Darren’s Byron Bay Synchros

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 

Darren, from Brisbane, Australia, experiences synchros that are layered and complex. We’ve reposted several of his synchronicities on our blog and also used one in Synchronicity and the Other Side.   The following story occurred at the Bryon Bay Writers’ Conference, which apparently features incredible art sculptures like the one in the photo above.

Darren originally decided to take time off to attend this conference because James Redfield (The Twelfth  Insight, Celestine Prophecy) was the featured speaker.  He bought his tickets, booked a hotel room, the whole nine yards. But then – a Mercury retrograde event occurred. Redfield cancelled due to an infected spider bite.  Wonder what the message is with that one?

But because all the signs seemed to be pointing to a good weekend that would be ripe for synchros, Darren went to the festival. So off he went.

One of the first synchros that struck him was the view of his door from inside his room.

As Darren describes it: “The door  reminded me of two doors I had seen somewhere before. One in a dream in the middle of an open field, and the other on a book I purchased, read and had a lot of strange synchronicities, as well.

During the weekend, Darren met Marcus C Anthony. Now here’s the interesting synchronistic connection with these two men. Both are native Australians, but Marcus now lives in Hong Kong. They met through our blog on synchronicity and Marcus has written several books on the topic.  Darren snapped a photo of Marcus coming out of a book signing:

After they met, Darren was apparently in a heightened state of consciousness and found a path to the beach that he simply had to explore.

The place it led to is dramatic and breathtaking. But notice the orb in the picture? As Darren wrote:

“I hadn’t noticed the orbs until uploading these pics, it was only because I had expanded them to full screen while selecting them that I take note. I’m not really into orbs that much, but I have never seen them in any of my cell phone camera pictures before…but then I have never taken pictures when I felt a spirit was walking with me, either. Tricks of light…or a spirit ?

“Having had an out of body experience around 11, if you had of asked me what my consciousness felt like or would have looked like if it was possible to record an image…then you are looking at it in that bottom photo. Trick of light or not, that’s a great representation of how I imagined I would have looked, if someone could have seen me and snapped a photo.

“When you have one…and you will (you may not come back to tell about it), you’ll see what I’m talking about here.”

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So even without James Redfield, Darren’s trip to the Byron Bay Writers’ Conference turned out to be a huge synchro success!

 

 

 

 

 

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White Crow

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Trish and Rob

“To upset the conclusion that all crows are black, there is no need to seek demonstration that no crows are black; it is sufficient to produce one white crow; a single one is sufficient.”

– William James

When William James said this, he was referring to medium Leonora Piper, born in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1859. James took an interest in her after his mother-in-law had a reading with her. Despite his initial skepticism, he attended several of her séances and eventually concluded she actually had the ability to communicate with the dead, that she was the “white crow” of the Spiritualist movement, the real thing.

This evening during yoga, I was thinking about white crows.  Haven’t there been a lot of them? Until 1954 when Roger Banister ran a minute in 3:59.4 minutes,  it was believed to be an impossible feat. But once Banister did it, so did other runners. In the last 50 years, the record for a running a mile has been lowered by nearly 17 seconds.  So wasn’t Banister a white crow when he broke what had been deemed impossible?

J.K. Rowling is the first author to become a billioinaire.  Doesn’t that make her a  white crow? I mean, really, how many writers honestly believe they’ll end up as billionaires from their writing?

And what about Obama, the first African-American president? Back in 1965 when we lived pretty much in the Dark Ages of racism, this was considered impossible.

In fact, when John Kennedy became president, he was the first Catholic to win the White House.

Yes, yoga is supposed to be a time when you focus on doing the postures, but my mind races along regardless. So after I thought of these examples, I wondered if, to be a white crow, you had to be the first, to break records. Well, maybe. But it seems that James was addressing consensus reality, whatever it might be.

At the time of his investigations, the heyday of Spiritualism was waning. Numerous frauds had been exposed, religious leaders instilled fear in their congregations that people like Piper were possessed by devils. Their arguments weren’t all that different than the arguments used during the Salem witch trials in the 1500s. We hadn’t exactly come a long way in 300 years in this regard. James was looking for just one white crow. His quest had become personal.

About Piper, he wrote:  “My impression after this first visit was that Mrs. Piper was either possessed of supernormal powers or knew the members of my wife’s family by sight and had by some lucky coincidence become acquainted with such a multitude of their domestic circumstances as to produce the startling impression which she did. My later knowledge of her sittings and personal acquaintance with her has led me to absolutely reject the latter explanation, and to believe that she has supernormal powers.”

If you Google Piper’s name, you can also find plenty of skeptical material about her and every other medium. In the end, what it comes down to is trusting your own experiences, as James did.

