Rapid Synchros

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Trish and Rob

 

For years, Ray Getzinger and I have communicated – through Facebook, messenger, email. I don’t recall when he first contacted me, but whenever that was, he’d read every novel I’d ever published and some of the non-fiction, too.

At any rate, this evening he sent me an interesting synchro. “Earlier tonight, I read that G. Gordon Liddy died at the age of 90. In the last 5 minutes, I saw the end of an episode of Miami Vice in which G Gordon got away from Crockett and Tubbs by sailing off into wherever actors disappear to.”

The synchro struck me and I asked him what the message was for him. I haven’t heard back and suspect he’s mulling this one over.

Rob and I had a similar experience this evening – not with Miami Vice, but with the immediacy of a synchronicity. We met our friends Lloyd and Paula this evening at our favorite Italian restaurant where we can eat outside and bring our dogs. The food is always good and the long porch where we sit is like a wind tunnel, cooling off a warm evening. Rob, Lloyd and I ordered wine and the waiter pointed out it would be less expensive to just buy a bottle. So we did.

We got three separate checks. Rob and I ended up paying for the wine and Lloyd gave us cash for his share. On the way home, we were talking about how Lloyd pays cash for everything, even his share of the wine. Within minutes, Rob received a text from Lloyd saying he owed Rob two more bucks for his share of the wine.

I’m not sure what these types of rapid synchros like ours and Ray’s mean. They probably entail telepathy, which falls under the synchro umbrella, and perhaps indicate that we’re in some sort of flow that facilitates the phenomena. If so, then I hope the flow is still going forward!

 

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Archaeological Discovery

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Trish and Rob

…in northern Peru

The Nazca lines are puzzling because the only ones who could distinguish the shapes were people flying overhead. They weren’t discovered until airplanes were developed and flew over the Peruvian desert. So were the creators signaling to alien beings or was it related to shamans who could fly out of body and see the sacred animals from above?

 

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The Mystical Underground: Chris Mackey: The Positive Psychology Of Synchronicity

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Chris Mackey: The Positive Psychology Of Synchronicity”:

Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with…

Chris Mackey is a clinical and counseling psychologist and Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society with 40 years’ psychotherapy experience. He is the principal psychologist at Chris Mackey and Associates, his private practice in Geelong.
Chris has presented at numerous national and international scientific conferences over the past 25 years on such topics as making use of synchronicity in psychotherapy and the effectiveness of psychological therapy for anxiety, depression, and trauma reactions.
Chris is the author of The Positive Psychology of Synchronicity: Enhance Your Mental Health with the Power of Coincidence, released internationally in 2019. He is the resident psychologist and a regular presenter on the national TV wellbeing show, Destination Happiness, and writes regular columns for The Geelong Advertiser. Chris received the Impact Achievement Award at the 2019 Australian Allied Health Awards.
He’s the author of The Positive Psychology of Synchronicity: Enhance your mental health through the power of coincidence.
Mackey integrates the book’s themes further with the burgeoning field of positive psychology, a science of well-being. I also wanted to spell out more fully some of the potential benefits from meaningful coincidences for mental health.
He’s particularly interested in the potential benefits of synchronicity to enhance mental health by boosting our PERMA. Positive psychology uses this acronym to guide us to the five core pillars of happiness. Anything that boosts our positive emotion, engagement in life roles, relationships, personal meaning, and accomplishment is likely to promote our overall well-being and positive mental health. This book spells out how synchronistic experiences can help do this.

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Name Synchros

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Trish and Rob

Name synchronicities always intrigue me, probably because I usually end up exclaiming, “What are the odds on that one?”

Recently, our friend Paula Bruce discovered that her aunt, after whom she was named, her mother’s sister, had died several years ago and had left a trunk for her and her brother with Paula’s stepfather. Her brother, who lives in New York, picked it up between snow storms. It contained some old family photos and a collection of 19th century art.

Her brother mailed the art to a second cousin in Nevada, who knows a place where the art can be appraised. She has been tracking it across the country. It’s now in a town called Willard, in New Mexico, since last night (March  24th).  Willard is a town of 225. Here’s the synchro weirdness. Paula’s maternal grandmother and Aunt Paula’s mother were sister and Willard was their favorite brother.

