Meaningful Coincidences

[Revere]

Hello,
Ulli,

I loved the Revere story! I have seen numerous depictions of the ride over the years with the Moon included in the picture. I guess many noticed the two events coinciding back in the day as well. That perception is also very interesting and says a lot about how we were possibly more in touch with the natural cycles when technology played a smaller role in our lives.

I have noticed synchronicity expanding in my life and in many others who are not as awake to the same subjects as the average Avalon or Camelot viewer. In churches for example people are noticing and mentioning it as well. I also hear from many such people that they feel something big is on the horizon. It all seems to be very connected in a way. We are living in very interesting times. Let's Intend them to be very good times!


Peace,

-R-

[ulli]

The important thing is to think about synchronicities, to talk about them, to share experiences.

That's what makes them happen even more.
That's why this thread is so important, to show this principle at work.

When thinking and talking about disasters it increases disasters.

Better to talk about synchronicities than disasters, I say.

[PurpleLama]

I agree. In some places some people are expressing annoyance at all the love and light and fluffy stuff, preferring instead a more direct approach, presumably. But, the truth is it's needed that there are those who will fight physical fights, those who will fight the psychological fight, and also those who stand in the righteous light and ensure that light shines so that the secrets are shown and that which loves darkness will not overwhelm those who will stand for what's right, regardless of the particular form our stance may take. I for one will willfully intend that we see the magic of creation, the joyful synchronicities, until the negativity is eclipsed fully by positivity. But such isn't to say that we shouldn't take a more, shall I say, proactive approach should the time come for a more physical statement.

[KiwiElf]

Coincidences are unpredictable, improbable and illogical. So why do they happen at all, and, even more puzzling, why do they come in seemingly meaningful clusters in life?

A synchronistic event is irrational and illogical, as if the stuff of dreams has suddenly stepped over the boundary of three-dimensional reality and gripped us in full waking consciousness. Synchronicity is a set of those coincidences that are connected, not by logic, but by meaning. (Co-related, meaningful incidents). Such meaningful coincidences happen to us all at some time in life.

An example: There was a case of a woman who dreamed about death on a particular night. Taking little notice of her dream, she spent the next morning shopping and bought a new dress in her favourite colour, blue, arranging for it to be delivered to her home. By mistake, the store delivered a black dress, and shortly after this the woman learned that a near relative had died that day. A series of coincidences such as this can be very disconcerting: a death dream, a black dress and a real death within the space of 24-hours. There is an appearance of design, or meaning. Is this set of events really just a coincidence?

Synchronicity adds new perspectives to old ideas. For example, the idea of control is depicted as allowance rather than force. Cause and effect is expressed as focusing on the desired effect and allowing synchronistic events to create the cause.

Newtonian physics describes the Law of Cause and Effect as, "action and reaction, nothing is lost in the exchange, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

Synchronicity allows for the possibility of corresponding events, actions and reactions instead of just "opposite" reactions. This also accounts for "chaos theory," which in itself, is synchronicity.

Dr Carl Jung, who invented the term "synchronicity", claimed that these occurrences were not just clusters of random events but that synchronistic events are really connected in a way that differs from the usual pattern of cause and effect. He felt that certain things - events and situations - "like" to occur with certain other things, and in this he found himself in agreement with classical Chinese philosophy, particularly the I Ching. This attitude of the Chinese enabled them to evolve, among other things, the theories of medicine that are now gaining recognition in the West. Chinese medicine was able to develop in its unique way because it evolved from a philosophy that did not seek causes but rather sought correspondences.

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Like the two sides of a single coin, the opposing principles of the cosmos are never far apart. Feast alternates with famine, night follows the day, and birth begins a life story that ends in death.

Traditional Chinese philosophy takes a somewhat abstract but holistic view of the universe envisioning all of its aspects in terms of two distinct forces called Yin and Yang. Sometimes referred to as the receptive and creative principles, or the passive and the active, Yin and Yang embody almost every conceivable duality, including synchronicity. Yin, for example, is linked to the ideas of femininity, darkness, night, valleys, and the directions west and north, while Yang represents the masculinity, light, daytime, mountains, east and south.