Today, our publicist for Synchronicity and the Other Side sent us an email and a tweet that the book had been reviewed by someone named Sarah Morgan. We’d never heard of her, but clicked the link and went to her blog. From her review, it’s obvious that she’s a skeptic. But by the end of review, something rather startling happens.

Edited to add: Okay… this gave me goosebumps, and I swear it’s true.

I had this all ready to publish. Then I looked again at the book cover.

The person I mentioned in the first paragraph was my Aunt Jeanne. She and I didn’t know each other well until I was in my 20s, but then became very close until her death this spring. She was a fascinating lady, and as with most fascinating people, she was fascinating because she was fascinated. She loved learning and being open-minded.

She also loved hummingbirds. They were her “thing”. The last thing I gave her was a beautiful blown-glass hummingbird.

I just saw the little hummingbird on the cover of this book.

So, in the end, Sarah Morgan, skeptic, got a tap on the shoulder from her recently deceased Aunt Jeanne. She experienced her own white crow (well, via  a hummingbird!)  and is, today, a bit less skeptical.

And I think that’s how spirits work when they communicate with us. A tap, a nudge, a whisper in the dark: Are you sure you don’t believe? Are you sure I’m really dead? Are you sure? Huh? Are you?

In the end, perhaps the white crow lies within each of us, just waiting for the opportune moment to make itself known. As paradigms continue to shift and expand, I suspect more and more of us will experience our personal white crows in the areas where we are the most stubborn and resistant to change.

 

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Update on Fukushima

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Trish and Rob

We found this piece while looking for information about a nuclear power plant near Miami that apparently has developed “a problem.”

As of August 15, 2011, here’s the situation at Fukushima, site of a 9.0 quake and tsunami months ago:

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Manifesting Michelangelo

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Trish and Rob

One of my favorite things to do is browse bookstores. I enjoy seeing new books on the shelves, touching them, reading what’s on the front and the back, and paging through them. When I’m seriously looking for something to read, the browsing takes on a definite ritual. I move around the front tables and up and down the aisles, eyeballing the books, waiting for cover art or a title to leap out at. Manifesting Michelangelo leaped.

The title prompted me to pick up the book.  The words at the bottom – The story of a modern-day miracle that may make all change possible – prompted me to open the cover. On the inside flap, I read:

“At the dawn of the new millennium, Joseph Pierce Farrell made a startling discovery that holds the potential to transform the world. Having abandoned his childhood dream of a career in healthcare, he had settled for passionless  job in real estate, lining his pockets while eroding his soul.  Then one day he fell into a humble job restoring antiques and furniture. One even while working in his basement studio, he drifted into a meditative state and permitted his mind to soar with the unlimited imagination of a child. In that moment, he experienced a brilliant, blinding flash that ignited within him a remarkable power.”

I wondered if it was hype. So I opened the book at random – page 18 – and it described this experience he had. I bought the book. In a nutshell, Farrell’s story is how he evolved as a healer, the kind of healer I used to imagine as a kid, who heals through touch or, in some instances, just by his presence. Some of his more dramatic and documented healings include an inoperable brain tumor, partially restoring the features of a severely disfigured young man, and mending broken bones. Farrell calls it consciousness based healing, where his consciousness interacts with the consciousness of the person of the person seeking his help. It comes from the heart, through tremendous empathy for other people’s pains. He claims we all have this ability and, equally important, that we all have the capacity to manifest change in our lives and in the world.

One of the most dramatic stories involved a man’s foot.  In 1978, Stu was a successful businessman who got caught in a traffic jam as he approached the Lincoln tunnel in Manhattan. There were some fender benders in front of him and traffic got snarled. He noticed a woman in a nearby car was struggling to get out, but the door was banged up. Stu ran over and helped her. As they stood there talking, a fully loaded 18-wheeler plowed into a van just behind Stu and the woman. The van shot toward the pedestrians standing on the highway, exchanging insurance info because of the fender benders. The van hit the woman killing her instantly. The bumper tore into Stu’s legs and tossed him into the air.

When he came to, he realized the bone of his left leg was sticking out of his shin. Stu’s father was a physician – and a professor of medicine at Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan at the time and brought together an elite medical team. According to Stu, his lower leg was smashed. “Most of the bone between my knee and my foot was thrown out of my leg…and had to be transplanted from  my hips.”  The medical team saved his leg, but his ankle and toes were fused  and his foot had shrunk two sizes.

Stu had multiple surgeries over the years, took pain killers constantly. A decade after the accident, the muscles in his left leg had atrophied so badly that his lower leg “looked like a straight line.”

Two decades after the accident, he was facing amputation of his lower leg because the blood flow to the foot was so diminished.  Then he heard about Farrell, scheduled an appointment with him,  recited his medical history, showed Farrell his leg, and asked if he could help.

Farrell said he could, Stu asked how much it would cost,  and Farrell said it was free. “What the catch?” Stu asked.