So, back to those odds…

 

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What I’ve learned…

Posted on April 1, 2021 by Trish and Rob

…during the pandemic.

I haven’t been to a gym since February 2020, around the time the first virus cases were reported in the U.S. So I started bike riding.

I don’t have any set goal except that I ride until it’s no longer comfortable and ride in the hopes that I’ll have a synchronicity.

In the nearly 14 months since then, I’ve discovered a beauty in this area that escaped me before the pandemic slowed everything down. South Florida definitely has seasons! It’s not as obvious as autumn to winter. Instead, we go from gloriously cool nights from around January through April, but with the temps rising into the 70s and 80s during the day. Until May or so, humidity is low, 50 percent or less, and that really make a difference.

During these spring months, the mimosas come into bloom, explosions of yellow up and down streets and throughout neighborhoods. The mango trees bloom and that gives you some idea of what the mango season during the summer will be like – scarce or plentiful? Our papaya trees start developing little fruits that grow and ripen fairly quickly. Bougainvillea vines burst with color.

Along one street on the route I usually follow, my ride parallels a canal. Over the past fourteen months, I’ve watched baby ducklings grow into teens and learn how to fish and fly and hang out and have fun. I’ve watched turtles sunning on rocks. I’ve watched a massive equestrian estate being built, watched businesses go under and other businesses that adapted and flourished. I’ve been witness to changes in my own life and that of my family and friends.

Rob and I started our podcast, The Mystical Underground, in February 2020. As a result, I’ve read or at least skimmed a lot of books. Our daughter finished her first novel, The Immune. My long-time agent, Al Zuckerman, retired. My sister, her oldest son, his wife and her mother all got COVID. And recovered. Around the same time WHO declared a pendemic in March 2020, Rob had the virus but we thought it was the flu. He recovered but no longer teaches yoga.

On March 24, we got our second Pfizer shot. No side effects.

I’m now ready to go somewhere. Anywhere. According to research, I’ll still have a five percent chance of contracting the virus, but it won’t put me in the hospital or on a ventilator. Question is, where to go? Europe is pretty much shut down. Hawaii is a possibility. Prague is a no. The recovery, if we can even call it that, is erratic, uneven.

No one really knows what the new normal life will look like on the other side of this pandemic.

But at least I know what I would like to do. A plane trip, sure, as long as it doesn’t take 12 hours and multiple stops. But forget a cruise, any kind of cruise, to anywhere.

I also know that our dog, Nigel, and visiting Nika, Megan’s dog, and our two cats, Beo and Nala, have enjoyed the last 14 months. Hey, the humans are home more often now. We can go outside when we want.We can even snooze on the porch at night, enjoying the cooler weather.

 

 

In the evenings when I sit out front with Nigel and Nika, tossing Nigel his endless balls, the cats come out to be a part of part of the evening. In that photo, though, they are commiserating about dinner.

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Spirit Contact & Cell Phones

Posted on March 30, 2021 by Trish and Rob

 

At our local dog park, there’s an area on the far side with three benches, where the shade is ideal, that a group of us claim as our own. It started during the trump era, when those of us who gathered there were against everything trump.

Since trump lost,  the conversation in this group sometimes turns to the weird and strange and is way removed from politics. Not long after we had medium Janice Carlson on our podcast, our friend Lloyd asked if we had a copy of her book, Soul Sensing, and we did and lent it to him.

He kept saying that he was a slow reader, but loved her book so far, then one day he told us a story. A spirit contact story, one that would fit into our book Phenomena.

About a year and a half after his wife’s death, Lloyd received a phone call and her name came up in the caller I.D. He explained that all his landline calls were directed to his cell number. So when he saw her number and name, he figured some spammer had gotten her number. But he answered the call and  said nothing. The person on the other end hung up.

We told him we felt this fit the MO of spirit contact. Lloyd, a left-brain type, says he hadn’t thought of this until he had read Janice’s book. But his wife was an empath who saw spirits, so it made  sense.

Here’s an audio sample of the first chapter in the book.

 

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STARCAST FOR APRIL 2021

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Trish and Rob

The printed version is here.

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MASKS

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Trish and Rob

 

Lauderdale Beach, spring break

Masks used to be stuff you wore on Halloween as a kid. Or a mask was what the Lone Ranger wore. Or mythical gods. Or thieves, serial killers, fictional characters with bad scars. You get the idea. Of course you do. For the last year, masks have been a part of our collective experience of the pandemic.

