Synchronicity @ MindSay


 

   
Synchronicity, magic and miracles - all seem natural to me!
How can I tell my tale in a way that entices? How can I encourage even just one person to stop a moment and notice the magic that's taking place in his or her life? My brain sometimes suggests that the experience is too complicated to explain to another rational human. And yet my heart knows that its' actually so simple it becomes difficult for a rational human to accept, most of the time.

Life IS magical! It's as simple as that, really! If I break all the components down I have to surrender to that basic fundamental. Sure there are explanations as to why each species does this and that and that's how life happens in a somewhat limited but scientific view but I've been learning that something else seems to be going on too.

It's not positive thinking - I find that method a bit cumbersome because it requires a person to turn against negative thinking and both are part of our experience and simply should be dealt with, not avoided. Yet when hoping to achieve any particular goal it is usually worthwhile to anticipate a successful outcome. That just make common sense doesn't it?

Here's an example that might help highlight the subtle differences;

Oliver was up late and found himself sleeping a little later than normal one day. He was anxious and angry with himself and started his day by exclaiming "" Oh Shit - this is going to be a bad day!" He made himself a coffee and accidentally spilled it on his work clothes. "Yup - this is going to be a lousy day - I can tell!" was all that was on his mind. Grumbling while changing he noticed he was already 15 minutes behind schedule. He began searching for his keys and became quite frantic for a couple of minutes until he located them. Then he ran for the bus stop only to see the bus pulling away at the corner and heading off without him! " Oh that's just great - now what do I do - what a terrible day I'm having!"

Meanwhile on that same bus, sitting in the seat Oliver would normally be filling a retail worker named Ryan is thinking to himself "Wow I'm so lucky I just got to the stop to catch the bus in time. I'm looking forward to seeing what I'll be doing at work today." He turned to his friend sitting nearby and said, "I just knew I'd catch the bus in time even though I slept in and spilled my coffee all over me this morning. I still had enough time to clean up and get ready. I don't know why but I just knew everything would work out fine.!" "Wow - you must be pretty lucky" said his friend Erin. "You dropped your keys too, that lady in the gray sweater pointed them out to the driver. Loosing your keys could have ruined your day." "Nah" said Ryan, "I've always got a spare, but it's nice to know most people are good honest souls, isn't it?"

There's not a lot of difference between the two people, just a difference in attitude and a difference of focus. What if I told you both personalities are actually the same person on different days? One day, with a cloud of self doubt and a certainty that all will go wrong a person creates, through their own attitude and actions, the environment that seems to display the self prophesy. While on another day when a person can simply trust in a successful outcome he or she then allows life to unfold as it should. Often with a surprising grace and ease, as if by "luck" or "synchronicity".

I've been experimenting for several years with simply changing my approach to situations by envisioning a successful outcome and trusting things would "come together: to allow that to happen. It has been an enjoyable tool and adds some adventure to my day at the same time!

That's just one example of many. Finding the new job I'll be starting later this month is too. It took three years but I found something within walking distance from home, that is also involved in a business I can respect and support in public transit. I guess it took quite a while because I was beiing a bit picky, maybe... he! he!

If you're feeling playful why not see if you can catch yourself playing either role and see for yourself how it impacts your day. Then look for ways to switch gears when you're going in a direction, that just might be negative and where you really don't want to head! That's how I started out, just playing with it and since then I've come to trust it - rarely am I disappointed and all I really seem to need is a willingness to try without worrying about the outcome!

I find it quite magical in its' utter simplicity! Nature, it seems, is often like that!
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In Sync With the World

Okay, this one goes out to my friend Kelly who I had lunch with today. Kelly got to listen to the concept of this post in person, so I am dedicating it to her for her patience. (Plus she loves to see her name in lights!).