Despite the utter opposition between the two principles, however, good fortune (positive synchronicity), follows only when both the Yin and the Yang are present to the same degree, a state of cosmic balance as depicted in the Yin and Yang symbol.-----

The story of how Jung came to invent the term synchronicity is worthy of mention. He was analysing a female patient who had proved particularly resistant to treatment. Jung was the third analyst who had attempted her case, but felt that the chances of improvement were slender because of the patient's uncooperative attitude.

On a certain day in the mid-1920s, during a psychotherapy session, the patient related to Jung a dream she had involving a golden scarab. As she spoke, Jung sat with his back to the closed window until he heard a gentle tapping behind him. Turning, he saw a flying insect knocking against the glass outside. He opened the window and caught the creature as it flew in.

Strangely, it was a scarabaeid beetle, the Cetonia Aurata, the nearest relative of the scarab to be found in the area. Jung was disconcerted, but the impact of this meaningful coincidence upon his patient was even more surprising. The shock of this synchronistic event broke through her previous attitude and she began at last to respond positively to psychotherapy. Incidentally, the scarab is a classic example of a rebirth symbol, as Jung noted with satisfaction.

Within a wider framework, synchronicity seems to have been at work often in the history of science, for there are numerous examples of simultaneous invention or discovery. Perhaps the most famous case is that of Darwin and his theory of the origin of the species. Darwin had developed his theory in a lengthy essay and in 1884 engaged upon expanding it into a major treatise. During this time he received a manuscript from a young biologist named A. R. Wallace, who was quite unknown to him and who was then in the Molucca Islands of the Malay Archipelago. Wallace's manuscript was a shorter but otherwise parallel exposition of Darwin's theory.

Wallace knew of Darwin as a naturalist but had not the slightest idea of the kind of theoretical work in which Darwin was engaged. Each scientist, moreover, had initially conceived of the hypothesis in an intuitive flash.

Until relatively recently, it was assumed that the mutation of species happened at random and that a process of natural selection occurred, causing the well adapted varieties to survive and the rest to disappear. Modern evolutionists, however, point out that the selections of such mutations by pure chance would take much longer than the known age of our planet allows.

Moreover, though some mutations can be seen as an adaption to a change in the environment, members of the same species simultaneously mutate in the same way although they are far removed from those who have an environmental cause. This phenomenon is difficult to explain, but is easily described as a synchronistic occurrence.

The difficulty in accepting synchronicity as valid is largely due to the dominantly conditioned left-brain structure of the Western mind. Steeped in ideas derived from Newtonian physics that depend on the framework of cause and effect, the Western mind finds it difficult to give credence to other frames of reference. The concept of synchronicity challenges our ideas and beliefs of causality, (ie, that causes and effects are logically connected), and of linear time (in that the cause always seems to precede the effect). This is not always so.

This difficulty is not insurmountable, as observers of the frontiers of science know. The nature of our civilisation forces us to use the left hemisphere of our brains predominantly, and to neglect the full usage of our right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is involved with analytic, logical thinking. It breaks down the flow of events in our lives into series lists that can then be analysed, studied and manipulated. Thus the left hemisphere organises our reality into sequences, giving us the impressions of cause and effect, logic and linear time. These concepts allow us to lead highly organised lives, but they are not absolute concepts: they are useful but they are not necessarily true ideas of reality.

The right hemisphere of the brain is more likely to condone synchronicity. It is concerned with creativity; relationships and patterns and we use it for our orientation in space, art and crafts, body image and recognition of faces. Rather than perceiving sequences, it has a simultaneous mode of operation and is therefore responsible for intuition.

This hemisphere does not need or use linear time, and since it is the side of the brain that functions during dreams, the dream events are fluid, so that many people find that when they wish to recount a dream they have difficulty deciding in what order the events took place. Since synchronicity is a pattern of events not seemingly subject to logic or time, it is at home in the realm of the right hemisphere, the "creative" side of the brain.