Ex-prez trump’s politicization of masks has led to all sorts of confrontations in stores that many of us have seen in viral videos or in person. I never understood what the big deal was about having to wear one.  We have to wear seat belts. The big difference is that seat belts protect us and our passengers. When you wear a mask, you not only protect yourself but everyone else around you – family, friends, strangers.

When you Google the definition of mask, one meaning is: a covering for all or part of the face, worn as a disguise, or to amuse or terrify other people.  Another definition is that it’s used for protection. So the key words are: disguise…amuse…terrify…protect. Well, during the pandemic, I think we can toss out the first three  verbs. That leaves us with protect.

If a mask protects you and others, what’s so terrible about wearing one? Oh, the individual liberty thing, right? You can’t force me, you’re trampling my rights, blah, blah, blah. Really? That part smacks of a common mistake: that you’re entitled to your individual rights even if they harm others.

Our governor Ron DeSantis  – who yearns for the presidency in 2024 – has thrown open Florida’s doors. Snowbirds, spring breakers, all you northerners and equestrians come on down! No fines for not wearing masks! Vax distribution sites are yours when you contribute hundreds of thousands to my campaign…Well, he didn’t actually say that last part, but that’s what happened in a wealthy community at the northern tip of Key Largo.

What DeSantis doesn’t realize is that regardless of how much he mimics trump, how much of a trump clone he is, in four years it won’t matter. In four years, trump will be irrelevant.

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Vaccines

Posted on March 25, 2021 by Trish and Rob

I’m not sure if this is a synchro or not. But here it is.

Since late December 2020 and January 2021, Covid vaccinations in Florida have been open to residents 65 and over. Our ridiculous trump-loving governor, Ron DeSantis, didn’t have much of a distribution plan. It has been as screwed up as his lockdowns and quarantines. Our local Publix supermarket started offering vaccinations in late January, I think it was. But their website is awful, with the portal now open 3 times a week but hey, you have to get there at 7 a.m. and oh, well, sorry, the appointments are all taken half an hour after you sign on.

We’ve signed up with the county sites in the county, through the health department, through any and every venue we found. I figured we would get in somewhere when it was right for us.

I read somewhere that Walgreen’s would start giving vaccinations and opened an account with them to stay on top of the news. But there was never any news. Same with Sam’s Club, WalMart. Meanwhile, friends and family were getting vaccinated. Then, one day last week I read that CVS would be vaccinating people and went to their site.

For Florida, there were two choices in our county – Clewiston, a town halfway across the state, and Belle Glade, about a thirty minute drive west. I went on their website, chose Belle Glade, 10:30 and 10:45 a.m. on March 3 and -for the 2nd shot- March 24. The signup was easy, no designated time to try to get an appointment, and their website is straightforward.

Initially, I thought I wanted Moderna because it didn’t require the deep, deep freeze temps that Pfizer does. But one advantage of time is that you hear from other people who have been vaccinated. And most frequently I’ve heard about reactions to the 2nd Moderna vaccine: chills, fever, utter exhaustion, no appetite. The after effects usually disappear within 24-36 hours. I haven’t heard about anything like that with the 2nd Pfizer vaccine.

Since we got out appointments, Johnson & Johnson has won FDA emergency approval for their single shot vaccine, certainly my preference now. But hey, I’m willing to take any vaccine. I just want to put this pandemic behind us.

Ironically, trump and melania were vaccinated before they left the White House and now he – Chief Conman, Chief Hypocrite, Chief Liar – recommends that everyone get vaccinated.

Go figure.

We got our first Pfizers. Mildly sore arm. That’s it for side effects. Our second is today,  March 24. Mildly sore arm. Nothing more. I haven’t grown two heads yet. Or an extra arm. Or a tail.

If there’s a synchro here, it’s about timing and even that may be stretching the definition. But oh well. Stay tuned.

 

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Phenomena with Alexis

Posted on March 23, 2021 by Trish and Rob

Our friend Alexis did the audio recording for our book Phenomena. Her   podcast, Higher Journeys, covers all the stuff we love here on The Mystical Underground.

 

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