Does this count as an example of synchronicity?

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Re: Does this count as an example of synchronicity?

Postby beeline » Fri Jan 15, 2010 2:12 pm

I once saw a guy on a mortocycle lose his watch and die moments later. His watch fell off, and his time ran out. No shit.

Does that count?
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Re: Does this count as an example of synchronicity?

Postby Nordic » Fri Jan 15, 2010 2:16 pm

sunny wrote:I love synchronicity threads. Just last night I wondered aloud to my husband if Teddy Pendergrass was still alive.



I don't think that's synchronicity, I think that's, uh, for lack of a better term, being somewhat clairvoyant.

You picked up on it, somehow, somewhere.

BTW your avatar is absolutely beautiful. I love looking at it.


Yesterday I had a little day job, a commercial shoot, a political spot (yes, they're already starting to make those). I was working with people I had never worked with before. We had two of everybody. Two Johns, two Phil's, two of a bunch of other names. It was kind of weird. THEN, one of the guys it turned out was Haitian American. I've been working in this business since the mid 80's and I don't think I've ever worked with anyone remotely associated with Haiti. He has family there, said they'd gotten ahold of everyone and they were okay.

Just weird.

These kinds of things happen in Los Angeles all the time. If you go out and run errands, you'll see several of everything. There's always a theme for the day, even in traffic. If someone suddenly makes a U-turn right in front of you, causing you to slam on your brakes, it will happen probably two more times while you're out. If you see a one armed guy in a wheelchair, you're likely to see two more. If you see a hot blond plugging a parking meter, you'll see two more a few minutes later.

It's really strange.
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Re: Does this count as an example of synchronicity?

Postby freemason9 » Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:17 pm

Luposapien wrote:Ok. Here's mine. I've thought of posting this here before and not worked up the motivation, but it's a slow day at work, the supervisor is out, and it's almost exactly 3 years after it occurred, so I figure "What the hell?".

Sometime in the early morning (not sure exactly what time, but pre-dawn), I woke out of a dream. In the dream, I was sitting in an apartment on a couch, having a conversation with Robert Anton Wilson. I know he's not a favorite of everyone here, but he was pretty influential for me when I first started really breaking free of my early childhood conditioning from growing up in the LDS church (Mormon's, for those that don't recognize the official name), and I've always found myself to be very much in sync with his take on things. We were sitting there, passing a bong back and forth, and having what I knew was a very interesting and important conversation (though I can't for the life of me remember what about). As an aside, there was also a heavy undertone of paranoia, where I realized, in the way you do in dreams, that we were being watched and recorded from the other side of a one-way mirror by some spooky individuals.

In any case, when I woke out of this dream, it really stuck with me. Most mornings, my dreams fade fairly quickly, but this one didn't. Also, I almost NEVER dream about artists or celebrities of any kind, regardless of how much I enjoy their work, and I just couldn't stop trying to remember what it was we were talking about with each other.

That afternoon I ended up going by a bookstore that’s down the street from where I work, and decided to see if they had any RAW that I hadn’t read before. They did, but money was a little tight, so I decided to let it go.

Later that day I heard from a friend of mine (whom I have not spoken with in quite some time, but who lurks here pretty regularly, or at least used to), who happens to share my same first name- not an incredibly rare name, but rare enough that he is the only friend I’ve ever had that shared it- and who is one of the few people I know personally that shares an interest in RAW, that Robert had passed away early that morning, Jan. 11th, at 4:50 a.m. Roughly the time I was having that dream. At this point, I decided that I should go back and pick up that book after all, which ended up dealing quite a bit with the topic of synchronicity, and which, in the process of reading, I experienced several synchronous moments.

So, there you have it. Perhaps not the most mind-bogglingly insane sync ever, but definitely my favorite personal one.

