Wikipedia defines synchronicity as the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally unrelated. Carl Jung has a very popular book on the subject and many other authors have written about this "phenomenon" as well. Sometimes my friends and I discuss the synchronistic events that occur to us and I've often wondered (or felt like) it might be a guide...something telling me I'm on the right path. Or maybe not. Here are several small examples that have happened to be over the last couple weeks:
1) While listening to Pat Benetar's song "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" I find myself wondering if she is married. For some reason I tell myself she probably isn't and I can better relate to her since I'm single as well. Immediately after the song goes off the DJ says "In 1971 Pat Something graduated from High school and married her high school sweet heart Something Benetar...and the rest is history." So here we either have synchronicity, or I mentally projected my question to the DJ, or it's completely a coincidence. (Though one finds it strange when for the first time in their life they wonder about Pat Bentar's relationship status and directly after that one time the question is answered...).
2) I'm an avid collector of butterflies and did not have a Zebra Swallowtail in my collection. In fact I had only seen very few (maybe 2 ) in my life. My father told me they used to be all around when he was young but he hasn't seen one in a long time either. So I'm on the front porch discussing with my friend about Zebra Swallowtails and where we could go to find one (perhaps a nearby park that is populated with paw paw trees) and as we are discussing this a Zebra Swallowtail flies by. We chase it but can't catch it but it was definitely a Zebra. Strange that at the moment we are talking about Zebras and how they seem so rare one would fly right by us.
So there are a couple examples, but these things seem to happen all the time to varying degrees. Sometimes events don't happen for months at a time, sometimes a few happen in a week, I always find it to be an enjoyable experience that makes me think. During a discussion with another friend on the subject we wondered if maybe there was a way to induce these events. If we wrote down where we were, our thoughts, our emotional state, the time...we wanted to find some pattern to the synchronicity. We felt that maybe these events happened to show us that we were at the right place at the right time, that we are on the correct path in life and the more frequent the events the closer to our "correct" path we are...the fewer the events, the more we have strayed. Back to my original question then, can synchronicity be used as a guide?
Now I know there may not be a true answer to this, but I wouldn't mind other's thoughts. Feel free to include the occurrences that have happened to you but at least answer the main question! Thanks.
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