Coincidence/Synchronicity/Jung/RAW/QM, etc

[Uncle $cam]

Coincidence/Synchronicity/Jung/RAW/QM, etc
http://www.gtweekly.com/20090401398064/ ... chronicity

For your amusement, edification, or both, either way, enjoy...

[Penguin]

Thanks!

If you’ve ever experienced a truly uncanny synchronicity yourself, though—or several in rapid succession, as is sometimes the case—then perhaps you’ve found that the issue isn’t quite so simple. Once in a while something happens that’s so unlikely, so patently absurd, that it leaves you with the unshakeable feeling that you’ve just gotten a prank call from the Other Side. I’m not talking about minor synchronicities, where, say, you’re dressed as The Devil on Halloween, and you make a purchase that leaves you with $6.66 in change; I’m talking about when on top of that, the cashier is dressed as an angel, and at the same time that she hands you your $6.66, you hear a line about “giving The Devil his due” in the song playing over the PA.

Right now some of you are rolling your eyes and grumbling to yourselves about what a mush-brained, dandelion-smoking Mork from Ork I am for suggesting that an oogah-boogah notion like synchronicity could possibly have any validity. Well … good. Not so very long ago, people were being hunted down, tortured and murdered for promoting the heretical notion that the Earth revolved around the sun, and I salute skeptics like yourself for fighting the kinds of superstitious belief systems that gave rise to that sad situation. Now, however, we find ourselves at yet another turning point, and as certain sacred dogmas of science are replaced by demonstrably more accurate models of reality, those who cling to the old mechanistic worldview risk becoming the new fundamentalists.

Indeed...

Miller: A lot o’ people don't realize what's really goin’ on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents an’ things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: Suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly somebody'll say, like, “plate,” or “shrimp,” or “plate o' shrimp” out of the blue. No explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.


Otto: You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?
-Repo Man

hee hee

I mostly agree with that article. My personal synchs have been very much like he describes, and theyve been plentiful over the years. Some have been so against all odds that I cannot anymore discount their reality - statisticians are welcome to argue about some specific events - Ill be glad to hand them their probabilities on a silver plate along with their heads

In human biology, we see the principle of synchrony at work in both the locking menstrual cycles of women who live together and in the activity of pacemaker cells (the cells that control a person’s heart rate): When two pacemaker cells are in close proximity to each other, they quickly fall into rhythm with one another, building and releasing charges in unison.

By analyzing a film of children on a playground at lunchtime, a graduate student working under the supervision of anthropologist Edward T. Hall found another example of synchrony in the human realm: Kids all over the playground were unknowingly moving in rhythm with each other, as if dancing to the beat of a song. Similarly, by analyzing films of people in conversation, Boston University School of Medicine psychologist William S. Condon noticed that the listeners’ bodily gestures were in perfect synchrony with the speakers’ voices. Stranger still, when he hooked up pairs of people in conversation to separate electroencephalographs, he found that the brainwaves of people engaged in “good” conversation oscillated “in harmony” with each other. Similar experiments have revealed that the brainwaves of attendees of church sermons and students listening to lectures generally oscillated in synch with those of the speaker, and that only when this kind of brainwave entrainment occurred was the class or church service perceived as “good.” Such data convinced Condon that human beings are not “isolated entities sending discrete messages to one another,” but rather are participants within “shared organizational forms."

[Penguin]

The Mystical Perspective

“Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irreprehensible, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing. The synchronicity phenomena point, it seems to me, in this direction, for they show that the nonpsychic can behave like the psychic, and vice versa, without there being any causal connection between them.”
- Carl Jung, “On the Nature of the Psyche”




“Synchronicity is the love underlying the happenings of the time. Love brings everything together. Now, there is a resonating field. There is a field that tries for everything to come together, because we live in this unified field, and love is always trying to pull us into being unified. As we become more and more conscious, we enter that unified field of love, and then we have synchronistic experiences. Love is not a feeling—it’s pure reason. As we interact with each other, as we become more and more aware, as we have our desires placed out there, everything on the planet tries to bring it forth.”
- Risa D’Angeles, founder and director of the Esoteric & Astrological Studies & Research Institute