[Edited, out of hyper-obsessiveness, to limit uses of the phrase "In any case" to one, and on further edit, to remove a transitional phrase that made absolutely no sense.]


ha, this is a good one. thanks for sharing it. he wrote the illuminatus trilogy with another author years ago; i acquired it from the bargain rack of a book store and read it. i had no idea it was a cult classic, and i thought the book was sloppily written and similar to crap i used to pen on notebook pages in high school. no adhesion, no plot, gratuitous sex/action, and a quick wrap up.

and yet, he's legendary now. go figure.

but i'm a disillusioned old ex-hippie that accepts the fleeting irritation of a world that believes it's important in some way.
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Re: Does this count as an example of synchronicity?

Postby sunny » Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:53 pm

Nordic wrote:
sunny wrote:I love synchronicity threads. Just last night I wondered aloud to my husband if Teddy Pendergrass was still alive.



I don't think that's synchronicity, I think that's, uh, for lack of a better term, being somewhat clairvoyant.

You picked up on it, somehow, somewhere.

BTW your avatar is absolutely beautiful. I love looking at it.


Yesterday I had a little day job, a commercial shoot, a political spot (yes, they're already starting to make those). I was working with people I had never worked with before. We had two of everybody. Two Johns, two Phil's, two of a bunch of other names. It was kind of weird. THEN, one of the guys it turned out was Haitian American. I've been working in this business since the mid 80's and I don't think I've ever worked with anyone remotely associated with Haiti. He has family there, said they'd gotten ahold of everyone and they were okay.

Just weird.

These kinds of things happen in Los Angeles all the time. If you go out and run errands, you'll see several of everything. There's always a theme for the day, even in traffic. If someone suddenly makes a U-turn right in front of you, causing you to slam on your brakes, it will happen probably two more times while you're out. If you see a one armed guy in a wheelchair, you're likely to see two more. If you see a hot blond plugging a parking meter, you'll see two more a few minutes later.

It's really strange.



My daughter is somewhat clairvoyant but I've always been more adept at sniffing out the cultural zeitgeist a little ahead of time. Nothing special just a function of being a little more in tune with the national media than is good for me. My daughter had a disturbing dream about "President Obama" some months before he won the primary. I insisted she might be wrong about the timing but she insisted the 'event' at the center of her dream took place after he becomes president. Jeff can attest to this because I wrote about it in the moderator forum at the time.

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Re: Does this count as an example of synchronicity?

Postby Allegro » Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:38 am

Cordelia, thanks for mentioning my avatar. It’s a greeting card I received long ago from now a long time friend, who has experienced my affinity for performance of classical piano pieces composed during the last three centuries.

Cordelia wrote:
Allegro wrote:I’ll be back later with one of my stories, and some questions, too. :)


I look forward to this. (I love your avatar.)
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Wood Carver

Postby Allegro » Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:57 am

In June, 2003, it came to mind that my dad passed away nearly four years ago. Sitting there quietly researching at my computer, I looked up to the wall where his photo hung, and asked, with a bit of tongue in cheek, ‘If you’re around, let me know in a way I don’t have to guess it’s you.’ That request wasn’t like me and it surprised me.

Maybe minutes later, I received (what at first I thought was) an unsolicited email. It seems a business man, Derek, had had a visit from a spammer who visited his web site to add who knows how many email addresses, like mine, without permission. In his email, Derek expressed his apologies about the incident.

Needless to say, I was curious about Derek’s enterprise, and went to surf his site, Smile At You.* When I read that web address, I became very curious with a feel of an inkle inside.

It turned out that Derek was an artist, an excellent wood carver.

My dad was a wood carver, too! I gawked, then nearly fell outta my chair.

IMO, that narrative as well as millions of others might illustrate that however mysteriously, energies can cause “Surprise!” instances that catch us off guard, and can even for a moment remind us that energies whorl keeping our bodies in tact with universal interconnecting vibrational forces we cannot imagine.

*Before putting this piece into RI, I visited the Smile At You dot com url, and it’s presently a web site the kind of which we would’ve seen when years ago we first began building our own sites. The esthetic of the site is minimal, clearly an archive for something I don't understand because most of the text is written in perhaps a western European language unfamiliar to me. The site is now peculiar.

