Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Synchronicity



I found synchronicity on Wikipedia. Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally inexplicable to the person or persons experiencing them. The events would also have to suggest some underlying pattern in order to satisfy the definition of synchronicity as originally developed by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. It's like a coincidence. I like the example Wikipedia had:

A well-known example of synchronicity is the true story of the French writer Émile Deschamps who in 1805 was treated to some plum pudding by the stranger Monsieur de Fortgibu. Ten years later, he encountered plum pudding on the menu of a Paris restaurant, and wanted to order some, but the waiter told him the last dish had already been served to another customer, who turned out to be de Fortgibu. Many years later in 1832 Émile Deschamps was at a diner, and was once again offered plum pudding. He recalled the earlier incident and told his friends that only de Fortgibu was missing to make the setting complete — and in the same instant the now senile de Fortgibu entered the room.

I tried to think of how synchronicity has happened in my life, and I haven't come up with much. I'm sure it's happened and at the time I thought it was really cool. I like the idea behind this next definition. It is such a different way to think about ourselves. Like our souls actually attract things to us. The definition tells us what we attract, but I think one it has forgotten is thoughts. Like what about when you are thinking about someone you haven't talked to or seen in a while and they call you, appear, or you see them later in the day. Spooky!? It's like something out there is reading our minds. It's like a mild for of destiny? This could be an synchronicity right? Well anyway I like this definition from crystalinks.com:
"Synchronicities are people, places or events that your soul attracts into your life to help you evolve to higher consciousness or to place emphasis on something going on in your life. The more 'consciously aware' you become of how your soul manifests, the higher your frequency becomes and the faster you manifest positively. Each day your life encounters meaningful coincidences, synchronicities, that you have attracted, on other words created in the grid of your experiences in the physical. Souls create synchronicities, played out in the physical. It is why you are here. It is how our reality works."

Here's a couple pics I found for synchronicity:




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