“I have spent much of my adult life trying to understand these events, and although I believe their true origin is beyond human comprehension, it has much to do with the spiritual concept that time is an illusion, and events can be orchestrated by entities in spirit form (including our higher selves) which are designed to keep us on our true path.”
-Mystic Life, editor of SynchronicityTimes.com




“Synchronicity, along with déjà vu, is a phenomenon that people too easily take for granted. People regularly toss off this everyday minor miracle with a ‘Wow! What a weird coincidence,’ not really thinking about it again. We should pay closer attention in these moments, ‘smell the rose of synchronicity,’ if you will, as there is probably something important happening if we look a little closer. I think of synchronicity as experiential proof of the interconnectedness of all things and the existence of a higher power. I think that if one could somehow empirically measure the countless individual synchronistic events across the globe at any given moment and simultaneously show all of them to the people of the world, it would go a long way to bind us together … or maybe that would just make us like The Borg … Either way, resistance is futile.”
-Chet (now married, a father of three, and working as a retail manager in Chicago)

Oh yeah.

[Uncle $cam]

"If you can't get away with it it ain't real."

A few moments with Robert Anton Wilson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hxWy-3WjDE

Also, see 'Ah Pook returns'

"Ah Pook is Here": Unseen William S Burroughs Graphic Novel Art Show

http://posthumanblues.blogspot.com/2009 ... turns.html

[Zap]

Since my "teapot coincidence" that brought me to this board, I've paid attention to synchronicity, and I do indeed think it exists.

My question is - how much of the shadowy conspiracies we tend to see lurking could be explained by such coinci-dance?

We tend to find what we look for - and even create what we seek ... perhaps a lot of the strange coincidences that can be found between popular culture media and world events are not CIA/PTB manipulation, but just more of the same mysterious synchronicity that we know goes on in other domains?

So - more than mere coincidence, but not evidence of conspiracy?

Perhaps the conscious reality sending a message, waving a flag, or dropping a wink?

I know I'm just setting myself up to be accused of being a tool of empire again with this line of thought, but I think it's a valid and interesting line of inquiry ...

[vigilant]

Since my "teapot coincidence" that brought me to this board, I've paid attention to synchronicity, and I do indeed think it exists.

My question is - how much of the shadowy conspiracies we tend to see lurking could be explained by such coinci-dance?

We tend to find what we look for - and even create what we seek ... perhaps a lot of the strange coincidences that can be found between popular culture media and world events are not CIA/PTB manipulation, but just more of the same mysterious synchronicity that we know goes on in other domains?

So - more than mere coincidence, but not evidence of conspiracy?

Perhaps the conscious reality sending a message, waving a flag, or dropping a wink?

I know I'm just setting myself up to be accused of being a tool of empire again with this line of thought, but I think it's a valid and interesting line of inquiry ...

I think you make a good point. I think sometimes the 'machine' is given credit for events it didn't manufacture, and for the most part they are glad to get it. It makes them seem all more powerful.

Power perceived, is power achieved...


Also, along this line, I believe that if power structures follow a certain pattern in their dealings, it becomes self fulfilling prophecy to a large degree, and all the more invisible. This world runs on a clock that has become invisible to most living humans

The best scammers run the world. I would suppose that scams were born as soon as the first village formed. One or a few members stumbled on to a situation that allowed them to take advantage of the others, and the game began.

From ancient history, including such writings as Leviticus from the Bible which describes the Jubilee Cycle, it appears as if scams evolved around natural events such as crop cycles, and astrological events. Astrology was the most precise time clock, and in my perspective, it is still really the only real clock that exists.

Weather patterns, tides, and earth changes repeat themselves according to the astrological clock. History repeats. Anything that could be predicted to duplicate itself with some degree of accuracy became the tools of the scammers.

Hurricaine seasons are milder and worse in certain cycles of years. Solar flare activity runs roughly in 11 year cycles. Tornadoes and flood cycles occur roughly in certains cycles of years. Eclipses occur in cycles.

If I know that an eclipse will occur and when, and nobody else does, I can tell them that the Gods are going to be angry, and that some sort of activity must take place to appease the Gods when it occurs. This activity will of course somehow enrich me or benefit me.

If I know floods occur in roughly in 50 year cycles, and my family before me knew it, we probably own the land that doesn't flood, and somehow take advantage of you when yours does flood. We might plant extra crops knowing that you will have to buy food from us at inflated prices.

