Synchronicity

SYNCHRONICITY

I was a hidden treasure and desired to be known:
therefore I created the creation in order to be known.
--Sufi creation myth

Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.
-- Carl Jung

"My own life has been touched often by synchronicity, so much so that now I get on an airplane expecting the passenger in the next seat to be surprisingly important to me, either just the voice I need to hear to solve a problem or a missing link in a transaction that needs to come together...."

"... I believe that all coincidences are messages from the unmanifest – they are like angels without wings, so to speak, sudden interruptions of life by a deeper level ...." --Deepak Chopra

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Mellen Thomas Benedict has some wonderful insights on after-death communications with departed loved ones through dreams and synchronicity.

I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 am, and I just knew that this was it. This was the day I was going to die. So I called a few friends and said goodbye. I woke up my hospice caretaker and told her. I had a private agreement with her that she would leave my dead body alone for six hours, since I had read that all kinds of interesting things happen when you die. I went back to sleep. The next thing I remember is the beginning of a typical near-death experience. Suddenly I was fully aware and I was standing up, but my body was in the bed. There was this darkness around me. Being out of my body was even more vivid than ordinary experience. It was so vivid that I could see every room in the house, I could see the top of the house, I could see around the house, I could see under the house.

There was this light shining. I turned toward the light. The light was very similar to what many other people have described in their near-death experiences. It was so magnificent. It is tangible; you can feel it. It is alluring; you want to go to it like you would want to go to your ideal mother's or father's arms.

As I began to move toward the light, I knew intuitively that if I went to the light, I would be dead.

So as I was moving toward the light I said, "Please wait a minute, just hold on a second here. I want to think about this; I would like to talk to you before I go." [Read More »]

Since losing my sister Robin last week, we've been discussing dreams from loved ones on the other side. Our favorite cousin Ray had a very strange, vivid and fun dream of Robin at the exact same time she crossed over. He's never had anything like that happen to him before and has been extremely moved by it. I said he should feel honored. It's a privilege to receive a 'visit'.

The first book I read about NDE (near-death experiences) was Betty J Eadie's Embraced By The Light. Extremely powerful and poignant.

(website via Clifford Pickover's 'don't miss' Godlorica)

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Wednesday Link Patrol
Scenes from Berlin's Love Parade. You know they're having a blast. San Francisco has been working to have their own Love Parade for 3 years now and on Oct 2 will finally have one.

"Teresa Heinz Kerry is a breath of fresh air, so why are the media choking on it? According to the chattering class, Heinz Kerry is - and I quote - "too outspoken," "too opinionated..." "In other words, she's an unconventional straight shooter. The horror!" Could you imagine Laura Bush disagreeing with her husband? Arianna also tells it like it is. Link

Burning Man and the Republican convention coincide. Where's a good progressive to go? John Perry Barlow has a good idea. Link

Speaking of vulvas, I found The Velvet Vulva while visiting Kelly @ Spell Bound. Vulva. Certainly not one of my favorite words, but appears to be the synchronicity of the week.

Establishing a Center to Remember Woodstock - For years there has only been a small marker where the stage stood. There will be an amphitheater and museum opening in two years. Link

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Gnashing of teeth and gums are heard 'round the world as the mighty right wails on and on about Hilary Clinton's new book. They think she lied about when she knew about his affair with Monica. She says she only knew when he told her. Which was at the last possible moment he could have---right before the investigative committee questioned him from the White House. When you're so enamoured of someone---your spouse, your children---you always want to believe the best about them. It's hard to be objective when you're leading with your heart. It's so petty to drone on and on about when Hilary knew what.


A little Buddha synchronicity.

Oh, how cute. Here's a little Condom Game for you. Not Safe For Work.

Quote For Today
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
~George Eliot

What's another word for thesaurus?

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