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Subject: how do you tell the difference?

Tingting*

18:53 01/10/2001 

I have encountered a few more synchronicities over the past week, however, sometimes I wonder if I read into things too much. Like how can you really tell if something is a synchronicity?

For example, I have also experienced increased references to baseball recently.

The other day when I was lodging my VTAC application form for my drama courses, I noticed the time was 22:22:02. The day after, I was at a lunch function and one of my close friends was sitting at table 22, and her ticket numbers were 220 and 02. Interesting huh?

The day after I lodged my form, I met a girl at a BBQ who happened to have applied for the same courses I did. And to come across another Asian girl who wants to pursue drama is a first for me. And I wondered if that was a sign that I should continue following drama if I pass the auditions.

Just some thoughts...

Geoffo

08:06 03/10/2001 

Re: "how can you really tell if something is a synchronicity?"

In 33 words or less: if synchronicity can be seen most simply as 'meaningful coincidence', then whether or not a coincidence is synchronistic all depends on whether it is meaningful, which is something only you can 'really' tell.

To take it a bit further: "Such deep significance or meaning connecting the outer event or psychological state is archetypally structured and yet very personal. Although it's personal, the meaning is not merely subjective. The meaning expressing itself in both inner and outer events is an archetypal expression of the self in an unconscious compensation. It's a guiding of the ego and not a production of the ego." from 'Synchronicity, Science and Soul-Making' by Victor Mansfield (1995) (my other favourite book on synchronicity).

I hope that's a help to you...

WHAT IS
SYNCHRONICITY?

Jane Teresa's Explanation

Jane Teresa Anderson

WHAT IS SYNCHRONICITY?

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Synchronicity occurs when you experience a coincidence, or several coincidences, that seem so bizarre that you feel they must be meaningful in some way.

Some people believe that synchronicities are signs to follow, to lead you to where you are 'meant' to be. My understanding, however, is that not all synchronicities are to be followed, because ...

Synchronicities are SYMBOLS of where you're at, not signs to follow.

Synchronicities speak the same symbolic language as dreams.

When you experience a synchronicity, you are witnessing a change within yourself, an insight, a birth of something that has been unconscious bubbling up into consciousness.

At such times of change we see, all around us, symbols that reflect our shift in perception and self-understanding. This is synchronicity.

To understand this fully, and to see why it is not always appropriate to follow synchronicity, you can read my book, THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. This way you can also discover how to read the synchronicities in your life and how to act on them in positive, life-enhancing ways.

Reality may never feel the same again!

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P.S.

In Jungian terms all synchronicities begin with a dream.

The dream comes first, then the symbol from the dream appears in waking life in ways that seem incredibly meaningful - though, classically, it is hard to understand, consciously, what that meaning is.

This is because the dream is painted by your unconscious mind in advance of your conscious mind 'catching up'. When the insight (unconscious shift) is big, synchronicities follow.

What happens is that your incredibly powerful unconscious mind (far more powerful than your conscious mind) manifests its insight physically into your waking life. (You have changed - the world, as you experience it, changes in accordance.)

It usually takes up to a couple of weeks before your conscious mind understands the symbolic dream manifesting in your waking life as synchronicity.

Being human, as we all are, we often forget the original dream but still experience the synchronicities.

There are many excellent reference sources on Jungian synchronicity.

My approach is largely Jungian, but slightly shifted.

Again, if you are seriously in-depth interested, I suggest you read my book "THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME" to understand where I am coming from.

Quite simply, synchronicity is a waking dream and interpreting it as such is immensely enriching.

Jane Teresa Anderson