you a fabulous beach, a kid swimming pool, 10 different restaurants, delicious meals, all those other delightful amenities. I Googled membership fees for The Breakers for 2021, but couldn’t find anything direct. I got different kinds of membership fees- for the summer, just for golf, for Breakers West in various cities.
At any rate, we ate lunch on a back patio with a view of the ocean, the weather was good, not thickly humid as it has been for the last week. Afterward, we walked over to the beach.
The people we passed fit the archetype of the privileged, a broad yet inclusive category. The women often wear decorative hats that shade their faces well. They usually wear skimpy bathing suits that reveal the kind of skin that makes you an IG Influencer. They strut, they tease. On the beach, in the water, they languish. The men in this group are wearing shorts, tee-shirts, sandals. They are there, with particular women, to be seen. Those were my first impressions.
We had fun, it was a great place for a reunion, and a great place for kids, especially. Lots of activities for them. Impeccable service. Good food. And the grounds are beautiful, the beaches ideal, the water clear.
But still. This weird feeling lingered, just as it had when we toured the Palacio in Havana. In both places, you can feel the ghosts of a particular kind of royalty whose lineage is great wealth. The membership people who frequent The Breakers aren’t like most of us. They’re the ones about whom F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.”
Fitzgerald was talking about the Long Island wealthy in the 1920s. But it fits The Breakers. And it also fit the Palacio as it once was in Cuba’s past.
A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Candice Sanderson: The Reluctant Messenger”:
Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with…
Candice M. Sanderson lives in Naples, Florida. Her life changed in a ten-minute period in August 2013 when she began to receive information from messengers from other-worldly sources. When her training as a psychologist failed to explain these events, she reluctantly followed the breadcrumbs down a path which resulted in extraordinary adventures into the unknown. psychologist and The Reluctant Messenger Returns chronicle her expedition across a vast expanse of universal consciousness that led to new truths about life that she thought she had known so well.
http://www.candicesanderson.com
Name synchronicities are outliers. When they happen, they’re often startling, like this one.
I was talking with Carol Bowman, telling her about a man we know, Kevin, who has fallen down the rabbit hole of conspiracy. She was sitting at her desk as we talked, and suddenly laughed. “You’re not going to believe this one, Trish. I just turned to face my computer and this is what’s on my screen.”
The words pretty much sum up our argument with Kevin every time he digs up a new conspiracy.
On February 4, 2009, we started this blog on synchronicity. Originally, it was on blogger. But in 2011, a visitor who got angry about something we’d written, hacked the blog and took it over. He pretended to be Rob and wrote himself an apology. He also destroyed three of our computers.
We knew he was a computer guy in a town around Boston, knew his name, so we called the police department in his town to report him. Turned out that he’d already reported us to the department. If I remember correctly, he claimed that we’d hacked our own blog and blamed him. We also reported the hack to our local cops.A cop stopped by the house, we explained what had happened.
The cop told us there wasn’t much they could do about this. So we transferred the blog to Word Press. And that’s where we’ve been ever since.
At any rate, our first post is below. At the top of the post are some of the book that have grown out of this blog
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Most of us have experienced them – odd coincidences that seem like weird little hiccups in the cosmos.They usually grab our attention. But what, exactly, do they mean?
While we were writing our outline for a book on synchronicity, we stopped at our favorite cafe for a hit of morning Joe. As we sat outside, an elderly man approached us and handed us his card. It explained that he was deaf and was selling key chains. We bought one and on the back of the card found illustrations for sign language. On the way home, following the cue from the deaf man,we talked about synchronicity as a language of signs. Then we passed the local high school, where the digital sign at the entrance was announcing a class in sign language. This sign about sign language added a deeper layer to the synchronicity.
Initially, its meaning seemed to be that we were on the right track with our concept – approaching synchronicity as a language of signs. The next day, a writer friend e-mailed a synchronicity she’d experienced while working on her current novel. She said she had invited readers of her blog to submit any synchronicities they would like to share for inclusion in the book. So we decided to start this blog, a kind of digital sign announcing that we would love to hear your stories!
On January 31 at 9:46 a.m. PT and on February 1 at 12:46 a.m., we have a new moon in Aquarius. New moons are about new opportunities and these will surface in the area of your chart where you have Aquarius. This one is conjunct Saturn, an indication that at least one of these opportunities will have a long-term impact.
Another plus with this new moon -a beautiful trine between Venus in Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus. This one suggests there may be sudden and unexpected news related to romance, the arts, and/or money.
For the full forecast for your sign, click on the Star Power forecast in the masthead.