 

Right after Kelly gave birth to her son, Christian, I put up a post about a Baader-Meinhof that occurred because of that event. Well, that post led me through a series of events that I described in a different post where I described an evening of Baader-Meinhofs. I thought about how fascinating it is that these things can happen to us all of the time. And, while many find it strange that I keep mentioning the BM phenomenon, once I explain it, the whole world says, "oh yeah, that happens to me all the time." Which is pretty interesting in and of itself.

 

Then, a couple of weeks ago, this happened: my family was in town visiting and my cousin Sara asked me a bizarre question. The last time she had visited was two years earlier and her husband was here as well. While they were here that time, we were playing a game and it led to my dad singing a song. Well, my dad is not a singer by nature. He just doesn't do it. But at that time, he was trying to convince Mike, Sara's husband, of the virtue of a specific song.

 

This time around, Sara wanted to know what the name of the song was that my dad was singing. Mind you, this was two years ago, but after some serious brain crunching, we managed to recall. The song is "Beep Beep (Little Nash Rambler)" by The Playmates (circa 1958). As it turns out, Mike was never able to get that song out of his head (watch for my upcoming post about Earworms...) and sings all the time as he is doing things around the house. So Sara wants to know what the name of the song is, we come up with it, and then....BAM!....it comes on the radio. Seriously, this is hardly a well-played song and to hear it seconds later was a coincidence of cosmic proportions. Immediately, I say, Baader-Meinhof.

 

Oh Boy! My dad immediately disagreed with me. He said that it can't be a BM unless the person had no prior knowledge of the information involved. Like reading a word you don't know and then hearing someone say it. This, he said, is just mere coincidence.

 

Mere coincidence? That didn't make me happy at all. It was just too weird. I knew that there had to be more going on here than coincidence. Obviously, I checked it out. The first thing I did was to make sure my dad was right. Yep, he is. It can't be a BM unless you had no prior knowledge of the information that you keep stumbling over. So then, what is it?

 

Synchronicity.

 

You heard me. Synchronicity (coincidentally--or not--also a title of an album by beloved 80's band The Police) is the concept of a "highly meaningful coincidence". It was first given voice by psychologist Carl Jung sometime in the 1920's.

 

Ok, fine. So now I know. I read all this information last week, and fully intended to blog about it, just to keep you all updated and to straighten out any misconceptions I may have inadvertantly caused. Then, on Sunday night, I was watching my new favorite show, "In Plain Sight." During the episode, the main character was expounding on the concept of a huge coincidence that had happened in the plot and she mentions Jung's theory of synchronicity.

 

I was lazily lounging on the couch enjoying the show and then I bolted upright, staring at the screen. Are you kidding me?

 

And there it was, my very own Baader-Meinhof (for real this time!). How bizarre is that?

 
 
 

   
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Life is too short for the wasting away of our minds and souls. We have based our daily routines on the self-satisfaction of material life. Ultimately, no matter how un-materialistic we may think we are, we all endure this journey by, if you are like moi, fighting to maintain enough wealth to pay the rent and bills whilst paying for food and school and any other of those expenses we all in developed nations face day-to-day. We eat, work, sleep, party, fuck and do all those human things that humans do, but how many of us have stopped to take time to re-connect ourselves to this beautiful universe? Or have stopped to absorb the energy we are constantly surrounded by instead of stealing it from those we love? Our parents, and our parents' parents, and our parents' parents' parents and so forth have all gone on worrying about physical and material security for years and years and years and years. Up until the past few years, this need has been justified in aiding our world to move forwards. Now, though, is the time for a global awakening.

I am of course talking about the need for spiritual enlightenment! The need for a mass global collective consciousness. Peace is at our fingertips, yet it seems so hopelessly far away sometimes, doesn't it? Such an idea should, one would think, be universally welcomed and accepted. Shouldn't everyone be trying to live with the best of intentions and the warmest of hearts in an attempt to create that idealistic Utopia? That state of Shambhala? Life, as we know it, could be exponentially better!!! Our health, our homes, our relationships (intimate or not) and generally our overall happiness could be the best we would have ever known. A shift in mindset could see the development of impoverish nations, the feeding of every hungry belly, the adoption of cultural beliefs into other cultures and so forth.