Since the consciousness of time supplied by the left hemisphere is but one possible construction, and since our notion of cause and effect depends upon it for its validity, it is possible that synchronicity does have an external reality, although outside our usual world-view. It belongs in the realm of the paranormal, if we equate "normal" with the picture of "reality" provided by the left hemisphere.

Is it possible to reconcile synchronicity within a scientific framework? Certainly not within the domain of Newtonian physics, which postulates a three-dimensional reality that moves forward through time so that events develop in an ordered linear sequence, having a past, present and future, in that order. From this perspective synchronicity is a random element to be ignored.

Although our civilisation is built largely upon this viewpoint, Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity says that it is preferable, and more useful, to think with a static, non-moving picture of space and time, which is known as the time-space continuum. Within this framework events do not develop, they just "are."

This is difficult to comprehend, but it simply means that everything that now seems to unfold before us with the passing of time, already exists in "totality." In other words, everything is one thing. It is only because our viewpoint is limited that we are unable to perceive the past, present and future with a glance. In such a four-dimensional world, which is our natural subconscious state (when we dream for example), there is room for synchronicity, for this world view is composed of spatial relationships instead of ordered series. And synchronicity is composed of events that are spatially related and not within a logical sequence.

The experience of synchronicity, however, is often a very personal one, as in the case of the woman who had the black dress delivered to her. Its occurrence seems to suggest a meaningful message of some type. Synchronicity is therefore real and valid for the impact it makes upon the individual having a synchronistic experience and Jung recognised this. Although it was difficult to explain in logical terms, he could not afford to ignore it.

Thus he coined the term synchronicity and allowed it a place in his psychology. Whether synchronicity exists in the objective world or not, it is easily perceived by the human mind when it happens.

Jungian psychology is sympathetic to the right hemisphere mode of perception and attempts to help correct the balance between the two hemispheres that is missing within our society. Jung hypothesised that there exists a collective unconscious to which all individual human minds are connected. The task of each person, according to Jung, is to "individuate" in a process of personal growth integrating all the diverse parts of the individual's nature into a harmonious whole called the "Self."

He saw synchronistic events as the attempts of the unrealised or subconscious self, in its urge to become conscious to offer messages to the individual. The Self is able to tap the resources of the collective unconscious to bring the desired message about. In the case of the woman with the black dress delivery, the message could be interpreted that the time had come for her to come to terms with the issue of death, so that she evolves greater understanding of her own human potential.

To support his theory, Jung pointed out that throughout the world, cultures isolated from each other in space and/or time have all developed mythologies which contain the same basic motifs or themes. This is in itself an example of synchronicity, but Jung thought that the reason was that these cultures all drew their material from the same source: the collective unconscious.

The concept of a collective unconscious is interesting in its implications. The instance of Darwin and Wallace simultaneously intuiting the same hypothesis can be explained by it, in that the idea was already present in the collective unconscious and Darwin and Wallace each tapped it at its "source" (what David Wilcock and others more recently refer to as the "Source Field").

If we extend the concept to the whole of the animal kingdom, it could explain the simultaneous mutations of isolated groups of the same species. The physicist Wolfgang Pauli suggested that our idea of evolution should take into account the idea of interrelation between the unconscious mind and biological processes. If all minds are linked to the collective unconscious, it could be that all the material needed for the unfolding of Earth's evolution is contained therein. Thus creating mutations of species at specific times and dropping ideas into human consciousness to cause the next phase in the development of civilisation. In this light synchronicity may be seen as the tool of a cosmic design - the blueprint for the planet as it steadily reveals itself.

It's a reassuring idea at the planetary level but when applied to the fate of the human individual, it is less pleasing.

The belief that we are free to make our own decisions is undermined by the possibility that the unconscious parts of our minds (to which most of us do not yet have direct access), are being continually influenced by the collective unconscious, which can shape external events to its own scheme for each of us, and which sends us its messages in the shape of synchronicity.

The collective unconscious is no more than a theory at the moment, but only from the one point of view that it is difficult to "prove" by rational, Newtonian logic however, and perhaps raises more questions than it answers. From another perspective, researchers working in the field of the paranormal claim that synchronicity is actually caused by psi processes. It has been suggested that people continuously scan their environment using their psi or ESP faculty, and are able to consciously or unconsciously bring about synchronicities with the information obtained.

