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I was wondering the other day whether or not there are any religions that recognize synchronicity. Maybe they all do, but don\u2019t talk about it. I was trying to think of \u00a0a biblical story that exhibits meaningful coincidences. Maybe it could encompass the miracles ie. wine from water, walking on water, but those examples go far beyond what we normally think of a meaningful coincidences. Not being very knowledgeable in biblical lore I can\u2019t think of any clear examples of synchronicity. Maybe someone can help.<\/p>\n

Certainly there is a mystical element in all religions\u2014or they wouldn\u2019t be religions\u2014but it seems that the supernormal side is buried. Maybe it was something that happened in the past, but it doesn\u2019t happen now…and it certainly doesn\u2019t happen to you. That\u2019s my biased assessment of modern religion, which seems on a personal level more about social interactions, and on a priesthood level, \u00a0more bout structure and safeguarding the religion\u2019s integrity against the questioning and doubts of \u00a0disbelieving outsiders.<\/p>\n

We see this doubting and questioning religious authorities and their established churches and temples especially strong among the younger generation. Certainly there are still many who follow the religion of their parents or take up a new religion, but there is also something else going on.<\/p>\n

There can be little doubt that traditional religious frameworks are no longer speaking to new generations as they have in the past, especially in the West.<\/p>\n

In an article<\/a> in the LA Times, \u00a0Philip Clayton, former dean of faculty at Claremont School of Theology, writes that the fastest growing religious group in the United States is \u201cspiritual but not religious,\u201d embracing a shocking 75 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29.\u201d \u00a0Clayton argues that young people are not necessarily rejecting a sense of God, rather they feel that religious organizations are too concerned with money and power, too focused on rules and too involved in the structures of the political status quo.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s an interesting conclusion and one that must leave religious leaders puzzled. Clayton wrote the article in 2012, and if anything the trend has continued and expanded. My guess is that younger people, especially those with mystical leanings see that religion has largely abandoned its mystical roots. When that happens, it\u2019s like toothpaste. Once out of the tube, its out. Rather than trying to put the mystical back in religion, young people see that we are all spiritual beings, that it\u2019s our essence, and we don\u2019t need a priest or preacher to tell us how to act when so many of them have acted so poorly themselves.<\/p>\n

My guess is that synchronicities resonate with this group of young people more than established religion does. They are finding their spiritual roots right at home inside themselves, the very essence of their beings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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