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Subject: Patrick McKenna

Jane Anderson

15:49 08/02/2000 

I've been asked by an internet-shy friend to post her synchronicity to see if anyone local (Brisbane area) can help her to work this one out:

This lady lives in the outer suburbs of Brisbane and has a large garden. They have lived there for only a year or so and clearing and re-creating the garden has been a long job. On the weekend her husband dug up a stone near the fence .. and it turned out to be a headstone (tombstone). This was not too strange, as the person who had lived in the house before had been a stone mason. There was no grave.

The headstone engraving read (in part): Patrick McKenna, died aged 82, 6th February 1950.

The date the husband dug up the tombstone was 6th February 2000 - exactly 50 years to the date of Patrick's death. The rest of the short inscription was suggestive of a more mysterious story. For example, no birth date was given and mercy was called for his soul.

The stone mason who lived at the house would not have been old enough to have carved a headstone in 1950.

In her waking moments, the day after, the woman heard the words "Tell Jane". I just wondered whether putting the story up on this Synch Forum would prove enlightening for her, so she agreed to have the story posted. She has some ideas herself, but feels there is something else she is not getting here ..

Any light? (I will communicate your feedback and report hers back to you.)

Jane Anderson

JulIA

11:54 13/02/2000 

Hi Jane & Shy person

Wow! Perhaps it was the work of Patrick McKenna Senior? a time capsule of sorts!?

The saying "nothing is set in stone" jumped out at me.

Was there any event 50 years ago which jumps out at Shy Person ("SP")(world event, or family event?)

SP - the tombstone represents livelihood and handiwork of sorts - does this mean anything to SP or the husband. Something from the past that needs to be dug up?

Very interesting! Dying!!! to hear what comes out of this!

JuliA

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