Since these events are supposedly outside the limits of the person's conscious control, they can be either "good" or "bad," but nonetheless, say the propounders of this theory, we ourselves cause synchronicity to take place.

This brings to mind an interesting question: could we bring these processes under our conscious control? If so, we could cause synchronicity whenever we wished, presumably for our own benefit. So, like a jigsaw puzzle, the reality is that everything is one thing, each piece infinitely interconnected to the whole; there are no "accidents," and everything does happen for a reason.

Practitioners of occultism claim that this can be done, but, like any new concept, it takes dedicated application - action - to the task, 100% trust, and patience. The first step is to simply accept and be aware of the idea of synchronicity itself. Then apply the rule "know yourself", which involves total understanding of one's own mind and body, including accepting the idea that the "conscious" and "unconscious" mind are one and the same. It sounds a rather impossible task, but it does have much in common with Jung's individuation process. Students in this field claim that synchronicities occur to them with greater frequency when they are attempting to make contact with the unconscious part of their minds.

Synchronicity is at work too if Tarot cards and other systems of divination such as runes, and I Ching, are effective. If the pattern of Tarot cards does coincide with the state of the person consulting them, it is then a meaningful coincidence. This activity belongs, of course, to the right-hemisphere frame of perception, being dependent upon patterns and interrelationships between the cards. Interestingly, Jung saw the Tarot cards as pictorial representations of the forces that live in the collective unconscious.

Despite the views of psychologists, psi researchers and occultists, there is no "scientific" acceptance of synchronicity as a "real" phenomenon. Coincidence belongs in the realm of probability theory that predicts that randomly spaced events are more likely to concentrate in clusters than to occur at evenly spaced intervals. Scientists go on to explain that we pay more attention to events that coincide than those which do not, and those events that concern us personally have a greater subjective impact. They point out that our minds tend to create patterns out of random elements (the influence of the right hemisphere). On these grounds most scientists dismiss synchronicity (of course)!

From a conventional and left-hemisphere point of view, this argument is fair as far as it goes. But it says nothing about why randomly spaced events occur in clusters (which in itself comes into the field of synchronicity), and it also assumes that the mode of perception of the left brain hemisphere is superior to that of the right hemisphere (which it is not - it is just used more through past conditioning starting in early childhood). If both hemispheres were granted equal validity, synchronicity would not be dismissed so easily. As the left brain oriented (three dimensional) Newtonian scientific world view is replaced by the right brain, (four dimensional) Einstein model of the space-time continuum, this may become the accepted frame of reference in our everyday life.

Then synchronicity will have a more accepted place in our lives. The point then will not be why it happens, but rather that since it does happen, what can we do with it and how do we use it?

- based on an article by Cheryl Clayton

[Locks]

I think synchronicity is more like communication...FROM something (God, universe, whatever) attempting to communicate with us...it's up to us then to figure out the message and take action (or not ) based on the message.

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KiiwiElf

This is the first time i come across someone with such a deep understanding of synchronicity on the fora i attend; Avalon, Divinecosmos and Bring4th. Since 1983 my life is a constant stream of synchronicities. Also i just thought of David Wilcock and the "Source Field".

And Locks, i see it rather as communication WITH our Higher Selves....

Time is now 04.04

[ulli]

Here is a great book on the subject which I recommend:
Synchronicity : Through the Eyes of Science, Myth and the Trickster
by Mark Holland and Allan Combs

http://www.amazon.com/Synchronicity-...der_1569245991

"I see it now", means that when we are in a state of direct experience the Reality of Everything becomes visible,
and that Reality is expressed by the law "As Above, So Below.
Focus on synchronicity, think about it, play with the concept mentally, be amazed by it...
and it will happen, again and again.
Makes life fun.

[Mark]

Thank you for sharing this primer! We also have a discussion going on including synchronicity and other aspects of higher consciousness, living aware in the Now and the ascension process here.