There wasn’t any catch. Farrell entered a meditative state, “allowing my nonlocal mind (or consciousness) to extend beyond me to incorporate Stu’s limb. Then I allowed myself to surrender to a connection to Source…” Farrell started seeing the damaged tissue from the accident and multiple surgeries Stu had had over the years.  Signs of the healing  gradually became visible and Farrell realized that what was happening exceeded anything he had experienced when working on injured knees or fractured arms.  “In this situation, the traumatized area was quite extensive, and the change, visible on the surface,  was equally substantial. It appeared to me that the extent of the healing was in direct proportion to the extent of the injury.”

Throughout the healing, Farrell never touched or manipulated Stu’s foot.  But as Stu sat up, he was astonished that his foot had a normal color. Over the next few weeks, Stu’s foot continued to improve. Six weeks later, Stu was able to play golf, pain free, for the first time in twenty years.  “I now go for walks, I can jump, I can do just about anything I want,” Stu says. “He gave me a chance to walk, with my father, with my family, and I’m deeply appreciative.”

The book is fascinating. The larger message lies in the last section, which provides five steps for how to manifest the change you want to see in the world,

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Ghosts in the old jail

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 

In the past when we’ve posted ghost photos, we didn’t have any connection with the photographer. However, the photos today have a traceable history. We know not only the location, but the photographer, and what camera was used, and why the photos were taken. So here’s the story.

St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the U.S., founded in 1565. Old Town is known for its spooks, and ghost tours are part of the tourist landscape. These photos, however, were not taken by a tourist. Rather, they were shot with a cell phone by a construction worker who was renovating the old jail. The photographer’s name is Kenny Cannon, the son of Connie Cannon, who comments here often under the handle, MathAddict.

Connie says that Kenny has mediumistic abilities and took the photos because he sensed a ghostly presence in the room. She writes:

“When Kenny is at work, he’s busy.  However, sometimes he feels, senses, or even sees spooks, as I do.”

Connie knows that some people will wonder if the images were created by light coming through the windows.  “Proving it?  Hard to do. No matter what lengths one goes to prove the pics to be valid, there will always, always be skeptics who will trash it.”

When we suggested that Kenny take more photos, he followed through and the intriguing photo below was sent to us. What looks like a face appears in the center of the photo. The image on the right side of the photo is another person who was in the room.

“The man with the yellow hat on who is standing on the back far right side of the orb is one of kenny’s co-workers.  He was totally whacked-out scared by this pic because they could FEEL the presence of these entities in these old buildings, and then to see them in photos….pretty hard to deny.

“This is why St. Augustine is considered to be one of America’s top five most haunted towns.  They’re everywhere.

“The skeptics don’t want to accept that there are true researchers who have no interest in attempting to fool people.  Throughout my entire life, my efforts with cameras and recorders have been to prove to MYSELF, and to no one else, what I am actually feeling, sensing, seeing, and hearing.  It’s been one of the ways I try to convince myself I’m not crazy or delusional.  And I go to tremendous lengths to DISprove what I get before I begin to think, okay, maybe, just maybe, these are real.  That’s what makes me a good researcher.  I’m a relentless digger for truth, and even when I find it, I still allow myself to have a bit of doubt.  We’ll see what we can get.”

 

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Another synchro secret

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Jeffrey Carr, author of Inside Cyber Warfare, has revealed another synchro secret, so to speak. Writing on his blog, Digital Dao, Carr suggests that the U.S. military fails to comprehend the true nature of the Internet, and as a result will lose a cyber war.

What makes Carr’s claim of interest and importance to us is that Carr suggests that synchronicity, not cause and effect, are at the heart of the Internet. It’s not about hardware, it’s about underlying patterns that exist outside of the everyday world of cause and effect. He goes on to compare the Internet to a divinatory system, such as the I Ching. Readers of The 7 Secrets of Synchronicity might recall that divination is the most tangible way to engage in synchronicity.

Carr writes: “Unfortunately for Western nations, synchronicity has its origins in the East. Western nations have a tradition in causality, not synchronicity. And the US Defense Department is deeply grounded in traditional western thinking and practicality. The decision to call cyberspace a domain was based on organizational necessity. That’s how the Defence Department is set up. It’s how budgets are created and funds distributed. It’s how contracts get assigned. Simply put, it’s how things get done at the Pentagon. This is why the United States will lose a war fought in cyberspace. A strategic doctrine built upon a flawed vision can’t yield a victory against an adversary whose knowledge of the battle space is superior to our own.”

It appears synchronicity has become the new Matrix. So we can expect to see the emergence of the synchro warrior in coming cyber wars. (This is all science fiction, right? Hmm, maybe NOT.) – R

Why US Will Lose a Cyber War

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Cloud?