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Thanks to brainpanhandler’s answer to TheDuke’s question wrt developing awarenesses to synchronicities.

I mentioned up thread that I would ask some questions, but I’m a newbie to the board, and this thread belongs to TheDuke. So, if s/he wishes, we may (or not) proceed discussing three assumptions I have in mind about synchronicity and intuition, the subjects of which could take some time and effort to respond to, I think. So, to TheDuke: it’s your choice.

By way of note, I’ve lurked since sometime in 2004 after googling the word intuition, and discovered Jeff Wells and the blog, Rigorous Intuition. I first boggled at Jeff’s mastery of graphic arts, then boggled at his topics and writings and responders’ comments, then finally entered still as a lurker onto this board. I’m out now, if only virtually, to contribute as I am able.

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Re: Wood Carver

Postby Zap » Sat Jan 16, 2010 1:10 pm

Allegro wrote:In June, 2003 ... I was curious about Derek’s enterprise, and went to surf his site, Smile At You.*

*Before putting this piece into RI, I visited the Smile At You dot com url, and it’s presently a web site the kind of which we would’ve seen when years ago we first began building our own sites. The esthetic of the site is minimal, clearly an archive for something I don't understand because most of the text is written in perhaps a western European language unfamiliar to me. The site is now peculiar.


In case you were curious, the site as it appeared in June 2003 can be viewed here:

http://web.archive.org/web/200306101106 ... atyou.com/
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Re: Does this count as an example of synchronicity?

Postby Zap » Sat Jan 16, 2010 1:25 pm

I have been paying attention to synchronicities for the pasty few years and recording them when interesting ones occur; here's one I enjoyed that happened over Christmastime this year:

Part One:

At my work, we received a gift basket in the mail from a company the owner works with. He put the goodies out on the office’s kitchen table for us to enjoy – various candy and cookies and other such edibles … and a mysterious metal tin with some weird pink goo inside, labeled only with “Get What You Want.”

Was it salt water taffy?

Gingerly, I brought it to my mouth for investigation – and I instantly recognized the familiar smell/taste from childhood – it was a big blob of Silly Putty!

Workman, several years my junior, was unfamiliar with the joys of this magical substance, so I showed him how it lifted newsprint, broke when yanked, stretched when pulled – and of course, how it bounced. We split it in half and started bouncing the chunks around the office, trying to hit the 25-foot high ceiling on the bounce. Almost immediately, Workman’s ball bounced into my office – and utterly disappeared. There weren’t many places it could have gone – but no matter how much we looked, we couldn’t find the missing Silly Putty.

My blob came home with me and became a fixture in the living room for the next couple of weeks …

Part Two:

The next week my GF and I went to California. While there, we stayed two nights at my cousin Kristina’s house, hanging out with her, her husband, and our other cousin. We hadn’t hung out in years, and got to reminiscing about old times when the whole extended family was still on good terms, and we would all spend every major holiday together at grandma’s house.

We laughed remembering how our uncle Greg used to dress up as Santa every year and come in and deliver presents to us awestruck kids. How our grandpa had a crazy stocked nuclear bombshelter off of the basement, and how the whole basement was filled with things he hoarded in case of catastrophe. And then I remembered something I hadn’t thought of for years and years …

I was a little kid, and I had gotten a red plastic egg full of Silly Putty for Christmas - and I loved it. I brought it down into the basement at Grandma’s house to bounce it on the smooth concrete floor. It bounced away out of sight beneath a cabinet… and I could not find it. Ever.

Like Vern in “Stand By Me” digging hundreds of holes in search of his lost jar of buried pennies, I tried to find that Silly Putty every time I went to grandma’s house for a long, long time … but I never found it. It was as if it vanished into thin air. My cousins and I laughed at the tale.