[Strat]

A lot of little things have been continuously happening to me. Here's what I mean:

About two weeks ago I was going to ask my mom (yeah, I'm 26 and still wringing my poor mothers pocket book dry haha) to buy a nootropic for me. I take a particular nootropic every day. I was explaining how it helps me in my work, and how it had other benefits like my guitar playing and especially my pool shooting - which I find odd, but neat.

After some discussion I began to feel silly asking her to buy these and I told her I'd buy them myself. I put it off for a few days, then the company sent me an email discount on my next purchase of that exact product. They offer other products, but the one particular product I use is the only one they had a short promotional sale for.

I asked her if she bought them (stimulating that email from them to me) and she said no, cause I said I would buy them. So that's funny, but not really too out of the ordinary. However what is kinda strange is their new marketing campaign demonstrated how it helps you to compete, like when shooting pool.
http://www.onnit.com/pool/

There were other things like this that were happening at the time and I thought that I should write about it here, on Avalon. I sorta put it off though.

A while later (I think last week, not sure) I was working on my truck. When I work on my truck these days, I set my phone in the shade and turn on Pandora so that I have a neat little radio so that I can listen to music while working on the truck.

I finished my particular task (installing exhaust pipe) and thought I earned a break and an iced tea. Before I went inside the house though, I checked out my hands to see how dirty they were. Sometimes I can get by with scrubbing them with a rag, especially when doing exhaust work because that isn't a greasy task (usually). Often though I need to wash my hands before going inside, or it will look like BP had been drilling for oil in the house.

As I was doing this, Sympathy For The Devil was playing on my Pandora radio. It's randomized, I didn't put it on there. And it was on my CCR radio station.

At the very second I looked at my hands the lyrics "washed his hands and sealed his fate" played. No big deal, but stay with me.

Then Fred created a Sympathy For The Devil thread. Again, no big deal.

Then just yesterday, I was somewhat randomly linked to that thread. The link contained a bit of info regarding light research I was doing that day. When I say 'light' I mean the visible electromagnetic spectrum.

So why do I get weirded out by the constant Sympathy For The Devil references? My sig has always been the same, which are lyrics from that song.

I'm just using this as an example because it's the most recent series of events that has been happening to me. Circumstances such as this seem to be happening to me at an accelerated rate lately.

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So here's where I look at it from a practical standpoint. I have noticed a phenomenon where it's not uncommon to talk about a particular TV show episode, and it will come on the next day. The odds of that seem freakishly rare, but it happens to myself, and lots (kind of assuming 'lots' but I've heard several reports) of other people.

The other thing was a bit of an experiment: People often report looking at the clock and seeing 33 all the time. Ya know, 1:33/7:33/4:33, whatever. So I did an experiment where I would make a mental note every time I checked the clock and saw 4:20 (haha, why not). It happens a lot, just never noticed.

So what are your thoughts? Am I being nudged in a direction, or am I reading too far into things?

[Cartomancer]

Here's a totally freaky one for you. A few months ago I was listening to the radio while I was doing some research online. I was checking out a page about Cornelius Agrippa. This man invented a form of geomancy and is famous for his black dog that he considered his 'familiar' or spirit guide. Just as I was getting into the article I was reading the song 'Black Dog' by Led Zeppelin came on the radio! The song is actually about Agrippa's dog. This is where the 'Son of Sam' got the concept that he was talking to his dog as well. This freaked me out in a big way.

I am kind of a skeptic too but somethings just can't be explained away so easily. Its a synchromystic world out there.

[RMorgan]

Nice thread mate,

Well, life is weird. Period.

Some of these coincidences are in your head, you know, if your subconscious is focused on something you´ll see this thing everywhere indeed.

Some other coincidences are just weird.

The fact is there´s no way to distinguish between them, I mean, the ones which are just in your mind and the ones who simply just happen.

Talking about coincidences, I wrote a song a few years ago about a guy who´s constantly searching for the love of his life on pubs, bars and these kind of places; then, when he gives up the search, he finds his love in a bakery.

Guess what? I met my fiancée in a bakery...

So, life is weird...

Raf.

