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SYNCHRONICITY TODAY                                        T Stokes

Syncronicity was the term coined by Carl Jung for what he termed 'meaningful co-incidences'.

This wonderful story appeared in the British press on October 28 2005:

87 year old Bob Michie was out for a drive in his 1954 'R' type Bentley saloon on a lonely country road, when for the first time the motorcar, which had done 120,000 miles, broke down.

The car was towed to the nearest garage where mechanics diagnosed a broken rotor arm, which supplies a spark to the distributor.

No-one had any idea where another could be obtained, then amazingly the mechanic flagged down an A.A patrol van and the mechanic jokingly asked he patrol van driver, 'You wouldn't have a rotor arm for a 1954 Bentley in there would you mate”?'.

Incredibly the driver had been carrying one on board for 28 years and within minutes the 51 year old Bentley was back on the road.

Psychologist Carl Jung ( 1875-1961) believed there were no such thing as co-incidence and that at some level all things are linked. Students of occultism, and Jung was one, use everyday signs and objects as signposts to information outside of the normal ranges of perception.

Although most modern schools of psychology pooh-pooh these theories, primitive man and societies where man is in touch with the natural world, have always used these abilities to good effect.

Apophenia is the term used for explaining away that there is nothing other than random circumstance at work and that to suggest so is perhaps a signpost of mental illness,

Some say that creativity and psychosis are linked and dismiss the three primary categories of synchronicity, as developed by Jung and now used in every single divinatory school.

Augery: Nowhere is this more visible that in the science of Augury, where biblical prophets would read from the flight of birds, while carrion crows and similar creatures were seen as unlucky and dubbed 'birds of ill omen.

The prophet would section a piece of sky to be read by holding out his arms and meditating for birds to fly through this area. In Rome the Latin name of this section was called 'templum', from where we derive the term 'template', and when worship moved into fixed buildings these then became known as 'temples.

Before a battle, only the army commander was allowed to predict the outcome.

From the Latin terms avis Bird and speciosee, we get the word 'auspicious' and expert Graeme Donald tells us that, 'a junior officer's victory was said to have occurred under the general's auspices'.

I will often demonstrate how this technique was used in medieval palmistry and its application in modern psychology to the hand-print.

Today synchronicity is around us all the time, emotionally, physically, intellectually,

In fact in every part of our lives and so we must make doubly sure we have the time to look and absorb its meanings.

Copyright © 2006

Author T Stokes is also a lecturer and broadcaster in paranormal studies who welcomes feedback from readers.
His email address is: palmist@fsmail.net

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