The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung was the first modern thinker to define this mysterious phenomenon that he called it synchronicity as the perception of meaningful coincidence.
- He maintained that synchronicity was a law that operated to move human beings toward greater growth in consciousness.
Few of us can look back at our lives and not see a pattern of synchronicity in the mysterious events that transpired to bring us our current career, our spouse, or the network of friends and alliances on which we rely.
- Much more difficult is the perception of such important life events in the present, as they happen.
- Coincidences can be dramatic, as we’ve seen. But they can also be very subtle and fleeting, and thus easily dismissed as the old material worldview would have us do (as mere chance of happenstance).
Our personal challenge is to overcome the cultural conditioning that leads us to reduce life to the ordinary, commonplace, and nonmysterious.
- Most of us have learned to pursue life with our egos alone, waking up in the morning and thinking we must take complete control of our day.
- We create inflexible mental lists of projects we intend to accomplish, and pursue these ends with a kind of tunnel vision.
- Yet the mystery is always there, dancing around the fringe of our lives, giving us fleeting glimpses of possibility.
We must decide to slow down and shift our focus, and begin to act on the opportunities coming our way.
- Our challenge is to always follow up on coincidences. The key is to pursue the mystery to look beneath the surface, to explore.
Synchronicities can come in many forms
- They can be purely chance meetings, which can involve friends, acquaintances, or total strangers.
- Sometimes it occurs when we repeatedly see someone we don’t know within a short period of time.
- Synchronistic signs and messages can be revealed in our dreams.
- Synchronicity can also be information arriving at just the right moment
- Perception of lightness in our bodies, or the sense of everything around us becoming brighter and more harmonious sometimes tells us our lives are about to shift in some important direction.
Re-source: Receptive
We can see that most synchronicities occur in the following way:
- We start with a background sense of the truth we are here to tell, a truth that is becoming ever more clear and manifests first in the form of our prime question, and then in the question most urgent in our current life situation.
- Afterward comes an intuition, a mental image of something happening, of ourselves taking some sort of action in order to pursue the answer to this question.
- If we pay attention, an actual opportunity approximating our intuition will occur, bringing in answers and feeling perfectly synchronistic.
- These answers, of course, while resolving our first question, will always lead us forward into a new life situation and more questions.
- And so the process continues: question, intuition, synchronistic answer, new question.
“Each of us has to realize, on our own, that at our higher level of awareness there are no negative events. Certainly, life can be tragic at times and humans often perpetrate evil, sometimes extreme evil. But at the level of personal growth and meaning, negativity represents only challenge, and in the worst of situations there is always an opportunity for growth. Each crisis, each dead end in our evolution, is merely a message, an opportunity to go in a different direction. Our egos might not like the direction at first, but our higher self can discover a new plan implicit in the challenge.”
– Victor Frankl
find balance between our rational and intuitive selves.
- Stay open to the synchronistic flow without jumping to conclusions too quickly.
A popular spiritual adage states, “When the pupil is ready, the teacher will come.” A more modern expression of this idea might be, “If we are open and alert, someone will show up with a timely truth we need to hear.”
craving and resource from “The Celestine Vision” by James Redfield