[Tony]

Life is totally freaky! Dots sort of join up ...oh....oh.......oh!

[Tarka the Duck]

How about this one? I don't look for co-incidences and if they happen, that's great but I don't tend to read anything of significance into them...but this one is a goody...

In the UK, your car has to have an annual safety check, called an MOT: without it, your insurance is invalid and your car shouldn't be on the road. On Monday I suddenly had a vague feeling that our MOT might have expired and eventually I got round to digging out the paperwork to check. And yet, it had expired 3 months ago... Needless to say, we've been driving up and down the length and breadth of our little island in the meantime...

So, horror-struck, I rang the garage and booked it in for its MOT on Wednesday. We washed it, cleaned up the inside and decided to give it a treat - it had lost 2 hub caps months ago and was looking a little shabby (well, it is 16 years old, bless it) - and so we headed off to the local car supermarket place a few miles away.

Just a few minutes from our destination, Tony suddenly made a strange, strangulated sound and gripped the steering wheel until his knuckles showed white. On our tail was...a police car We just had time to have a quick debate about whether, if stopped, we should lie or come clean in the old time-honoured fashion of "It's a fair cop guv" before the blue lights flashed and he pulled us over! What are the chances, eh?

After biting our tongues throughout the inevitable "Is this your vehicle?" and "Are you aware...?" and "It is within my powers..." I leapt in with an excruciatingly ever-so-'umble explanation that, being a woman of a certain age, I had quite simply forgotten to remember....

And he smiled and let us go, if we promised to go straight home, without passing GO and collecting £50, and not venture out until the morning of our appointment at the garage.

Lucky or Wot?

Kathie

[Earth Angel]

yesterday my husband was working in Toronto, which is where we grew up but about an hour and a half from home now.........during the day he had a flash of an experience when he was 12 years old of being part of an art show and some woman made a derogatory remark behind him ( not about him but as a kid it stuck in his head) .....anyway he was thinking how he was sitting in a little park drawing a particularly well known house that is now part of the Art Gallery of Ontario.......hours later he was being driven home by the fellow he was working with and parts of the highway had fallen onto the road below so the road was closed and they had to take a detour......next thing you know they are passing the park where he sat over 40 years ago and he looks out the window at the very house he was drawing back then.......he had no idea why that day from 42 years ago came to him earlier but that was pretty 'coincidental' ???

but as Abraham Hicks says and I believe it.....There ARE no Coincidences ! So what does it mean?

[Alex Laker]

Sometimes, if I learn a new word, or come across a particularly unusual word in a book or in conversation it suddenly starts to appear everywhere. I become very conscious that I am seeing this word more often than should be ordinary... Perhaps like this TV show phenomenon you speak of, it is a clue to how consciousness really works, and that actually we have the power to affect the universe on a subconscious level. Of course, I wonder where did the idea come from in the first place. What if our consciousness and the universe are actually part of the same generic feedback mechanism?

Question: Do we simply invent ideas in the spur of the moment, even subconsciously, only to have the universe reflect them back at us minutes, hours, days, months and years later? Does this lead us to believe that ideas can be created independently of ourselves, when really they cannot be?

[Rocky_Shorz]

I think once you enter the vortex no matter which way you turn the message is there...

was flying out for a job interview and hit a traffic jam on the way, ran to the gate, with another running along beside, to find it had already boarded and left...


we stood catching our breath and started talking...


the plane didn't crash...


the guy I met turned out to be my next boss...


I wasn't meant to leave California...

[Knowrainknowrainbows!]

There's a book, "When God Winks" by SQuire Rushnell --- Fun read and interesting true stories. Fits with this topic.
I cherish my Godwinks!

KRKR

[bogeyman]

"There are no accidents in God's universe... or in our lives"

WHAT IS SYNCHRONICITY?

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which are causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. In order to be synchronous, the events should be unlikely to occur together by random chance


This is one of many universal laws or truths that can never be proven for sure. And yet, there are far too many stories about people who have had mysterious forces miraculously enter or guide their lives when they least expected it. If we really look at it closely, coincidences in our lives are far too common. As they begin to accumulate over the years, our minds begin to open to new possibilities. That maybe, just maybe, they are more than random happenings.