I didn’t connect the story with the Silly Putty I’d just gotten for Christmas at work. Not yet …

Part Three : What I Want

My mom gave me a big box of weird miscellaneous stuff for Christmas this year.

Part of that present was a folder containing a dozen or so pieces of Christmas artwork I’d made in childhood – a construction paper holiday art, a picture I’d drawn of Santa fleeing a flaming chimney with a singed butt; things like that that she’d saved and used to decorate the house for Christmas.

Among the artwork was a letter to Santa I’d written in 1986 … when I read it out loud to Workman and Amy, I started laughing immediately when it began “For Christmas, I want “Silly Putty” … it was almost certainly this very letter that had led to the Silly Putty I’d lost in my Grandma’s basement.

Wanting a photo of the old note with the Silly Putty I’d just gotten for Christmas, I looked around the living room for the blob that had been floating around constantly for the past couple of weeks … but it was nowhere to be found.

So instead, I went and found the container that the putty had come in. It was only then, next to my letter to Santa, that the tin’s slogan made any sense to me. “Get what you want,” indeed …

1986 Letter to Santa ("I want Silly Putty") + 2009 Silly Putty Xmas Tin ("Get what you want"):

http://teapotshappen.files.wordpress.co ... putty1.jpg
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Re: Does this count as an example of synchronicity?

Postby Allegro » Sat Jan 16, 2010 3:08 pm

Zap wrote:I have been paying attention to synchronicities for the pasty few years and recording them when interesting ones occur; here's one I enjoyed that happened over Christmastime this year:

...

Wanting a photo of the old note with the Silly Putty I’d just gotten for Christmas, I looked around the living room for the blob that had been floating around constantly for the past couple of weeks … but it was nowhere to be found.

So instead, I went and found the container that the putty had come in. It was only then, next to my letter to Santa, that the tin’s slogan made any sense to me. “Get what you want,” indeed …

1986 Letter to Santa ("I want Silly Putty") + 2009 Silly Putty Xmas Tin ("Get what you want"):

http://teapotshappen.files.wordpress.co ... putty1.jpg


Zap, I started smiling as I began reading your story, then I noticed I was smiling, then I giggled, then I laughed out loud. What a great story, indeed. Did you ever get that 'veicer' or those 'musles'? Just curious 'cause I hope they didn't disappear, too. :lol:

Thank you for the link to the old Smile At You; it brought back more memories. Like you, I keep snippets of synchronicities in written form.
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Re: Does this count as an example of synchronicity?

Postby Zap » Sat Jan 16, 2010 3:25 pm

heh, I guess that was my stab at spelling "vehicle":



and the "muscles" were these fellows:
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Re: Wood Carver

Postby TheDuke » Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:30 am

Allegro wrote:_____________

Thanks to brainpanhandler’s answer to TheDuke’s question wrt developing awarenesses to synchronicities.

I mentioned up thread that I would ask some questions, but I’m a newbie to the board, and this thread belongs to TheDuke. So, if s/he wishes, we may (or not) proceed discussing three assumptions I have in mind about synchronicity and intuition, the subjects of which could take some time and effort to respond to, I think. So, to TheDuke: it’s your choice.

By way of note, I’ve lurked since sometime in 2004 after googling the word intuition, and discovered Jeff Wells and the blog, Rigorous Intuition. I first boggled at Jeff’s mastery of graphic arts, then boggled at his topics and writings and responders’ comments, then finally entered still as a lurker onto this board. I’m out now, if only virtually, to contribute as I am able.

The very best to all. :D


Please take this thread in any direction you desire :)
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Re: Does this count as an example of synchronicity?

Postby Allegro » Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:51 am

TheDuke wrote:
Please take this thread in any direction you desire :)

Thank you — to TheDuke.

I reread and enjoyed all the stories in this thread, and began some online research as I had been wanting to put together some questions considerations that would eventually cause idea explorations expressing the more subtle aspects of the intuitive process as I’m supposing, and have for a long while, synchronous moments (movements of things; human behaviors) follow intuited moments (feelings; awarenesses). You might think of words or stories further clarifying my made up definition. I am no expert, btw; only finding it fascinating enough to see what ideas we might come up with. :)

Yes, I say, to TheDuke’s question and Bp’s answer about developing awareness for synchronicities but maybe not in the popular sense.

