Meaningful Connections

WHY MEANINGFUL COINCIDENCES (SYNCHRONICITIES) MATTER

Q: When is a coincidence more than a coincidence? A: When it is a synchronicity.

Synchronicities are in the air. There is an explosion of interest in these intellectually challenging and emotionally powerful events. They are associated with significant psychological change, transformation, transcendence, the expansion of consciousness, creativity, a purposeful driven life derived from making meaningful connections both with one’s self and others. They make their appearance in sudden, unexpected, dramatically profound ways analogous to seemingly random fire fly flashes. They are also associated with primary motivation including the role played by trust, hope, faith, intentionality, and persistence.

Paying careful attention to them is useful for a multitude of reasons. Among these reasons are:

•Cutting edge experiences in the “new Paradigm”

•Scientific anomalies

•Forces serious investigators to ask and answer core questions of their lives including: Who Am I, and What is my life’s purpose?

•A blueprint for determining what is of ultimate worth.

•Provides a formula for getting unstuck

•Provides a way to define and perhaps re-define complicated concepts including spirituality, creativity, causality, consciousness, and meaning.

•Connects a person to their personal and perhaps collective unconscious – assumed by many to be a link to a realm of transcendent spirituality thought to be a repository of absolute knowledge.

•Provides a framework in which a person can view their consciousness expand.

•Encourages people to think “out of the box.”

•Encourages people to gain knowledge using an interdisciplinary perspective.

•Challenges a person to examine their first assumptions about the nature of reality (ontology); knowledge of reality, and how knowledge of reality is accessed (epistemology).

•Exposes people to gain information in a variety of knowledge bases including: speculative philosophy, depth psychology, spirituality, science (quantum physics), and the esoteric occult.

•Enables a person to connect with his or her unique creative process.

•Provides a formula for an alternative form of logic (experiential logic) which is a combination of conventional linear causality (thinking) plus the addition of “messy” feelings, intuitions, and bodily sensation.

•Focuses on the role of chance, satori, peak experiences, re framing, serendipity, epiphanies, metanoia, consciousness expansion, and the like in forging a life of meaningful connections.

•Considered by many to be a bridge between science (reason) and spirituality (faith).

•Forces the serious investigator to answer the question as to who is the final authority in ones’ life.

As investigating the nature and uses of synchronicities is a work in progress, readers are encouraged to add any additional reasons.

SYNCHRONICITIES are in the AIR - PLEASE SEND ME YOUR MOST AMAZING COINCIDENCES

Q: WHEN is a COINCIDENCE not a COINCIDENCE?    A: WHEN it is a SYNCHRONICITY

I thought my soon to be published book on Demystifying Coincidences (Synchronicities) was physically going to to be in Barnes and Noble instead of just on Barnes and Noble (and Amazon) on line. My publisher tells me my work is classified as an academic and professional book - thus the brick and mortar stores are likely not to carry it. This means that whatever marketing that is targeted to the "trade" is strictly up to me.

Besides my disappointment of not being able to see my book in the bookstore - alive and pulsating - (or am I only projecting?) from the enthusiastic response I have been getting when I mention my subject matter I am certain that what I have written is a "crossover " book. One not need to be a psychoanalytic patient to be able to derive a great deal of personal benefit in reading the book.

Of course there are many who will read this and say that I am biased and obviously self serving. While of course true, I see by the enthusiastic response I have been receiving that awareness and interest in coincidences is "in the air."

So in the service of trying to be as objective as I am able to be I am requesting that all who read this article please take a few moments, write down your most amazing coincidence, and send it along as a response to this article.

I would also like to know what you make of them, where you think they come from, and what are their implications. If my observation is accurate I would expect to see both a large number of responses to this article as well as some awesome descriptions.

If I am wrong I will still order a book from the publisher and read it myself. Then I can do what Van Gogh said to his brother Theo: "If I could buy my own paintings I would be self sufficient."

Thanks in advance.....

TRY, TRY, and TRY AGAIN

         SOMETIMES HISTORY DOES NOT REPEAT ITSELF

It is difficult to know exactly what it is that motivates people to do what they do - including myself. For this reason I liked the concept of overdetermined - meaning that any behavior, when analyzed, has multiple determinants not just one.

SOME POST DECODED SYNCHRONICITY RESULTS

SOME BENEFICIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGES ASSOCIATED with DECODING SYNCHRONICITIES from WILLIAMS' PERSPECTIVE

                POST # 15

My research of the nature and uses of meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) from a progressive naturalistic perspective indicates that decoding them in this light results in a number of beneficial changes.

SOME USES in INTERPRETING and DECODING SYNCHRONICITIES from a NATURALISTIC PERSPECTIVE

SOME PERSONAL and CLINICAL USES in DECODING SYNCHRONICITIES from a NATURALISTIC VIEW

                  POST # 14

Synchronicities are associated with significant psychologcial change - eg. transformation and transcendence.However a word is in order concerning the nature of change from a naturalistic perspective.

WILLIAMS OUTLINE in INTERPRETING SYNCHRONICITIES

      SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS in DECODING MEANINGFUL COINCIDENCES from a NATURALISTIC  NON-JUNGIAN VIEW

                     POST #13

Before detailing specific instructions for interpreting synchronicities from G. Williams' naturalistic perspective a warning and a challenge are in order.

A NATURALISTIC WAY of WORKING with SYNCHRONICITIES

                  A NON JUNGIAN APPROACH in WORKING with SYNCHRONICITIES: an OVERVIEW

                   POST # 12

There are two naturalistic approaches in understanding and working with meaningful coincidences (synchronicities). These are: Faber's psychodynamic regressive thory; and Williams' psychodynamic progressive theory.

CONSIDERATIONS in WORKING with SYNCHRONICITIES

           JUNG'S CONTRIBUTIONS and GENERALIZATIONS

                  POST # 11

Alternative theoretical perpectives in viewing the nature of meaningful coincidences (sycnchronicities) will yield alternative ways to work with synchronicities both with patients and non patients.

CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH SYNCHRONICITIES ARISE

ANOTHER STEP in FORMULATING a NATURALISTIC THEORY of MEANINGFUL COINCIDENCES (SYNCHRONICITIES)

               POST # 10

My forty year investigation of the nature and use of meaningful coincidences indicates that there is a person specific and predictable conditional matrix out of which meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) arise.

PERSONALTIES of SYNCHRONISTICALLY PRONE PATIENTS

A STEP in  FORMULATING A NATURALISTIC THEORY OF SYNCHRONICITIES

                  POST # 9

My forty year research investigating the nature and uses of meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) indicates that it is no coincidence when a synchronicity occurs to a given synchronicity prone {or should I say} synchronistically aware patient.