Or even better, we loan you a lot of food in a manner that keeps you enslaved for years trying to pay it off. Maybe we end up with your land, and before the next flood we sell it for an inflated price, knowing it will flood, and we can buy it back for a song after it floods.

When a society begins to be run and controlled by such cycles synchronicity is built into the system automatically. Things tend to happen together, at the same time, invisible to most, but anticipated by a few.

It is exactly how the stock market works. A few stock traders "know", and the rest get their asses fleeced by the ones that know, because the ones that "know" have lied their ass off and caused the rest to buy in a manner that strips them of their money.

This hidden synchronicity built into the system is the secret to generational wealth. When the common peoples think they see a pattern, the wealthy will say and do anything possible to make it seem like an absurd observation. If everybody knew, it couldn't and wouldn't work. It is against the law in many cases to engage in behavior that 'illuminates' these instances. People are now being medicated and called insane for seeing these patterns. Were you to insist that bird flu had been a money hoax, your shrink might decide that your paranoid delusions needed to be medicated out of your mind.

Things related that coincide with one another are termed as "just a coincidence", which is of course exactly what they are because they happened in proximity one another.

We have been taught that coinciding events are "coincidences", and that the word means the opposite of what it truly means. We are taught to deny the simple fact, that things happening in proximity to one another, have a higher degree of probability of being related, than they have of being unrelated. We fall for it too, amazingly enough. Being ostracized by the herd is a tough monster to fight though, which is why we fall for it. Most of us would rather fight a gorilla than have a derogatory term attached to our fiercely protected ego.


People that scold you for citing Occam's Razor often have hidden agendas because it makes the law of probability crystal clear.

The word, "just" is a big help too. In a nutshell "just" means "because it is so". So...they teach us that these words, "just a coincidence", which means "because it is so that these things happen in proximity to one another and are probably related"....means its opposite.

Pavlov's dog, in action....

Over time, due to technology, predictable events that can be duplicated can be easily staged with precision that scammers of old only dreamed of. In an instant, our herd can be artificially stampeded in fear in any direction, for a million reasons, with a known outcome.

Knowing this outcome, this remedy for our fear or pain, and better yet being the provider of the comfort and aid needed, is the synchronicity secret of all time. As it did in the days of old, many of these scams run in sync with natural processes so that they are invisible to most of us, because most of us are blind to the natural processes all around us.

We're getting dumber too, through education. A chair is only a chair because somebody told me it was. A ceiling could easily be named a floor if someone had decided they should have been different. We believe things are what we are told as we grow up.

Names..."whats in a name".....oh man....a lot. When you can control the names and their definitions, and the game, the only thing you really need is restraint in your greed. Don't kill the golden goose, because the ability to do so, is in the palm of your hand, if your family has been 'seers' for generations, and has accrued generational wealth.

Aside from the fact that it causes us to live near poverty, one of the real shames is the fact that we don't know much about our natural world and its processes.

How many people understand the Golden Mean Ratio, and many other fascinating gems of natural wonder? Not many....instead of being one with the land and the universe, and have love of its understanding, most people live in opposition of it, because we have been trained to be ignorant of it.

thats truly sad too....

I'll never forget how fascinated and thrilled I was to discover some of these wonderful secrets, nor how furious I was that I had been lied to all my life...

[Perelandra]

So - more than mere coincidence, but not evidence of conspiracy?

Well, not ALWAYS, IMO. Resonance is real. So are conspiracies.

Now, however, we find ourselves at yet another turning point, and as certain sacred dogmas of science are replaced by demonstrably more accurate models of reality, those who cling to the old mechanistic worldview risk becoming the new fundamentalists.

Good ones, Pen!

My synchs make me feel loved.

[Zap]

We have been taught that coinciding events are "coincidences", and that the word means the opposite of what it truly means.

Totally - I often write the word as "co-incidences" to break those very connotations and refocus a reader on the meaning of the actual word.

[Sounder]

Vigilant wrote…
I think sometimes the 'machine' is given credit for events it didn't manufacture, and for the most part they are glad to get it. It makes them seem all more powerful.

Power perceived, is power achieved...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb1VLfQDdOs

Faqir Chand says this at the end of his railroad story; “Whosoever remembers God in whatever form, in that very form he helps his devoted.” He came to this conclusion after his guru appeared in a vision, gave advice and saved the lives of many men. He was then confronted by a bunch of men intent on worshiping him, because he also appeared as an apparition to them again saving lives. He concluded that the originator of the apparition produced the effect, not the Guru.