To add to what I wrote above is I’ve supposed the heart, the physical heart, knows in advance of an incident or acknowledgement or realization of something, then signals the brain before those incidents or acknowledgements or realizations occur thereby generating possibilities for awarenesses of synchronicities.

Someone asked me a few years ago whether I had checked in with my heart, like for making decisions; not the poetic heart, as in poetry or religious-like literature, but the physical heart, instead. Since then, I have off and on been nudged by the recollection of the suggestion to touch base even for a moment with the heart that’s in my chest, or to only become aware of my chest. It’s been my experience that sensing the area of the chest for a moment has caused the very subtle shift in my presence from slight stress to subtle ease and circumspect enjoyment or focus, if only for a few moments.

Also, I think more people than one might assume already live life unknowingly intuitive and unconsciously depend on the synchronous. For examples, I think women in general show more of the intuitive (like with their children? and multi tasking) as do artistic creatives of either gender in most if not all forms of studied and practiced artistries; mathematicians and physicists I’ve heard depend on ‘aHA’ moments during work, and those moments might be included as synchronicities, too. You’re likely to think of more examples.

I felt you might want some research that lends credence to the ideas of the heart-brain connection and intuitions. Only by extension from personal experience do I presume the heart-brain connection allows or generates openness for awareness for some (many, all) synchronous possibilities; my personal presumption isn’t exactly part of but could be insinuated from the papers presented below.

Follows is an excerpt from the Part 1 Conclusion on page 9 from HeartMath labs, which might get us started into discussion.

Of greatest significance here is our major finding: namely, the electrophysiological evidence that the heart is directly involved in the processing of information about a future emotional stimulus seconds before the body actually experiences the stimulus. To our knowledge, this is the first study to measure heart rate decelerations/accelerations in connection with intuitive perception, and this finding thus constitutes a significant addition to previous research on intuition. What is truly surprising about this result is the fact that the heart appears to play a direct role in the perception of future events; at the very least it implies that the brain does not act alone in this regard. If verified by future studies, this is an important finding that may open the door to an enlarged scientific understanding of the heart’s role in human perception, consciousness, and behavior.

Thoughts?

Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 1.
The Surprising Role of the Heart
The complete paper in pdf. 12 pg, 191 mb

Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 2.
A System-Wide Process?
The complete paper in pdf. 12 pg, 162 mb
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Re: Does this count as an example of synchronicity?

Postby Hammer of Los » Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:06 am

I'm getting synchronicity overload.

I went to make a post a few days ago, but deleted it before I posted it. One of the things it said was that I was experiencing very large numbers of seeming synchronicities, and as a result I had been researching the subject. I had also been reading something about Anton Wilson, whose works I have never read, but a man whose ideas echo my own. After experiencing a fair bit of synchronicity, I had been researching it. I've been doing a lot of reading lately. It was a rambling post, unworthy of you all, so I deleted it before posting it, as I often do. I then left my flat, and as I did so, my next door neighbour came out at just the same time. The doors are close and adjacent. We stood there and laughed as we both turned to see the other step from their doorway at precisely the same moment. My neighbour then said to me, "That's a.. what do they call it?" My inner voice silently said "synchronicity." My neighbour said, "Ah! Synchronicity! That's it isnt it?" I replied, "Yes, its a word coined by C J Jung, a psychoanalyst who was a student of Freud but who later repudiated his central tenets."

So there you go.

I've had plenty more synchronicities since. They are everywhere, I want to stop looking. Enough already! I get the message!

