Synchronicity is an explanatory principle, according to its creator, Carl Jung. Synchronicity explains "meaningful coincidences," such as a beetle flying into his room while a patient was describing a dream about a scarab. The scarab is an Egyptian symbol of rebirth, he noted. Therefore, the propitious moment of the flying beetle indicated that the transcendental meaning of both the scarab in the dream and the insect in the room was that the patient needed to be liberated from her excessive rationalism. His notion of synchronicity is that there is an acausal principle that links events having a similar meaning by their coincidence in time rather than sequentially. He claimed that there is a synchrony between the mind and the phenomenal world of perception.

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I find myself facinated with this word and the effect it has on people.
I personally feel a religious connection..that things are "meant to be"...not accidents.

any thoughts?

oh my Ms Alffe...you have touched on a subject that sure resonates with me.

I have noticed this "synchronicity" throughout my life, sometimes in very dramatic and profound ways that could never be attributed to just co-incidence........ and am actually experiencing it right now with someone that I feel God has specifically brought into my life

I'll blame my older sister for stirring up my pot! I used the phrase "it was meant to be" when describing something truly stunning that happened to Mr.Alffe and she, being the true athiest that she is, said, no, it's synchronisity. I said, define the word as you understand it and she said...it's a coincidence.

That began my search via internet and I'm hooked. She's wrong...LOL.

Here is a portion I took from something called the Minordi Seminar.

"Remember to be careful what you wish for. You may get it. You may see good times and happiness, but conversely, you may see something that you really don't want. Like a car wreck or a worse disaster, or even a death of someone close. Nature takes care of us by shielding us from the future. I think it was built into the design of human being as a protection. There is a way to tap into this future order that is coming into your life. Joseph Joworski has given this a name and defined it with the work "Synchronisity."


It is the perfect order by which the whole universe runs.

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Well, they had me from hello. It's too long an article to post it all here...of course I've printed it, along with several others to give to her.

Sisters are wonderful....

I tend to see it like the poem
I once heard an insightful presentation on that poem, with vivid imagery on just how we look at the tapestry of life from below and see nothing but ragged threads and knots and dull colors and no real pattern or picture ....
BUT

from above, and where God sees it, is the whole perfect picture in vivid color and without any flaws

To me that is how "synchronicity" works...it is all part of God's weaving

you have an atheist sister too alffe?

i have gotten those same words my whole life. even my folks haven't gone to any type of church since they were teens. everything is a coinsedence or luck...karma...good or bad. no divine anything.

lol...chemar has a weaving...i have a paint by number kit..just keep adding the colors accordning to god's plan...with a bit of my free will and colorfulness tossed in.

That's a lovely poem Chemar...reminds of an old, years ago thread about the fabric of life and how all our lives experiences are woven into it....
dang memory...dang lost archives.

Curious..you cannot hide your light...don't even try!

I believe the synchronisity happens to us all the time...we just call it something else.

alffe, did it involve a farmer, a farmer's wife, a mousetrap, a mouse, a chicken, a lamb, a cow, a sheep, and a snake...

and end with

"So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember when one of us is threatened we are all at risk. We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another. Each one of us is a vital thread in another person's tapestry. Our lives are woven together for a reason." ?

[on another note... there are many words that are somewhat similar to synchronicity. Kismet is a word I love. The word itself is very nice to say. It sounds nice, I mean. It's interesting though when I use it and when I've seen it used in common language, it's not usually the true definition of the word.

I do use the term synchronicity and also 'in synch' or 'in sync' (no idea how to spell it 'cause I never write it only say it), but I also use the term collective conscious and sometimes collective unconscious. I think of it as being a harmony. Like... everything fits together. Whether that's atoms or plants or animals or people or whatever else there is in existence.

I call it energy.

You ladies have no idea how much I am enjoying this thread! Not only have I laughed out loud...I've talked back!

Now I'm waiting for Thelma to get in here!


a farmer, farmers wife, chicken, cow, mouse, ???? LOLOL

I thought you may have meant an old thread we had once somewhere in space where someone posted a piece about the mousetrap (I thought it might have been goofy or jingle, but my memory is bad these days) and the sequence of events that followed which involved everyone in the household, animals included. It had a bit of a weird twist to it which I didn't really like, but the moral of the story was basically that lives are entwined in some way and that what one person does can affect the next.

I prefer the one Curious mentioned the other day about 'paying it forward'.

don't forget the monkey.