My best synch was to have a 1917 penny on Nov.22, 1963. I was seven years old and the CIA had nothing to do with it. It was the most formative experience of my life.

Good work Zap

Love to All

[H_C_E]

first of all, I make a distinction between mere coincidence and synchronicity. A great example of the latter is the oft mentioned bit about the rare species of scarab that Jung describes in his book "Synchronicity:
An Acausal Connecting Principle" (I think that's the correct title, it's been a few decades since I laid eyes on the book)

I will relate briefly one of my favorite personal experiences -

My wife and I were discussing Philip K. Dick and his Gnostic beliefs as expressed in many of his books, particularly "The Divine Invasion" and somehow were relating this to the occult and the significance of the number three. Especially three three's (333) and my wife commented that perhaps this could mean that the number nine was significant. If so then perhaps three nines (999) might be the ultimate expression of this numerical nonsense. Just as she finished uttering that sentence we pulled to a stop at a red light. The car in front of us had a license plate that read "PKD999"

Dead serious. We were both fairly taken aback by this littel detail. We just looked at each other in the most pregnant silence I've ever experienced.

I always keep my antennae up when it comes to synchronicity.

[Username]

~
realitysandwich

Chaos, Collapse, and Synchronicity
Tony Vigorito
March 3, 09

From imploding economies to hurricanes and tsunamis, from astounding corruption to war and terrorism, from catastrophic climate change to thermonuclear weapons in the Middle East, the clichés of doom that lately populate the course of human events is more than enough to tilt a sane citizen into apocalyptic anxiety. I am certain that I paint too broad a stroke on it, but I'm nonetheless going to venture to say that worrying about civilizational collapse is like worrying about whether or not one's relationship will end in a painful breakup. I don't mind admitting that I've spent some time worrying about both of these things -- indeed, one of them even came to pass -- and I can testify that no amount of worry could have prepared me for the agony -- and the ecstasy -- that eventually came of it.

As it happened, I was in the midst of writing my second novel, Nine Kinds of Naked, a novel which presumed to explore the theme of synchronicity. I really don't remember how or why, but I had dared myself to write Nine Kinds of Naked without a plan and only according to the synchronicity of my daily experience. This turned out to be a terrifying endeavor, and one that I was entirely unprepared to meet. I remember complaining aloud one day, voicing my frustration that this wasn't working, that I was trying to write about synchronicity rather than allowing the story to simply proceed by its own design. I had read every book on the topic, taking careful notes the way my graduate training had habituated me to do, and there I was writing the book as an exhausted intellectual rather than as an inspired artist. I found myself writing about a phenomenon that I only dimly recalled from years earlier in my life, not something that I was experiencing in the present moment. I felt like I was failing my project.

Then my relationship of eleven years abruptly ended.

I only mention this very personal detail of my life at all because of what happened to me afterwards: I was propelled into a six-month period of unparalleled and nearly nonstop synchronicity that continued to reverberate for another full year and upon which I'm still surfing the shockwave. I'm not speaking here about the typical tripe: seeing your former lover's initials on a license plate or hearing another lovesick pop song every time you click on the radio. Cripes and jeezus gawd, there was plenty of that, but if those wan synchronicities are supposed to be the thumbprints of Providence in the margins of my life, then Providence has grown much too tame. I'm speaking here of the truly uncanny, the highly improbable, the perpetual co-incidence of my life intersecting perfectly with the lives of everyone around me. Shortly after my split, suffering with grief one summer day on my porch, a rare car passed my house, windows open, broadcasting the gaudy voice of a radio commercial advertising I know not what: "It's a big change," the radio yapped in passing. "Heal naturally." And that's the most insignificant example I can remember.

