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Synchronicities: a thread
The concept of synchronicity was first introduced by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung who described them as being events which seem to be significantly related, despite having no clear causal connection. In other words, they are “meaningful coincidences”.
However, modern day materialists working in laboratories and academia would have you believe that synchronicities are just that, coincidences, and nothing more. But is it possible that the opposite is true? Could this phenomenon be proof of an otherworldly force?
Some say synchronicities are the universe’s way of communicating with you. Others say it’s God, but either way you look at it, it does seem as if some cosmic intelligence is trying to communicate with you.
Is it also possible that the force creating these signs is inside of us? Personally, I believe it is our own mind that creates these events. Quantum physicists have discovered our consciousness actually affects reality, so it’s not too hard to imagine how this might be possible.
I think the idea of God or a personified universe may be metaphors for consciousness. Many mystics and sages taught their students that the universe was within them and that they were God experiencing himself subjectively. Maybe synchronicities are messages from your higher self.
A more realistic way of explaining synchronicities might be saying that they are occurrences unconsciously arranged by the subconscious mind in order to aid you in your psychological development.
Or perhaps the materialists are right and they are merely a product of cognitive biases such as the Baader–Meinhof effect, the illusion that you’re noticing more instances of a particular thing right after hearing about it.
However, anyone who has experienced synchronicity will tell you how there’s no way its “just a coincidence”. If you tell them otherwise, they will probably argue with you how improbable it was, how profound it felt, and how there had to be some element of “magic” involved.
When one starts experiencing synchronicities, it can feel a bit like Wonderland at first. While that all sounds cool and exciting, if one goes too deep down the rabbit hole, they may end up as mad as a hatter, or even worse, abducted.
Hypothetically speaking, if we are living in a simulation, perhaps our thoughts are like input data and our experiences are like the output. Maybe this is why people who dwell on their current predicaments too much keep creating the same conditions. It’s like a feedback loop.
However, if we really are in a virtual reality, is it possible that events can also be inserted into this hologram? Some people say there are interdimensional entities capable of creating synchronicities as a type of lure, intended to lead one astray.
Many abductees claim that both before and after being abducted, they started experiencing many weird coincidences. It’s also been said that those who investigate the UFO phenomenon seem to become “possessed” by it, attracting the paranormal to them wherever they go.
All of this isn’t to say I think synchronicity is something to be paranoid about. I still think some instances are good. Synchronicity is inescapable. It shapes the world’s destiny. In fact, life on Earth would have never been possible without it.
Some things are just meant to be. For example, Mark Twain’s birth and death both took place during the passing of Halley’s Comet and Stephen Hawking just so happened to be born on Galileo‘s death date and died on Einstein’s birthday, which was Pi Day.
It was actually a series of synchronicities that lead me to my involvement in @TheRandonauts, a group of people who use a kind of synchronicity creating apparatus. In some ways, it reminds me of William S. Burroughs’ “wishing machine”.
Burroughs’ was an American writer and artist who was very deep in the rabbit hole of synchronicity, so much so, that he “wrote” some his books using random words cut out from the pages of other books.
As a graduate of Harvard, he did lectures on the subject, teaching students how to trigger synchronicities through writing. He was also the man who made the 23 enigma famous. Many people are now familiar with this concept because of the popular Jim Carrey movie.
But the thing I find most fascinating about Burroughs was his view of the universe. He believed in a universe where there are no coincidences or accidents. He believed in a magical universe, and that is the kind of universe I’d like to believe in too. Thanks for reading.