Now I am definitely not the most spiritually inclined, nor am I the most positive of people at times, but as an individual, I have begun to devote myself to following a healthy spiritual lifestyle. I am most assuredly not religious in any way, so I searched for something else to fulfill that void I was feeling. I have met many many wonderful amazing people and through these people I discovered a whole world right in front of me! It's the same world you and I both live in , the same people are around me, but it is 100% different. It is a world based entirely on love and energy. A close friend, who calls himself the "Love Activist" taught me the most important thing I have ever learned to this date. No matter who we are, where we are from, what we believe or don't believe in, we all have the capability to do one universal thing. LOVE. Yes, that's it. It really is as simple as that, though I never before would have guessed it. Love is something we are born with and blessed with. With enough love, we can conquer all trials and tribulations. We can eliminate greed, and fear for with love, we need nothing else but each other. With enough love, everyone will be taken care of because that's what love ensures.

Life is hard, make no mistake about that. But with the beauty of such things as Synchronicity and Manifestation, we can start to see how our choices affect our paths, and how our thoughts are one of the most powerful tools we have. Our intentions that we set can determine our successes, our thoughts can forge a path through anything. By connecting ourselves to the beauty in everything, and embracing the feeling of love we can begin a progressive and powerful change in our lives. It will not happen overnight, and will not happen if we don't open our eyes to the truth many people have not yet been introduced to. But with time and patience, we can overcome the dramas of today, the genocides, the wars and the famines.

So educate yourselves! Pick up Celestine Prophecy, or watch The Secret. Learn the Sedona Method, learn to meditate or simply talk with those around you who may have reacher a higher spiritual frequency. There are many others like myself who know a tonne more than I do at this point. But what I do know is that the time for change is now, and that it is our movement that will encourage others to follow suite!

As Bob Marley once said, "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds."
 
 
   
 

Who Put the Syn in Synchronicity?
Around lunchtime today, I got a text message from Miss All That. (She now needs a better pseudonym, so I think I'll call her Kate.)  Her text message said, "The salt of life is best enjoyed with a margarita."  Cute.  So I replied, "Sounds good!  When should I pick you up?"

This message came in during the lunch break of my 5-hour meeting, today.  After the meeting ended and I went back to my desk, I was a bit surprised to see that my coworkers had arranged for a Monday night excursion to Emma's Taco House, for the purpose of having, yes, margaritas.  (They have damn good ones.)

So, naturally, I text Kate and say, "Holy coincidence, Batman..." and proceed to tell her about Margarita Monday.

This evening was the monthly gathering of the local poly group at The Blue Cue.  I showed up there; my friends A&E show up.  The place is packed, as there's an office party going on.  No pool tables are available, so we just sit there and have drinks.  They have margaritas.  I have a Captain & Coke.  Not long thereafter, I get a text from Kate.  "There are no coincidences.  Synchronicity."  A minute later, she calls.  She's on her way home from her martial arts class.  She asks me what I'm doing.  I tell her I'm at a bar with some friends.  She says, "More synchronicity!  I was calling to see if you wanted to get together for a margarita!"  So she invited herself to join us.

I quickly briefed my friends that Kate knew nothing about my polydom.  Or at least, if she did, she never mentioned it.  (I have bits about it on my MySpace, and she's on my friends list, so maybe she does.)  Naturally, before Kate shows up, a newbie to the group arrives.  After quick intros, we have to tell her not to bring it up once Kate arrives.  This isn't a big deal, really, as we rarely even talk about poly at the meetings.  They're just social gatherings to hang out and chat.

And that's what we did.  Kate arrived a few minutes later, and the five of us had a really nice evening of talking, despite how noisy and crowded the place was.  She did, at one point, ask how the newbie had discovered the rest of us (since we'd explained that we'd just met her this evening).  To her credit, after a slight hesitation, she said it was an online singles bulletin board.  Not exactly accurate, but still...

