But on one otherwise beautiful, sunny day, my surroundings felt different somehow. “I never felt afraid and deeply loved all the trees and animals. “Many years ago, when I was a small child living in the Pennsylvania countryside, I took long walks by myself across the fields and into the forest, listening to the birds and talking to the rabbits and squirrels. Some guiding synchronicities form a category best described as “Warnings.” A representative incidence of admonitory synchronicity not included in my book was recounted by the California poet, Miriam Hohf: Even if we knowingly discard it, at least part of its influence enters our subconscious. Synchronicity is fundamentally a form of guidance that enters into the personal lives of every human being.
Their often dramatic, occasionally funny, always numinous testimony formed the basis for a book I wrote, Synchronicity & You, Understanding the Role of Meaningful Coincidence in your Life.
Widening my research, I found that persons belonging to other cultures, sometimes long dead – often many hundreds of years ago – fell into the same seventeen categories which emerged from the men and women who told me of their own fortuitous occurrences. The meaningful coincides they shared with me proved more illuminating than anything I ever read on the subject.Ĭollecting them into a loose order, I was somewhat astounded to see that these synchronous events experienced by my friends and acquaintances arranged themselves into repeating categories.Īlthough many of the persons interviewed differed widely in age, spiritual beliefs or education, the meaningful coincidences they recounted all belonged to specific groups of common experience. Fascinated as he was by it, even Albert Einstein could not understand how it worked.Ī synchronous event of my own in 1991 prompted me to interview, over the next six years, eventually 100 persons about their feelings on this elusive enigma. “Synchronicity” was coined by last century’s leading psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung.
And while most people brush them aside as insignificant happenstance, some of the greatest minds in history have grappled with this universal enigma. These are typical incidents of synchronicity. You’ve just finished reading a book about rare birds, when the first humming-bird you’ve ever seen in your back yard is drinking nectar from a nearby flower.
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