What is a synchronous event? It's an experience or circumstance that comes into our life when we least expect it to happen. What sets these mysterious happenings apart is that they are always unplanned and unexpected. A blind date that leads to life partnership, an unexpected phone call that pulls us away from tragedy, a job opportunity that suddenly opens, a gift of money when we need it most, a dream that turns out to be true, an unexpected admissions to a college we never thought would happen, are just a few examples.

These happenings can occur on a large, medium or small scale. I like to think of the large ones as events, which have a major impact on our lives. This can be a long-term relationship with someone, a crippling accident that leads to a life-time challenge, an unexpected book from a friend that opens up a life-changing spiritual quest for us, and so on.

The medium synchronous events are more for course corrections that lead us to the major ones or help the major ones unfold smoothly and successfully. For example, an unexpected salary bonus (medium) that allows us to take a vacation (medium) during which we find a lifetime partner (major), or a new business venture, (major) or
decide to change jobs and move to another part of the country (major), are a few examples. The small events are more for fine- tuning the whole process and are also very important.

Curiously, these unexpected gifts of guidance often drop in out of the universe to influence our thoughts or impact the direction that our lives may take when we least expect them. Whenever this happens, our free will is never violated in the process. While in body, we always have the choice to react to these events, regardless of size, the way we want to.

Where do these events come from? How do they happen? Why do they happen? Do they have a purpose? What is the force that makes them happen?

- Nothing happens by accident in God's universe or our lives.

- Thus, there is no such thing as a coincidence.

- Prior to coming to this planet we create a life-plan.

- That plan is made with free will. Nobody forces it on us.

- Our life-plan is made after we review our previous lives and experiences.

- The more evolved we are the more our life-plan centres around spiritual growth and service to others.

- We may want to learn patience, forgiveness, compassion, during our next life.

- Or we may want to experience being blind, poor, rich, etc.

- Our guardian angels/sprit guides know our plan.

- Synchronous events often come when we least expect them.

- That's what makes them synchronous.

- When an unexpected event occurs, we still react to each with free will.

- It is also possible to overrule parts or all of our plan while on Earth.

- However, overruling our original plan is not the wisest choice. It creates confusion in our lives.

- Certain events will occur in our lives when we planned for them to happen.

- While in body we are constantly making choices and creating our reality.

- This too is done with free will.

- And yet, there is "something" going on in the background of life.

- This something provides the guidance we need for our plan to unfold.

- This influence is happening at a higher level and for good purpose

- That purpose is to keep us on course as it relates to our earthly plan.

- Another purpose is to provide us ongoing guidance in our lives.

- Many events also make us happy such as finding past-lifetime friends.

- If we ask Spirit (and our angels) for guidance, the help is sure to come.

- We need to learn how to listen for and to the guidance.

- Pay special attention to any event or clue that happens three or more times.

- Look for patterns and repeated themes within the event(s).

- Often times the messages we receive are symbolic and we need to decipher them.

- If things fall into place, as if by magic, most likely you're on the right path.

- If you meet resistance or dead-ends, reconsider the choice you have made.

Here's a simple way to look at past events that have mysteriously come into your life as unplanned or unexpected experiences. These events may have been based upon some form of guidance such as a strong hunch, a powerful or compelling thought that came into your mind, a voice that spoke to you, a dream that you had, a synchronous event, and so on.

Draw a line across a piece of paper. This is your life time-line. Let's say it represents the past 20 years of your life. Go to the beginning (to the left of the line). Put a mark through the line and an event underneath the mark that had a major impact on your life or the direction it took. And, most importantly, came about unexpectedly, without your planning it. Do this until you reach current time. Then think about how it all came to be.

A hypothetical time-line might be...

- you are suffering from an unrewarding and abusive marriage (1990)

- you get divorced (1991)

- you lose your job (1991)

- you are in major crisis (1991)

- everything you do to try to find a new job doesn't work out (guidance can often be through negative experiences and events)

Then...

