I for one never liked the "official" definition of synchronicity as a meaningful coincidence in that it almost sounds like one had to qualify one's coincidences. Yes I know there is such a thing as the law of numbers but when you have these "coincidences" day after day angelo...sometimes a couple of different episodes a day..as I do, then I don't think you truly can sum it up as simple coincidences...for all know you do experience them and feel that you just had several coincidental episodes that day..but whereas you may think you're being pragmatic I would almost term it jaded (no offense, really
As for my part, again without fear of exaggeration , I experience synchronicity on a near daily basis and I'm talking beyond the things we all experience (you're thinking of a song and you hear it on the radio) . I will think of a word...it could be "disengenious" or something on the level of "meningitis" (edit) and within several minutes I will see, or hear that word being used, many times BOTH, on the radio, in passing conversion between two or more strangers, or the very next book or article I read. And this scenario on many occasions will repeat itself later that day, albeit with a different thought. I admit I do avail myself to a lot of sources, l am a bit of a news hound and listen to the radio and read news and current affairs programs a lot, obviously that is going to open me up to a lot of incoming information and thus increase my chances of having a coincidence or a synchronistic episode and I do make that distinction, I'll even tell myself right then and there "well that is a co-inkydink" not everything has to have a meaning, I'm not that far gone.
it is a hard concept to get some people to fully appreciate, I can truly say, long before I started looking into the realms of paranormal phenomena I would experience these events even as a preteen I would hear people talk about a coincidence they experienced and I would think " you don't know the half of it". It was because of an epic " five episode multi layered" event involving a preying mantis that I experienced several years ago that I delved into this field and as an aside, I learned of chris work...It was my yellow helicopter moment.. and it was because I heard about the incidents of synchronistic events associated with ufos and mothman that got me hooked, even though I never have seen mothman, never been abducted or even seen a ufo...well I mean ufo in the classic sense..hell, half the names that I see bandied about on this forum means nothing to me, as I don't have much interest on what they have to say about nazi ufos, disclosure, moon bases, or abductions....I am interested in events such as the bradshaw ranch and skinwalker ranch though. I have seen strange phenomena that could be earth lights or weird plasma forms and orbs, nothing especially compelling to be honest and as a kid my sister and I had some weird encounters but I digress, the point is even as a 10 year old I was savvy enough to know "whoa, we have something here".
At one time when I was trying to get my brain into the concept of computing the thought that there is no future, that time is fluid and past, present, and future all occupy the same space I "rationalized" to myself that these synchronistic episodes and yes, deja vu, which I also experience a lot, but nowhere near as often as synchronicity, were happening because my timing was off, it's a hard point to get across, but I mean I thought that in my timeline, I was at that point where something did, or I should say was due to happen and I either remembered it before it happened ( synchronicity) or after (deja vu) don't know if that makes sense, but damned if I was just going to chalk it up as a coincidence or a left hemisphere/ right hemisphere brain burp.
I guess because no one ever sat down and tried to determine a mathmatical formula to prove or disprove the existence or non-existence of synchronicity, I'll just subvert Auric's line...Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's synchonistic action
Just out of curiosity, do you ever experience a multi leveledl/ayered coincidence, sometimes more than once a day ? If you did would you question It and look for an alternative explanation ? What do you think you would have to see or experience in order to consider that something strange was at work?
