Synchronicity as a Fountain for Novelty
"Synchronicity will appear very naturally to a mind that's constantly sensitive to change for it reveals the overall patterns of nature & mind & provides a context in which events have their meaning."
One benefit of having a warmer brain is that it accelerates the rate of learning and information retention, in this particular case, having to read multiple, dense texts in a span of a few weeks. Because of the broad nature of such a topic, and the relatively limited time “allotted” to go through everything, the information presented here will be from the books below, as well as from personal experience. Quite often I find myself unable to clearly articulate what intuitively feels dear and true, and so if the contents seem disorderly, please bear with me. Incidentally, and you can observe this in your own life, meaningful observation about the nature of reality (especially about more niche subjects) tends to have previously published literature if one looks long enough. You’re not losing your mind…hopefully. I find T3, thiamine, coffee, and sugar to be some of the most useful “foods” in making the frontal cortex pleasantly fire.
A synchronicity is a meaningful coincidence. In the current cultural dogma, which is just an extension of the post-Enlightenment thought that unexplainable phenomena, the paranormal, distant events, predictions/visions by oracles, mutations, and newly emerged characteristics are due to random chance and that they can be mapped through a reproducible (within a laboratory setting) cause’n’effect model, suggesting the idea of a meaningfully patterned consciousness between man and his surroundings is viewed as heresy, or at the least “out there”. The idea of synchronicity was first proposed by Carl Jung but expanded upon by Rupert Sheldrake, David Peat, David Bohm, and Michael Persinger in the study of the paranormal, archetypes, telepathy, clairvoyance, morphic fields, precognition, apparitions, near-death experiences, etc.
Several personal encounters with such phenomenon spurred my interest in synchronicity as a very real and practical concept, which in hindsight tended to coincide with acute positive shifts in my health. With an increase in brain temperature, the energy available tends to spill outwards, generating a back-and-forth (for the lack of a better term) play with its environment, stringing together the more nuanced subtleties of reality into coherent patterns of meaning that otherwise would’ve been dismissed into the general noise of life. Two notable personal examples are below:
A few years ago I had a vivid and emotionally charged dream of meeting two mutuals for the first time. When I woke up the next morning, they’d sent me a picture of a parking lot sign that read “T3” (my Twitter handle), adding that they too had had an emotion-filled day.
A couple of weeks ago around midnight, I got a severe nosebleed seemingly out of nowhere (an extremely infrequent symptom for me). The next day I found out a girl I had discussed the phenomenon of synchronicities with the day prior had accidentally cut her finger with a kitchen knife, bleeding everywhere.
“During a synchronicity, different objects and events congregate together to form an overall pattern in space and time…these conjunctions indicate how different objects in the universe show an affinity for each other…rather than these conjunctions taking place through Newtonian forces of attraction they are brought because ‘certain things like to happen together’. Synchronicities take the form of patterns that emerge by chance out of a general background of chance and contingency and hold deep meaning for the person who experiences them. Often these coincidences occur at critical points in a person’s life and can be interpreted as containing the seeds of future growth. Synchronicities could, therefore, be said to involve the meaningful unfoldment of potential.”- David Peat
The classic example that most will relate to is when a subject thinks of calling a friend and a few minutes later they receive a call from them. Another one is spotting the same number in multiple settings in different contexts. I think that the complexity of such experiences tends to only increase, given enough time and attention to allow them to present and unfold themselves.
If we are, for example, to assume that it is the energetic state of the brain that dictates what it notices and interacts with in its surroundings - a hibernating bear cannot, arguably, pay attention to the subtleties and potentialities around it - then it can be argued that two individuals wrapped in a synchronous event are both, at least temporarily, similarly energized working to fashion order out of the chaotically vibrating background. Additionally, if we then take the malleability of desires, motives, actions, sense of the future, and possibilities to be a function of this same “brain readiness” state, then synchronicities of similar scales and themes perceived by individuals in different spaces and time would generate a potentiality of connection and cooperation never before observed. Like sheep, rolling across escape grids…
Sheldrake wrote and talked about the very real phenomenon of morphic fields (think of them as formative fields of information similar to gravity and electromagnetic fields) connecting groups of people across great distances, working to explain how dogs know when their owners are coming home (routine as a possible factor being accounted for), and so the idea that the energetic field of our minds extends beyond our brains isn’t very odd at all (morphic fields are everywhere, both at the cellular and cosmic levels). A demonstration of this line of thought, I believe, can be observed within a household. Ray once mentioned that being able to see a few seconds ahead into the future and correctly predict where a public speech was headed was a characteristic of an active brain, and so I think “finishing each other sentences” is probably also a small manifestation of synchronous behavior between pairs with similarly high metabolism. To add, Broda hypothesized and then observed that hypothyroid individuals who coupled together, inducing euthyroidism in one caused them to divorce. The ability of BOTH to perceive and then act on the unintelligible and novel, to live in constant surprise and stimulation can serve as a great force against stagnation and divorce. When the intercourse of the minds precedes the physical, when courageous play becomes a reflex upon confronting a synchronicity (it, after all, goes completely against the perception of a static reality, and so to a great degree scares people), only then can the sexual pair act as a “unit of invention”.
When Ray said coffee can act as a luck enhancer, essentially viewing the latter as a skill and part of the same realm of phenomenon as the one described above, I thought that maybe there’d be some empirical evidence describing the relationship between the rate at which an individual experiences synchronicities and the use of vitamins, hormones, etc. I was, unfortunately, unable to find anything on this topic, so please feel free to share if you’ve personally noticed any specific supplement aiding in increasing the perceptual field, and more specifically the rate of synchronization.
Compiled below are anecdotes of synchronicities as experienced by Twitter anons. Thank you to everyone for sharing them.
“I lived in a dorm room a few years ago. One night, I decided to use the bathroom outside, and as I walked out I suddenly had a panic attack, something I had never experienced in the past. The following morning I phoned my friend, who told me that the night before his long-time girlfriend had broken up with him and he considered suicide.“
“A girl and I were talking, and I blurted out ‘I feel like I made you up’ because she seemed unrealistically tailored to my preferences. She went wide-eyed and quickly said the same thing about me before I was able to finish my thought. We then both repeated at the same time ‘If we made each other up, we can’t forget each other because we’d both stop existing.’ It was unreal and sounded like from some dumb teenage novel, but it made me feel fuzzy and warm.“
“In 1945 as Americans were bombing Dresden, they dropped a bomb in the center of Prague hitting a house (due to an error in navigation and heavy fog). After my parents got married they found out both of their families used to live in that house.”
“A day or two ago I was wondering what Progest-E could do to help a black eye, picturing myself telling someone to use it and applying it. Today a family member texted me a photo of their black eye and asked if the progesterone I’m always talking about could help it heal.“
“I was driving through a very remote, small town in rural Texas hours away from where I lived coming back from a road trip. I absently pictured what it would be like living there for most of the drive. The next day, my brother called me and completely randomly brought up a story from years before when he went to that same town for a football game. He didn’t know I had been there or about the road trip.“
Any specific supplement aiding in increasing the perceptual field, and more specifically the rate of synchronization? Coffee, maybe. LSD, definitely.
This is crazy…meta synchronicity / irony. I don’t quite know how to describe this but I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot recently and thought, I reckon T3 would write a fantastic post about it. The je ne se quoi is too real. Wow.