Another coincidence...  Kate was once engaged to one of the creators of City of Heroes, my online addiction.  Very weird.

After we left, and I was walking Kate to her car, she asked how I knew A&E.  I said it was through this group, but told her I'd explain it later, as it was a bit complicated.

Yeah.  That'll be a fun conversation.

Oh, Kate also doesn't have a TV.  And she turned green with envy when I mentioned my recent purchase of a DLP projector.  I think she'll be coming over for movies a lot.  Smiley



In other news... I begin physical therapy on Friday for my wounded wing.  I really hope that helps, as I've begun to lose sleep again from movements made during the night.  Waking up due to shooting pains isn't my preferred method of rousing.

I attended an overview of depression last night, as part of my therapy.  Didn't learn anything new, and am not happy about what I see as some inaccuracies (or outright bullshit) the doctor shared.  Meaning: dissing St. John's Wort and saying anti-depressants can't hurt you.  What an ass.

Saturday is D&D... first time in way too long.  It's the wrap-up of our storyline before we begin another, perhaps with new players joining.

The next two Tuesdays, I'm taking drawing classes through The Learning Exchange.  Should be fun.

And later in the month, we've got a poker game scheduled, the second half of my bartending college, a potluck at Kate's, a Shannon Curtis show, and our next beer brewing experiment!  Woo hoo!


 
 
 

   
Logic so inflexible...
Causally connectible
Yet nothing is invincible.
If we share this nightmare
Then we can dream
Spiritus mundi...


Today as I take a break from all that which I was doing, I have the feeling that I may be out of synch with my surroundings - a stranger in a strange land so to speak. I feel as if at this moment I do not belong where I am, that I should be somewhere far away doing something far different that what I'm doing at this moment though what that is, I do not have the slightest idea. So being that I am out of phase today, I shall write much as I always do though today it all feels somewhat out of step with this reality...

Strange it is that this world is as it is. Imagine the infinite number of coincidences that have lead to me typing this miraculous piece on a device that my ancestors could have never dreamed of. Just for me to be alive at this time in this place is a miracle. Everything that surrounds me is miraculous if only because one simple twist of fate, one choice never made, one atom not exactly correct, would have change everything that I know if I was here to know it. And yet here I am a continuous stream from the Big Bang to the very moment that I touched the keys to type this word and it all happened just as it had so I could look about me and marvel at all that is around me...

And what if all is not as it should be? How would an observer in the midst of this world know if something was wrong in this world? How could one tell if this reality was not meant to be?

I remember seeing a program on time travel recently where it was stated that if an individual left this time to venture to another either past or present that they would be permanently removed from this time line and become part of another. In other words, if he or she left the time line where I am typing this to go back and eliminate Hitler before he had a chance to take power, the time line where I am will continue along on its merry way minus the person who left, but the time where the individual found themselves working to stop a World War would be forever altered by the addition of the new soul. It is nearly impossible for the human mind to grasp the concept of multiple time lines for this reality. We are so focused on all we perceive that we cannot make the leap to understand that which is beyond our scope...

The same holds true of religion, we can never fully grasp that which is beyond our reality. It is a struggle to even admit that there are things that we will never understand for the mind of humans is limited in what in can grasp. It's a struggle that Jacob would understand far more than I ever could. It's a struggle that I faced all my life - My Private Israel. I struggle daily to grasp all that I cannot understand, and I know for the most part it is a war that I cannot win though at times I feel that I have the battle, in the end I will feel the defeat on a very personal level...

But I keep going; I keep on tilting my personal windmills for I know of no other way to live my life. This is who I am and I cannot change that fact. And so I sit here telling the world of my adventures, feeling that I am out of synch with the rest of my surroundings, but in no way will I ever stop on this time line that I find myself upon for stopping is not an option that I have been given. I will continue, and the world that I can perceive around me will continue until this timeline reaches the point where it ends...

This is the Word of the AntiCrust...

Praise be ye who Read the Word for ye are Blessed amongst humans...

 
 
   
 

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