In my research on synchronicity, I had learned that it is most likely to emerge during and after ego-shattering experiences. These include near-death experiences, the death of loved ones, the end (or the beginning) of love relationships, shamanic / visionary experiences, travel, and so forth. Psychology typically deems this a form of dissociation in response to psychological trauma, and this is probably correct. After all, when I measure it against my own experience -- in which the entire world and my very presence within it seemed indistinguishable from a dream -- that defines dissociation, certainly. And yet, this explanation by itself left me feeling deeply dissatisfied, implying as it did a dismissal of my experience. And the experience of synchronicity is profoundly personal. It relies upon your subjectivity and the meanings you bring to your life. Because of this, it is irrelevant to debate whether or not it's real in the sense of what we might vainly refer to as objective reality. There's an unavoidable arrogance in presuming to evaluate not merely the truth of someone else's experience, but actually the truth of the meaning of someone else's experience. In the latter case, it has absolutely nothing to do with anyone but the person involved.

In any event, my understanding eventually relented to a view in which synchronicity is the face of a deeper level of interconnectivity. This dovetails with Eastern notions of non-duality, the mystical perception that unity is the underlying reality, that individual consciousness is actually the necessary illusion of distinction, the dark side of the Tao, so to speak, that which hears the tree falling in the woods. In this view, then, whenever the structures of one's mind are shaken, the mind opens into a wider perception of reality that is hallmarked by synchronicity, understood here as a dissolution of the boundary between the interior and the exterior worlds. Fundamentally, the ego is the illusion that you exist separate from everything else, it is that which walls you off from the flow of undivided unity. Whenever these walls collapse, the flow of undivided unity rushes into your life, and synchronicity is the face of this perception.

So, dear and patient readers, my quodlibet is this: Although my breakup catalyzed what an external observer may at first grunt judge to be a breakdown, from my point of view the only breakdown was the delusion that I was in control of my life. All the walls -- of identity, ambition, and security, of any illusion that I knew who I was, or where I was, or that I had any clue at all what was happening in life -- all of this collapsed like an obsolete civilization and permitted eternity to course through me as never before. Insofar as apocalypse derives from the Greek apokalyptein, meaning "to unveil," this was some version of my personal apocalypse, and since apocalypse is the etymological antonym of hell, which derives from the Latin helan, meaning "to veil," the only thing to mourn was the liberation from my own illusions. In a similar fashion, this is what we're facing when we worry about the collapse of our social structures. Despite our roads and skylines, despite our bridges and our borders, despite our military-industrial complexes and hyper-corrupt transnational corporations, society does not actually exist anywhere but the human mind. As a mental construct, society provides us with a shared illusion of meaning, purpose, and order, and it stabilizes our existence thereby, but paraphrasing Terence McKenna, society is not our friend. At best it is what Aldous Huxley referred to as a reducing valve to our perception, and at worst it is what Robert Anton Wilson called "the devil's masquerade," a Luciferian diversion from the truth of existence.

And the truth, or something resembling it, is that if you walk outside right now, hold your hand up to the sky, and pinch a millimeter of heaven between your thumb and forefinger, the truth is that if you were to focus the Hubble space telescope on that random sector of sky between your thumb and forefinger, that one dot on the overwhelming vault of heaven, you would discover billions of galaxies. This is the cathedral of eternity in which we find ourselves, and this magnificent insignificance is what we do not see when we imagine that we are -- or that we could ever be -- in control of this juggernaut that is barreling down the shuddering tracks of history.

As McKenna also intones on one of my favorite Shpongle tracks: Nothing is wrong, everything is on track. And indeed it was, for as it turned out, my matrimonial cataclysm was just the apocalyptic knock I needed to inspire the novel some part of me had dared myself to fathom. I gave up, I surrendered, and it was only then that Nine Kinds of Naked could proceed according its own synchronicity. There was a tremendous relief in this giving up of control, in surrendering to some chaotic process infinitely larger than myself, in realizing not only that I am not in control of my life, but also that I don't have to be.

So here we yawn at millennium's dawn: Bugles are blasting and the walls of civilization are crumbling, chaos is seeping through the cracks and crawling out of the shadows, survivalist monkeys are buying guns and the ice caps are melting besides as chaos gazes unfazed at the clamor of humanity sounding for all the universe like the echo of a distant wind chime. That which we thought was stable, safe, and secure is not, that which we sacrificed so much for is failing, that which told us who we are is collapsing like a psychedelic kaleidoscope. And as our social structures collapse, humanity -- barbaric, beautiful humanity -- will rediscover the awesome divinity that inhabits the core of our consciousness as one by one we give up control because society may not be our friend but chaos is our mother and our mother is an order unfathomable, a layer of complexity much deeper than the dim and flimsy arrogance of ego can admit to itself. Welcome our selves to the cathedral of eternity, the dimension in which we step out of that steaming pile of ego which passes for human consciousness and at last surrender into a higher order of experience in which our interconnectivity one to another becomes blindingly obvious, and we see, and we know, and we remember, that there is so much more happening in life than we have ever been led to believe.

