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.
Another thing, I often hear people say everything means something. Yes, I think it does but the meaning is on a different scale than what humans can grasp. As humans we always want to anthropomorphize everything and assume everything is supposed to mean something to us on a human scale. But most of it is over our heads, we can only take in a tiny spectum of what's happening at any given moment and usually we are too self occupied to even notice what we could notice if we were open to it.
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.
Perfect example. I think the reason they don’t seem as strong later is because, like you say, you have faith. You know it will happen. It happens all the time when you are noticing. It is often subtle but sometimes spectacular and unaccountable. It helps to point it out to yourself until, like I have said to my kids, let the extraordinary life become ordinary. Again, it is noticed most in the timing. The kairotic moment of encounter. It is weird, yes, unexplainable. But noticing and acknowledging is important. It is a conversation with livingness. The more we pay attention the more extraordinary it seems.
OK, that makes perfect sense to me and a new way to think about it. Reminds me of years ago I was taking a walk during a break at work and was going through some stuff and kept saying to myself "One step at a time" in a rhythm. Again.......a few minutes later I saw something shiny on the ground and picked it up......it was one of those tokens from an AA meeting someone had lost and it said "One day at a time" I kid you not!!!! On the other side it said "This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it". At first I felt weak in the knees but then I also felt it was this "normal" thing to happen to me as another 'God thing', It happened to me a lot back then. I still have that token to this day, many years later.
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.
Thanks for writing Archie, Yeah it is kind of mysterious in certain way. Like getting a peek behind the curtain.
Another thing, I often hear people say everything means something. Yes, I think it does but the meaning is on a different scale than what humans can grasp. As humans we always want to anthropomorphize everything and assume everything is supposed to mean something to us on a human scale. But most of it is over our heads, we can only take in a tiny spectum of what's happening at any given moment and usually we are too self occupied to even notice what we could notice if we were open to it.
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.
Perfect example. I think the reason they don’t seem as strong later is because, like you say, you have faith. You know it will happen. It happens all the time when you are noticing. It is often subtle but sometimes spectacular and unaccountable. It helps to point it out to yourself until, like I have said to my kids, let the extraordinary life become ordinary. Again, it is noticed most in the timing. The kairotic moment of encounter. It is weird, yes, unexplainable. But noticing and acknowledging is important. It is a conversation with livingness. The more we pay attention the more extraordinary it seems.
OK, that makes perfect sense to me and a new way to think about it. Reminds me of years ago I was taking a walk during a break at work and was going through some stuff and kept saying to myself "One step at a time" in a rhythm. Again.......a few minutes later I saw something shiny on the ground and picked it up......it was one of those tokens from an AA meeting someone had lost and it said "One day at a time" I kid you not!!!! On the other side it said "This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it". At first I felt weak in the knees but then I also felt it was this "normal" thing to happen to me as another 'God thing', It happened to me a lot back then. I still have that token to this day, many years later.