No. 6 - When the World Winks Back
On Synchronistic Events That Defy Rational Dismissal
When the World Winks Back
On Synchronistic Events That Defy Rational Dismissal
We’ve all had them. Those strange, shimmering moments when the world seems to answer you directly—too precisely, too poetically, to be chance.
You think of someone you haven’t seen in years. That afternoon, they contact you.
You’re lost, unsure whether to continue with a project, and a street sign says Trust Way.
You’re reading about ravens, and one lands outside your window, stares, then vanishes.
Coincidence, the rational mind says. Pattern-seeking behavior.
And yet.
Something in the chest catches. The moment rings.
Not like an explanation, but like a bell.
These are what Jung called synchronicities: meaningful coincidences that are not causally related, but which arrive with the undeniable flavor of significance. They come without force. You cannot summon them. But when they come, they feel like participation—as if the world were not inert matter, but a responsive presence. As if your inner state and the outer event were two facets of the same jewel.
The Timing Is the Message
Synchronistic events always ride on the back of timing. The meaning doesn’t come from the event alone, but from the moment in which it occurs.
A child asks you a question about death the same day your father calls with a diagnosis.
A song you loved in childhood plays unexpectedly while you’re grieving.
A phrase repeats itself across books, conversations, and graffiti within a week.
It’s not what is happening, it’s when and in what state you receive it. Synchronicity is less about prediction than about correspondence. It doesn’t foretell—it resonates. It tells you: You are not alone inside this pattern. You are seen.
Why We Dismiss It
Our modern training tells us not to trust the poetic mind. To explain away anything that cannot be reproduced in a lab. To label the intuitive as irrational.
But synchronicities aren’t trying to prove anything. They don’t operate on the plane of logic. They operate on the plane of depth. They are reminders that meaning is not imposed on the world—it emerges with us, through us.
When we dismiss them, we don’t become more rational. We become more numb.
What to Do When They Happen
The moment a synchronicity touches you, don’t rush to explain it. Just feel the click. The alignment. The pattern in the chaos. Then:
Write it down
Speak it aloud
Draw it
Follow the thread
Often, the event is not a message with a clear answer, but an opening. A moment when the veil thins. A shift in field. The work is not to interpret it like a riddle, but to attune yourself to what it is drawing your attention toward.
Synchronicity is less about meaning as conclusion and more about meaning as atmosphere.
A Language of the Imaginal
Synchronistic events are how the imaginal world speaks back. They’re not accidents. They’re acausal echoes—ripple effects in the psychic field. They connect psyche and cosmos in a patterning beyond control, beyond reason, but not beyond comprehension.
They are the alphabet of a deeper order. The glyphs of a participatory universe.
When we begin to notice them, the world becomes ensouled again.
Not as superstition. But as presence.
Not as control. But as conversation.
Something is always answering. Slow down. Ask again. Listen closer.
If this felt like one of those moments, share a story below. The pattern is collective. The conversation, ongoing. Pass this along to a friend who’s been noticing. The more we name these moments, the more they show themselves. Synchronicity feeds on attention—like fire, like love, like art.
Great framing on how synchronicity operates through correspondence rather than causation. The idea that these moments aren't about prediction but resonance really captures what makes them feel diferent from regular coincidences. I had a similar experience last year when the same phrase kept appearing in unrelated contexts, and instead of trying to decode it I just followed the thread. Paying attention to atmopshere instead of explanation makes all the difference.
Oooh, excellent subject you wrote about and one that I do pay attention to when it happens. I'm reminded of an incident that happened many years ago in the studio where I used to live. I was working on a piece and needed something very specific to the work.......a piece of lambs wool, preferably still attached to the skin/leather. I had looked all over the studio for something like it knowing I wouldn't find an exact thing that would make the art piece perfect. I looked into every nook and cranny thinking even a handful of cotton might work but found nothing. I was so frustrated by the lack of anything even a substitute that I considered not finishing the piece and working on something else. So I sat there in disappointment and quiet rage, stewing and thinking I'd have to maybe go out and find something to use instead. (no internet then so couldn't just scroll through the web and order whatever like one can do now). A little while later, I got up to leave the studio and as I walked towards the door, I happened to look over at this counter near my tools and lo and behold........................there just 'resting' on the counter was this perfect sized sheep's square of leather with the wool attached on it, waiting for me to pick it up and yell "EUREKA!!!!!". I know I had looked there earlier and it wasn't there. And here it was. Exactly what I needed for the piece!!!!!!! I've had many such supernatural things happen to me in similar nature, not as much later and maybe it had to do with having discovered my faith back then and being very strong in it. I called those "synchronistic events" ....."A God Thing" when it happened.