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Subject: spiders

sd

23:52 04/05/2000 

Just after submitting a reply to Angela about her spider dream I put a cassette in the player of my car that i hadn't heard before; Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach: one must never kill a spider.. invite it to play..

Rick B

15:16 08/05/2000 

I have never posted to this forum before.

As I was sitting here writing, a spider crawled across the floor, up the chair, and onto my arm.

The past two weeks, I've come home to a dead bee in the same place in my bathroom. And last Wednesday, I found a tick that must have been on me for 2 days. I'm not buggin!

What does this say about my dream life? Not sure I understand how synch and dreams cooperate. (Guess I need to read further in Shape of Things.)

Rick B

sd

16:37 08/05/2000 

For me dreams are almost always followed by a synch of some sort - reading material that reflects back into the dream, a phone call, seeing something (like your spider), getting mail, hearing a story on the radio, seeing some entry on this forum that relates. read Jane's stuff where you'll see that the synch is reiterating some aspect of yourself that is manifesting.. and is reinforcing.. am I right jane what was seen/unseen in the dream... synchs are cool and now that you are on to them, they won't stop. I have said here that they are like friends, talking to you from the universe in symbolism.. hold on for the ride. love, sd

Rick B

09:18 16/05/2000 

Spiders keep appearing on my car! They crawl across the windshield while I'm driving, or across the back while I'm fueling it. They've been doing this for about 5 days.

A friend in the non-cyber world recently reminded me of a dream I helped her with a while back. It was a repeating childhood dream in which something was chasing her and she jumped into a barrel full of spiders. She concluded that the spiders were a dream symbol for safety, and told me this just before I began to see the spiders in waking life. Now I'm synching with car/spider stuff, SD. Gotta follow this thread!

B

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