- a book given to you by a friend leads to a radical spiritual awakening (1992)

- unexpectedly an old friend calls, a wonderful job opens in Arizona (1993)

- you interview for job, it goes well and you are hired (1993)

- you move to Arizona (1993)

- everything goes smoothly for you (guidance that you are on the right path)

Then...

- a blind date in Arizona leads to a fulfilling relationship and life-time partnership (1994)

- and so on

When we reflect on the unexpected events and guidance that comes into our lives on a regular basis, these kinds of divine, mysterious experiences should truly make us think and wonder what's behind them.

One can take this simple exercise a bit further by isolating one of the major events in your life and then reconstructing the medium and minor events that helped the major one fall into place and unfold smoothly.

Whenever we ask Spirit or our angels for guidance in our lives, whether it has to do with a relationship, a job, a failing marriage, sickness, etc. the answer will come. That is guaranteed.

Look for clues, patterns and things that seem to materialize out of nowhere, but are related to your question. Look for messages that are symbolic, or the words of a song that pop up after asking God or your angels a question. Watch out for an unexpected phone call, finding an old letter or picture, actually hearing a voice in your head, a dream that is related to your question, a vision that appears in your head while meditating, are a few examples. Be alert for medium or major synchronous events that unexpectedly unfold.

Always keep in mind that, when things go smoothly and fall into place, you have most likely made the right choice and the right event has come into your life. When our decisions or efforts run into resistance or roadblocks, seriously re-examine the choices you have made or the false alarm, guiding event that has come into your life. Correct guidance is always loving and has our best interests in mind. The wrong guidance generally arouses feelings of fear or guilt.

Hopefully, all of this makes you think and wonder about these magnificent ways that not only guide and influence our lives, but also help us understand our life-plan.

We are never left alone. Never."

Info:

http://www.greatdreams.com/connect.htm
http://www.mindreality.com/synchroni...idence-in-life
http://www.authorsden.com/categories...id=70&id=39377
http://www.synchrosecrets.com/synchrosecrets/?p=7297
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

I have had too many experiences relating to this, from my understanding, some of our lives are "planned" or "mapped out".

[Xeron]

Good morning avalonians!
This is my first post here on this forum. I have only been a member for a short while but i had a strange conincedense signing up here that I was wondering if anyone else had.
A few weeks ago after watching many of Bill and Kerry's interviews, on camelot and avalon i decided to check out this website after hearing a lot about it.


The day i typed in the web address to my phone browser I was drawn to the vast amount of knowledge and understanding of the people and energy present here.
Although when i arrived home i found my house some what broken into: the front door was wide open with the deadlock "locked"
The door however was closed so my animals did not escape but the tv had been turned on. I also had the feeling someone had been there but nothing was missing (not that anything i own has real dollar value)
I did not think Much of this as all my lofe i have felt different presence around my that i write off in my own mind as "ghosts"
I should also mention that no one was home as 2 of my 4 housemates were on holiday due back that day.

A week later i signed up and filled out the application ad was excepted a few days later.
The day i was "accepted" a man came to my house in a white van with no company markings or anything. The man had all my details, all house matemates details and contact numbers and everything. He claimed to be there to install blinds (which were already brand new) We had heard nothig of this from our landlord or real estate agent and I have recently checked with them and they said they havent given out any details and dont have any idea how this "blinds man" has come to have them.
After a short discussion about What was going on he made a phone call and moved onto the "right address" a few houses up the road.
It wasnt really unti i thought about it and discussed it with some people that i became aware of the timing and conincedence of what i was researching and these strange events.
It hasnt hindered me in my research nor will it stop me from coming here and taking part in discussions an such. I am merely wondering if it has happened to anyone else here.
And if it has maybe its something we all should be aware of.

I look forward to being a part of everything going on here on this page and i will talk to you all soon

Cheers
Xeron

[Lifebringer]

No, but phone has been echoing woth someone on the line. I was talking to a relative about it and we went on to go into the wonderful days of menopause, hot flashes and cramping for at least 20 minutes until they got off. PS, I don't suffer anymore but it was fun to remember loudly in the little snoopers earphone or headset.