May your days dare delight with your dreams~

End
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Another article by Tony Vigorito, I thought was pretty good --

[url=http://realitysandwich.com/courage_synchronicity_and_technology_magic]Courage, Synchronicity, and the Technology of Magic
Tony Vigorito
May 22, 09[/url]
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[Penguin]

In my research on synchronicity, I had learned that it is most likely to emerge during and after ego-shattering experiences. These include near-death experiences, the death of loved ones, the end (or the beginning) of love relationships, shamanic / visionary experiences, travel, and so forth.

....

In any event, my understanding eventually relented to a view in which synchronicity is the face of a deeper level of interconnectivity. This dovetails with Eastern notions of non-duality, the mystical perception that unity is the underlying reality, that individual consciousness is actually the necessary illusion of distinction, the dark side of the Tao, so to speak, that which hears the tree falling in the woods. In this view, then, whenever the structures of one's mind are shaken, the mind opens into a wider perception of reality that is hallmarked by synchronicity, understood here as a dissolution of the boundary between the interior and the exterior worlds. Fundamentally, the ego is the illusion that you exist separate from everything else, it is that which walls you off from the flow of undivided unity. Whenever these walls collapse, the flow of undivided unity rushes into your life, and synchronicity is the face of this perception.

At present, I feel I agree with this.

With perhaps the distinction that I think "letting go of everything you have, emotionally and physically - understanding that all things pass" more aptly describes the state of mind necessary, than "ego-shattering".

[Zap]

(ha - coincidentally, last night I pulled this thread up, and left it open in a tab with intent to revive it this morning - only to find it already kicking when I arose.)

I'll also have to agree with the quote from that article - my own experiences with synchronicity really got started with a hallmark mystical experience - interconnectedness of all things, all distinctions illusionary, intuition a valid guide to navigating reality, etc - this led me straight into a cascade of synchronicity, so for me the connection has always been clear.

[marmot]

What a coincidence! I was just thinking about all those incredible coincidences in my life moments before being led to this thread!

Fabulous post Uncle $cam! Much thanks.



And Vig - Dude - Wow! Spot on! Thank You!

All of what you said was great. And in quoting this sig-worthy sentence below I'm not at all meaning to elevate it above, or to lessen anything else you said. But this was good:

"We're getting dumber too, through education." -vigilant



Here's another quote that I once used as a sig-line:

"God made man because he loves stories." -Elie Wiesel

As a young man I too have had a series of mystical experiences - not nec. 'a becoming one with the universe' but an experiential realization that 'I am one with the universe,' that we are all one with all space and time. And it does seem that only those who have had such an experience know what this truly means. Otherwise such a claim is seen as madness to the educated classes. And so naturally throughout my life I've never been surprised at all the wonderful synchronistic happenings that occur within our universe. In fact, I see the Divine hand in it, playing with us, telling with us and to us a wonderful story, portraying His absolute sovereignty and wisdom and love in the sychronistic narrative unfolding within His creation. As a chosen child of the Creator I see His signature in the cosmic happenings of everything, having been "predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will" (Ephesians 1:11).



from Username's thread detailing the interconnectedness of all things:

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” -Carl Sagan

Here's to apple pies and to the One who inspired the poet David to write: "O taste and see that the LORD is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!" -Psalm 34:8

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

Since my "teapot coincidence" that brought me to this board, I've paid attention to synchronicity, and I do indeed think it exists.

My question is - how much of the shadowy conspiracies we tend to see lurking could be explained by such coinci-dance?

We tend to find what we look for - and even create what we seek ... perhaps a lot of the strange coincidences that can be found between popular culture media and world events are not CIA/PTB manipulation, but just more of the same mysterious synchronicity that we know goes on in other domains?

So - more than mere coincidence, but not evidence of conspiracy?

Perhaps the conscious reality sending a message, waving a flag, or dropping a wink?

I know I'm just setting myself up to be accused of being a tool of empire again with this line of thought, but I think it's a valid and interesting line of inquiry ...

Noted.