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This story was originally posted back in 2009, when our blog barely a month old. It’s a wonderful example of the trickster and involved Trish’s father. At the time it occurred, in 2002, he was living in an assisted living facility, had been widowed for two years, and was certainly not happy about the state of his life. But even\u00a0 he recognized this situation as, well, unusual. We’ve added some additional material.<\/p>\n

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The Trickster is a Jungian archetype. One of the best examples is the sneaky, lurking Gollum character in Lord of the Rings, orginally named Smeagol. He usually had an agenda of one kind or another that prompted him to mislead the hobbits on numerous occasions and to trick them into believing he could be trusted. The Joker in the Batman movies is another example. But when we encounter a trickster synchronicity, it\u2019s as if the universe is playing a joke on us.<\/p>\n

When my dad, Tony, a retired accountant, was in his late eighties, he moved into an assisted living facility in Georgia, where my sister\u00a0\u00a0 was director of nursing. A short time later, a high school classmate from Illinois \u2013 from more than seventy<\/strong> years earlier \u2013 moved in across the hall from him. When I marveled at the synchronicity, he remarked, \u201cThe universe has a twisted sense of humor. I don\u2019t like her any more now than I did back then.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in a sense, the trickster had brought his life full circle.<\/p>\n

It turned out that my dad outlived his classmate. He outlived most of the people he knew, clinging tenaciously to life until he could figure things out sufficiently to let go. He was never a religious man. During the three years he lived with us after my mother entered an Alzheimer’s facility, we supplied him with a steady supply of books on reincarnation. \u00a0 He loved Carol Bowman’s Children’s Past Lives <\/a>and was especially taken with Looking for Carroll Beckwith, <\/a>about a detective’s search for a particular past life he’d had. He wanted to believe that death wasn’t the end, but wasn’t convinced. And I knew that until he was convinced, he would continue to hold onto life, even when it meant confinement to a wheelchair with Parkinson’s and a world so diminished that he slept most of the time.<\/p>\n

In June of 2005,\u00a0 during one of my frequent visits to the assisted living facility in Georgia, I brought a DVD to show him that\u00a0 Carol Bowman<\/a> had sent me. It was from an ABC primetime<\/a> piece about James Leininger, a young boy who seemed to recall a past life as a World War II Navy fighter pilot. The boy’s mother had contacted Carol and the ABC piece started with Carol’s visit to the Leininger home. Rob and I had watched this powerful piece and I felt it might be exactly what my dad needed to see in order to believe.<\/em><\/p>\n

He and I watched the show together and by the end of it, tears filled his pale blue eyes. “That’s the most convincing thing I’ve ever seen or read that reincarnation is valid, Trish.”<\/p>\n

I knew then that he had his answer.<\/p>\n

Less than four months later, in September 2005, he had a stroke and died just three weeks shy of his 92nd birthday.<\/p>\n

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