And I'm not sure about synchronicity but I was browsing for information and I came across the image of the hanged man from the Rider-Waite tarot deck. The thought came unbidden, that's my card. I was certain. I had seen somewhere recently where Wombat had associated himself with the fool card, well I did say I had been doing a very great deal of reading lately. I've been playing catch up, as it were. Anyway, I was sure this was my card, so I went and googled for interpretation, this is the first I looked at;

http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/learn/meanings/hangedman.shtml wrote:THE HANGED MAN

Basic Card Symbols

A man hanging by one foot from a Tau cross - sometimes from a bar or tree. His free leg is always bent to form a "4," his face is always peaceful, never suffering. Sometimes his hands are bound, sometimes they dangle. Sometimes coins fall out of his pockets or hands.

Basic Tarot Story

The Fool settles beneath a tree, intent on finding his spiritual self. There he stays for nine days, without eating, barely moving. People pass by him, animals, clouds, the wind, the rain, the stars, sun and moon. On the ninth day, with no conscious thought of why, he climbs a branch and dangles upside down like a child, giving up for a moment, all that he is, wants, knows or cares about. Coins fall from his pockets and as he gazes down on them - seeing them not as money but only as round bits of metal - everything suddenly changes perspective. It is as if he's hanging between the mundane world and the spiritual world, able to see both. It is a dazzling moment, dreamlike yet crystal clear. Connections he never understood before are made, mysteries are revealed.

But timeless as this moment of clarity seems, he realizes that it will not last. Very soon, he must right himself, and when he does, things will be different. He will have to act on what he's learned. For now, however, he just hangs, weightless as if underwater, observing, absorbing, seeing.


When I sleep I have been naturally, unconsciously adopting this position for the last few years. I often go to sleep on my bed in my dressing gown in this position. Sometimes coins and small objects fall out of my pockets as I do so.

And then I realise that I have also been listening to this song and enjoying it greatly over recent weeks, along with the others from the same album, by the artist Paloma Faith. I am a religious seeker, after all;



Now, I'm a masochist, so I go and think I'll look at the lyrics;

Angels watching over me with smiles upon their face
Coz I have made it through this far in an unforgiving place

It feels sometimes this is too steep for a girl like me to climb
But I must knock those guards right down I do it in my own time


I don't care (care care)
I'm half way there (nowhere)
On a road that leads me to straight to who knows where

I tell you what (I tell you what)
What I have found (What I have found)
That I'm no fool (That I'm no fool)
I'm just upside down (Just upside down)

Ain't got no pain (Ain't got no pain)
I aint got no rules (Aint got no rules)
I think I like (I think I like)
Living upside down (Living upside down)


Watchin people scurry by rushing to and fro
Oh this world is such a crazy place it's all about the go go go

Sometimes life can taste so sweet When you slow it down
You start to see the world a little differently When you turn it upside down

I don't care (care care)
I'm half way there (nowhere)
And I'm just soaking up the magic in the air

I tell you what (I tell you what)
What I have found (What I have found)
That I'm no fool (That I'm no fool)
I'm just upside down (Just upside down)

Ain't got no pain (Ain't got no pain)
I aint got no rules (Aint got no rules)
I think I like (I think I like)
Living upside down (Living upside down)

(Whoa Whoa Whoa)
You gotta slow it down
(Yeah Yeah Yeah)
But then you pick it up
(Whoa Yeah Whoa)
C'mon and try a little topsy-turvy back-to-front the right way round
Take it slow slow slow (You gotta pick it up)
Yeah Yeah Yeah (See you slow it down)
Yo Yo Yo (Tell me something something)

I tell you what (I tell you what)
What I have found (What I have found)
That I'm no fool (That I'm no fool)
I'm just upside down (Just upside down)

Ain't got no pain (Ain't got no pain)
I aint got no rules (Aint got no rules)
I think I like (I think I like)
Living upside down (Living upside down)

I tell you what (I tell you what)
What I have found (What I have found)
That I'm no fool (That I'm no fool)
I'm just upside down (Just upside down)

Ain't got no pain (Ain't got no pain)
I aint got no rules (Aint got no rules)
I think I like (I think I like)
Living upside down (Living upside down)


Popular music replaces the spiritual songs of the Church, Pete Townsend said. I didn't realise it could also be used as a divination device, but you live and learn. I guess that's what Jeff has been doing with the Dylan lyrics all these years. As soon as I heard the album by Paloma Faith, just before Christmas, I was certain the lyrics were meaningful, but I wasn't sure how or why. It's becoming clearer.

