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A fairly common type of synchronicity is thinking or saying a word or phrase, then hearing someone on television say that same thing. For example, recently Trish and I both said ‘ice’ close together, then just a second or two behind us a woman of television said ICE, which in the program was the name of a federal investigative agency.<\/p>\n

Nothing too outstanding about that one. But how about when the word in question is ‘<\/span>synchronicity’? First of all, how often do we hear that word on television? And who would expect a sleazeball like Vic Mackey to say it three or four times, and he actually seems to know what he was talking about.<\/p>\n

For the uninitiated, Vic Mackey is a fictional character played by Michael Chiklis for seven seasons in The Shield on FX. We never saw it in ‘real time.’ Cop shows don’t usually interest us. But a friend of ours, a Hollywood writer, told us to rent the first disk from the first season. She said the writing and the story-telling were among the best on television. The first episode was really gritty, and we almost didn’t go any farther. But by the time we’d watched the other episodes on the disk, we were hooked. We went through all seven seasons.<\/p>\n

So after we finished watching the final episode of the final season, I turned on the special features, which included cast members talking about the series. We went back to work, and it was playing in the background. Trish was editing one of the chapters of our synchronicity book and I was working on a post for this blog. That’s when I heard Mackey (Chiklis) start talking synchronicity. I nearly fell off my chair.<\/p>\n

Looking back over the seven seasons, he said: “There was so much synchronicity happening all the time, so many of these happy accidents.” As one example, he mentioned a director from the first season coming back to direct the last episode. “It was so perfect. So appropriate.”<\/p>\n

If you’ve never seen The Shield, the comments probably don’t seem so startling. But if you know Vic Mackey, the idea of hearing him talking about synchronicity as we were working on the subject was totally unexpected, and startling.
Rob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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