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Trish and Rob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFq2PY3nRtc&feature=player_embedded#at=67

 

No telling what this thing actually is – a special effect, some weird anomaly. But the video is great fun to watch!

 

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Synchronicity from Many Angles

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Trish and Rob

from Carl Jung’s Red Book

We had a wonderful time this evening talking with Radiah on the H20 Radio Network and covered synchros from many different angles. Take a listen. (We, uh, couldn’t figure out how to embed the code here, so this link takes you to the website. Or you can link to it through the pages above)

 

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Dog Days of Summer

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Trish and Rob

In this picture are Noah, the Golden Retriever at the forefront, Cody, another Golden, and Cody, a Husky. The two Codys are Noah’s karmic buddies, the ones he wrestles with, chases, the three of them tearing around the dog park despite the thick humidity, the awful heat. I suppose this might be a cluster synchro – two Codys, two Goldens. But maybe not. But it’s certainly a story for  a hot summer afternoon.

In the picture, they’re sprawled in a makeshift pool we created with a tarp and a depression near the faucet/hose. All three dogs are rescues. It means there’s some trauma, from somewhere in their early lives. But these three guys know their traumas and issues aren’t anywhere near what a new arrival experienced.

The new dog (no pic, sorry) arrived yesterday, a friendly pooch, a mixed breed,  his tail whipping back and forth, and  trotted up to all the humans on the benches for pats, a few kind words, and then trotted off to sniff and investigate. But because the pooch was new to the park, Noah and the two Codys crowded around him with a dozen others dogs, sniffing, investigating, doing what dogs do with their sense of smell. The pooch got kind of freaked out and scurried under the bench where his humans sat.

Noah and the two Codys neared the bench, watching him, reading him. Then they all got up and ran after a football that Rob kicked out into the field. They never got aggressive or crowded around the pooch again. In those few moments that pooch was under the bench and the Noah and his buddies crowded around, I think pooch’s trauma was communicated. And from that moment on, it was hands off in the dog park. This dude has been through something bad and we’re not going to bug him.

Pooch is a rescue from Hurricane Katrina. According to his human, he spent three months on top of a truck, tethered to a 35-foot chain, in flood waters that had reached the windshield of the truck when he was saved. He  barely tipped the scale at 25 pounds. Today, he weighs 75 pounds.

“My friend called and said she had this dog that needed me,” his human said. “He’d been found  on top of a truck in the flood after Hurricane Katrina. She sent me pictures. I thought, ‘Oh shit, I can’t take another dog.’ But she did, and $5,000 and six years later, pooch is apparently flourishing.

“I had him flown to Florida from New Orleans and as soon as he landed, he went to the vet,” his human said.  “The prognosis wasn’t good. For the first three months, he wouldn’t let me touch him. All he did was eat.”

As she was telling us the pooch’s story, Noah and the two Codys were crowded around the bench under which pooch had taken refuge. I think that was when  pooch was telling his own version of the story, communicating it in the way dogs do, silent eye contact, body language, panting, a kind of telepathy.

Before we left the park that day,  pooch was in the makeshift pool with Noah and the two Codys, cooling off. Unfortunately, the camera on my  Blackberry had stopped working. But the next time these four dudes are together, sharing histories, I’ll snap a photo. Even in this photo, there’s a message here about camaraderie,  hope, acceptance, and a comfort code to which dogs adhere.

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Connections

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Trish and Rob

from deviant art

These two synchros come from Carol Bowman, a past-life therapist and author of two books on children’s past lives.  We’ve used several of Carol’s synchronicities before – on the blog and in 7 Secrets. Here and here are two of our favorites.  These synchros are both short and to the point, the kinds that occur in the course of a given day,  as if to let you know you’re in the groove, on the right track at this moment in time. They also illustrate, I think, just how connected we all are to each other.

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I finally broke down and bought a Kindle. It arrived in the mail today.  The first download I bought is a book called In the Garden of Beasts, about pre-WWII Germany.  I called my mother right after I finished downloading and told her I got a Kindle.  She said my brother had called a few minutes before and had just downloaded a book about pre-WWII Germany–the same one.  I think we both ordered it within minutes of each other.  My brother and mother are on the same Kindle network. I’m going to network with them after that incident.

Then this evening I was gathering information to send to James Van Praagh’s web administrator for a chat room I’ll be doing through his website next week.  The administrator wanted a photo and some other stuff.  Right after I sent it off, I saw an email had come in from Steve (Carol’s husband).  He forwarded an email from an attorney he works with who said to tell me hat he and his wife (a former client of mine) were at an advanced intuitive training at Omega with…James Van Praagh.  So as I was sending that email off, the attorney was telling Steve to give me that information.  I guess the intuitive training worked!!

I’d call that a good day after all.

 

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