I didn't want to, but I think I just stepped over a threshold into the invisible college.

A true story, I promise you that on my eternal soul. I don't know whether anyone understands any of this. I don't, I guarantee you that.

But it seems the internet doesnt provide an avenue for self-radicalisation, so much as an avenue for self-illumination. Er, or psychosis. I'm never quite sure what the difference is. I'm still wearing the dress, by the way. I've always been content to be androgynous. You see, I'm a crazy girl, I even believe some intelligence is talking to me through coincidence. I'll be claiming to be God next, just you wait.

Synchro-mystics eat your heart out. I'm gonna go get myself a blog. Bear in mind that I am a member of no organisations. I am not an occult practioner of any kind, although I have had a passing interest in that subject, amongst many others, over many years. But the gnostic revival is everywhere. I blame P K Dick. No actually, I dont. I blame Esalen and the spooks that ran it. Oh no I don't. I blame Changing Images of Man, Alan Watts and Fritjof Capra. And all the rest. Who knows? They made me a new ager you know, it's hardly my fault. Besides which, perhaps some of them are good guys.

I could say so much more, but time you know time!
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Re: Does this count as an example of synchronicity?

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:07 pm

HoL wrote:Popular music replaces the spiritual songs of the Church, Pete Townsend said. I didn't realise it could also be used as a divination device, but you live and learn. I guess that's what Jeff has been doing with the Dylan lyrics all these years. As soon as I heard the album by Paloma Faith, just before Christmas, I was certain the lyrics were meaningful, but I wasn't sure how or why. It's becoming clearer.


The same mechanism is at play with Simpson's Synchronicities.
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Re: Does this count as an example of synchronicity?

Postby brainpanhandler » Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:38 pm

Past teachers

Ansel Adams
Joan Baez
James Baraz
Robert Bly
Gregory Bateson
Ray Bradbury
Joseph Campbell
Fritjof Capra
Carlos Castaneda
Deepak Chopra
Harvey Cox
Erik Davis
Warren Farrell
Moshe Feldenkrais
Richard Feynman
Matthew Fox
Fred Frith
Buckminster Fuller
Spalding Gray
Stanislav Grof
Michael Harner
Andrew Harvey
John Heider
Paul Horn
Al Chung-liang Huang
James Hillman
Albert Hofmann
Aldous Huxley
Sam Keen
Ken Kesey
Paul Krassner
R. D. Laing
George Leonard
Dennis Lewis
John C. Lilly
C. Allen Lockwood
Amory Lovins
Abraham Maslow
Peter Matthiessen
Rollo May
Terence McKenna
Robert Nadeau
Claudio Naranjo
Sara Nelson
Babatunde Olatunji
Dean Ornish
Humphry Osmond
Linus Pauling
Fritz Perls
J. B. Rhine
Carl Rogers
Ida Rolf
Gabrielle Roth
Jerry Rubin
Douglas Rushkoff
Virginia Satir
Will Schutz
Daniel Sheehan
B.F. Skinner
Huston Smith
Gary Snyder
Susan Sontag
Paul Tillich
Arnold J. Toynbee
Alan Watts
Robert Anton Wilson
Andrew Weil
Marion Woodman


Scholars in Residence
Esalen has sponsored long-term residencies including

Gregory Bateson
Joseph Campbell
Stanislav Grof
Sam Keen
George Leonard
John C. Lilly
Babatunde Olatunji
Fritz Perls
Ida Pauline Rolf
Virginia Satir
William Schutz
Brother David Steindl-Rast
Alan Watts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esalen_Institute
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