Synchronicities

This is a big subject, but when I first became very aware of synchronicities as a phenomenon, it was a different type of experience than I have lately. I used to experience synchronicities in a way that was overt but abstract. E.G. reading something that caught my attention, something new, and then being inundated with information in that subject from friends, on the radio, books etc. Or meeting the right person at the right time for a project that required that person's expertise etc., until the sychronistic experience was commonplace and just a marvelous new awareness or ability.

Now, I must admit that I've been struggling with why that type of synchronicity mentioned above hasn't been manifesting in my life the way it used to. However, I am noticing a different phenomenon that seems more consistent with telepathy or instantaneous or almost subconscious foreknowing. It seems less abstract and much more rapid. I may think a thought and have it resonate via a clip on the radio. Or have a strange and rather obscure intuition about something and see a message on a billboard that references the fleeting thought. Also, I've noticed in this more instantaneous, less abstract instance of synchronicity that often if I remain focused on witnessing the phenomenon, that it can be a chain that continues on as one thought leads to another which is somehow confirmed in the phenomenal world around me, which leads to another thought and another symbolic response etc.

It becomes a chicken/egg dilemna for me about whether I might just be picking up a delay, like I"m noticing things after they've hit my sub-conscious. I wonder if others have this experience as well. But it isn't the classic synchronicity as I've experienced it and read about, and it is noteworthy to me that there seems to be a diminishing number of the "classic" sychronistic experiences that stand out as being particularly meaningful and relating to a thoughtful question. Rather, they are a direct immediate response to almost discursive thoughts but in some ways are more startling because it is like witnessing a response in the outer world immediately.

I'd be very curious to know if anyone else noticing anything like this?

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

Life is like a jigsaw. Often we force pieces to fit where they shouldn’t. In a synchronised world all the pieces would be fitting in the right place.
When I feel negative emotions or have a bad mindset I know not to expect synchronicity to play any major role in my day.

Invite synchronicity in to your life and it will come. It wants to be there. It is simply the natural order of things. It helps if you keep your mind open and relaxed. If you are over attached to the outcome it seems to spoil it. I know I am making it sound easy, of course its not...but...its not as hard as you might think!

Synchronicity brought me to this site...see http://www.evolver.net/user/danido/blog/daniel_synchronicity_and_me

It's synchronicity enough that I join this group and begin contemplating my own synchronities when my best friend calls and, seemingly randomly and certainly without prompting from me, reports here own:

Last week, she dreamt that she and her husband were visiting family at a large event. She couldn't remember the purpose of the event, but she did remember being thrilled to be back with family (whom she's very connected to--they live in Wisconsin and she recently moved to San Francisco--the distance has been hard on her). Her young nephew, maybe 4, began chasing her and ended up running circles around her, squealing and delighted. At the end of his running, he collapsed into her arms and said, "I love you, Aunt Reenie!"

A few days later, my friend called her sister, the boy's mother, and shared the dream with her. It turns out, the sister had the same dream the same night. She dreamt that they party they were at was a surprise birthday party for their grandmother. While they were waiting for their grandmother to arrive, the sister watched her son run circles around my friend, collapse into her arms, and say, "I love you, Aunt Reenie!"

Pretty cool, eh?

brandon heckman
portland, oregon, usa
mindfulparadigm.com

Good Question, Brandon!

It seems to me that life throws signs at everyone but when we choose to see them and trust them they mulitply and our lives become more synchronistic. If everyone could or would tap into this roadmap to a better life then the world would operate harmoniously. But by doing so ourselves we increase the potential for more people to do so.
BTW that was major dream synch between your friend and her sister. Now that they have both recognised it, it will be interesting to see what else shows up for them.

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Hey Brandon, I found your reply really thoughtful indeed so I hope I this response seems considered. Tried to approach your questions in the order you posed them.

I think attunement to synchronicities is a chicken and egg situation. Sometimes even if you miss them it may be those passed that help you to recognise the next synchronistic moment or sign in your life. These are the ‘worm hole’ events where we can jump into the flow if you get me.

Is attunement enough for a harmonious world? Who knows, but perhaps if a critical mass achieve a more positive vibration and have trust in the universe it will cause some major shift. I belive in spiritual enlightenment, I believe that what you put out you attract. I believe that seeing the synchronicity in life can be a reminder of a higher purpose and a superior realm and also of how our supposed sophistication, as it leads us away from natures/mother earths path, could be our downfall.

Language is an excellent example of the ‘sophistication’ that differentiates us from our fellow animals.

I never met an animal that didnt understand an animal of its own breed. Yet I frequently don’t understand my own race. And furthermore I often meet people who say all the right things but I just get a funny feeling about them. I tend to go with my feelings in this instance. Perhaps, in other animals when we say they use instinct, this is the same as saying that they don’t deviate from the synchronicity that has guided them effectively for all time they have been evolving.

Can human beings transcend their animal and physiologic natures? I certainly hope so. I think that our extra abilites were intended for this purpose. As it’s not totally working, and we see suffering and violent exchanges on both a local and global level, I wonder if this is just the stage of evolution that we are at. We tend to think as a race that we are evolved. Members of this website on the other hand are more enlightened as is denoted in the name.

I am not sure exactly what I think of the fallen tree scenario. Does it make sense to you if I say that if swine flu is man made and I die then I will feel it was not a synchronistic event. On the other hand......if it is a naturally occurring disease that serves a purpose of bring the earth back to a population size that works harmoniously with how the earth needs to be to sustain itself...then I will be happy that I died in a synchronistic fashion.

Perhaps, as you say, the 'what is living in harmony' question is better suited to another group so I will be brief and say that one example of living in Harmony to me is when people do not try to assert control instead of dealing with themselves. (my most recent blog deals with this issue - some what synchronisticly! http://www.evolver.net/user/danido/blog/take_care_your_own_oxygen_mask_f....) Might be worth starting a discussion elsewhere on the harmony topic!

Happy weekend to you and all Evolvers!
Danielle

Or meeting the right person at the right time for a project that required that person's expertise etc., until the sychronistic experience was commonplace and just a marvelous new awareness or ability.

Thank you for writing that. I feel you have confirmed something.
The Hawk.